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OFFICE, BREAM'S BUILDINGS, CHANCERY LANE, E.C.
BY JOHN C. FRANCIS AND J. EDWARD FRANCIS.

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[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EDITORIAL
EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, OBITUARIES, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKE-
SPEARIANA, SONGS AND BALLADS, and, TAVERN SIGNS.]

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Autograph letters sold by auction, 428

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Airy (O.) on "Unconscionable time dying," 8

Chippendale (T.), upholsterer: W. Chippendale, 37 Akenside (Mark), his birth, 1721, 407

Christ's Hospital site, 366

Crosby Hall, 481

Elm, great hollow, at Hampstead, 234

Eslyngton: Islington, 29

Flying-Machine Exhibition, 306

Free Society of Artists, 344

Granger, annotated by Caulfield, 65, 223, 323, 462
Hornsey Wood House: Harringay House, 157

Houses of historical interest, 472

Ito: Itoland, 12, 173

'Kingdom's Intelligencer,' 395
King's Cross Bridge, 386

Lamb (C.) on Thicknesse's 'France,' 205, 355

Linwood (Miss), her Gallery, 392

'London and Neighbourhood,' 1750, 9

Napoleon's carriage, 236

Payne at the Mews Gate, 409

"Pedlar's Rest," 415

Pictorial blinds, 493

Scott illustrators, 176

Scott's Black Dwarf,' 515

Seven Dials, 327

Taxameter cab, 264

Abstract bagman, reference by Stevenson to, 188

Albarosa and Polinda, picture by Cosway, 190
Albemarle House or Ely House, Dover Street, 268, 311
Aldenham (Lord) on forwhy, 374

"Then with Rodney we will go," 227
Aldworth (A. E.) on Aldworth of Berkshire, 50

Gilbert (Adrian), 90

Aldworth family of Berkshire, 50
Alexander the Great, Tartar legend of, 126
Alfonso (King), date of his marriage, 6
Allison (T. M.) on pillion: flails, 316
Ambassadors, Sir Henry Wotton on, 250, 295
Ambition, Oliver Cromwell on, 208, 435, 514
Amcotts (John), Westminster scholar, 109
"Amel of Ujda," explanation of Amel, 325, 515
American coin-names, 36, 136, 154

Anderson (P. J.) on 'Eneas Britannicus,' 388

American magazine conducted by factory workers, 469
American place-names, 17, 276
Anagrams on Pius X., 158, 251

Bulkmaster, its meaning, 246

Charles II. and Dr. Fraser's daughter, 189

André (Major John), his representative, 13
Anglo-Indian Little Jack Horner,' 45, 97, 277
Animal magnetism and De Quincey, 345

Anon, use of the word, 136

Anonymous Works:-

Ackerley (F. G.) on Lewis, friend of Jack Mytton, 347 Anne Plantagenet, Duchess of Exeter, 149, 298, 334

On Rauthmel, Rev. R., 8

School slang at Rossall, 194

Welsh a, 58

Ackerley (M. E.) on 'The Hebrew Maiden's Answer

to the Crusader,' 394

Acton (Lord), reference to "Erasmus Rogers," 487

Adams's Museum, Kingsland Road, 117

Adair (Patrick), sermons by, 308

Adespota, use of the word, 105, 215

Addison and Col. Philip Dormer, 107, 192
Addy (S. O.) on the Ainsty of York, 36

Harington (Sir John), 510

"Thumb-hand side"=right-hand side, 467

Admiral Christ epitaph, 38, 475

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Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 10

Apperson (G. L.) on hatching chickens, 394
Apple: Cox and the Orange pippin, 508

Archbishop's imprimatur, 1752, 229

Architecture and Dante, 266

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B. (G.L.) on Boswell and 'The Shre

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Parnassus,' 429
Herts, 508

B. (J. W.) on wound, 328

Arkle (A. H.) on 'Lincolnshire Family's Chequered B. (H.) on Queen Mary J

History,' 497

'Merchant's Magazine,' 45

Preston Jubilee, 417

Public Office Police Office, 91

St. George: George as a Christian name, 455
Scott's 'Black Dwarf,' 295

Armiger, English equivalent of the word, 109
Armour, MS. inventory, temp. Edward VI., 268
Arms. See Heraldry.

Army Service Corps nicknames, 68, 115, 257, 415, 473
Arnaud (F. H.) on obsolete English games, 511
Arthur (Thos.), of Booksellers' Row, his biography, 355
Artillery Company (Hon.), Bawms March, 188, 230,516
Artists, Free Society of, its history, 344
Ascension, Chapel of the, Oxford Road, 13, 135, 198
Astarte on holed-stone folk-lore, 26

Papal styles: "Pater Patrum," 451
Seine, river and saint, 348

Astronomy, pastoral, 104
Athenæus, quotation from, 249, 354
Attorney, use of the word, 227

Auction, first sale of autograph letters by, 428

August: Gula Augusti, use of the term, 257, 313
Author of Hard Knots in Shakespeare' on Shake-

speariana, 301

Author, use of the word for editor, 226, 475
Autograph prices, their appraisement, 424
Avignon Society of Illuminati, 386, 514
Awaitful, use of the word, 510

Axon (W. E. A.) on Johannes von Botzheim, 386
Coleridge's Epitaphium Testamentarium,' 387
Coleridge's poem on Christmas Day, 146
De Quincey and animal magnetism, 345
'Edinburgh Review,' attack on Oxford, 175
Hawke (P.), translator of Dante, 507
Pacolet, a familiar spirit, 225
Sallust, early English translator, 128
Shakespeariana at Douai, 421

Aztec names, their pronunciation, 325
B. on Duke of Kent's children, 173, 316

B. (A.) on Subsidy Rolls, 68

B. (A. A.) on author of quotations wanted, 49

B. (C. C.) on drug and pharmacopeia in 'N.E.D.,' 347

Flavian monks, 149

"Lesbian lead," 256

"Paws off, Pompey," 377

Pot-hooks and hangers, 432

Sulphur matches, 451

Vittle victual, 232

Wadsworth as a Yorkshire name, 515

Watts and the rose, 258

Wound, its pronunciation, 391

B. (D.) on 'Lawyers in Love,' 90

B. (E. W.) on Palæologus in the West Indies, 336
St. George's Chapel Yard, Oxford Road, 13

B. (G. F. R.) on John Amcotts, 109
"Black Horse" Inn, 476

Cordiner (Cornelius), Westminster scholar, 428
Crooke (John), Westminster scholar, 428
Croole (Clement), Westminster scholar, 450

B. (R.) on February 30, 216

Hubbub=disturbance, 507

Mareboake: viere, in old title ds, 448
Mirage, 495

'Penrose's Journal': turtle-riding, 216

B-r (R.) on 'The Christmas Boys,' 32
Romeland, 58

B. (R. S.) on Addison and Col. Philip Dormer, 192

"Carrying coals to Newcastle," 105
'Diary of a Modern Dandy,' 243
Fifth-Monarchy Men, 515
Frieze, its pronunciation, 245
Games, obsolete English, 512
Hugo (Victor), his property in England, 33

Poonah painting, 232

Public Office=Police Office, 90, 217

St. George: George as a Christian name, 455
Sobriquets and Nicknames,' 430
Thiggyng: fulcenale: warelondes, meaning of, 507
Tristan and Isolde, 151

B. (R. W.) on Fleetwood of Penwortham, 302
B. (S.) on Charles I.: his physical characteristics, 211
B.V.M. and the birth of children, 325, 377, 417, 437
B. (W.) on Scott illustrators, 74

Split infinitive in Milton, 33

B. (W. C.) on B.V.M. and the birth of children, 325
Charles I.: his physical characteristics, 336
Churchwardens' accounts, 275

Court Roll terms, 317
Cowper's John Gilpin, 516

Doncaster: image of the Blessed Virgin, 56
Epitaphs at Stratford-upon-Avon, 516
Fifth-Monarchy Men, 334
Forwhy, its meaning, 237
George III, and What, 87
Grant (Rev. R.), 216
Hock: hog: hoga, 495
Ivy Lane, Strand, 414

Kennet (B.), Vicar of Bradford, 127

Legends on English coins, 318
'Macbeth': the three witches, 454

Mist (Nathaniel), 187

Oxford Graduates, 1675-84, 125

Pictorial blinds, 429

President: precedent, 227

St. George: George as a Christian name, 308, 513
St. George's Chapel Yard, Oxford Road, 198

Seringapatam, 317

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Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna," 105

Spring-heeled Jack, 206

B. (W. E.) on Dipping well in Hyde Park, 247
Monumental inscriptions: St. Faith, 137
B. (W. N.) on brothers with same Christian name, 246
"Bacchanals" or "Bag-o'-Nails," inn sign, 56
Bacon (Francis), errors in 'Apophthegmata, 328, 435
"Badger's Bush" or "Beggar's Bush" Inn, 209, 271
Badges of the City guilds, 347, 457
Baffo (Giorgio), his poems, 1771, 449

Bagman, abstract, reference by Stevenson, 188

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Baily (Prof. Walter), his books, c. 1586-8, 96

Baird (Major-General) and Seringapatam, 230, 317
Baldock (Major G. Yarrow) on "Kingsley's Stand,"158

Obsolete English games, 511
Shadow-catcher=photographer, 67

West Indian military records, 14

Balm of Columbia, Oldridge's, 'Punch' on, 289
Banfi-Hunyades (Johannes), chemist, d. 1646, 310
Banks (John), six times Mayor of Folkestone, 7
Bannard (H. E.) on John Newbery's grave, 76
Banner or flag, definition of the word, 252
Bannerman (Lady), wife of Sir Alexander Banner-
man, her parentage, 210

Barbadoes, the verb, 380. See also Barbydoys.
Barbary, on Irish girl and Barbary pirates, 469
Barbary pirates and Irish girl, poem on, 469
Barbydoys, manor in Carleton, co. Cambridge:
Barbadoes, 30

Barleybrake, obsolete English game, 361

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Poonah painting, 152

Bedford (Admiral William), d. 1827, his parentage, 407
Beechey (Sir W.), his portrait of Harriet Mellon, 386
"Beggar's Bush" or "Badger's Bush" Inn, 209, 271
Begley (Walter), and 'Is it Shakespeare?' 164
Beheading in England, earliest instance, 487
Beighton, Manor of, its records wanted, 107
Beitzmer Irishman, etymology of the word, 345
Beliard, seventeenth-century Paris clockmaker, 268
Bell, Pancake, on Shrove Tuesday, 166
Bell inscriptions at Siresa, 55, 436
Bellagio, Italy, inscriptions at, 164
Bell-comb for ringworm, 206, 336

Bell-horses and camels, 33, 110, 174, 258

Bellows, "clack-hole" of, meaning of the term, 267
Bells, mentioned by Tom Hood, 294

Benbow (Admiral), song on his death, 55; inscription

at Kingston, Jamaica, 116

Benefits, theatrical, earliest instances, 321
Bennett (Mrs. L.) on Romney's ancestry, 9

Barnard (Sir John), Lord Mayor, 1737-8, his Bense (J. F.) on haze, 214

descendants, 90, 132, 194

Barnard (Samuel), d. c. 1857, his ancestors, 168

Barnouw (A. J.) on bodemerie, 386

Barrie (J. M.) and Kensington Gardens, 1

Barton Grammar School, Westmorland, its history, 488
Baskish: soul folk-lore, 73; New Testament, 1571,
215; connexion of bulka with bulk, 227, 273,
374; Omar Khayyam in, 326

Basset, obsolete English game, 361

"Bat Bearaway," origin of the name, 168, 258

Bates (E. H.) on palimpsest brass inscriptions, 27
"Bawms March," 1718, meaning of term, 188, 230,516
Baxter (A. Macduff), m. 1827, his issue, 328

Bayle (P.), his 'Réponse aux Questions d'un Pro-
vincial, 249, 296

Bayley (A. R.) on Brett, baronet, killed 1644, 88
Eleanor of Castile: her tomb, 57, 257

Ford, the Fighting Preacher, 447

Legends on English coins, 237

Magdalen College School, 63, 142, 304, 383, 477
Page family and their Middlesex estates, 410
"Posui Deum adjutorem meum," 78

Richard II.: his arms, 249

St. George: George as a Christian name, 375
Stedcombe or Studcombe House, 88

Towns unlucky for kings, 74

Bayne (T.) on authors of quotations wanted, 12, 493

Berwick Law, 225

Carlyle on religion, 12

Coleridge's 'Dejection,' 95

Dump, its meanings, 498

Face upon conscience, 288

Flint and steel, 377

Hatching chickens with artificial heat, 219

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Mony a pickle maks a mickle," 112, 215

Pitt, satire on, 315

Scott and Bishop Hall, 187

Scott illustrators, 131

Tennyson (A. and F.), sonnets by, 197
Vittle Victual, 231

"What wants that knave?" &c., 219

Wroth, its use, 67

Beardshaw (H. J.) on Holden family, 233

Bensly (Prof. E.) on authors of quotations wanted,

158, 274, 293, 374, 453

Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' 103, 184
Classical quotations, 337

King's 'Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 24
"Lesbian lead," 256

"Non sentis, inquit, te ultra malleum, loqui?" 354
"Posui Deum adjutorem meum," 78

Reade (C.), his Greek quotation, 176
Teddington, pictures at, 152

Bentham (Jeremy) and James Mill, residence, 350
Berwick Law, Firth of Forth, in poem by Tannahill, 225
Best (Bishop John), of Carlisle, his descendants, 449
Betty=a hedge sparrow, use of the word, 469
Bewickiana, 29

Bewley (Sir E. D.) on "Esprit de l'escalier," 296
Bibie (John), Drum-Major, c. 1642, 168, 293

Bible: printed 1613, containing genealogy, 88; trans-
lations of the Vulgate, 126; Baskish New Testa-
ment, 1571, 215

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