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INDEX. 



M. ( W. M.) on Adamson's Lusitania, 104. 

 M. (W. T.) on " A saint in crape," 102. 

 — ^ " As good as a play," 363. 



" Chip in porridge," 208. 



Clarence title, 565. 



feeling of life, 550. 



—— Ligurian sage, 389. 



" Pay the piper," 198. 



— — " Pity is akin to love," 89. 



" Priam's six-gated city," 288. 



quotation from Horace, 444. 



rhymes on places, 305. 



storms at the death of great men, 493. 



Tennyson's Memoriam, 244. 



Myrtle bee noticed, 173. 450. 593. 



M. (Y. S ) on female parish clerk, 338. 



Harrington, William, fifth Lord, 36a 



— ^ noses of descendants of John of Gaunt, 

 318. 



parish clerks' company, 341. 



pedigree indices, 317. 



Richard Geering, 340. 



Sir George Carr, 327. 



Theobald le Boliller, 366. 



.— — Tottenham, its derivation, 318. 



Urban Vigors, 340. 



Mythe versus Myth, 18. 



N. 



N. on Limerick, Dublin, and Cork, 102. 



school libraries, 298. 



N. (A.) on mineral acids, 339. 



names of plants, 136. 



N. (A. J.) on house-marks, 19. 



Namby-pamby, and other words of the 

 same form, 318. 341.390. 



Names in Bible and Prayer Book, how pro- 

 nounced, 469. 590 630. 



Names reversible, 244. 375. 655. 



Naphtali on anonymous poet, 127. 



Napier (Sir Charles) and the conquest of 

 Scinde, 490. 574. 631. 



* Naples and the Campagna Felice, 33. 



* Napoleon, anecdote of, 292. 

 Napoleon s bees, 30. 



spelling, 386. 502. 



thunderstorm, 148. 



* Nash the artist, 79. 



N. (D.) on Lewis and Sewell families, 521. 



621. 

 N. (D. Y.) on the Porter family, 364. 

 Nedlam on snail-eatiiig, 128. 



* Neele (H.), editor of Shakspeare, 539. 

 Nemo on death of Falstaff, 314. 

 Newans (Thomas), a pro'jhet, 381. 

 Newburiensis on Francis Browne, 639. 

 Sir George Brown, 243. 301. 



poetical tavern signs, 569. 



worm in books, 526. 



Newington on Milton's widow, 595. 

 Newman (W.) on " The Devil on Two 



Sticks," 413. 

 Newspapers in Scotland, the earlier, 57. 

 Newspapers, notes on, 333. 

 Newstead Abbey, 2. 



New Testament, an early edition, 219. 277. 

 Newton (Mr. Justice) noticed, 15. 110. 



* Newton (Sir Isaac) and Flarasteed, 102. 

 * and his half-niece, 429. 



* and Somers, 78. 



* his memorial, 172. 



on railway travelling, 34. 65. 



* New Universal Magazine, inquiry respect- 

 ing, 639. 



New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, cus- 

 tom on, 618. 

 N. (G.) on books burned by the hangman, 



626. 

 — ^ hour-glass in pulpits, 83. 

 lines on the institution of the Garter, 



479. 



medal of Mary Queen of Scots, 444. 



old Fogie, 455. 



N. (G. E. T. S. R.) on chronograms in 



Sicily, 562. 



Gentile names of the Jews, 563. 



St. Clement's apple-feast, 618. 



N. (H.) on anticipatory use of the cross, 

 and ringing of bells for the dead, 417. 



Nicholas (Emperor), his manifesto, 585. 



Nicholas tSt.), his performances on Christ- 

 mas Eve, 615. 



Nightingale and thorn, 527. 



Nightingale's song, 112. 475. 651. 



Nimmo (Thos.) on an inediled letter of 

 Henry VIII., 510. 



Nine as a multiple, 149. 305. 



Nixon the prophet, 257. 326. 



* Noel family, 316. 



No Judge on piccalyly, 8. 



* Nonjurors, sources for their history, 621. 

 Norfolk (Margaret, Duchess of), her arms, 



84. 

 Norman of Winster, 126. 302. 

 North (Lord), a woodcut of, 183. 230. 303. 

 Nostradamus, edition of 1605, 552. 

 Novus on advice given to Julius III., 54. 

 Noxid on cement of glass-baths, 397. 

 N. (S.) on Earl of Oxford, and the creation 

 of peers, 292. 



helmets over shields, 538. 



Nugget, not an Americanism, 375. 481. 

 Nuneham Regis, discovery at, 101. 

 Nursery rhymes, 452. 605. 



* Nursrow, origin of the word, 538. 

 |5. (223.), epigram on M'Adam, 441. 

 N. (W.) on Aristotle's checks, 98. 



N. (W. L.) on MS. of Spenser's Fairy 

 Queen, 357. 



O. 



Oak, how to clean old, 45. 58. 

 Oak, veneration for the, 468. 632. 

 Oaken tombs, &c., 179. 454. 



* Oasis, how accented, 410. 



Oaths as taken by the English and Welsh, 



364. 471. 605. 

 Oaths of pregnant women, 503. 

 Obnoxious, its different meanings, 439. 



* O'Brien (Nelly) noticed, 4W. 

 Observer on Lord North, 303. 



O. (D. N.) on passage in Blackwood, 493. 

 Offertory alms, superstition respecting, 617. 

 O. (J.) on Alexander Clark, 517. 



books burned by the hangman, 346. 



impossibilities of our forefathers, 559. 



parish clerks and politics, 56. 



-^ Patrick Carey, 406. 



Peter Brett, 533. 



Robert Drury, 104. 



Temple lands in Scotland, 480. 



Thomas Newans, a prophet, 381. 



William Blake, 69. 435. 



* Okey the regicide, 620. 



Oldenshaw (C.) on song by Dr. Lisle, 281. 



Old Grumbleum on punning devices, 376. 



Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, 183. 



Oliver on Rathband family, 493. 



Omega on pues or pews, 127. 



Omicron on humbug, its derivation, 575. 



Osborne family, 448. 



Osborn filius Herfasti, 654. 



Wellington's first victory, 491. 



O. (P. A.) on i)ost-ofiice about 1770, 8. 



* Orange blossom, 341. 



O. (R. A. S.) on St. George family pic- 

 tures, 104. 



Orton (Job), the publican, his burial, 59. 



Osborn family, 270. 448. 



Osborn filius Herfasti, 515. &5i. 



Osmotherly in Yorkshire, tradition of, 617. 



O'SuUivan (Wm.) on Gurney's short-hand, 

 589. 



Oswald (Richard) noticed, 442. 549. 



Outlawe (Roger) noticed, 5. 



* Owen (Dr. Charles) noticed, 492. 

 Owen (Hugh) on yellow bottles for chemi- 

 cals, 1 10. 



Oxford commemoration squib, 1849, 584. 

 Oxford (Earl of), and the creation of peers, 



292. .392. 

 Oxoniensis on " Amentium hand aman. 

 tium," 19. 



Nightingale's song, 112. 



pure, its singular use, 125. 



Packinglon (Lady), supposed author of the 



Whole Duty of Man, 564. 

 Paget (Arthur) on Lisle family, 423. 



Milton's widow, 452. 



Synge family, 423. 



teaching a dog French, 581. 



Paget family, 12. 134. 200. 375. 452. 

 Pagoda, 401. 523. 



Paint, how taken off of old oak, 45. 58. 

 Palaeologus (Theodore), his inscription, 



408. 526. 



* Pale, its meaning, 78. 

 Paley's plagiarism, 589. 

 Palindromes, 520. 

 Panama, the Isthmus of, 144. 

 Paper, how split, 413. 604. 



Parallel passages, 30. 195. 372. 465. .560. 



* Parchment deeds, on cleansing soiled, 270. 

 Pardon churchyard, 63. 



Parish clerk, a female, 338. 474. 

 Parish clerks and politics, 56. 230. 575. 



clerks' company, 341. 452. 



^-^ registers, lines prefixed to, 30. 



* Park, the antiquary, 8. 



* Parker (Abp.), his correspondence, 149. 



* Parliament, a member of, electing him- 

 self, 586. 



Parochial libraries, 62. 274. 327. 369.527. 



595. 

 Parr (Dr.), his letter on Milton, 433. 

 Party, its earliest use, 137. 

 Party names in the seventeenth century, 



117. 

 Party-similes of the seventeenth century, 



485. 

 Parvise explained, 161. 

 Pascal, a saying of his, 44. 

 Pater-noster, the white, 614. 



* Patriarchs of the Western Church, 317. 

 Patrick (Bp. Simon) noticed, 103. 205. 



* Patrick (St.), or Maune and Man, 291. 

 Patrick's purgatory, 178. 327. 



Patten (Margaret), her picture, 442. 



* " Pay the Piper," its origin, 198. 



P. (C. J.) on fishermen's custom at Ward- 

 house, 78. 



Peacock (Edw.) on ecclesiastical censure, 

 466. 



Francis Moore, 271. 



hour-glass in pulpits, 83. 2/9. 



North Lincolnshire folk lore, 382. 



Sir William Hewet, 652. 



weather rules, 50. 



Peasantry, popular stories of the English, 

 94. 



" Peccavi ! I have Scinde," 490. 574. 



Pedigree indices, 317. 453. 



* Pedigree to the time of Alfred, 586. 



" Peg" or " nail," for an argument, 561. 



* Pelasgi, a sorrowful race, 516. 

 Pembrokiensis on tomb of Henry I,, 411. 

 Pennycomequick, its derivation, 8. 113. 



184. 255. 

 Pepys (Samuel) and East London Topo- 

 graphy, 263. 

 his grammar, 466. 502. 



* — his queries, 341. 



Percy (Lady), wife of Hotspur, 104. 184. 

 251. 



* Perfect tense, its rationale, 410. 

 Perseverant, its early use, 44. 



Persius Flaccus (Aulus), his birth-place, 



389. 

 Personage, a mysterious one, 34. 113. 

 Perthcnsis on Alexander Clark, 18. 



aliases and initials of authors, 124. 



Peterborough Cathedral, inscription in, 



215. 303. 



* Peter the Great, his will, 539. 

 Petheram (John) on Sir Thomas Button's 



Voyages, 385. 



* Petrarch's Laura, 562. 



P. ( Francis) on heraldic query, 220. 

 P. (G.) on the meaning of trash, 135. 

 "P. (H.) on crosses on stoles, 411. 



French Prayer Books, 478. 



love charm from a foal's forehead, 292. 



