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Russell (C.) on Paulet, or Pawlett family, 208
Rusticus on the civil servant's position, 282
Floors Castle, derivation, 163
Queen Bleareye's tomb, 515

Rest in the Bank of England, 416

"The solitary monk who shook the world," 472
Ruthven (Patrick Lord), biography, 237, 370, 496

S

S. on Hogg, a Scotch name in Ireland, 124
Motto, "Fiel pero desdichado," 509

S. (A.) on Mortlake potteries: Toby jugs, 615
Sack, a wine, its derivation, 481

Sackville (Lord George), recall to court, 149, 330
Sacombe church, hour-glass, 35
Sacre-cut, a sort of cannon, 581
Safford (Truman Henry), 366
Sailors' word book, 66

St. Alban's Club, 367,

St. Angus, a disciple of St. Columba, 315
St. Augustin of Hippo, quoted, 296, 391, 473; passage
in his works, 222

St. Ciaran, or Kiaran, 354

St. James's Square and the Clarendon family, 99, 243,

326

St. Jerome, Life, edit. 1475, 125; passage quoted by
Chaucer, 137

St. John, motto of the order, 601

St. Luke's day, 296

St. Malo, Brittany, inscription on the castle, 411

St. Osbern inquired after, 41

St. Patrick, his mission to Ireland, 620

St. Pawsle, 172, 230

St. Peter's chair at Rome, 55, 106, 330, 402, 465

St. Swithin on cure for rheumatism, 362

St. Victor abbey library, 215

Saints, mottoes of, 74

Sala (G. A.) on the word Bloody, 133

Agave Dasylirioides, 466

Hamst's "Handbook of Fictitious Names," 475
Salisbury (Bishop of ) circa A.D. 1140, 172, 278
Salmon and apprentices, 321, 474, 518
Salway Ash, origin of the name, 125, 232
Salway (T.) on the name Salway Ash, 125
Salwey (Major Richard), noticed, 27
"Sanctus Ivo erat Brito," 554, 594
Sandgraal, the Quest of the, 73, 134, 140
Sanskrit alphabet, modern invention of it, 125, 468,
570, 610

Sanskrit globes and Warren Hastings, 76

Santeul (Jean Baptist), epigram and epitaph on, 517
Sarum Breviaries, 149, 206, 283

Satan's kiss fuliginous, 366, 469

Satchell (Thomas) on the civil servant's position, 220
Sawyer family, co. Notts, 390

Sayings as to various days, 64

S. (C. F.) on a Christmas carol, 53

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Schin on Fleur-de-lys, an inn sign, 470
Marriage of women to men, 210
Schooner, origin of the word, 313, 397, 469
Schott (Gaspar), biography and works, 165
Schrumpf (G. A.) on Italian scientific books, 315
Ships in mourning, 14.1
Schrupffer, a charlatan, 580

Scotch, ancient, pronunciation of Latin, 24, 39, 204,
274, 375, 424, 512, 593

Scotch, proclamation against, 537
Scotch land measures, 98, 181, 424
Scotland, Book of Common Order of the Church of, 571
Scotland, heritable succession, 344

St. Piran, 282, 354, 468

St. Simon (Duke de), 87, 181; "Lettres d'Etat," 281, S. (E.) on ancient chapel near Eynsford, 235

448, 521, 616

Maelström, 210

Sea fisherman instructed, 547

Sea kale first used, 53, 154, 255

Seals of the Cinque Ports, 59

Searle (Rev. Thomas), "Esther, a Sacred Drama,"

Scots College library, Paris, 215

Scott (Lady Caroline Lucy), works, 351
Scott (H.) on the cuckoo, 533

Scott (Sir Walter), his head, 286, 324, 439; and his
literary friends, a print, 350; on the ballad "Jock
o' Milk," 456; his impecuniosity, 552

Scott (Wm.) on dancing before the altar at Seville, 77
Scottish episcopal clergy, in 1710, 119
Scottish legal ballad, 42, 85, 114
Scottish local histories, 30, 114
Scottish nobles, their feuds in 1606, 96
Scottish sports, works on, 173
Scottish token, 317

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Dice used by the Romans, 89

Horace, bilingual version of the second Epode, 268
S. (D.) on ambassadors to the Sublime Porte, 349
Hawkins (Wm.) and Robert Callice, 378
Les Echelles, 595

St. Simon, Lettres d'Etat, 281, 521

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Sévigné (Madame de) and Napoleon, sayings, 534
Seville, dancing before the high altar, 77

S. (F. G.) on the Bayeux tapestry, 266

Chelsea pottery, 253

S. (F. M.) on Alexander Brodie, 53

Baird family seals, 436

Sewell (W. H.) on ancient ironwork, 124
Sewing machines sixty years ago, 27

Shorthouse (J. H.) on Charles Cotton. 146
Shropshire, castles and old mansions, 475
Shuttleworth family, 269, 372

Seymour (Henry) on Playford and Playfair families, Shylock, "Shakspeare's original," 30, 111
Siddons (Mrs. Sarah), early performance, 99

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Sheep, ages and genders of, 390
Sheffield, its derivation, 66
Shekel, a modern forgery, 137

Shelley (P. B.), notes and emendations on, 79, 151,
301, 333, 357, 384, 411, 516; "Epipsy chidion,
296; "Queen Mab," 266

Shell-fish food, 86

Shakspearian pronunciation, 431
Shard explained, 115

Sharpe (Edmund) on errors of literal translations, 299
Shaw (J. B.) on plays at schools, 185
Shaw (Samuel) on M.P.'s for Andover, 511

Shaw's "New Dictionary of Quotations," 268, 395,
422, 443

Sheehan (John), pseud. "The Irish Whiskey Drinker,"
408, 514

Shem on Silbury Hill, 90

Sheriff, fines for refusing to serve, 606

Ships in mourning, 144

Shipton (Mother), her personal history, 391, 491
Shorthand for literary purposes, 126, 180, 248
Short-hand Writers' Association, 416, 495

Sidney (Sir Philip), passage in the " Arcadia," 342,
397, 516

Silent woman, an inn sign, 19, 114

Silbury Hill noticed, 14, 90

Silver cradle for mayoresses, 298, 399

Silver lion, a tavern sign, 536, 570

Simpson (W. Sparrow) on the antiphones of St. Paul's
cathedral, 541, 611

Bell ringer's epitaph, 387

Sims (Richard) of the British Museum, 284

Sinclair (Lord) and the men of Guldbrand Dale, 231
Sisyphus and his stone, 14, 103, 182

S. (J.) on Goldsmith's epitaph, 571

Skeat (W. W.) on the Alliterative Romances of Alex-
ander, 47

"Book of Curtesye," passage, 83
Corsie, corsey, its etymology, 62
Every thing as two words, 134
Gab, its derivation, 63
Greyhound, its etymology, 107, 273
Hogshead, its etymology, 613
Jackdaw of Rheims, 577

Jannock, its meaning, 279
Lister, its derivation, 546
"Pierce the Ploughman's Crede," 490
Rabbit, its derivation, 279

Rolle's "Pricke of Conscience," MSS., 65

Rudee: defameden: bire, 135
Schooner, its derivation, 397
Skelp, its derivation, 587
Syllabus rare, 546
Thud, an old word, 34

Walter pronounced as Water, 595.
Wednesday, its derivation, 137
Welkin dance, 590

Wolwarde, its meaning, 65, 254, 425
Skedaddle, its derivation, 498

Skeleton, living, 138, 257

Skelp, its secondary significations, 485, 587
Skynner (Bridget), her death, 579
Skyrack oak, 58

"Sleeping Child," poem on, 535, 616
Sleigh (John) on Charles Cotton, the angler, 70
Dieulacres abbey, co. Stafford, 123
Medals of the Pretender, 566
Parish registers, 582

Smith (Capt. Alexander), 147

Smith (Edward) on Sterling: Robert, 606

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Spearman (R. H.) on conducts in divine service, 306
Spee the Jesuit and the trials for witchcraft, 479
Spenser (Edmund), Sonnets set to music, 127
Spirit writing: "Steer South West," 338, 422
Spitalfields register chest, 200

Sprat (Thomas), archdeacon of Rochester, 415
S. (R. F. W.) on hippophagy, 278

Intonation, its origin and intention, 223

S. (S.) on proper names, 553

S. (S. S.) on "Be the day weary," &c., 231

Stanhope (Countess), Benj. D'Israeli's verses on, 388,
422

Stanhope (Earl of) on verses by Benj. D'Israeli, 422
Stanley (Dean), "Memorials of Westminster Abbey,"
corrections, 293

"Stations of Rome," a poem, 360

Steeple climbers, 311, 167

Steeven's Hospital, Dublin, Stella's bequest, 410, 491
Stein (Andrew) on the Gibb baronetcy, 37

Stella's bequest to Steeven's Hospital, Dublin, 410, 491
Stephens (George) on ancient drinking glasses, 462
Fly-leaf inscription, 481

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Stirling, old engravings of, 460, 567
Stitch let, a new word, 201, 316, 426, 521
Strafford (Thomas Wentworth, Earl of), poem on his
dying words, 174

Strange (Sir Robert), book-plate, 144
Stuart family, prints of the latter, 532

Stuart (Charles Edward), grandson of James II., re-
nunciation of Romanisin, 377; flag in 1715, 473;
lines on his heart, 435, 499, 521, 559, 595; divided
allegiance of the Scotch lords in 1745, 575

Stuart (Henry Benedict), Cardinal York, diary kept by
his secretary, 559, 595

Stuart (James Francis Edward), son of James II.,
marriage medals, 466, 522, 566

Stubbs (Rev. Wm.), Lambeth librarian, 50

Sturmy, or Esturmy family, 606
Subah of Bengal, 484

Sub-brigadier, his office, 267, 375

Sultan dying of ennui [by G. A. H. Sala], 605
Sunday Schools, a poem on, 269, 497
Supernaculum, origin of the term, 460, 559
Superstitions, some ancient and inodern, 574
Surnames, etymology of curious, 356
Surveyors of crown lands records, 414
Sussex Archæological Collections, 22
Suthering, a provincialisın, 314, 399
Swaddler, a cant term, 271, 377, 473
Swan family, 390

Swan (Rowland) of Fairfield, tablet, 191
S. (W. D.) on captives at Machanes, 32
Epitaph at Selby abbey, 578
Fonts other than stone, 231

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Taswell-Langmead (T. P.) on parish registers, 197
Tatum (John), chemical lecturer, 546

Tauler (Dr. John) and his school, 525, 591, 597, 613
Taylor (J.), Sheffield, on Truman Henry Safford, 366
Ballads of the Midland counties, 492
Taylor (John) of Alston, longevity, 153
Taylor (John) on Mary Queen of Scots' picture, 296
Tresham's head at Northampton, 146
Taylor (P. M.) on "The Liverpool Privateers," 413
T. (B. J.) on church establishments, 459

Motto of Civil Engineers' Institution, 509
Parr (Dr.)," Spital Sermon," 511

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T. (C.) on The Theatre," a dramatic periodical, 267

T. (C. P.) on "Clean as a whistle," 256
T. (E.) on Dicconson family, 412

Pixy and the bean, 172

Teare (James), the teetotaler, 553, 611
Teetotalism, its early history, 553, 611
Telfer (James), minor poet, 108, 249
Telegrams, newspaper, 98
Temple Bar, memorials of, 480

Ten Commandments, inedited poem, 360, 427
Teniers (David). jun., list of his portraits, 187
Tennent (Sir J. Emerson) on ambergris in early cookery,

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Timbs (John) on Sir Richard Phillips, 37
"Times" newspaper, Index, 620
Tite (W.) on Roman inscription at Cannes, 269
Tithe commutation, an ancient, 478
Tithe de capreolis, or copse wood, 511
T. (J. F.) on roses worn by ambassadors, 76
T. (J. G.) on German architecture, 29
Tobacco, in Sanskrit called Tamâla, 402, 517
Toby jug, 160, 253, 425, 494, 615
Tocque (Jean-Louis), painter, 43
Todd (Rev. Henry John), literary labours, 50
Todd (Dr. J. H.) on origin of the name Fenian, 276
Token, Scottish, 317

Token of Hornchurch, Romford, Havering, 556
Tom: Old Tom gin, origin of the name, 298
Tombstone inscriptions deciphered, 581
Tomlinson (G. W.) on St. Angus, 315

Distance traversed by sound, 516

Marlborough (Duchess of) family Bible, 340
Newton family, 507

Toraqueau (Andrew), epigram on, 612
Torrance (Rev. G. W.), Oratorio of "Abraham," 281
Toscani (G.) on Dante's "Inferno," 607
Totnes calendars of the archdeaconry, 27

Tottenham (H. L.) on Capt. Paule Arundell, 169
Funeral superstition, 361

Peter and Patrick, 303

Vaughan and Dockwra families, 182
Wellington, who was he? 293

Weston and Naylor families, 173

Westmeath (Marquis of) and the Sultan, 243
Towns, height of our chief above sea level, 55
Townshend (Sir John), knt.. family, 499

T. (R.) on William Henry Ireland's pseudonyms, 315
St. Piran, Ciaran, or Kiaran, 354
"Trabisonda," edit. 1528, 195

Trade marks, works on, 367

543, 591

Tregelles (S. P.) on Gildas, the historian, 271
Trench (Francis) on costly entertainments, 73
Evening cock-crow, 293

Head (Sir Edmund), 180

Noteworthy, its revived use, 264
Trenchers, posies and aphorisms on, 88
Trenchmore, a dance, 18, 19

Trepolpen (P. W.), on Mathew family, 39

Trepolpen (P. W.) on Wolcot (Dr. John), his orders, 40
Tresham (Francis) head at Northampton, 146
Tresilian (Sir R.), descendants, 26
Trigg Minor Deanery, its history, 66
Tripe Club at the "Magpie and Stump," 471
Tristram on derivation of Bane, 376
Tunes, dates of certain old, 65, 209
Turbervile (George), a New Year Gift, 3
Turkish newspaper, the first in London, 11
Turner (W. H.) on Espec, 176

Tutbury ore dish, 52, 233

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Venville estates, 246

Tragett (George), inn sign, "The Fox," 472

"Verdant Green," misappropriated, 433

Translation, errors of literal, 168, 299, 348, 373, 495, Vermuyden (Sir Cornelius), portrait, 484

Vernon (W. J.) on Little Foster Hall, 580
Vestments of ecclesiastics, 427
Veyerhog, its meaning, 246, 330, 450
Vincent (J. A. C.) on P. Atherton, 27

Massacre of the Innocents in waxwork, 54
St. Luke's day and Sir J. Reynolds, 296
Will of the Rev. Vincent Warren, 120
Vincent of Beauvais, his works, 391, 473
Violet (P.), artist, 485, 545, 594

Venice, Doge of, portrait at Kimbolton Castle, 270, 302
Venice, its defence in 1848-9, 41; its siege in 1848,
182

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