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iv PREFACE. 
The names themselves of individuals are not always to be found in the pages 
referred to, they being mentioned by the offices they held: us lord mayor, 
chancellor of the Exchequer, commander in chief, &c. 
When a name occurs repeatedly in many pages relating to the same subject, 
it has been thought sufficient, in general, to refer to the first of these pages 
merely : while, in some other cases, where a name or subject occurs twice in a 
page, an ib. has been added, to prevent one of the passages from being over-~ 
looked. The references are commonly given in the regular order of the 
volumes and pages ; but sometimes there is an intentional deviation from this, 
that the passages may be referred to in the succession, in which it is most 
suitable for them to be read. 
In the General Index, constituting Part I. of this volume, are included 
every fact, incident, or thing, mentioned in the History of Europe, Domestic 
Occurrences, State Papers, Public Characters, Natural History, Useful 
Projects, Literary and Miscellaneous Essays, Antiquities, and Account of 
Books ; with all the names of persons, a few of no moment excepted, occurring 
throughout these departments, and also in that of Poetry. 
After this follow separate indexes, * 
1. Of Births 4. Of Deaths 
2. Of Marriages 5. Of the Poetry 
3. Of Promotions 6, Of the Titles of Books Reviewed 
It may be proper to advert to some errors in the paging of particular volumes, 
which it is necessary for the reader to bear in mind. In volumes xxvi, xxvii, 
and xxxviii, the second part is paged with ] as well as the first; but in the 
index the |] is omitted in the references to the second part. On the contrary, 
the first part of vol. xxxvi is not paged with ], but this mark is employed in 
the references to it. In volume, xlii p. 272* to 282* come between pages 282 
and 283: in volume xlix, p. 657* to 740* come between pages 656 and 657. 
In volume | there are three sets of pages not distinguished by any mark: the 
references with ] are to the first set, with * to the second, and those without 
any mark to the third. In the third set, however, there are eight pages . 
between 88 and 89 marked 81*—88* ; these, to prevent mistake, are indexed 
81 (2nd)—88 (2nd). In vol. lii there being two sets of pages from 241 to 267, 
the second set, belonging to the chronicle, is distinguished in the index by a *. 
The following explanation of some abbreviations inserted after names or 
