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CHRISTIAN NAMES, COINS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, MOTTOES, OBITUARY, PLACE-NAMES,
PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKESPEARIANA, SONGS AND BALLADS, SURNAMES,
and TAVERN SIGNS.]

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"Abanazar," its meaning as an epithet, 68, 106
'Abdolla,' its meaning, 182, 243
Aboulcasem, reference to him, 268
Accentuation, changes noticed in New English
Dictionary,' 32, 105, 137, 166

'Adeste Fideles,' its date, and Rabelais's supposed
parody, 292, 329

Ainslie Bond, its whereabouts and history, 41, 80
Airship, London-Paris project, 1835, 58; adver-
tisement, 59, 107

Alabaculia, name of racehorse, its origin, 98, 163
'Albania,' anonymous work, author wanted, 211
Aldelima, 1280, its locality, 96, 157

Aldersons, Warrington glassmakers, information
wanted, 152

Aldridge (Ida F.), negro actor, his history, 203
Alexander, Athlone merchant, c. 1750, particulars
wanted, 292

Aliens in Maidstone in 1567, 169

Allen (Edward), painter and engraver, partculars
wanted, 126

Alleynes or Allens at Westminster school, 291
Ambassador, a definition of, its origin, 210, 243
America's Reply,' poem, particulars wanted, 317
American link with Winchester, 206

American soldiers, the first killed in the War, 36
Amorous Miser,' anonymous play, and ‘Farewel
Folly,' 310

Anderson (Sir Francis), his descendants wanted,
122

Anderson (William), artist, place of his death
wanted, 209

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Arnold (W. H.), author of "The Devil's Bridge,"
&c., 126, 166

"Art of Conversation," its author wanted, 267
"As dead as a doornail," its origin, 266, 303, 304
Astertion flowers-nasturtium, 267, 302
'Atheist's Tragedy,' by Tourneur, its date, 228
Aubrey (Rev. Thomas), Rector of Brobury, his
grave, 290

Auchmutz (Robert), American loyalist, his tomb-
stone, 236

Audlem near Nantwich, connected with Aldelima,
157

Augury from magpies in Shakespeare, 5, 116
Australian memorial inscriptions:

Church, Sydney, 174

St. James's

Austrian money from London Mint for Abyssinia,
12

Aviation, project, in 1835, 58, 107; prophetic
verses in eighteenth century, 64

Aylesford, Countless Stones, bibliography wanted,
318

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Baptiste Mantuani Carmelite,' poems, particulars
of editions, 12

Baring family, memorial at Exeter, 89

Barnard, Col., 1778, painted by Romney, particu-
lars wanted, 238

Barnard (Dudley) or Bernard, information wanted,
68

Barnard or Bernard family, information wanted,
68, 182

Barr family arms, information wanted, 153
Barroon as street name, information wanted, 317
Barth, place-name, its reference, 238, 279
Bartlett (Rev. W.), Rector of Newark, 125
Bat, figure of, as door-knocker, explained, 149
Batchelor (John), his statue at Cardiff, 146
Bats entangled in hair, 210

Baxter (Richard), his family, 66, 130
"Bayninge," obsolete name of bird, 125
Beaconsfield (Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of), alleged
pension to Martin Tupper, 11; birthplace, 204,
328; description of Gladstone, 11; educated
at Walthamstow, 287; statue at Bolton, 312
Bedford House, Bloomsbury, particulars of sale
in 1800, 148

Bell (John), of Scarborough, information required,

291

Bell Tavern, Broad Street, Bristol, particulars
wanted, 295

Bells, Hampshire church, and their founders, 44,
109, 304

Benedict XII., Pope, statement about him
questioned, 266, 305

Berkshire tombstone inscriptions, 182

Bernard (Dudley) or Barnard, information sought,
68

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Ackermann (A. S. E.), 'Popular Fallacies,'
210

'Boyle (Capt. Robert), Voyages....of,' 294
Briefs, church, 294, 331

Byron (George Gordon, 6th Lord), his
Apocryphal writings, 113, 143

Byron as a character in fiction, 80
Byron's 'Don Juan,' cantos 17 and 18, 179,
240

Campbell (Sir Gilbert), his poems, 238

Caractacus, works on, 237, 275

Cistercian Order, 320

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Countless Stones,' Aylesford, 318

Crusaders, MS. list, 236

de Mandeville (Bernard), editions, 210

'De Sanctis' the Anglo-French version, 281
Druids, works on the, 237, 275

Du Maurier (George), key to his novel
Trilby,' 151, 245

Dürer's engraved works, 231

Epitaphs, 88, 129, 161, 192, 218, 274

Hamilton (Walter), F.R.G.S., his articles,
318

Henricus de Hoyta, 265, 298

Henricus Hembuch de Hassia dictus de
Langenstein, 265, 298

Immurement (mediæval), 320

Irish county and town histories, 147
Knox's 'spirit of despotism,' 176

London Feace Celebrations, 175, 213, 315

Main (David M.), writer on the English
sonnet, 236

Mortars, domestic and others, 250, 277

New Shakspere Society publications, 162
Norfolk MSS., 182, 217

Plane trees, 205

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Bigamy and divorce, attitude of Mr. Justice Books recently published:-

Maule, 64, 129

Billheads and cards of tradesmen, particulars
wanted, 317

Billingsley (John), letter to Richard Edwards,
1673, 34; note on, 34

Bird-names, two obsolete, 125

Birds in captivity poisoned by others, 210, 273
Bird-scarers' songs, 98, 160, 246

Birth, place-name, its reference, 238, 279

Bishops of Church of England in America, list
wanted, 264

'Bishops, three in fifteenth century, 107, 161,
273

Blackman family of Sussex, information wanted,
181

Blacksmith, the Village,' original shop, 211,
248, 299

'Blackwell Hall Factor, explanation of term,
266, 306

Blades family of Coverdale and Wensleydale, 40
Blake (Robert), scholar at Westminster School,
41.81

'Blackstone the Regicide. particulars wanted, 291
Blankett obsolete bird-name, 125

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Blue eye and Ancient Order of Foresters, 22
Bluecoat Schools, list of, 126, 158, 159, 218, 302,
332

-"Blues, The Derby," 1745, volunteer corps,
138

Boase (Rev. Charles William), 88, 95

Boase (Frederic), biographer, 88, 95, 161
Boase (George Clement), biographer, 88, 95,

161

"Boche," its etymology, 182

Bolton, co. Lancs., memorial cross there, 312
Bonaparte (Lucien), his captivity at Ludlow,
236, 300

Bond family, bell-founders, 45

Bonfire night,' doggerel lines, 318
"Bontefeu," meaning of word, 66, 108

Books recently published:-

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Ashdown (Charles Henry), F.R.G.S., History
of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers of
of the City of London, 251

Boswell's (James) Life of Samuel Johnson,
selections from, chosen, &c., by R. W.
Chapman, 196

Bradley's (Henry) Oxford English Dictionary:
Stratus Styx, 334

Bradley (Henry), Spoken and written English,
307

Brougham's (Eleanor M.), Corn from Olde
Fieldes : an Anthology of English Poems
from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth
Century, 167

Cambridge, A Concise Guide to the Town and
University of, by J. Willis Clark, 6th edn.,
307

Chapman (R. W.), editor. Selections from
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 196
Child, The Natural History of the, by Dr.
Courtenay Dunn, 280

Clark (John Willis), M.A., A Concise Guide to
the Town and University of Cambridge,
6th edn., 307

Corn from Olde Fieldes : an Anthology of
English Poems from the Fourteenth to the
Seventeenth Century, by Eleanor M.
Brougham, 167

Crisp (Frederick H.) (editor), Visitation of
England and Wales, XIX., 139; Visitation
of Ireland, VI., 139

Dames (M. Longworth), translator, &c., Book
of Duarte Barbosa, 195

Duarte Barbosa, Book of, trans., &c., by M.
Longworth Dames, 195

Dunn (Dr. Courtenay), The Natural History
of the Child, 280

Fielding (Henry), The Tragedy of Tragedies
or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the
Great, 54

Foundling, "The Child She Bare," 280
Genealogist (The), New Series, Vol. XXXIV.,
84

Glaziers of the City of London, History of the
Worshipful Company, by C. H. Ashdown,
F.R.G.S., 250

Hayden (Arthur), Chats on Royal Copenhagen
Porcelain, 84

Hillhouse (James T.), editor. The Tragedy
of Tragedies, by Henry Fielding, 54
Indexes of Irish Wills, Vol. IV., Dromore,
Newry and Mourne; ed. by Gertrude
Thrift, 110

L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux,
335

Jebb (Sir Richard C.), Milton: Areopagitica,
251

Johnson, The Story of Doctor: an Introduc-

tion to Boswell's Life, by S. C. Roberts, 167
Journal of the Folk-Song Society, No. 21
(Vol. VI., Pt. 1), 139

Latin Epigraphy: an Introduction to the
Study of Latin Inscriptions, by Sir J. E.
Sandys, 280

Leslie (Lt.-Col. John H.), R.A. (retired list)
and Smith (Lt.-Col. D.), R.A., A Biblio-
graphy of Works by Officers, Non-Com-
missioned Officers and Men who have ever
served in the Royal Bengal, Madras or
Bombay Artillery: Parts VI. and VII.,
Gascoigne Jacob, 27

Markham (Sir Clements R.), trans. and ed.,
War of Chupas, 195

Milton Areopagitica: with a Commentary
by Sir Richard C. Jebb, 251

Onions's (C. T.), Oxford English Dictionary:
Sweep-Szmikite, 334

Oxford Almanack for the Year of our Lord
God MDCCCCXIX., 84

Oxford English Dictionary: Stratus-Styx,
by H. Bradley, 334; Sweep-Szmikite, by
C. T. Onions, 334
Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur), Shakespeare's
Workmanship, 27

Roberts (S. C.), The Story of Doctor John-
son: an Introduction to Boswell's Life, 167
Royds (Thomas Fletcher), The Beasts, Birds
and Bees of Virgil: a Naturalist's Hand-
book to the Georgics; Virgil and Isaiah :
a Study of the Pollio,' with Translations,
Notes and Appendices, 111

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Books recently published:-

Bugden (Edmund), letter to Richard Edwards,
118

Bullivant (Samuel), letter to Richard Edwards,
33, 117

Smith (David Nichol), Characters from the
Histories and Memoirs of the Seventeenth"
Century, 83

Spoken and Written English, by Henry
Bradley, 307.

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Thrift (Gertrude) (editor) Indexes to Irish
Wills, Vol. IV., 110

Toynbie (Paget), D.Litt.: Supplement to the
Letters of Horace Walpole, 2 vols., 223
Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and
Death of Tom Thumb the Great, by Henry
Fielding. Ed. by James T. Hillhouse, 54
Visitation of England and Wales, Vol. XIX.,
ed. Frederick A. Crisp, 139

Visitation of Ireland, Vol. VI., ed. Frederick
A. Crisp, 139

Walpole (Horace), Supplement to the Letters
of, arranged by Paget Toynbee, D.Litt.,
2 vols., 223

War of Chupas; trans. and edited by Sir
Clements R. Markham, 195

Booksellers' Catalogues, 28, 56, 111, 140, 168,
196, 224, 252, 307, 335

Borough Courts: "Jur de la vile," 39
Borrow (George), identification of his localities,
165; memoranda for a book on Cornwall, 237;
mention of Lieut. Parry, 95, 333

Boswell (James), an error in his Life of Johnson,
176

Boulogne, registers of English births, marriages
and deaths there, 181; statue to Jenner, 288
Boumphrey family of Manchester and Liverpool,
67, 138

Boutell's (Rev. Chas.) printing catalogue of paint-
ing and sculpture, 173

Bow-Bridge, Old, and Pyrgo Park, 229
Bowshot, the longest, 180, 220, 278
Boyer family, particulars wanted, 294

Boyle (Capt. Robert), privateer, book of his
voyages, 294, 329

Boys born in May cruel to parents, Chinese belief,
25

Brady (Patrick), particulars of family wanted, 291
Bran (George), Bishop of Dromore, 107, 161, 273
Brasses (monumental) at East Hatley, co. Cam-
bridge, 260

Brassey, or Bracey, family, its history, 302
Bransford, Worcestershire, mills at, 149
Bredwardine incumbents and patrons, 200

Breslau churches, eighteenth century collection
for, 181

Brewing rimes, examples, 209

Briefs, church, books about, 294, 331
Bristol, name of hotel in Calcutta, 25

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Bully," in Coleridge, 69

Bulteel family, evidence of marriages wanted, 316
Bunnett (Henry), artist, information wanted, 66
Burial at sea, four gun salute for an officer,-
38, 106

Burial of heart, an example in Palestine, 134
Burials: see also Internments

Burns (Robert), his song, 'The Poor Thresher,"
66, 108
Burrell (William), centenarian, information
wanted, 12

Burt (Albin R.), miniature painter, 187
"Burton (Richard)", pseudonym of Nathaniel
Crouch, 75

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Byron (John), author of Three Black Crows,' 160
Byron (George Gordon, 6th Lord), Apocryphal
writings, 113, 143; bust at Oxford, 122, 163;
'Don Juan,' cantos 17 and 18, 179, 240; as a
character in fiction, 80; lines on a statue in
Fleet Street, 40, 82, 107

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Challoner (Richard), 235

Bristol, particulars of Bell Tavern, Broad Street, Chaloner family of Sussex, pedigree wanted, 235
wanted, 295

Bristol wills, old, c. 1500, missing, 122
Brobury incumbents and patrons, 200

Brontë (Patrick Branwell), his poem, 'Juan
Fernandez,' 177

Brown (Alexander A.), memorial at Daventry, 146
Brown family of Brown's Bay, near Larne, 98
Brown (Joseph) of Sunderland, particulars of, 54
Brown (Thomas) (1663-1704), confused with Sir
Thomas Browne, 6, 110

Browne (Sir Thomas) see Brown (Thomas)
"Buffaloes, Royal Antediluvian Order of,"
particulars of, 237, 276

Chapman family of Ormsley, details wanted, 40
Charles I. farthing found, 195

Charles I.'s journey from Oxford to Southwell,
182, 326

Charter, a Gloucester, of Henry I., 16, 72, 101
Cheshire, old custom of "Thwertnic or Thiert

nie," 93

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Chess, the Knight's tour, 92, 136, 325
Chesterfield Letters, publication of new, 154, 216
Cheveley (John), marine painter, particulars-
wanted, 68

Chinese anticipation of submarines, 131

Christian fathers, English translations of, 295, 330

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Christian Names:

Early occurrence of double, 289
Hervey, 95, 167, 189, 246, 306
Ismenia, 25

Ladysmith Shamrock, 206

Louisa spelt Leweezer, 237, 276
Lueazer, 276

Richenda, 237, 324

Sol, a woman's name, 21
Thistle Dijon, 206

Christmas carol, "To-morrow shall be my dancing
day," origin wanted, 320

Christmas lines spoken by Sheffield children,
46, 82

Church bells, Hampshire, their founders, 44,
109, 304

Church briefs, looks about, 294, 331

Church of England bishops in America, list
wanted, 264

Church of England marriage service, Sir W. Scott's
satire on, 208, 242, 278
"Church plate, crest on, 50

Churches used for the election of municipal officers,
127, 162

Cistercian order in England, bibliography wanted,

320

Clapgun as street name, information wanted, 317
Clarke (Mary), of New York, particulars of, 236,
278

"Clarté est la bonne foi des philosophes," 39,
105, 135

Classical parallelisms to the war, 57, 189
Clay balls as Christmas collecting boxes, 39, 79,
Clements family, information wanted, 126
Olenock (Rev. Dr.), Rector of English Catholic
College, Rome, 124, 161

Clerke (Edmund), clerk of the Privy Seal, his
history, 12, 83

Clifton family of Clifton, Notts, 98
Clitheroe marriage registers, duplicate entries in,
198

Clock- and watch-makers, 153, 237, 241, 305
Clover (Joseph), of Norwich, and his son, particu-
lars wanted, 11

'Cobden: a Bagman, with a Calico Millennium,'
particulars wanted, 291

Cock as French national emblem, 94, 131
Cockle (James), patentee of the anti-bilious pills,
particulars of, 154, 190

Cogan (Eliezer), Walthamstow schoolmaster, his
history, 286

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Ancient British, collected,7121
Ancient Irish gold, 301
Farthing of Charles I., 195
Sestertius of Vespasian, 301

Colby (Sir Thomas), his kinsmen, 180
Coleridge (S. T.) on Bully,' 69; immortality, 39
Collecting boxes, Christmas, clay balls as, 39, 79
Collingwood (Alexander), information wanted of
his wife's parentage, 320

Collins (Mr. and Mrs. G. D.), memorial at Wisbech,
146

Colville (John, 7th Lord), precise date of death
wanted, 293

Concannon family, details wanted, 265

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Conduitt, the beautiful Mrs.", information
wanted, 321

Congewoi," meaning of term wanted, 264
Considine (Capt. Wm.), 69th regiment, memorial
at Chester, 261

Constant Reformation, flagship, 1651, its chaplain,
10

Constellations, knowledge of, Carlyle on, 150
Convex and conic lights, c. 1700, 125

Cook (Captain), discoverer, his statue in Sydney,
177

Cooke (Charles), bookseller, his history, 210
Cooper (Samuel), painter, an ancestor of Whist-
ler (?), 70

Coorg State: strange tale of Princess Gouramma,
264, 296

Cope (William), died 1715, place of education
wanted, 294

Cornish biographers and bibliographers, 88
Cornwall, Borrow's notes for his proposed book
on, 237

Corpse visited by the released soul, 205
Correspondents, notices to, 28, 56, 84, 112, 140,
168, 196, 224, 252, 280, 308, 336
Cotesmore (Thomas), priest, sixteenth century,
particulars wanted, 292, 334
Coulson (Col. W. L. Blenkinsopp), memorial to,
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 145
Countless Stones, Aylesford, bibliography wanted,

318

Court of St. James, first use of term in diplomacy,
265, 324

Courtney (Wm. Prideaux), biographer, 88
Cowap surname, its etymology, 206, 247, 272
Cowper (W.), his 'Sephus,' 258
Cragg family, arms of, 130

Craggs family related to Nicholson family, 21, 130
Cramahé (Hector Theophilus), supposed husband
of Margaret Hamilton, 289, 327
Creighton (Bishop) on history, 66
"Crest," measure for crest-cloth, 69
Crest on church plate, 50

Crest-cloth, measurement of, 69

'Critical Review,' Southey's contributions to, 187
Cromwell (Oliver), ensign, 1727, his history, 292,
331

Cromwell (Mrs. Susan), last of Oliver Cromwell's
descendants, 232, 277

Crosier, when carried by the Pope, 24
Cross (James Kynaston), M.P., bust at Bolton,
236

313

Cross, the sign of the, its use,

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Crouch (Nathaniel), his pseudonym Richard
Burton,' 95

Crow-fig, old name for nux vomica, 14

Crown of Edward the Confessor represented in a
tapestry, 232

Crucifix, lines under a, origin, 19, 135
Crusade (Third), list of recruits to, 236
Crusaders with Bishops Peter de Rupibus and
William Briwer, list wanted, 293

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