ANNUAL REGISTER. 
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Petitions: consequences of the right of 
petitioning, xiii 162] 
.... from lord Chesterfield to the king, 
xvii 182] 
e+..- Names surreptitiously added to, lviii 
155 
Petrarch, Franc. v 23. xv 201. xvi 194. xix 
175] xxi 229. xxiv 157, 181. xxviii 
149 
Petrasch, gen. xxxviii 140] xli 268] xlii 
202 
Petre, fath. xiv 249 
—— hon. J. v 78] 
Rob. Ed. 9th lord, v 78] xiii 57. 
xviii 115] 61. xix 52. xxi 309] 310] 
Rob. James, 8th lord, liii 484 
Petrecono, gen. Xxxvi 82 
Petres, W. xxxiii 367] 
Petri Genoese. See Cappunccino 
Petrie, Martin v. xxxiii 46] 
W. li 230 
Petrifactions : of human bodies, iii 78] xii 
197 
«+, by seawater, iii 98, 99 
«+e» one dug up in White Friars, vi 96 
--.. Stump of a tree with the root petri- 
fied, vii 105] 
e+. beehive, x 117 
---» Stratum at Matlock, xviii 95 
..-- formation of, xxi 107 
--.» curious of a bull, liii 124 
Petrifying spring, xlvii 394 
Petroleum, lake of, liii 462 
oe» Springs, lvii 498 
Petronius Arbiter, xix 1 
Pett, Grace, vi 95 
Pettet, capt. Rob. (N) li 473 
Petticoat lane, fires in, xli 21. xlvii 411 
Petty, murdered by T. Lee, xi 155] 
—— lord H. xlvii 35, 47, 69. xlviii 10, 
26, 67, 76, 79, 85, 97. xlix 70, 83, 89, 93, 
94, 95, 96, 99, 103; 104, 109, 120, 140, 
144, 157, 242, 617, 680, 684, 690. 1 15] 
75) 83] 87] 102] 111] li 54, 64, 82, 83, 
167. See also Lansdowne, H. marq. 
sir W. xxiv 105. xxxviii 362. xliii 
18. xlvii 857 
«+s. last will of, iv 16 
-+» his account of himself, 2d. 
Peturson, Sigurdar, liii 434 
Petworth, steeple to be taken down, x] 421 
Petyt, W. xx 131 
Pewsey, bridge at, xxxix 47 
Pewter, on the composition of, xlii 387 
Peynier, xxxiv 74] 
Peyre, xli 47] 
Peyrilhe, M. xxvi 28 
Peyron, gen. xlix 185. liv 166] 
Peyssonel, xiv 184. xxx 34] 
Peyton, capt. (N) i 306, 307, 310 
(N) lvi 295 
J.(N) xl 143 
—— ensign, “ii 122, 123 
—— rev, Algernon, lviii 310 
. xliv 401 
—— sir 
487 
PH 
Pezzo, Marco, iii 148] 
Pfaffendorf, battle of, iii 28] 
Pfiffer, gen. xxii 95% 
Pfuhl, von, gen. xlviii 157, 684, 688 
Pfutschner, bar. iv 28 
Pfyfter, col. xliv 237 
Phantasmagoria, xliv 387 
Phantasms, ly 532, 
Pharamond, vii 166 
Pheasant, poulterer prosecuted for having 
a tame one in his possession, vi 83] 
Phelippeaux, xxxvi 118] 
col. xli 29] 70, 74 
Phelps, S. 1 138 
Phengites, stone, v 141, 143 
Phenomena, natural: sinking in of the 
ground in Sweden, iv 166] xxxv 14 
--.. extraordinary noise and smoke at 
Great Malvern, iv 170] 
«++. uncommon iris, iv 9} 
+++. ground removed, instances of, vii 52] 
+++. mountainous rock in Naples burst, 
and the water issuing from it swept away 
two villages, vii 55] 
--..- land in the E. Indies swallowed up, 
vii 83] 
-.. bed of the Ayr, in Scotland, left dry 
for half a mile, viii 59] 
---- substance resembling human hair on 
an oak plant, viii 62] 
-».. fall of a mountain in Italy consequent 
to an inundation occasioned by a storm, 
viii 103] 
«... Singular appearance in the Sun, ix 
120 
.... some acres of bog fall into a lough in 
Galway, x 103] 
..-. man and his wife and four horses 
killed near Amiens by something ascend- 
ing out of the earth, xii 146] 
.... breaking of the Solway moss, xiv 159] 
165] 215] 
.... extraordinary opening of the earth 
near Quebec, xiv 164] 
-... earthslip at Ober-Olm, xv 87] 
-... fallof part of a mountain in France, 
xxvi 202] 
..»-. general destruction of seeds by a pesti- 
lential mist, xxvii 234] 
.... sudden explosion in sinking a well, 
xxviii 211] 
-.-. bursting of a bog in Tipperary, xxx 
202] 
.--. large current of water from a moun- 
tain in America, xxx 76 
.».. moving of a bog, and formation of a 
lake, in Galway, xxxi 42 
..-. sinking of a large spot of ground near 
Hereford, xxxv 18 
wats — two spots of ground in 
Norfolk, xxxv 40 
— a village in Switzerland, 
‘ xxxvii 33 
.... oaks found buried in the ground, 
xxxvili 42 
