Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 5, January-June, 1852 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

by Various

M.

M. on the origin of the name Arkwright, 320.
—— hints to book buyers, 271.
—— English translation of the Canons, 246.
—— Epistola Luciferi, 489.
—— handwriting, 342.
—— quotation from Arthur Hopton, 346.
—— John of Halifax, 89.
—— Latin names of towns, 235.
—— Macaulay's ballad of Naseby, 41.
—— indicating time in music, 507.
—— Newton, Cicero, and gravitation, 422.
—— Newton's library, 489.
—— Newtonian system, 491.
—— Reeve and Muggleton, 283.
M. on unacknowledged quotations from Scripture, 414.
—— villain and knave, 285.
M. (Dublin) on Byron's paraphrase of the motto of "N. & Q.," 463.
—— hexameter poem on English counties, 227.
µ. on Arabic inscriptions, 32.
—— satirical verses on Clarendon's downfall, 28.
—— burning fern bringing rain, 242.
—— St. George heraldic MSS., 253.
—— the MS. legend of St. Molaisse, 38.
M. (A.) on legend of St. Kenelm, 132.
M. (A. C.) on the Orientals wearing spurs, 467.
Mac an Bhaird on Irish queries, 439.
Macaronic poetry, 166. 251. 302.
Macaulay's ballad of Naseby, 41.
Mac Cabe (W. B.) on boiling criminals to death, 184.
Macfarlane of that Ilk, 416.
Mackenzie (Kenneth R. H.), notes on Homer, 99. 171. 221.
Madden (Sir Frederick) on Longueville MSS., 17.
Madox (Thomas), the historiographer, 440.
Madrigal, meaning of, 104. 380.
Maheremium, its meaning, 248.
Maidstone parochial library, 61.
Maitland (Dr. S. R.) on cock and bull stories, 447.
—— Reichenbach's ghosts, 115. 162.
Mallett (David), his character, 124.
—— death and burial, 319. 402.
Malt, license to make in 1596, 291.
Man in the Almanack, its meaning, 320. 378. 405.
Manchester free library, 430.
—— the arms of, 59. 332.
Mancunium on Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations, 41.
Maps, correct ones a desideratum, 174. 236. 257. 261.
—— of Africa, 284. 329. 382.
Marches of Wales and Lord Marchers, 30. 135. 189. 445.
Margate tenor bell, 319. 404.
Margoliouth (Moses) of Wady Mokatteb, 87. 256.
Mariconda on Liber Conformitatum, 202.
—— the pelican as symbolical, 211.
Market crosses, account of, 511. 594.
Markland (J. H.) on Addison and his hymns, 513.
—— Count Königsmark, 78.
Mark's (St.), at Venice, its treasury, 583.
Marlborough 5th November custom, 365.
Marriage tithe in Wales, 29. 89.
Martial's distribution of hours, 66.
Martin-drunk, origin of the term, 587.
Martinique, its derivation, 11. 165. 330. 354. 572.
Marvell's Life and Works, 597.
Marybone on nightingale and thorn, 475.
Mary of Guise, the elopement of her fairest attendant, 152. 305.
Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell's Confession, 381.
—— her monument, 415. 517.
Mas, an abbreviation of Master, 322.
Masks worn by women in theatres, 536.
Materre on Schola Cordis, 92.
Matron of Ephesus, a dramatic poem, 225.
Matthew (Bishop Toby), his consecration, 466.
Maxwell (John), of Terraughty and Munches, 203.
May butter, 609.
May-day custom in Lancashire, 581.
M. (B.) on men of Kent and Kentish men, 321.
McC. on borrowing-days, 342.
McC. (J. B.) on boiling criminals to death, 184.
—— Lollard's burial-place, 292.
M. (C. H.) on an inscription by Luther, 441.

M. (C. R.) on cross-legged effigies, 136.
M. (C. R.) on Grimesdyke, 284.
—— monumental portraits, 451.
M. (D.) on introduction of glass into England, 382.
M. D. (an) on kissing under the mistletoe, 13.
M. (E.) on the arms of the Lyte family, 260.
—— royal arms in churches, 559.
Meath millers, their observance of St. Martin's day, 13.
Medals of William III. and Grandval, 73.
Mediæval, or middle ages, defined, 469.
Meekins (Dr. John), noticed, 440.
Meg, a roaring, its origin, 105. 260.
Meg (Long) of Westminster, 133. 259.
M. (E. J.) on collar of SS., 16.
Memoria technica for the Books of the Bible, 414.
—— for the plays of Shakspeare, 464.
Memoirs (New) of Literature, its editor, 178.
Memory, artificial, 227. 305. 355.
Mendham (J.) on Expurgatory Index of Rome, 82.
Merchant Adventurers to Spain, 276. 429. 499.
Mercurialis (Dr. Hieron), noticed, 347.
Merivale (H.) on burning Jesuitical books, 56.
Merriman (Bishop), notices of, 584.
Merry Andrew, its early use, 128.
Merryweather (F. Somner) on glass-making, 477.
—— blessing whilst sneezing, 500.
—— prohibitions to use coal, 568.
—— Mesmer's portrait, 418. 473. 599.
Metaouo on London Genealogical Society, 354.
—— rhymes on places, 375.
Mewburn (F.) on Sir Samuel Garth, 237.
Mexican grammar, 585.
M. (F.) on the meaning of toady, 419.
M (F. C.) on the Queen of the Isle of Man, 234.
M. (H.) on quotations wanted, 512.
M. (H. S.) on notices of Lord Marchers, 135.
Micœnis on Dr. John Meekins, 440.
Middleton church, Essex, its dedication, 372.
Middleton (Countess of), notices of, 394.
M. (I. J.) on Junius' Letters to Wilkes, 126.
Milesian, the term explained, 453. 588.
Miller (Joe), disinterment of his remains, 271.
—— epitaph on, by Stephen Duck, 485.
Miller (Mr.) of Craigentinny, 468.
Miller's melody, an old ballad, 316. 591.
Milton indebted to Tacitus, 606.
—— epitaph in Cripplegate church, 361. 548.
—— rib-bone, 369.
Minshull (R.), proposals for printing Caxton's works, 265.
Mirabilis Liber, quoted, 90.
Mires, explained, 321.
Misereres, their use, 39.
Miserrimus, notice of, 354.
Mistletoe, on its exclusion from churches, 151.
—— poplar trees, 534. 596.
—— origin of kissing under, 13. 208.
—— queries on, 418.
Mistral, its causes, 246.
Mitre, episcopal, why discontinued, 275.
M. (J.) on an allusion in Coleridge's Friend, 297.
—— Analysis of Newton's Principia, 491.
—— Warton's note on Aristotle's Poetics, 607.
M. (J.) on Braem's Memoirs, 126. 599.
—— symbolism of death, 213.
—— Humboldt's Cosmos, and Nares' Attempt, 224.
—— nobleman alluded to by Bp. Berkeley, 345.
—— portrait of Mesmer, 599.
—— the old Scots march, 104.
M. 4 (J.) on the broad arrow, 115.
M. (J. F.) on the word Pick in Shakspeare, 375.
M. (J. H.) on burial in unconsecrated ground, 549.
—— Joseph Adrien Le Bailly, 248.
—— sheriffs and lords lieutenant, 494.
—— the judge alluded to by South, 246.
—— objective and subjective, 141.
M'L. (D. F.) on "which are the shadows?" 196.
M. (L. M.) on "Qui vult plene," &c., 261.
M——n. on heraldical MSS. of Sir H. St. George Garter, 59. 253.
—— Poniatowski gems, 190.
M. (O.) on Dutch manufactures of porcelain, 343.
Mohun, the actor, 466. 612.
Moira (Earl of) elected a knight of the garter, 77. 135. 203.
Moke explained, 373, 448.
Molaisse (St.), legend of, the MS., 38.
Moles, origin of, 534.
Mompesson (Rev. Wm.), notice of, 571. 621.
Monasteries &c. dissolved, notices of, 443.
Monton in Pembroke, 164.
Moon and her influences, 468.
—— the first glance at a new, 485.
Moore (Sir John), poem on, 138. 585.
Moravian hymns, 30. 63. 94. 113. 165. 249. 474. 492.
Mordaunt (Charles), Earl of Peterborough, his portrait, 441. 521.
Morell's edition of Æschylus, 604.
Morgan (A. De) on the controversy about fluxions, 103.
—— Francis Walkinghame, 441.
—— notices of James Wilson, M. D., 276. 399.
Mormonism and Spalding's Romance, 560.
Mortons, the Dr. Richard, notices of, 227. 473.
Mossom (Bishop), notices of, 176.
Mother Carey's chickens, noticed, 344. 427.
Motto at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 345. 451.
M. (P. M.) on provincial dialects, 196.
—— meaning of frebord, 440.
M. (R. F.) on the ring finger, 208.
—— the sanctus bell, 208.
M. (R. P.) on gold chair at Jersey, 511.
M. (S.) on a large family, 357.
M. (T. C. M.) on Bishop Mossom, 176.
Mt. (J.) on seven queries, 225.
Much Wenloch, inscription at, 8.
Muffs worn by gentlemen, 560.
Muggleton and Reeve, notices of, 80. 236. 283.
Mull, a regular, origin of the expression, 165.
Mummy wheat, 417. 538. 595.
Mushroom, its etymology, 598.
Music, on indicating time in, 507.
Musical writers, notes on, 583.
M. van Maanen (J.) on dodo queries, 515.
M. (W. B.) on Banyan-day, 442.
—— Friday at sea, 305.
—— Mother Carey's chickens, 344.
M. (W. B.) on plague stones, 426.
M. (W. T.) on Queen Elizabeth being dark or fair, 201.
—— "I do not know what the truth may be," 560.
—— hoax on Sir Walter Scott, 438.
—— Yankee Doodle, 572.
Myfanwy, on learned men named Bacon, 181.