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Pickford (J.) on Was, in local names, 278
Picton (J. A.) on Artifex: Opifex, &c., 341
Nappy, its meaning, 471

Ultramarine: Azure, 189, 238
Yateley, Hants, 91

Piece, as a term of contempt, 18, 297
Piesse (G. W. S.) on great frosts, 217
Piesse (S.) on Lubin as a surname, 449

Pig's fry, a Christmas dish, 57

Pim (Bedford) when do sheriff's take office? 98

Pink (W. D.) on Daughter as a feminine surname
terminative, 87

Friar, bill for hanging, 24

Hodgkins (John), suffragan Bp., 367

Pitt (William), his last words, 305

Place-names, odd, 87, 195

Plague, the, receipts for its cure, 162, 275
Planet, a fortune-teller's word, 6

Plants, their sensitiveness known to the ancients, 348
Ploughing by the horse's tail, 77

Plover, green, or pewit, the " ungrateful bird," 385
Plymtree Church, chancel screen, 259

Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith, 287, 318, 378
Pocock (C. J.) on English engravers, 155

Pocock (N.) on Privy Council Registers, 393
Poems on towns and countries, 169

Poet, emigré, 66

Poets, banker, 6

Polish rising, 1832, and Gregory XVI., 508

Ponsonby (G.) on No. 35, Park Lane, 357

Pool: To pool, an engineering term, 55, 116
Pope (Alexander), his will, 223

Porter (J.), E. Ruthven in her "Scottish Chiefs," 9
Portia, the original, 8, 75

Portland, church of St. Andrew at, 207

Portrait, seventeenth century, 407, 455
Portraits, three anonymous, 327, 478
Portuguese Treaty of 1661, 208
Post days for foreign mails, 485

Post-office, its mark for registered letters, 23
Potter (G.) on Hampstead parish church, 333
Potts (W. J.) on William Cullen Bryant, 96
Venicombe family, 398

West Indies: Barbadoes, 178

Powder (Sam), who was he? 447, 478

"Practical Philosophy," by a Septuagenarian, 103
Prado-Sanchez (Mrs. Mary), a centenarian, 20
Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots, 24, 191
Prayer towards the East, 427, 490

Prayers, State, 1688, 289; for the Royal Family, 518
Preacher's gown, its history, 122, 272
Pre-Adamite papers, 348, 458

Supplement to the Notes

Queries, with No. 290, July 19, 1879

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Hands full of pancakes, 469

Hodie mihi, cras tibi, 492

Hue and cry, 99, 357

Inkle-weaver, 156

Joined the majority, 125

Maid that eateth chalk, 308, 495

Man is a fool or his own physician at forty, 425
Man proposes, but God disposes, 206
Masterly inactivity, 347, 517

Nearest the kirk the furthest frae grace, 8, 98, 158
Nine points of the law, 447

Peace at any price, 187, 296

Plain living and high thinking, 308, 359, 415, 512
Quod tacitum velis, nemini dixeris, 16

Raining cats and dogs, 56, 77

Seeing is believing, 157

Smothered in the lode, &c., 117

Square man in the round hole, 89

Theology the queen of sciences, 32

Upper ten thousand, 174

Vengeance: To do with a vengeance, 306, 494
Vêtchnaya tishiná, 228, 398

Walk fast in snow, in frost walk slow, 67
Welsh, 8, 98, 158

Whither-witted, 187

Proverbs with changed meanings, 137, 177, 258
Provincialisms omitted by Halliwell, 245, 288, 379,436

Prebendaries and canons, their difference, 69, 89, Public-house signs. See Tavern signs.

108, 211, 253, 337, 395

Premonstratensian houses, their plans, 388

President: Precedent, 507

"Press Orders," by Albert Smith, 107

Prestoniensis on Bellman's proclamation, 98

Price (J. E.) on St. Sepulchre's, London, 366

Prices, fixed, 207; established by Scottish Parliament,
287

Prideaux (W. F.) on Famagosta, 430

Ultramarine: Azure: Lazul, 497

Priest (Wm.), of Birmingham, lawyer, 245, 355
Primrose pasty, its ingredients, 49, 115

Publishers of poems, their names wanted, 227, 259
Purves (J.) on first to enter a house on Christmas

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Quotations :-

A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun, 149, 179
A jolly place, said he, in times of old, 329, 359
A man of kindness to his beast is kind, 449
A pleasant heart, a happy mind, 128

Ah, my friends! when God's great angel, 269
All men are brothers, all having God, &c., 509
And I will bid the Arcadian cypress wave, 329
And sayest thou, Cara? 46

And was so proud, that should he meet, 290, 319
Andrew Fairservice-but I beg pardon, 319
As to comedy, repartee, &c., 49

At midnight's dreary hour is heard, &c., 239
Best friends would hate me if, &c., 149, 279
Better trust all and be deceived, 290
For, while the tired waves, vainly breaking, 388, 458
Genius is the fusion of passion in thought, 47
Glissez, mortels; n'appuyez pas, 79

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He saw the face that rules the universe, 488
He shoots higher who aims at the stars, 269, 299
He who cannot reason, &c., 309, 339, 359, 498
Here be woods as green, 409, 439

R.

His shoote it was but loosely shott, 329, 359
I have culled a nosegay, &c., 9, 39, 159, 179
I knocked out the dust from my pipe, &c, 189
I know not if the green grass waveth, &c., 309
I might have claim'd a lady's love, 128
If God is great in great things, 269, 299
If he be of the right stamp, 189

Knows the Greek plenteous in words, &c., 269
Life would be tolerable, &c., 366
Master Hogge and his man John, 449
Mors sceptra ligonibus æquat, 236

Nay, swore that Kelly learnt from him his art, 369
Not in the gladness of our life alone, 329
O si, o si, otiosi? 30

Of all the states 'tis hard to say, 248, 299

On parent knees a naked, new-born child, 365, 430
Praise is the best diet for us all, 509
Rest comes at last, &c., 269, 299
Reverence! that angel of the world, 248

Shaw (Rev. Samuel), 187

(M. H.) on Dante's voyage of Ulysses, 351
Heraldic query, 497

Latin pronunciation, 137

Mitford (Miss), 297

(R.) on Embezzle, its etymology, 250

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'Masterly inactivity," 517

Piece, as a term of contempt, 18

Proverbs with changed meaning, 137

Rooks going away a sign of bad luck, 506

66

Seeing is believing," 157

Waller (E.), his "Go, lovely Rose," 275

R. (S.) on Sir W. Jones's "Lines on an Infant," 430
R. (T. W.) on Nappy, a beverage, 106

Painting, curious, 268

66

Raining cats and dogs," 56

R. (W. F.) on Auster, its derivation,
Hems, its meaning, 93
Provincialisms, 245
Treasure trove, 367

215

R. (W. H. H.) on armour in churches, 74
Common Prayer Book, temp. Eliz., 514
Racehorses, famous Irish, 67

Rae Brown (C.) on first penny daily, 393
Raleigh's Cross, Brendon Hill, Somerset, 53

Sculptors like Phidias, Raphaels in shoals, 49, 79 Ralph, its pronunciation, 99

See how these Christians, &c., 49, 79, 99
She was not beautiful, they said, 128, 179
Sola fides sufficit, 468

Some drill and bore, 409, 439

Some enter the gates of Art with golden keys, 388
Staring right on, with calm eternal eyes, 229, 259
Tam Marte (or Marti) quam Mercurio, 235, 258
The best way to see Divine light, 269

The calm sea wondered at the wrecks it made, 290
The hungry sheep look up, &c., 449, 479
The morn, all unconcerned, &c., 429, 458
The patriarch stood on the brow, &c., 189
Their only labour was to kill the time, 509
Then silent, but with blinding tears, 69, 99
There are lawyers and lawyers, 247
There is a shore, 229, 299

These are imperial works, &c., 488, 519
Time o'er wreck'd worlds sleeps motionless, 108
To prove his ancestors notorious thieves, 128, 179
Together lay her prayer book and her paint, 9
Union purest, most sublime! 329
What is good for a bootless bene? 439
When minds that should agree, &c., 388

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Randall (W. S.) on watch-case verses, 19
Randling, its meaning, 405
Ratcliffe (T.) on Yule log, 375

Rayner (S.) on Rosemary v. Mint, 18
Razors, their early use, 384

Reeve (J. J.) on Epigram on Beau Nash, 357
Regiment, early uniform of 60th Rifles, 189, 257, 277 ;
the "Old Agamemnons," 329

Renaud (F.) on Moreton arms, 472
Restormel castle, 454

Rendle (W.) on mezzotint portrait, 508
Renton family, 18

Restormel Castle, its ruins, 407, 454
Rete Corvil, its meaning, 27, 57

Rex on similarity of coat armour, 289

"Reynard the Fox," its bibliography, 269, 296, 399
Reynolds (F. M.), author of "Miserrimus," 392, 432
Ribbesford Church, its architecture, 267, 317
Richard III., his seal, 67, 176

Richardson (W. H.) on London City arms, 457
Maleheire name and arms, 447
Rickards family arms, 868
Riddall (W.) on Riddell MSS., 367

Riddell (Robert), his MSS., 367

Riding the stang, 66

Ridley family, 58

Ridley (Bp.), his autograph, 168, 278

Rifles, 60th, their early uniform, 189, 257, 277
Rigaud (G.) on armour in churches, 74

Benn (Rev. R.), 13

Bickerton in the "Oxford Spy," 172
Eginton (Francis), 274

Hart Hall, Oxford, 133, 197

Heraldic queries, 458

Jackson (Cyril), Dean of Christ Church, 353
Rifles, 60th, their early uniform, 189, 277
Sir Bevys, Derby winner, 493

Whip-top, its antiquity, 36

Winter, severe, 134

S. (A. C.) on Scott (Sir W.), letter of, 425
S. (A. M.) on Hazelrigg or Hesilrige family, 268
Matheson Clan, 476

Moray (Earl of), his murder, 161

S. (A. P.) on Major André, 7

S. (D.) on Ginnel, its meaning, 197

S. (D. Q. V.) on right to bear arms, 152, 196, 310
Bolles pedigree, 237

S. (E H. M.) on "Christian Year," 224

S. (F.) on Root=Cat, 137

S. (G.) on Balcony or Balcony, 357

S. (G. A.) on Sam Powder, 447

S. (H. W.) on Sacheverell family, 435

S. (J.) on heraldic queries, 408

S. (J. C. L.) portrait of seventeenth century, 407
S. (J. H.) on anonymous works, 469

Roberts (R. P. H.) on altar-piece at Copenhagen, 147 S. (R. F.) on epigram on Beau Nash, 71

Cleveland Folk-lore, 54

Easter at Llanfairpwllycrochon, 281
Gloves presented by Bishops, 268
Moën, Island of, 481

"Plain living and high thinking," 308
Style and Title, 131

Robin Hood Club or Society, 258
Rogers (C.) on Duke of Clarence, 23

Scott (Sir W.) and Hayley, 65

Shelley (Percy Bysshe), 45, 158, 194

Rogers (J. E. T.) on Magdalene Coll. accounts, 325
Rogers (W. H. H.) school kept in the parvise, 394
Roman remains at Bierley Hall, 426

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Root Cat, 117, 137, 337

Ropery=Rope works, 99, 357

Rosamond, Fair, tree on tomb at Godstow, 328, 436
Roseberry (John), claiming to be 110, 240

Rosemary, its uses, 166

Plague, the, 162

S. (T. W. W.) on Rev. John Allin, 467
Anonymous works, 509

Hours, book of, 187

S. (W. S.) on Leo XIII. as a poet, 105

S. (W. W. F.) on "Come in if you're fat," 187
Sacheverell family, 309, 424

Sacrament tokens, 14, 51, 515

Sacramental wine, 48, 75, 109, 176, 291, 318

St. Apollonia invoked for toothache, 514
St. Bernard, his dying song, 49, 117

St. Catherine, Religious Society of, 168

St. Clair (Lt.-Gen. J.), his lineage and descendants, 209
St. David's Day, 1st of March, lines on, 166, 273
St. Dionis Backchurch, London, bequest for daily ser-
vice at, 22, 57

St. Etienne, places in France called, 226
St. Hilaire family, 406, 473

Rosenthal (F.) on Ginnel, meaning and derivation, 97 St. Ives, Cornwall, its borough charters, 248

Ross (C.) on supposed antiquities, 144

Erskine (Lord Chancellor), 197

-Ess added to occupations of women, 87

Oxford (Lord), 344

St. Johnston (A.) on funeral armour, 253
St. Joseph, his "han," 158

St. Leger (Judge), 137

St. Mawes Castle, its keepership, 208, 295

Rowe (Harry), emendator of Shakspeare, 268, 317, St. Miniato, 349, 495

337, 397

Royal Family prayers, 518

Royal household lists, 28

Royalists, Index of, 459

Rubens (Peter Paul), his "chapeau de paille," 166

Rudd (W. H.) Harrisons of Norfolk, 114, 229, 451, 512
Rule (F.) on difficulties in dying, 125

"Familiar Quotations," 79, 99, 179
Gooseberry picker, 234

"Pilot that weathered the Storm," 75
Sir Bevys, Derby winner, 494
Rushton Hall, MSS. discovered at, 92
Russell (J.) on Byron separation, 350
Russell (J. F.) on a confession, 465
Russell (John), artist in crayons, 418
Rust (J. C.) on Jewish physiognomy, 497
Rusticus on Slingsby family, 488

Rutley (J. L.) on curious painting, 415

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St. Pancras, churches in England dedicated to, 148,
237

St. Paul's Cathedral, the "Metropolitan " cathedral,
56, 512; was it ever called East Minster? 62, 209
St. Paul's Churchyard, booksellers in, 93

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Salf on Yankee, its derivation, 38

Salisbury Cathedral, its painted vaults, 224
Sammons (W. L.) on Edward and Charles Dilly, 29
Samosatenians, origin of their name, 48, 355
Samuel (R. T.) on Landeg family, 169, 458
Numismatic query, 217
Sacrament tokens, 14

Sandars (H.) on Charles Dickens, 404

Stage, deaths on or associated with, 121, 181, 241
Sandeman (J. G.) on Battle of Lepanto, 417
Sandiacre, Derbyshire, origin of its name, 448
Sanitarium or Sanatorium, 118

Santa Claus, patron of children, 66

Satchell (T.) on dragon in Mordiford Church, 369
Moles and blood-marks, 403
"Randling," &c., 405

Saturday and the Royal Family, 287, 317, 356, 379,
398, 418, 475

Saunterer, its derivation, 117, 337

Savile (Henry), his pedigree, 78

Sawyer (F. E.) publication of Church Registers, 326

French prisoners of war, 335

Knox (Dr. Vicesimus), 306

Oblionker, its meaning, 198

Shakspeariana:—

All's Well that Ends Well, obeli of the Globe
edition, 124; Act iv. sc. 2: "Frenchmen are
so braide," 363, 411; "Ropes in such a scarre,'
363

Henry V., Act ii. sc. 2: "Late commissioners,"
22: sc. 3; "Pitch and pay," 204
Macbeth, with "Notes and Emendations," by
Harry Rowe, 268, 317, 337, 397
Merchant of Venice, the original Portia, 8, 75
Othello, Act i. sc. 1: "Almost damn'd in a fair
wife," 383; sc. 2: "Motion," 383; sc. 3:
"Intentively," 383

Pericles, choruses in, 204

Romeo and Juliet, Act i. sc. 4; "Elf-locks..
once untangled," 22, 205

Tempest, Act i. sc. 2: "My foote my Tutor,"
363; Act iv. sc. 1: "Pioned and twilled
brims," 22

Twelfth Night, Act i. sc. 3: "Dam'd colour'd
stocke," 124, 204

Sharpe (Esther), a nonagenarian, 191, 218

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Sharpe's London Magazine," its history, 293, 330,
358

Saxons and Celts, the difference in their race, 5, 52, Shaw (S.) on Sacrament tokens, 14

213, 369, 469

Saying, old, 24, 155

Scambling Days as a term for Lent, 168, 275

Schiller (J. C. F.), his "Song of the Bell," 25

Schomberg (Duke of), his biography, 118

Shaw (Rev. Samuel), of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 187
Shaw (W. S.) on Henry Fielding, 208

Shaw (Rev. Dr. William), author, 486

Sheil-na-gig, its meaning and etymology, 368, 514
Sheldon (G.), Abp. of Canterbury, birthplace, 9, 76, 475

"Scogin's Jests," Eastern origin of one, 302, 382, 426 Shelley (Percy Bysshe), spurious letter of, 45, 70, 158,

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Scott (Sir S. D.) on the 60th Rifles, 257
Scott (Sir Walter), lines in 'Lay of the Last
Minstrel," 28, 53, 77, 98; his letter to the poet
Hayley, 65; original of Lucy Ashton, in the "Bride
of Lammermoor," 78; "Thief and Cordelier," in
"Heart of Midlothian," 143; letters of, 284, 425
Scottish Parliament, prices established by, 1551, 287
Scotus on Duguid, Scotch name, 349

Leighton family, 488
Treasure trove, 494
Whistling by women, 336

Seal Richard III.'s, 67, 176

Servants' hall forfeits, 33, 79, 236

Sewell (W. H.) on ancient hearse-cloths, 206
Sexton (G.) on difficulties in dying, 414
Shack, its meaning, 318

Shaff Tuesday Shrove Tuesday, 146
Shakespere (Joan), sub-prioress of Wroxhall, 348, 514
Shakspeare Memorial Library, Birmingham, its
destruction by fire, 41

Shakspeare (William), rare editions of his plays, 95,
114, 170; and Dante, 233; and Cicero, 286; early
allusions to, 288; articles on "Who wrote Shaks-
peare ?" 328, 437; and Marston, 363; in France, 520

179, 194; and Byron, 66

Sheridan (Mrs. Frances), authoress, 18, 139
Sheriffs, beginning of their office, 58, 98, 153
Sherley (Sir Anthony), Parry's narrative of his travels, 1
Shine or Shindy=Quarrel or disturbance, 49
Ship, historical, 146

Shipley (Bishop), his family, 18

Shippen (Will), of Walpole's "Misc.," 247, 415, 439
Shirley (E. P.) on cucking or ducking stools, 399
Ireland, maps and plans relating to, 78
Shoeblacks gambling, 226
Shrewsbury, names of places in, 116, 139, 178
Shrewsbury School, curious custom at, 125
Shrove Tuesday=Shaff Tuesday, 146
Shrove Tuesday customs, 97; game, 226
Shrovetide customs and, observances, 141
Shroving rhyme, 166

Sidemen, its derivation and meaning, 504
Sigma on waggonell bell, 149

Sikes (J. C.) on custom at Communion service, 495
Silurian on Howell's "Familiar Letters," 407

Sim (J.) on Australian heraldry, 484

Simpson (David), his collection of hymns, 75
Simpson (W. S.) on booksellers in St. Paul's Church-
yard, 93

St. Paul's Cathedral and East Minster, 62
Toothache St. Apollonia, 516

Verney (Sir R.), his cipher, 202, 298
Sindbad, Ulysses, and the Cyclops, 314
Sippet, its etymology, 387
Sir Bevys. See Bevys.

Sixpenny Handley, origin of the prefix, 107, 176
Skeat (W. W.) on Braid in Shakspeare, 411
Dialects, English provincial, 175

Skeat (W. W.) on Eighteen, in Chaucer, 503
Embezzle, its etymology, 30
English Dialect Dictionary, 421
Gorilla, in the "Periplus" of Hanno, 205
Haysel, its meaning and derivation, 174
Wappered, its meaning, 264

Worcestershire words and terminals, 231
Slack (J. B.) on Homer and the razor, 358
Slad or Slade, a local name, 348, 495
Sledge, historical, 26

Slingsby family, 488

Small-pox, red cure for, 76

Smart (T. W. W.) on John Turke's will, 477
Smedley (Francis Edward), author, 330, 358
Smith (Albert), his "Press Orders," 107
Smith (J.) on numismatic query, 49
Smith (J. C. C.) on brass at Cuxton, 6

Smith (Capt. John) and Pocahontas, 287, 318, 378
Smith (Richard), his collection of Bristol plays, &c., 449
Smollett (Tobias), his "Adventures of an Atom," 9
Smurring, its meaning and etymology, 68, 271
Sodor and Man, bishopric of, 140

Solander cases, origin of the name, 488, 517
Solidad on Mormos, 427

Solis (Miguel), aged 180, 191, 218, 276, 298, 332, 396
Solly (E.) on John Bancks of Sunning, 232

Barrymore ("Lady"), 276

Black Monday, 345

Blunt (Elizabeth), 11
Coach, its derivation, 390
"Choirochorographia," 154
Christmas (Rev. Henry), 373

Crisis, The" Junius, 511

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Delaune (T.), his "Present State of London," 95
Doyle (Sir F.), "How Lord Nairn was Saved," 38
Drake (Sir Francis Henry), 310
Edward Longshanks, 75
Egremont papers, 226
Flying machine, 57

George II. and Lord Chesterfield, 491
Godivo, receipt for, 315

Harington (Dr.) of Bath, 376.

Kennet Wharf, 231

Ketch (Jack), 510

Knox (Dr. Vicesimus), 414

Lavater (L.) on ghosts, 72

Limb camp, 168

Masterly inactivity, 517

Maucleer (Dr.), 1689, 125

Merrythought, its etymology, 173

Milton (John) and Vallombrosa, 489

"Miserrimus," 432

More family, 15

More (Hannah), her Life, 486

Nash (Beau), epigram on, 12

Otway (Thomas), 291

Periwig, its derivation, 151

Protestant flail, 438

Powder (Sam), 478

St. Pancras, 237

St. Paul's Cathedral, 210

Tallard (Marshal): Celery, 374
Tusser (Thomas), 416
Viewy Crotchety, 498
Welsh proverbs, 98

Solly (E.) on Wesleys and Colleys, 175
Somersetshire meteorological notices, 445
Songs and Ballads :-

Aye me! 126, 211
Conservative, The, 297
Fitzroy (Henry), 333

Flower of Serving Men, 328, 358

He that hath a good Wife, 126, 175, 211
How Lord Nairn was Saved, 9, 38, 70
Jock o' Milk, 284

Lass of Richmond Hill, 52
Lord Altham's Bull, 214

Lovers their own tormentors, 212

My Mother bids me bind my hair, 449, 479
Night before Larry was stretched, 214, 254, 277
Pilot that weathered the Storm, 47, 75, 157
Pleasure and Relaxation, 47, 128, 251
Sailor's Grave, 368, 393, 453

St. John-at-Deptford Pishoken, 127
Shall I, Mother, shall I? 126, 211
Sweet smells the Brier, 246

Vicar and Moses, 106, 470

Why are you wandering here, I pray? 449
William and Margaret, 468

Wolsey (Cardinal), 333

Zulu war songs, 446

Sotheby (W.), translator of Homer, 507

Southampton, "Lord Mayor of the Buckinge" at, 427
Southwell (T.) on old and modern decoys, 7

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