FIRST SERIES. 



All-fours, its meaning, v. 441 ; ri. 137. 



All Hallows, churches dedicated to, xi. 148. 



All Hallow's eve custom, viii. 490. 



All Souls' day custom, iv. 381. 506. 



Allington, Kent, petition from its inhabitants to Dr. 



Sy'dall, V. 388. 

 Alliteration, specimens of, iii. 165. 340; vi. 122. 230. 



279. 

 Alliterative spelling-book, xi. 343. 

 Alma, the Book of, in the Book of Mormon, xii. 326. 

 Alma and Balbec, x. 421. 490. 

 Alma Mater, its origin, viii. 517. 

 Almain-leap explained, i. 157. 

 Almanac, earliest in Scotland, viii. 57. 

 Almanac, mental one, iv. 203. 341. 

 Almanacs, books of, ix. 561; x. 94; early, and Sta- 

 tioners' Company, ix. 334; Edinburgh, x. 522; 



French, xi. 55; historical value of old, xi. 54; xii. 



143; makers, xi. 441; of 1550, iv. 4; of 1849 and 



1850, xi. 323; xii. 19. 52. 94; eld, xi. 323. 435; 



Poor Robin's, i. 470; ii. 268. 

 Almanach Royal de France, xi. 101. 

 Almanryvets, kind of armour, x. 337; xi. 17. 

 Almas Cliffe, near Harrowgate, v. 296. 354. 

 " Almighty dollar," origin of the phrase, xii. 83. 

 Almon (John), publisher of " Junius's Letters," vi. 240. 

 Almond tree, symbolical meaning, iii. 203. 252. 

 Almonry described, ii. 55. 



Alms, eucharist, superstition respecting, viii. 617. 

 Alms-basket described, viii. 297. 

 Alms-dishes, inscriptions on, i. 44. 52. 73. 87. 117. 



135. 171. 254; ii. 516; iii. 101. 

 Alnwick Castle, Halleck's lines on, v. 222. 329. 401 ; 



its moveable windows, xii. 147. 

 Alnwick, inscription on the Plough Inn, vi. 412; ix. 89. 

 Alpe, the bullfinch, xi. 213. 352. 

 Alphabetical arrangement, vii. 596. 

 Alphabets, ancient, x. 184. 291. 

 " Alphabetum divini Amoris," iii. 86. 

 Alphonsus XL, his Chronicle, x. 348. 

 Alsop (Antony), notice of him and his works, i. 215. 



249. 

 Alsop (George), noticed, viii. 585. 

 Altar, lights on the, ii. 495; iii. 30. 68. 172. 

 Altar of laughter at Athens, xi. 225. 

 Altar, on reverence to the, vi. 33. 109. 182. 257 ; ix. 566. 

 Altars, crosses on, xi 73. 173. 274. 332: portable, viii. 



101. 183; stone, xi. 426. 496; xii. 115. 

 Altaria, or super-altare, x. 161. 273. 

 Al-Teppe in Palestine, xi. 206. 

 " Alterius orbis papa," its origin, iii. 497; iv. 11. 75. 



489; V. 68; viii. 254. 

 Alva (Duke of), ix. 76. 158. 



" Amadis de Gaule," early translation, iv. 85; xi. 516. 

 Ambassadors addressed as peers, v. 213. 258; sent to 



foreign courts, iv. 442. 477; v. 135. 498. 

 Ambassadress, British, poem to the French King, xii. 



360. 

 Amber Witch, v. 510. 569; vi. 82. 

 Ambiguity in public writing, ix. 52. 

 Ambree (Mary), noticed, v. 321. 

 Ambry, its meaning, ix. 459. 

 Amcotts' pedigree, viii. 387. 518. 

 Amelia, daughter of George IL, x. 29. 56. 



America known to the ancients, i. 107. 342 ; ii. 109. 

 277. 405. 



Madoc's emigration to, i. 12. 25. 56 — 58. 107. 236. 

 282. 341. 406. 



oldest church in, x. 443. 



prophecy respecting its discovery, i. 107. iii. 464 ; 

 iv. 300. 

 American aborigines, why called Indians, i. 254. 491. 



apple trees, xi. 163. 



arms, stars and stripes, ii. 135 ; vi. 41. 



astrology, viii. 561. 



authors, xi. 206. 



bittern, i. 352. 



cant names, x. 522. 



diplomas, V. 177 ; vi. 45. 



fisheries, vii. 107. 



languages, v. 585 ; vi. 60 ; ix. 1 94. 



loyalists, iv. 165 ; vi. 44. 592. 



newspapers, x. 482 ; xi. 222. 



officers, their weight, vii. 202. 



poems attributed to English authors, viii. 71. 183; 

 ix. 377. 



reprints of old books, i. 209. 



Stamp Act, Lord Chatham's speech on, i. 12.220. 



surnames, viii. 638; x. 59; xii. 40. 114. 391. 

 Americanisms, vi. 411. 543. 554; vii. 51. 97. 608. 

 American Lady, memoirs of, i. 335; ii. 28. 

 Ames family, vi. 292. 

 Ames's " Typographical Antiquities," by Herbert and 



Dibdin,i. 8. 38. 56; x. 367. 

 Amherst (Nicholas), his " Terra3 Filius," x. 10. 

 Amney Holyrood, Gloucestershire, x. 25. 

 Amontillado sherry, ix. 222. 336. 474; xi. 39. 93. 

 " Amor nummi," its author, viii. 149. 

 Amory (Thomas) alias John Buncle, x. 30. 388; xi. 



58. 

 Ampers and (&), its deriv.ation, ii. 230. 284. 318; viii. 



173. 223. 254. 327. 376. 524; ix. 43. 

 Amsterdam Guide-book, iii. 346. 

 Amulets, coins used as, i. 100. 

 Amurath, Sultan, carries coins as amulets, i. 100. 

 Amusive, its meaning, vii. 333. 

 Amyclaj, the burghers of, v. 297. 

 Amyot (Thomas), his death, ii. 303 ; sale of his library, 



iii. 111. 

 An before a vowel, i. 350. 407; v. 297. 380; before 



" u " long, viii. 244. 421. 

 Anachronisms, ix. 367. 

 Anagram on Charles Stuart, ix. 42. 

 Anagrams, iv. 226. 297. 325. 350. 405. 457; vii. 221. 



452. 546. 

 Anagrams on authors' names, xi. 463; xii. 15. 155. 

 Analysis defined, v. 370. 



Anastatic printing, x. 288. 364. 423; xi. 52; xii. 154. 

 Anathema maranatha, viii. 100. 

 Anathemas, Greek, x. 37. 

 Ancients, lost works of, xi. 7. 

 " Ancren Riwle," MSS. of, ix. 5. 

 Anderdon (J. L.), his Life of Bishop Ken, v. 443. 

 Anderson (C), " Annals of the English Bible," v. 110. 

 Anderson (Edmond), letter to Sir Francis Bacon, xii. 8. 

 Anderson (Dr. James), viii. 198. 326. 

 Anderson (James), Historical Essay, viii. 347 ; letter to 

 Earl of Ibla, xi. 439. 



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