Gordon (Col. Robert Jacob), d. 1795, his descend- Gordon (Capt. Robert James), d. c. 1823, and the Gordon (S.) on De Keleseye or Kelsey family, ii. at Gordon (W.), 'Every Young Man's Companion,' xii. 49 Gordon (Sir William), d. 1742, banker, v. 449 Gordon (Dr. William), of Bristol, c. 1748, x. 349, 416 Gordon (Dr. William), duel with Hugh Rose, 1813, Gordon and Houston families, xii. 349 "Gordon case" and Pope Clement XI., viii. 450 Gordon family, in Alsace, c. 1772, vi. 269; Indian Gordon family of Embo, vii. 246, 315, 372 Gordon family of the West Indies, iv. 108, 275; Gotham, the American nickname for New York, v. 288 ་ Gotham and Gothamites, xii. 128, 198, 253, 315 Goudhurst, Kent," Star and Crown "at, x. 469 iv. Gough (J. B.), ' D.N.B.' on, ix. 232 Gordon House, Kentish Town, its identification," Gordon riots and shot-marks on St. George's, Gordon surname in Russia, v. 469; vi. 34 Gore (C. F.), her Adventures in Borneo,' iv. 7 Gorges, or thorn fish-hooks, ix. 229 Goring (Charles) and Dr. Johnson's Irene,' iv. 509 Gorleston, place-name, its origin, ix. 387 Gorst & Odey, artists in marble, xi. 468 Gosling (Mrs. O.) on Mary Farrah, viii. 387 Gosnold (Capt. Bartholomew), c. 1602, his portrait, Gosselin-Lefebvre (B. H.) on Hulbert's Providence Gourbillon (Madame), her rescue of Louis XVIII. Governess ruler, use of the word, vii. 265 Government records, local, iii. 287, 337, 355 214 Gower (R.) on the liquid n in English, xi. 172 Gower (R. Vaughan) on "beating the bounds," iii. Gower family epitaph, xi. 504 Lion Gowers (Sir W. R.) on Our Lady of the Snows,' i. 311 Gowran (Lord), c. 1720, his biography, i. 368 Goyle=watercourse, derivation of the word, iii. 429, 475 Grab, Bombay, a coasting vessel, iv. 107, 177 Graham (George), sale of his clocks, 1765, vi. 426 Graham (Jessie)=H. Stevenson, vi. 229 Graham family Bible, iv. 207 Gray (A. B.) on bookbinding, iii. 309. Bowtell Gray (Gilbert), Principal of Marischal College, Gray (G. J.) on Cambridge booksellers and printers, Gray (Lord) and the States General in 1685, Gray (Patrick, Lord), his descendants, ii. 527 Graham-Easton (W. M.) on sword of Bruce, viii. Gray (R. St. G.) on old pewter, ix. 193 Grail, Holy, meaning of its name, ix. 465; x. Grammar: lines on nine parts of speech, i. 94, 337 ; had better have been, iii. 126 Grant (Barbara), in Stevenson's Catriona,' ii. 327 Grant (James), Queen Mary Stuart in his 'Both- Grant (J. M.) on Ewen Maclachlan, xi. 90 Grantham Market Cross, its history, vi. 127, 176 Grassi (F.) on quotations wanted, iv. 468 Grate for watercourse, meaning of, 1612-13, vii. 189, 232 Grattan (Henry), his initial frank "H. G.," v. 274 Graves (Algernon) on Robert Grave, printseller, Graves (Richard), his 'Spiritual Quixote,' ix. 88 Graves (Richard) the younger, autobiography, xii. 408, 455 Graves, English, in Italy, ii. 307, 352 Graves belonging to other families, interment in, i. 9 Gravestones, nameless, i. 173, 252; in medieval churchyards, viii. 390, 452; ix. 56, 173; Nonconformist, ix. 188, 233, 297, 336, 434; x. 31, 150, 237, 334; at Jordans, xii. 129, 231, 318 Gravity, laws of, and the ancient Greeks, viii. 210, 394; ix. 16 Gray (S.), F.R.S., his electrical researches, vi. 161, 354 Gray (Thomas), parallel passages from Collins, i. 456; Elegy in Latin, 487; 'Elegy' and Wolfe, ii. 27; Elegy' in various languages, ii. 92, 175; v. 306, 357, 428, 477, 511; Poems published in London and Glasgow, 1768, v. 321; and in Dublin, 1756, 406; his letters, viii. 68; effigy of King Osric, xi. 128; two references in his works, 147, 236; Elegy and ploughing customs, xii. 309, 389 Gray family, xii. 169 Gray family of Denne Hill, Kent, x. 148, 196 Gray's Elegy on Tyrrell family, iii. 69 Great hollow elm at Hampstead, vii. 234 Great New Street, London street-name, xi. 229 and history, iii. 366, 433; celebrities connected Great Russell Street, C. and M. Lamb in, viii. 421 Great Wyrley, pronunciation of the place-name, viii. 247 Greaves or frittars of the whale, the words, vii. 426; viii. 36 Greek Christians, c. 1630, brief for, xi. 289, 357, 458 Greek Church, cross in, ii. 469, 531; iii. 56; Carni- Greek grammar, Byron and, iii. 188; v. 193 Green, its significance, i. 6 Green (B. W.) on Patagonia and the Patagonians, xi. 244 Green (C.) on Antonio Canova in England, v. Green (C. R.) on Edward Kemp, xi. 67 Green (F. U.) on Greenwich Hospital pensioners, x. 228. How (Mistress Rachel), x. 249 Green (F. W.) on horseshoes for luck, iii. 314 Green (J. R.) on Freeman's Norman Conquest,' i. 225, 294 Green (Mrs. S.), her Private History of the Court of England,' key, iii. 321 Green (Valentine) and Sir Joshua Reynolds, ii. 521 Green (Walter), M.D., of Liverpool, xii. 285 Green dragon, the device, xi. 129 Green Ginger Lane, its name, iii. 480 Greene (Robert), 'Never too Late,' ii. 267; and Martine Mar-sixtus,' 483; his prose works, iv. 1, 81, 162, 224, 227, 483; Lodge, and De La Primaudaye, v. 84, 202, 343, 424, 442, 463, 484, 504; Lyly, and Shakespeare, viii. 461; suggested emendations in his dramas, ix. 301; and Englands Parnassus,' 341, 401; his Menaphon,' x. 85 Greene-Marlowe parallel, vi. 185 Greenhill (A. G.) on alliterative Greek verses, iii. 488 Greening, pear and apple name, x. 215 Grenslade (J. T.) on Cowper misprint, xii. 77 Greensted Church, Ongar, oak or chestnut at, viii. 26, 154, 196, 275, 416 Greenteeth (Jenny), water-hag, stories of, i. 319, 365 Greenwey and Savile, translations of Tacitus by, iii. 488 Greenwich, "Ship " Hotel at, i. 111, 375, 454; Greenwood (G.) on canon v. prebendary, vi. 314 Greenwood (J. A.) on Salford: Saltersford, x. 274 Greenyard, use of the word, 1666-7, vii. 189 Grenadier, premier, of France, i. 384, 470; ii. 52 Grenadier Guards, origin of the appellation, i. 30; band, c. 1749, xi. 306 Grenadier's Exercise of the Grenado,' i. 347, 412 Grendiar on From the thick film,' v. 172 Grenefeld (William), Archbishop of York, his registers, iv. 167, 235 Grenovicensis on excommunication of Louis XIV., i. 69 Gresham (Abbot Thomas) and Thornton Abbey, xi. 348 Gresham Street warehouse, its demolition, ix. 267 Greta on Southey's Omniana,' 1812, ii. 410; iii. 92 Grier (Sydney C.) on first wife of Warren Hastings, i. 426; ii. 10. Slips in Like Another Helen,' ii. 445 Grievance Office: John Le Keux, ii. 207, 374, 413, 537 Grieve in Smollett, his identity, xii. 327, 375 Griffin, the, Carlyle on, x. 509 Griffin on Hickry pikry: Country Captain, vi. 288 Griffith (W. H.) on French-Canadian literature, viii. 173 Griffith family and the name Cre Fydd, iii. 448 Griggs: "As merry as griggs," i. 36, 94 Grigor (J.) on "And he was a Samaritan," xii. 46. Authors of quotations, viii. 153; x. 454; xi. 316. Centenarian voters, v. 258. 'Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature,' i. 145. Coleridge and Newman on Gibbon, v. 435. Corunna bearer of the news, xi. 212. Dobell (Sydney), x. 66. Dyer (Sir Edward), ii. 32. Failures of Civilisation,' viii. 288. Fig tree in the City, xi. 178. Garioch, its pronunciation, v. 56. Harris (Thomas Lake), xii. 166. Holyoake (G. J.), his name, v. 173. Jukes (Andrew), vii. 48. Keble photographs, vi. 351. Lettsom (Dr.), v. 191. Lincoln (Abraham) and 'Mortality,' xi. 247. Lonning, iv. 70. Most moving first line in English poetry," iii. 128. Notes on the Book of Genesis,' iii. 96. Parliamentary quotation, iii. 206. Pour, v. 329. Red Indians in poetry, vi. 209. St. Columba's Well, vi. 409. Scotch burial custom, iv. 76. Scott (W.), link with, v. 66. Tussaud (Madame), her Waxworks at Camberwell, vi. 375 Grimaldi (Alex.), his 'Boke of Curious Receipts,' viii. 494 Grimaldi (Father), his reported flight across the English Channel, xii. 288 Grimaldi (Joseph), his life as a dentist, vi. 290 Grimaldi (Louis André), French refugee bishop, viii. 171 Grimaldi (Stacey), his list of Westminster scholars, i. 267 Grimke (John Faucherreaud), Westminster scholar, iii. 367; vi. 136 Grimm, fable in his 'Teutonic Mythology,' vii. 445 Grimsby, Lincolnshire tale of, i. 505 Grimshaw (W. M.) on Fishtraps à l'Anglaise," vi. 338. Indian jugglery, vi. 430 Grimshaw (W. H. M.) on Bacon and Italy, xii. 129 Grin (Geoffrey), his Rhyming Reminiscences and Comical Couplets,' iv. 428 Grindlay (Capt. Robert Melville), and The Home News,' vi. 101, 156, 217 Grindleton, place-name, its derivation, v. 10, 73; xi. 67, 393 Grindy, dialect word, its survival, vii. 209, 251, 416; viii. 93 Grinfield (Rev. E. W.), c. 1843, his biography, iii. 330, 370 Gringo: Griengro, meaning of the words, i. 369, 478 Grisbet, dialectal word, x. 427 Grissell (Hartwell D.) on boar's head, v. 35. "Gula Augusti," vi. 72. Victoria of Spain, vii. 76, 193 Groatie Buckie, myth connected with the, iv. 530 Grone (Lieut. V.) on Polish Dragoons: Jager, xi. 277 Grooms, hobby, 1677, their livery, v. 127 Groom's Coffee-house, its sale, xi. 145; xii. 57 Grosart (Dr.), his edition of Herrick, iv. 482 Grosseteste, pronunciation of the name, iv. 353 Grosvenor and Scrope controversy, vi. 328 Grosvenor and Venoix, derivation of names, v. 208 Grosvenor or Gravenor (Joane), c. 1601, her biography, iv. 308 Grote (George), his residence in Savile Row, vi. 345 Grove (Sir George) on C. H. Spurgeon's scholarship, iii. 206 Grove (Sir W. R.), d. 1896, his burial-place, ix. 169 Grover (J. W.), his lecture on 'Old Clapham,' v. 306 Groves (A.) on Groves family, iii. 269 Groves (C. H.) on Gospel of God's Anointed,' ii. 8 Groves family, iii. 269 Grozer (Joseph), his remarkable will, ii. 521 Gruselier (Gregory) on Archbishop of Dover, x. 170. Caravanserai to public-house, iv. 308. Corbet Valletort, x. 168. Estrege, i. 469. Iktin, ii. 249. Jesus, the name, i. 428. Polwhele's History of Cornwall,' xii. 389. Quotations wanted, vi. 149. Registers of St. Kitts, iv. 327. Tregortha (John), ii. 289 Grzymala, Polish word, its meaning, xi. 49, 338 Guard aloft on early railways, x. 487; xi. 35 Guardings, for gardens, iii. 429, 476 Guards, 3rd Foot, at Bayonne, 1814, xi. 69, 192, 276 Guest family, i. 504 Guevara inscriptions at Stenigot, Lincs, vii. 6, 79 Guignol: Le grand guignol, origin of the term, ix. 267 Guide, derivation of the word, ix. 171, 494; x. 13 Guidot (Roger Francis), picture by, iii. 489 Guild (William), 1586-1657, his biography, xi. 470; xii. 34, 77 Guildford Barge," Lambeth sign, xii. 410 Guildhall, changes at, x. 101 Guildhall Library, uncatalogued London records in, vii. 67; seventeenth-century broadside returned, xi. 505 Guilds, City, their badges and charters, vii. 347, 457 Guimaraens (A. J. C.) on John Chattock, iii. 349. Farmer (Thomas), i. 428. Farmer of Hartshill, iii. 48. Portuguese pedigrees, ii. 167. Pratten Prattenton Shakespeare ton: Heatley: Darby, iii. 488. or Prattington family, v. 270. (Mary), i. 448. Winter (Rev. Richard), ii. 348 Guinea balances, iii. 347, 413, 472 Guineas, fifteenth-century English and twelfthcentury French, v. 105, 195 Guiney (L. I.) on Emmet and De Fontenay letters, : Gula Augusti, 1 August, v. 408, 499; vi. 15, 72, Gulston (Joseph), his collection of prints, x. 6 Gunning (Elizabeth), Duchess of Hamilton and in his Gunning (Misses), engravings of, iii. 409 Gunpowder Plot Day celebrations in England and Gush (William), painter, c. 1833–74, his biography, xii. 267, 313 Gustavus Adolphus and Tycho Brahe's star, iii. 346 Gutenberg and the 'Incendium Divini Amoris,' i. 2 · Guthrie (A.) on une Sévigné,” xi. 454 Guydickens (Melchior), Envoy Extraordinary to St. Petersburg, iv. 470, 537; v. 37, 93, 155 Guydickens (Gustavus), 1775, his military career, v. 93 H H, Italian initial, ii. 107, 352; use or omission, 188. Irish folk-lore, iii. 357. Kent (Duke of), his children, vii. 172. Melton Breakfast, viii. 315. Michell family, v. 445. Mystery of Hannah Lightfoot, viii. 323. Oil painting, c. 1660, v. 129. 'Oxford Ramble,' iv. 43. Parliamentary whips, iv. 507. Rechethiward (Emery de), xii. 227. Silly Billy," i. 233. Swedish royal family, iii. 456. Tufnel family, iv. 438. Vane (Viscount), viii. 327. Weltje's Club, xii. 352. Wheler or Wheeler family, iii. 347. William III. at the Boyne, ii. 370. Wooset, xi. 514 H. (C.) on Chalk Farm, ix. 251. Cole (Jacob), xii. Easter Popery, H. (C. S.) on Benson Earle Hill, iv. 51. H. (E. A.) on Edward and Henry Bulwer, ix. 30 H. (E. S.) on Glen Moubray,' ii. 227 H. 2 on Avalon, ii. 411. English Channel, ii. 134. English in France, i. 164. Good Friday and low tides, i. 310. Hell, Heaven, and Paradise as place-names, i. 245. Imaginary or invented saints, i. 159, 333. Isabelline as a colour, ii. 253, 375, 477, 538; iii. 92. "Mevagissey duck," i. 467. Meynes and 'Rhines," i. 49, 217. Natalese, i. 446; ii. 76. Peak and pike, ii. 172. Picture of knight in armour, i. 29. Spanish arms, iii. 30 H--n on riding the black ram, i. 35 H. (F. G.) on anonymous works, x. 28 H. (A.) on addition to Christian name, iii. 417. H. (F. K.) on St. Andrew's, Antwerp, v. 449 Alake, i. 468; ii. 56. Amban, i. 506. Archer H. (F. R. J.) on female incendiary, ii. 9 of Umberslade, v. 232. Bowes Castle, York- H. (G.) on 'The Lovesick Gardener,' iii. 430 shire, v. 295. Clavering: De Mandeville, i. H. (G. A.) on idle = mischievous, ix. 350 Salutation Cold Harbour: Windy Arbour, i. 496. H. (G. B.) on Tavern, Billingsgate, Cricklewood, ii. 495. Death warrants: coffin nails, x. 234. Fettiplace, i. 396. Grindleton, H. (G. H.) on Sir Francis Drake and Chigwell Row, v. 73. Hanged, drawn, and quartered, i. 276. iv. 230 'Adventures of Hollicke or Holleck, co. Middlesex, iv. 77. H. (H.) on Bishop Berkeley: Homer and digamma, v. 168, 253. Kaboose, Signor Gaudentio,' vi. 410. Elizabeth, Queen ii. 214. Lass of Richmond Hill,' iii. 66. of Bohemia, xii. 512. Enigma by C. J. Fox, v. Manor Court terms, xi. 249. Middleton, iii. 32. Fenians and Western Australia, ix. 236. 109. Mitchel 374. & Finlay, bankers, i. West's picture Queen of Duncan II., iii. 195. Palindrome, iii. 375. Sellinger, i. 491. Tourna- of death of Wolfe, v. 451 ments: Bayard's Green, vi. 89 Vaccination and inoculation, ii. 513. Y. R.: "Irish Stocke,' v. 374 293. H. (A. A.) on Simon de Montfort's portrait, ix. 392 H. (A. M.) on God's Blessing Farm, iv. 428 vii. 429 H. (H. H.) on Nelson's uniform, iv. 326 H. (H. M.) on American Loyalists, i. 269 H. (J.) on London newspapers, v. 70 |