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Langridge (Nicholas), Fellow of Winchester College, ii. 45, 116

Langstroher or Langstrother (William), Preceptor at Eagle, viii. 490; ix. 12

Langton (T.) on Johnson and the letter H, ii. 446.
Rule of the road, iii. 96

Langtry estate in Ireland, vii. 128, 198
Language, vicissitudes of, i. 74

Language and physiognomy, their association, xii. 365, 416

Languages, Charles V. on, i. 227; in Burma, vii. 166; secret, viii. 190

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Langworthy (C. D.) on The Star and Garter," 1842, iv. 150

Lannarth and Carnmarth, Cornish place-names, ix. 309; x. 252

Lansdowne MS., xii. 720; its writer, 188 Lansdowne Passage, Berkeley Street, its history, x. 249, 356

Lanteglos, near Fowey, its old parish chest, vii.

498

Lantern, architectural, called "bowet," v. 126, 214 Lantern slides and photographs, their registration, iii. 85

Lanx, Roman, found at Welney, i. 86

Laodah, Anglo-Chinese word for boatman, iii. 305 Laplace (P. S.) mathematician, his dying saying, viii. 210

Lapland, William Penn on, i. 190, 275

Lappassit, use of the word, c. 1679, xi. 149, 238 Lapworth," Pedlar's Rest" at, vii. 266, 415 Lapworth registers, Shakespeares in, viii. 486 Larcin, use of the word, iii. 87

Lares & Penates, business firm, xii. 384

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Latin lines on Buxton, viii. 69, 332 Latin lines on sleep, ix. 390

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Latin MS. and Psalter at Ugbrooke, i. 109
Latin plurals, fictitious, i. 54, 193
Latin poets, marmor and the sea in, v. 106, 153
Latin pronunciation in England, vii. 108, 170, 294;
ix. 81, 131, 175, 251, 314, 351, 511; x. 73
Latin quotations, i. 188; ii. 110, 276; v. 88
Latin quotations identified, ix. 37
Laton family of York, xi. 208, 257
Latta surname, viii. 190, 317, 377

Las Palmas, inscriptions to Englishmen at, i. 482; Lattice tongs in Wales, ix. 67, 312

ii. 155

Lascar jargon, xi. 27, 92, 135

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Latton (John), of Burwood House, Surrey, v. 149, 216

Lasham, place-name, its derivation, i. 72, 113, 137 Lauder (Mr.), Scottish vocalist, 1758, x. 288
Lasham (F.) on Ashplace-name, i. 113
Lassa, Huc and Gabet's account, ii. 29
Lassalle (F.), his "iron law," v. 188
Latham (E.) on All roads lead to Rome," i. 112.
Anatomie Vivante, i. 138. Authors of quota-
tions, ii. 295; iii. 148; vii. 309, 493; viii. 169.
Belot (Adolphe), iv. 177. Chancel (Ausone
de), vi. 216, 335; vii. 355. Close, iv. 89.
Cortel clocks, viii. 156. Coup de Jarnac, i. 197.

Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, ancient cope at,
v. 265

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Écrivez les injures," &c., viii. 489. Esprit de l'escalier," vii. 189, 393. "Eternal feminine," i. 234, 496. Excommunication of Louis XIV., i. 69. "First catch your hare," i. 254. French miniature painter, i. 137. French proverbial phrases, i. 3, 485; ii. 404; iii. 203; iv. 504; v. 243; vii. 49. Gaboriau's Marquis d'Angival,' ii. 58. Genealogy in Dumas, vii. 137. "Honest broker," ii. 452. Hugo's 'Les Abeilles Impériales,' ii. 57. "I expect to pass through," v. 393, 498. "La vie est vaine : L. Montenaeken, vi. 81. Latin lines, vii. 149. "Mais on revient toujours," i. 35. Masions de Corneille, vii. 469. Melisande Ettarre, iv. 107. Months and days in French, vii. 290. " Morale," 1. 204. Nodier (C.) or Leclercq, vi. 509. "Owllight," i. 71. People to be avoided or cultivated, vii. 130. Poem in one sentence, v. 148. Precept on drunkenness, vi. 288. Prisoner suckled by his daughter, v. 453. Proverbs, two old, viii. 215. Quattrocento, viii. 189. Quotations wanted, i. 213; iv. 92; v. 108, 397, 408; vi. 129. Ragotin, ce matin,' v. 328. commended to Mercy,' i. 109, 232, 434. "Red Lion," Henley-on-Thames, vi. 69. Reynolds (Sir Joshua) at Le Portel, v. 356. Robin Hood

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Laughing, its pronunciation, xi. 509 Laughton (Sir J. K.) on authors of quotations wanted, vii. 69. Barclay (Capt. R. H.), iv. 28. Cape Bar men, ii. 346. Chamberlain (Commodore), x. 372. Condado, v. 47, 114, 317. "Dish of turnips," vi. 48. Dundas (Sir Lawrence), iv. 448. French heraldry, ii. 267. Grievance Office: John Le Keux, ii. 207, 413. John (Prior), at Brighton, ix. 497. Keeler (Rear-Admiral), xi. 412. Mémoires de M. de Lage de Cueilly,' xi. 346. Naval action of 1779, ii. 271. Nelson relic in Corsica, v. 137. Nelson's signal, iv. 370, 471; v. 56. Poem by H. F. Lyte, ii. 351. Rhine a French boundary, xi. 307. Rogestvensky, iii. 304. Rutherfurd (Capt.) at Trafalgar, xi. 73. St. Andrew's cross, ix. 114. Ships renamed after the Restoration, xi. 73. Tricolour, ii. 290. vile, iii. 367. Walker (Sir H.), Boyne man-ofwar, xi. 74. Yeo: Downie, vi. 448 Launceston, Pretty Maids'. Money" at, v. 6; Pannier Market at, 426

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Laurie (T. Werner) on Clifford's Inn, ix. 407 Lava, metaphoric use of the word, v. 325 Lavender: Sweet Lavender, London street-cry, x. 146; xii. 176

Lavender (Jennie) on almsmen, Westminster, iv. 168

Law, fondness of negroes for, i. 206; contempt for, in a will, iii. 165

Law (E.) on Pitt Club, vi. 389

Law (G.) on Bass Rock music, i. 308
Law (J.) on Woodland Mary,' viii. 14

Law (John) of Lauriston, books relating to, vii. 149, 233

Law (T. P.) on Dr. Robert Gurney, xi. 149. Houston and Gordon families, xii. 349. Yonge (Rev. Henry), xi. 129

Law, Roman, its moral substance summarized, x. 469; xi. 38

Law and Jackson families, xii. 48
Law family of Lauriston, x. 367, 434

Law family of Scotland and Ireland, viii. 367
'Law List' needed, iii. 387

Law terms, early, x. 29, 97

Lawlor (Major W.), c. 1807, his biography, xi. 69 Lawrance, spelling used c. 1498, i. 310

Lawrance (A.) on Lawrance family of Bath, iii. 308 Lawrance (H.), fanmaker of Pall Mall, c. 1787, i. 310

Lawrance (R. Murdoch) on bibliography of epitaphs, ii. 534

Lawrance (R. M.) on Burns's letters to Geo. Thomson, iii. 148. English officials under foreign Governments, iii. 415. Greig (Admiral Sir Samuel), ii. 173. Lamont harp, ii. 71. Lancashire toast, ii. 10. Lawrance, fanmaker, i. 310. Mesmerism in the Dark Ages,

ii. 168

Lawrance family of Bath, iii. 308, 377
Lawrence (F.) on Goethe, v. 492

Lawrence (Sir Henry), Lord Roberts on, ix. 2 Lawrence (Sir James), his ' Empire of the Nairs,' iii. 463

Lawrence (John), admitted to Emmanuel College, 1652, iv. 388, 497

Lawrence (John), clerk, of Stamford, d. 1700, x. 410 Lawrence (R. G.) on Woffington, ii. 88 Lawrence (Sir Thomas), commemoration table, ii. 425; and embroidery pictures, ix. 150, 193, 494; portrait by, xii. 90, 133 Lawrence (W. J.) on Beggar's Opera' in Dublin, iii. 364. Bland (John), Edinburgh actormanager, iv. 204. Cameron (Jenny), of Lochiel, ii. 447. Delane (Dennis), his death, vi. 328, 354. Drama, early, in Chester, ii. 29. Irish-printed plays, i. 84. Lewis (John), scenic artist, i. 87. Locke's music for Macbeth,' ii. 142. Mackliniana, i. 506. Parkgate theatre, iii. 355. Pit of a theatre, i. 286. Preston Jubilee, vii. 227. Purcell's music for The Tempest,' ii. 164, 329. Scaramouch, X. 153. Sterling (Rev. James), iii. 385. Swift (Dean) and the Irish stage, iii. 265. Violante (Madame), in Edinburgh, iii. 408. Walker (Thomas), in Dublin,

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ii. 247. Winston's 'The Theatric Tourist,' x. 307. Woffington (Peg), ii. 226; v. 90. Zoffany's Indian portraits, viii. 14 Lawrence family arms, v. 288 Lawrence-Hamilton (J.) on Britain's tithe of fish, ii. 187. Dutch fishermen, i. 87. Fish days, their number, i. 290. Fishmongers' Company and German Emperor, iii. 148. Flesh and shamble meats, i. 68. Twopenny for head, iv. 69

Lawrenny Churchyard, curious epitaph, xii. 507
Lawry or Lory family, xii. 50
Laws (E.) on Robert Brockholes, vi. 353. Portions:
pensions, x. 310

Laws of the Commonwealth, 1653, ix. 89, 158 Laws of the Conqueror and the Confessor, xi. 269

Laws of gravity and the ancient Greeks, viii. 210, 394; ix. 16

Lawson (Capt. J. A.), his' New Guinea,' &c., iv. 407, 456

Lawson (R.) on "As merry as griggs," i. 94.
Epitaph, i. 69. Myddelton family, vii. 13
Lawson (Sir Wilfrid) and "local option," viii. 50,
196

Lawton and Chandos families, vii. 309
Lawyer outwitted, 1839-49, xii. 289
Lawyers and the drawing-up of wills, vii. 266;
viii. 16

Lawyers' language, ix. 286

Layard (G. S.) on Du Maurier and Shirley Brooks, ix. 52

Laying, the word in churchwarden's accounts, iv. 509

"Fountain

Laystall a burial-place, i. 440 Layton (E. M.) on beside, iv. 375. heads and pathless groves," iv. 350. Johnson's ' Vanity of Human Wishes,' v. 78. Lamb's essay My Relations,' iv. 464. Lamb's grandmother, iv. 328

Lazarhouses in ancient London, i. 70, 295 Lazarus and Dives, continuation of the parable, v. 370 See

'Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices.' Dickens.

Le, before trade-names, c. 1600, xii. 189, 237, 477; in place-names, xii. 280

Le Blon, his mezzotints in colours, x. 450; xi. 16

Le Fevre (N.), chemist to Charles II., x. 227
Le Franceys, Francissus, or Franceys family and
Urswick, vi. 88

Le Keux and Grievance Office, ii. 207, 374, 413, 537

Le Neve (Peter), Aubrey's 'Surrey' annotated by,

v. 308

Le Portel and Sir Joshua Reynolds, v. 228, 356
Le Soeur, his statue of Charles I., xii. 225, 397
Le Treyer (Robert), d. 1306, his will, v. 303
Le Wett (B.) on pictures at Teddington, vii. 88
Lea (Rev. Samuel) and Newport School, 1725, xi.
363
Leach (Arthur F.), errors in his edition of ' Visita-
tions of Southwell,' iii. 66

Leach (Arthur F.) on our oldest public school,
i. 269. Schools first established, iii. 251
Leach (Sir William), mentioned by Evelyn, his
descendants, v. 169

Leach family of Squerries, i. 293, 334
Lead-language, iii. 145, 197
Lead mines, nicking, revival of custom, vi. 405
Leadbetter (J. C.) on House of Lords, iii. 497
Leadbitter (Mrs. T.) on Evolution of the Male,'

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vii. 309

Leaden figures, history of the industry, xii. 28, 153, 198

Leader leading article, origin of the terms, ii.
345
Leading articles in three paragraphs, iv. 128
Leaguer, use of the word, xi. 386, 476
Leake (B.) on Shakespeariana, xi. 425
Lealand, use of the word by W. Morris, vi. 66
Leamington-on-Sea, created by The Globe, x. 47

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Lean (Vincent Stuckey) and Maclean family, ii. Leffmann (H.) on American genealogies, xi. 175. 466; iii. 14

Leap-gate and lidgate defined, vi. 128, 238 Leap year, astronomically explained, i. 228; February 24 or 28 duplicated, ix. 148, 191, 254, 289, 393

Leases, long, examples, i. 32; iii. 160; vi. 420; xii. 365

Leasingham, Lincoln, mediæval riot at, iv. 31
Leastall a burial-place, i. 440

Leather bindings, German, x. 369

French Gazette, x. 268. Nanny Natty Cote: Lucy Locket, xi. 397

Lefrançois (G.) on St. Nicholas's, Rouen, xii. 47 Lefroy (H.) on expedition to Ireland, 1573, ix. 190. Lefroy family, ii. 529

Lefroy family, ii. 529; iii. 197

Leg growing after death, legend, x. 506; xi. 72, 471

Legal documents, Scotch, "lie" in, xii. 388, 478 Legal precedents, book of, 1725-50, ii. 365, 437

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Lebour (N.) on inscription concerning Corbridge, Lega-Weekes (Ethel) on Adam's commemorative ix. 249

Lebrun (Madame). See Vigée.

Leche bell, explanation of the term, i. 166
Leche family, i. 207, 274, 293, 334, 397; ii. 348
Lectern, wooden, at St. Cross Hospital, Winches-
ter, xii. 150

Lector on John Butler, x. 290

Lederer (John), his Discourses,' iv. 467

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Ledger (W.) on royal arms in churches, v. 188 Ledig, etymology of the word, iii. 288, 336 Lee (A. Collingwood) on Angel" of an inn, x. 55. "Better an old man's darling," x. 375. Butchers and juries, viii. 17. English players in Germany in 1592, viii. 518. Envied Favourite,' iii. 71. Facetious legal judgment, v. 286. Ginevra,' x. 268. Lillo's Fatal Curiosity,' vi. 435. Oxford 'Sausage,' ii. 227. Portraits which have led to marriages, iii. 377. Proverbs, two old, viii. 136. Sindbad the Sailor, vii. 272. Spanish lady's love for an Englishman, iv. 238. Tunes, old, x. 93. Ungrateful son, ix. 466

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Lee (G. E.) on Coutances and Winchester, ii. 231. St. Martin Pomeroy, x. 452

Lee (Harriet), her biography, 1766-1851, viii. 131, 197

Lee (Rev. J. N.) on Jeudy-Dugour on Cromwell, ix. 210

Lee (Matthew) alias Tyson, viii. 390, 436

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Lee (Nathaniel), his Theodosius,' the nightingale and death, viii. 57

Lee (Sidney) on Shakespeare's epitaph, x. 346, 396 Lee (W.) on Duchess of Gloucester, i. 209

Lee family, ix. 130

Leech (David), poet, c. 1624, his biography, ix. 410 Leech (John), epigrammatist, c. 1814, his biography, ix. 410

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Leech (John), and Punch,' iv. 107; his etchings on steel, x. 247

Leech-gathering, ix. 189, 290, 375

pillars, iv. 69. Aisle alley, xi. 267. Aunt Sally Sallee, xi. 305. Axstede ware, ii. 149. Bandy Leg Walk, xi. 35. Barrar, i. 515. Batrome, i. 88, 173. Belliter, bell-founder, vi. 206, 297. Botemen: Landbote, xi. 369. Bowet, architectural lantern, v. 126. Burgoyne Private Act of Parliament, ix. 381. Chantries and church stores, vii. 467. Cherry in placenames, vi. 136. Chrisom, xi. 475. Churchwardens' accounts, vi. 36. Clergy, inferior, their appellations: Sir, ix. 286. Cross banner, xi. 249. Foleit, i. 309. Fossel: fossett, xi. 496. Fostell, foslett, coffer or casket, iv. 48. Foulard, i. 307. Fulling days, ii. 389. Funeral: burial, viii. 9. Ghost-words, iii. 405. Harepath, i. 517. Healen penny, xii. 98. Hock: hog: hoga, vii. 407, 495. Hockday: pottage called hok, i. 187. King's Old Bargehouse, viii. 167; x. 88. Kirk, Glasgow shipbuilder, v. 129. Lambeth, ii. 173. Lambpark: one lampte," xii. 473. Lidgate leap-gate, vi. 128. Manchet, ii. 328. Manor Court terms, xi. 516. May Light and Young Men's Light, v. 494. Medieval clothing, iii. 346. Military musters: parish armour, xii. 422. Morte, its meaning, xii. 346. Musters in Devonshire, xi. 408. Pannier market, vi. 157. Parish clerks, men of family as, ix. 271. Passingbell, vi. 170. Plantagenet (Anne), Duchess of Exeter, vii. 298. Plump in voting, vi. 212. Plurality of office, ii. 527. Pot-gallery, viii. 517; ix. 212; xi. 333. Put-log: Pudding, building term, xi. 328. Rood-lofts, vii. 482. vi. 53. Skellat bell: tioning relics, ix. 89.

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Quarterstaves, iii. 165. Royal arms in churches, Mort bell, i. 166. StaTaxes in England, viii.

430. Tinners in military musters, vii. 428. Travelling in England, 1600-1700, v. 433, 455. Tudor spelt Tidder, xi. 453. Waining bells, vi. 169

Leeds (C. E.) on "He who knows not," i. 167. Legend, Tartar, of Alexander the Great, vii. 126

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Leeds (Duke of), his peerage title, iv. 169

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Leeds, Yorkshire, royal mint at, iii. 489; iv. 51 Leeper (A.) on Adding insult to injury," i. 4. Aristophanes's Wasps,' vi. 253. Astronomy in Gulliver's Travels,' iv. 86. "Beatific vision," ii. 7. Chevy Chase,' iv. 537. Drapier, omission from the N.E.D.,' iv. 286. Grove (Sir George) on C. H. Spurgeon's scholarship, iii. 206. Herondas, his date, i. 336. Irish soil exported, iv. 113. Keble's Christian Year,' viii. 197. 'Kottabos,' Dublin University magazine, viii. 46. Laurel crowns at Olympia, iii. 392. "Marmor and the sea, v. 106. "Non olet (pecunia)," viii. 64. O'Neill seal, ii. 539. Rome under Elagabalus, vi. 376. St. Paul's quotation from Epimenides, i. 405. Sexton's tombstone, i. 457. Trinity Tuesday, vii. 507. Vanessa's burial-place, xii. 346 Leet Court Leet, survivals, vii. 327, 377

Legend weight, meaning of the term, xii. 67
Legends: Amintas and the amaranth, viii. 150;
Arundel Castle, 390, 434, 473; Sawbridge-
worth, Herts, xii. 366

Legends on English coins, vii. 183, 237, 294, 318
Legenvre, artist, c. 1833, iii. 309, 437
Leges on Sir James Burrough, viii. 430
Legg (John), Wiltshire naturalist, c. 1780, ii. 291
Leggatt (E. E.) on Madame Parisot, iii. 208
Legio on Roman legions, xi. 290
Legiones on Roman legions, xii. 230
Legislation against profanity, viii. 269
Leiçarraga, German reprint of his books, i. 284,
315; his Baskish New Testament, 1571, vii.
215; viii. 56
Leiçarragan verb, iii. 267

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Leicester, folk-lore of the county, vi. 509 Leicester, "Riding of St. George at, ii. 511 Leicester (Robert Dudley, Earl of), his portrait, i. 404; iii. 368

Leicester (Simon, Earl of), and Peter, Baron Montfort, their families, v. 207, 294 Leicester Square, "Great Globe" at, ii. 529; bibliography of, iv. 35, 135; Mr. Moxhay's connexion with, iii. 307, 357, 395, 474; v. 57 'Leicester's Ghost,' poem published 1641, v. 388, 436

Leigh (Lyster), Westminster scholar, xi. 469 Leigh (Medora), date of her birth, ix. 408 Leigh (R. A. Austen) on Edward Barnard, xi. 116. Eton College names, xi. 350. Eton lists, ii. 107; iii. 87; iv. 187, 356. Falcon Court, Shoe Lane, xi. 128. Great New Street, xi. 229. 'Modern Universal British Traveller,' v. 69. Leighton (Frederic), portrait of Robert Browning, viii. 67

Leighton (H.) on hermit of Cape Malea, vi. 268. Hilton family, ix. 336. West's picture of Wolfe's death, vi. 173.

Leighton (H. R.), his book on British crests, v. 308, 436

Leighton (H. R.) on Addison's ancestry, x. 355. Arms wanted, i. 155. Bennett family, ii. 9. Dickens and Pickwick, xi. 7. Fitz Warine family, iii. 109. Gallie surname, V. 454. Hymners of New Inn, x. 410; xi. 76. Kent, East Indiaman, x. 430. Leighton (Rev. Henry), vii. 249. Leighton's 'British Crests,' v. 436. Parish clerks, ix. 334. Provincial booksellers, vi. 443. Royal Kepier School, Houghton-leSpring, vii. 68. Royal Oak Day, iv. 30. Watson of Hamburg, i. 409 Leighton (W.) on William Brown, artist, ix. 367 Leipzic, bows and arrows at battle of, i. 225 Leirion on Cranford,' vii. 273

Leisure, etymology of the word, iii. 288, 336 Leith, Thomas Gladstone and bread riots in, ii. 388; lines on horse-racing at, viii. 182; print of Mary, Queen of Scots, at, x. 229 Leith pier, early reference to, iv. 387 Leland (C. G.), his' Pidgin-English Sing-song,' v.

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Leland (J.), his references to the Icknield Way,
ix. 88; on Trowbridge, 1540, x. 407
Leman (C. E.) on "Scole Inn," Norfolk, i. 248
Leman (Sir Thomas), his biography, i. 8
Leman family of Suffolk, ii. 248, 317

Leng (D. C.) on "Noli altum sapere," xii. 168.
Surnames in -eng, x. 428

Lennan (F. M.) on the Bonassus, xi. 356
Lennox (Lady Sarah) and George III., viii. 387
Leodegarius, Bishop of Autun, killed in 678,
vii. 117

Leofdegn, its meaning, iv. 51

Lepel (Molly), Lady Hervey, her descent, iii. 127, 172, 254

Leper hymn-writer, i. 227, 296

Lepers' Hospital at Newport, Essex, its demolition, viii. 27

Leprêtre (Abbé L.) on Reynolds at Le Portel, v. 228

"Lesbian lead," meaning of the term, vii. 209, 256 Lesczcynski (Stanislaus), King of Poland, his descendants, iii. 429

Lèse-majesté, early use of the term, x. 507 'Les Jumelles,' iv. 9.

Lesk or Lisk family, ii. 68, 433 Leslie (Major J. H.) on General Robert Bell, viii. 489. Chasseurs Britanniques, v. 369. Hough family, xi. 429. Lisbon plot, v. 370. Matross: topass, vii. 476. Royal Artillery officers, ii. Shrewsbury clock: "Point of war,'

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Leslie (J. S.) on Miss Crawford, Canadian poet,

xii. 310

L'Espec (Sir Walter) and Richard Speke, ii. 287, 513; iii. 30

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L'Estrange (Col.), his Merry Thoughts in a Sad
Place,' i. 141, 193, 250
L'Estrange (Sir Roger) and History of Self-
Defence,' vii. 155, 474
Lethieullier (Smart), his MSS., ii. 508
Letter, postscript of a woman's, xi. 489; xii.
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Letters, Sir R. Peel's franked and stamped, v. 48,
216, 274; laconic, 108, 153, 171, 197, 234;
copyright in, v. 128, 176, 217, 314; xi. 125;
earliest process of copying, v. 287, 351
Letters, autograph, first sale by auction of, vii.
428
Letters, private, first sent by post, i. 57, 133, 175
Letters of the alphabet, their names, iii. 228, 277,
292, 336; initial, instead of words, ix. 126, 174;
x. 176, 258, 416

Letters of Junius, articles on, ix. 386, 430
Letts (M. H. I.) on Johnsoniana, x. 73
Lettsom (Dr. J. C.), lines on, v. 148, 191, 210,
393, 514

Lever (Charles), original of his Mickey Free, i. 52
Leveson-Gower (A. F. G.) on cremation in 1769,
ix. 76. Crespigny (Sir Claude Champion de),
viii. 7
Levy (M.) on Jerusalem Court, Fleet Street, vii.
29. 'There are more acres in Yorkshire," xii.
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Lewen (Miss) and John Wesley, i. 189, 218 Lewes Grammar School, its history, v. 268, 337 Lewis, friend of " Sporting Jack Mytton," vii. 347 Lewis (A. S.) on 'Badger's Bush " Inn, vii. 271. "Bawms March," vii. 231. "Black Horse Inn, vii. 475. Cambridge early lists, x. 36. Campbell-Bannerman (Sir H.) on Britain's supremacy of the sea, vii. 234. Cathay, its pronunciation, vii. 235. Charterhouse poetry collection, ix. 56. Collection of Thoughts,' 1707, vii. 133. Dipping well in Hyde Park, vii. 296. Dole cupboards, vii. 17. Ely House or Albemarle House, vii. 312. Flint and steel, vii. 452. Halesowen, Worcestershire, viii. 31. Haymarket, Westminster, vii. 371. Hodson of the Indian Mutiny, viii. 348. Houses without fireplaces or chimneys, viii. 29. Hurstmonceaux, its pronunciation, vii. 355. Lawyers in Love,' vii. 175. Leaden figures, xii. 153. Lyttons at Knebworth, vii. 314. Matches in Congreve, vii. 452. Mourning rites in Persia, vii. 338. Naval action, 1814: T. Barratt Power, vii. 352. 'Penrose's Journal': turtleriding, vii. 216. Preston Jubilee, vii. 276. Seringapatam, vii. 317. Slingsby, male dancer, vii. 433. Talman (W.) and Hampton Court Palace, vii. 396. Thompson (J.), portrait painter, viii. 56. Vintners' Company, xii. 153. Ward surname, vii. 154. Whipping the cat," ix. 5. Windmills in Sussex, vii. 215. 'Wrong Man, The,' vii. 454

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Lewis (General C. Algernon), first commission, ii.

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Lewis (F. C.), his picture' The Nautch,' xii. 490 Lewis (John), portrait painter and scenic artist, i. 87, 153

Lewis (M. G.), his "Stay, gaoler! stay," ix. 14 Lewis (R.) on authors of quotations, viii. 236 Lewis (William), and 35, King Street, Covent Garden, iv. 148, 218, 331

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Lewisham, demolition of Colfe's Almshouses, ii. Lightning, its forms, i. 158; forests set on fire by,

324 Lewknor (Edward), 'D.N.B.' on, i. 307

Leybourn (William), c. 1648, his biography, xi. 307 Lezze on authors of quotations wanted, xii. 288 'Liber Landavensis, twelfth-century MS., ii. 149 Liberator on tale of drop of water, ix. 448 "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité," its history, x. 406 Libertines, Genevan reformers, c. 1538, viii. 268, 373

Liberty, Cap of, English instances of its use, ix. 507; x. 52

Libra on guinea balances, iii. 347 Librarian on Gibbon's father and mother, xii. 325. Hogling-money, xi. 130. Inscriptions at Lucerne, vi. 195. Massacre of St. Bartholomew, vii. 389. Nonconformist burial-grounds, x. 334. Robins (George Henry), ix. 516. Suicides buried in the open fields, v. 76. Voice of the Church,' v. 167. Wilmot family, xi. 428 Libraries, seventeenth-century, iv. 222, 303; v. 429; public, printed catalogues of, iv. 388, 454; London free public, vi. 251, 315; parochial, c. 1724, 367; free, and Mr. Andrew Carnegie, x. 400

Library seventeenth-century, iv. 222; private, c. Charles I., 303; in St. Martin's Street, 1791, its history, viii. 27; genealogical circulating, xi. 5, 78

Library, Alexandrian, at Milan, x. 158
Library, Liverpool, founded 1758, its history,
ix. 149

Library, London, and authors, ix. 4
Library, Turin, burnt, i. 387

Licence: license, the spelling, ii. 484; iii. 31
Licence, selling beer without a, viii. 232, 294
Licences to travel, xi. 149, 233, 432

License licence, the spelling, ii. 484; iii. 31 Licere, etymology of the word, iii. 288, 336 Lichfield, Ascension Day devotions at wells, iv. 32; Johnson bicentenary celebration at, xi. 467

Lichfield and Coventry, Nicholas, Bishop of, iii. 328, 375.

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Lichfield Cathedral, semi-effigies in, ii. 269, 434 Lichfield will proved 1553-4, bequests in, vi. 210

Lickar Stone at Aberdeen, meaning of the word, ix. 389

Lickbarrow (Isabella), her 'Poetical Effusions,' x. 403 ; xi. 38

Liddel (Prof. Duncan) and bibliography of Theses, xii. 27

Lidderdale-Hepburn, iv. 509

Lidgate and leap-gate defined, vi. 128, 238 Lie, meaning in Scotch legal documents, xii. 388, 478

Lies, Japanese master of, i. 485

Lieutenant on Breedon family, ix. 151 Lieutenants of the Tower, ix. 61, 161, 243, 390,

490

Life-star folk-lore, vii. 129, 196, 257; viii. 34
Lifts, passenger, early, iv. 350; ix. 67

Liggers, c. 1474, meaning of the word, viii. 449; ix. 36

Light (Col. William), his publications, iii. 85 Light called "Trill upon my Harp," ii. 148 Light Dragoons, 4th, their uniform, iv. 69, 132 Light for the Jews,' 1656 and 1664, ix. 230 Lightfoot (Hannah), portrait at Knowle Hall, vii. 289, 350; and George III., viii. 300, 321, 402, 483; mystery of, ix. 24, 122, 264, 266, 374; xi. 472; xii. 94

iv. 28, 95, 153, 213; holly tree as protection from, v. 167

285

Lights of London, use of the phrase, iv. 45, 131 Lightship at the Nore in 1731, v. 306 Ligonier (John Louis, Earl), his biography, xi. 66 And what, shall then honest John Lilbourn die ?" i. 405 Lilburne (Col. R.), letters in Guildhall Library, viii. 207

Lilbourne (John),

Lilienthal (Otto) his attempts at aviation, xii. 126, 178 Lilith, Adam's first wife, vii. 340 "Lilliput Hall," public-house sign, Bermondsey, vi. 209 Lillo (G.), plot of his Fatal Curiosity,' vi. 329, 435

Lily, Guernsey, its naturalization, x. 368, 412, 456; xi. 55

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Lima on Georgian coins of 1745, ix. 200 Limerick, name of a verse, xii. 300 Lincoln, arms of the city and see, i. 168, 234; ii. 37; Roman guards removed from Palestine to, ii. 469; unlucky for kings, vii. 29, 74, 212; called "Nichole " in The Brut,' viii. 35; High Constable of, c. 1820, xii. 309 Lincoln (Abraham), and Whately, iv. 46; and the phrase "Cave of Adullam, vi. 230, 331; compared with King Edward VII., 445; his Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, vii. 41; and European politicians, 165, 275, 318, 433; on the sufferings of slaves, vii. 248; viii. 14; and the Wycliffe Bible, 1324, ix. 10; and Tom Taylor, 26; and poem 'Mortality,' xi. 247, 397 Lincoln civic insignia: Mayor's ring, iii. 387, 436 Lincoln ecclesiastical inventory, iii. 388, 435 Lincoln Green on Dorsetshire snake-lore, i. 253.

May Light and Young Men's Light, v. 429 Lincoln Imp, trinket in form of, iv. 530 Lincoln's Inn and the Earl of Lincoln, i. 401 Lincoln's Inn Fields, laying out of, ii. 27; Sardinian Chapel, its effacement, v. 146 Lincolnshire, aurora borealis in, 1640, i. 242; folk medicine in, ii. 446; surname prefixes in, vi. 224; restraynte of "the townes," viii.

47; Eglia in, identified, ix. 12 Lincolnshire county tales, i. 505 Lincolnshire death folk-lore, iv. 465, 515; v. 112 Lincolnshire dialect, iv. 170, 190 'Lincolnshire Family's Chequered History,' vii. 349, 497; viii. 33, 214, 371 Lincolnshire jest, vii. 447; ix. 367 Lincolnshire jingle, i. 266

Lincolnshire names, xii. 168, 235, 296
Lincolnshire poll-book, 1723, vii. 509
Lincolnshire riddle, i. 204

Lincolnshire saying: "I see you come from
Bardney," iii. 145

Lind (Jenny) "I love the merry sunshine," xi. 487 Lindenstead (A.) on Marlborough and Shakespeare, i. 127

Lindimp on Clasketgate, Lincoln, xi. 29
Lindis, name for the Witham, vi. 349

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Lindo (Francis), portrait painter, v. 189, 273
Lindsay (Lady Anne), her Auld Robin Gray,' vi.
284, 355, 395, 451
Lindsay (C.) on 'The Kingdom's Intelligencer,"

viii. 396

Lindsay (C. L.) on Archbishop Williams, i. 447. English Crown jewel, iii. 429

Lindum Colonia on Grantham of Goltho family, v. 231, 338

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