FIRST SEEIES. 



103 



Plough, the town, vi. 462; vii." 129. 339. 



Plough at Castor church, iv. 406 



Plum, origin of the word, viii. 65. 654. 



Plum-pudding, origin of the name, xi. 366. 



Plum-pudding, and plum-porridge, vi. 604; vii. 319. 



Plum-pudding at Paignton fair, vii. 66. 



Plumley (Mr.), dramatist, ix. 516. 



Plumptre (Rev. James), his papers, x. 104. 



Plunket (Lord) and St. Agohard, ii. 226. 



Plunkett's Light to the Blind, MS. of, vi. 341. 



Plurality of worlds, x. 140. 



Plutarch, on sacrifices to the lower deities, xii. 205. 



Plymouth calendar, ix. 585. 



Poa cynosuwides, or sacred grass, ii. 392. 



Poavola, its meaning, xii. 408. 



Pocklington (Dr. John), ix. 247 ; x. 37 ; inacription on 



his monument, viii. 215. 

 Pocock (Richard), orientalist, x. 287. 

 Poem early satirical, vii. 568. 

 Poems, anonymous MS. volume, xi. 502. 

 Poems and songs in MS., viii. 587. 

 " Poema del Cid," with glossary and notes, viii. 367. 



574. 

 Poeta Anglicus, ii. 167. 232. 

 Poetaster, a Latin word, iv. ,59. 301. 

 Poetical coincidences. See Parallel passages. 

 " Poetical Epistle to Dr. W. K.," xi. 444. 514. 

 Poetical symbolism, i. 173. 219. 

 Poetry, inedited, v. 387. 435. 580; vii. 424; from 



Harleian MSS. iii. 203. 218; pretended reprint of 



ancient, ii. 463. 500-; iii. 172. 

 Poetry of flowers in foreign literature, xi. 26. 

 Poets' corner, when attached to Westminster Abbey, iii. 



381. 

 Poets-laureat, origin, ii. 20; ix. 335. 

 Poghele, its meaning, i. 186. 406. 

 Poins in Shakspeare, origin of the name, i. 386. 418. 

 Point — " To be at point," vii. 521. 

 Pointz of Greenham, family, i. 94. 

 Poison, its etymology, v. 394. 499. 

 Poisons, ancient, ii. 424; used for bouquets, vii. 262. 

 Poitevin dialogue, xii. 264. 354. 388. 522. 

 Pokership, or Porkership, i. 185. 218. 236. 269. 281. 



323. 369 ; ii. 204. 

 Polarised light, viii. 409. 552. 

 Pole (David), bishop of Peterborough, vi. 204. 

 Pole family, v. 105. 163. 567. 

 Pole money, or tax, ii. 231. 285. 

 Poley (Sir John), his monument and portrait, i. 214. 



372. 385; ii. 76; ix. 457. 

 Polhill (Edward), vi. 460. 563. 

 Policies, Court of, xi. 224. 329. 

 Policy, English landed and commercial, i. 59. 91. 

 Polish custom on repeating the Creed, vi. 360. 

 Politeuphuia : Wit's Commonwealth, i. 29. 86. 

 Politian. his epitaph at Florence, viii. 537. 

 Political economy, first Italian writer on, iv. 175. 356. 

 Political maximj " When bad men conspire," &c., i. 93. 



104. 

 Political pamphlets, 1763 — 1774, wanted, v. 319. 

 Political predictions, ix. 559. 



" Political Register," its writers, x. 423. 492; xi. 35. 

 Politics, their influence on fashion, viii. 515. 

 Politics and Paalm-siuging, viii. 56. 230. 575. 



Polka, its antiquity, vii. 152. 



Poll-books,, the earliest printed, xii. 10. 



Poll tax in 1641, viii. 340. 



Pollards, trees, xii. 9. 54. 135. 195. 268. 



PoUdavy, coarse cloth, xi. 266. 333. 475. 



PoUini's Ecclesiastical History, iv. 25. 



Polly as a corruption of l^Iary, i. 215. 299. 



Polo (Marco), his Travels, v. 289. 



Polperro provinciahsms, x. 178. 300. 318. 354. 358. 



376. 414. 418. 440; 479. 

 Polstead Hall, Essex, its fine oak tree, v. 157. 

 Poltimore family arms, xi. 87. 213. 

 Polygamy among Jews and Christians, ix. 246. 329- 



409; xii. 519; among Turks, x. 29. 154. 

 Polyglot, Complutensian, i. 213. 251. 268. 325. 402. 



461. 

 Polynesian New Testaments, v. 468. 

 Pomegranate, its early cultivation, xi. 41. 

 Pomeroy (Arthur), parentage, iii. 303. 

 Pomfret on the Thames, ii. 56. 205. 

 Pompey's playing tables, xii. 428. 518; on the wor- 

 shippers of the sun, ii. 315. 

 "Pompey the Great," its translators, v. 129. 

 Ponds for insects, x. 66. 

 Poniatowski gems, v. 30. 65. 140. 190. 

 Pontius, the Samnite general, xii. 383. 

 Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway, iii. 326. 



526. 

 Pool of the Black Hound, legend, ii. 515. 

 Poole (Dr. Robert), his " Christian Convert," xii. 468. 

 Poor Eobin's Almanack, i. 470; ii. 268. 

 Poore (Edward), literary collections, i. 122. 

 Pope and cardinals, dramatic attack on, xi. 12. 246. 

 Pope elected in a water-closet, iii. 142. 253; query put 



to one, ii. 104; sitting on the altar, x. 161. 2T3. 349. 



534. 

 Pope's eye, its meaning, v. 153. 



Popes, St. Malachy's prophecies on, viii. 390 ^ 



Popes of Rome, epigram on, vi. 603. 

 Pope (Alexander). See Popiana. 

 Pope (Rev. Alexander) of Caithness, xi. 6. 

 Popham (Sir John) and Littlecott, viii. 218. 

 Popham (Lord Chief Justice), vii. 259. 305. 



Popiana : ^ 



Pope (Alexander), his mother, x. 299. 358. 479; 



nurse, 239; quarrels, 277. 298; xii. 377. 463; 



skull, X. 418. 458. 478. 

 and his printers, x. 217. 

 and the pirates, x. 197. 

 anecdotes of Pope, xi. 98. 

 Bathurst the bookseller, xii. 60. 357. 379. 

 Buchanan and Pope, vii. 570. 

 Caryl of the Rape of the Lock, xii. 415. I 

 Collection of pieces in praise or blame of Pope, xi. 



485. 

 Corinna, xii. 277. 392. 431. 

 Corrections adopted from the Dunces, vii. 541. 

 Cowper and Pope compared, viii. 383. 

 Croker's edition of Pope's Works announced, i. 



189; X. 258; xii. 296. 

 Delia of Pope's line [Lady Delorine?], ii. 479; xi. 



301. 

 Dennis and Pope, ix. 516. 



