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INDEX. 



Porson (Richard), his letters, 347. 



Portsmouth (Louise de Queroualle, Duchess of), her 



bribe to Charles H., 29. 78. 193. 

 Porter, origin of, 454. 



Portrait, anonymous, 228.; of Goldsmith ? 398. 438. 

 Pound (Mr.), prosecuted in the Star Chamber, 81. 

 Powderham Church, Devon, date of its erection, 44. 

 Powell's OiBcial Handbook of Bray, 56. 

 P. (P.) on barm and yeast, 298. 



Commentary on the Apocrypha, 451. 



Cotterell (Sir Clement), 479. 



Greene (Maurice), Mus. Doc., 394. 



Marquis de Sabran, 109. 



Miss as a title, 298. 



Rebellion of 1715, 77. 



Stark-naked lady, 418. 



Servants' wages in the last century, 286. 



Stone coffins, 297. 



Tavern signs at Monksheath, &c., 46. 



Wills in Lancashire, 279. 

 P. (P. P.) on armorial bearings, 386. 



Charles IL and the Duchess of Portsmouth, 193. 



Deere family, 377. 

 P. (R.) on Papal tiara, its history, 91. 



Sawney Bean, 457. 

 Praed ( Wm. M.), verses ascribed to Mother Shipton, 450. 

 Presbyter on publication of banns, 79. 

 Pressing to death, its abolition, 90. 

 Prestoniensis on long incumbencies, 315. 

 Price family of LlanfFwyst, 99. 

 Prideaux of Barbadoes and Blake, 347. 419. 

 Proffer, why spelt with double yj 347. 

 Prophecy: " When all England is aloft," 69. 

 Prosser (Wm.), alias Captain Feeny, 218. 



Proverbs and Phrases : 



As poor as Job's turkey, 229. 



Beasts tumbling over their heads, 388. 



Call a spade a spade, 58. 



Doing gooseberry, 307. 



Elevens: " By the elevens," 326. 



Going up Johnson's end, 249. 



Happy as a king, 350. 



Money the sinews of war, 317. 



No man is a hero to his valet- de-chambre, 484. 



Over the left, 304. 



Soap: " How are you off for soap?" 328. 392. 



The Latins call me Porcus, 350. 



Proverbs, bibliography of, 70. 



Proverbs, French works on, 259. 



Providential escapes, 265. 417. 



Piy (Paul) on beasts tumbling over their heads, 388. 



Furmety, how to make, 388. 



Marriage with church key, 290. 



Starlings and rooks, 350. 



Village greens, 249. 



Wellington (Duke of), called " The Beau," 313. 

 Pryce (Geo.) on Powell's Official Handbook of Bray, 56. 

 P. (S. J. L ) on medal of Louis XIL, 326. 

 Psalms chalked on a slate, 406. 

 W. on Edgar .(Etheling, his later history, 3. 

 Puffie puck-fiste, explained, 148. 

 Pugin (A. W.) on inclined chancels, 393. 430. 

 Pulpit oratory of the 17th century, 366. 

 Pun, its derivation, 248. 299. 339. 458. 

 Puns, unintentional, 286. 324. 458. 



Puzzles, French, 26. 



P. (W.) on Hesiod v. Milton, 437. 



P. (W. H.) on the Kingdom of Gold, 467. 



Pycroft (J. W.) on Sir J. Davies on Impositions, 115. 



Pythagoreans, golden verses of the, 369. 437. 



Q- 



Q. on Beloe's Sexagenarian, key to, 33. 



Chaucer at King's Lynn, 510. 



Greek penmanship, 177. 



Ruggles' Ignoramus, 286. 



Splitting paper, 18. 

 Q. (L.) on dowager peeresses, 347. 

 Q. (P.) on Guernsey market, 314. 

 Quakers' disease, 305. 

 " Quiet Woman," an inn sign, 35. 

 Quin (James), Garrick's epigram on, 191. 



Quotations : — 



Behold this ruin, 'twas a skull, 459. 



He looked down on the Maelstrom, 8. 



In hopes to merit heaven by making earth a hell, 



428. 459. 

 Judaeus Odor, 116. 

 Mors mortis morti mortem, &c., 55. 

 Pro aris et focis, 345. 426. 

 So in the painter's animated frame, 370. 

 They placed me in the poet's choir, 268. 

 Too wise to err, too good to be unkind, 434. 

 Union is strength, 190. 



Quyney (Col. Adrian), noticed, 472. 



R. 



Rain prevented by pluvifuges, 207. 251. 



Raleigh (Sir Walter), poems, 183. 376. 



Ram and Teazle, inn sign, 295. 



Ramsgateers explained, 371. 



Randolph (Edward), official at New England, 110. 



Rant (H.), translation of Terence, 328. 



" Rare Doings at Roxburghe Hall," 495. 



Rauthwell (Richard), author of " Antiquitates Bremo- 



tacenses," 428. .. 



Ravensbounie on Antigallican backstays, 387. 

 Rawlinson manuscripts. Index to, 290. 320. 

 Ray or Reay country, 8. 



Rayson (George) on Bp. Aylmer's birth-place, 481. 

 R. (C. J.) on Thomas Alderscy, M.D., 267. 



Bishops as barons, 280. 



Quyney (Col. Adrian), 472. 



Registers of Clifford's Inn, 472. 



I'nderhill (Cave), actor, 451. 

 R. (D.) on white horses for weddings, 248. 

 Reading School speeches, 48. 

 Reay country, origin of the name, 8. 77. 

 Rebellion of 1715, notices of, 77. 

 Recorde (Robert), " Pathway to Knowledge," 162. 

 Records photozincographed, 249. 

 Red rose of Lancaster, origin of the device, 269. 

 " Red Streak Tree," an inn sign, 35. 

 Redmayne (Dr. Robert), Chancellor of Norwich, 46. 

 Redmond (S.) on cholera in Ireland, 425. 



High-heeled shoes, 47 . 



