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

by Various

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S. on the author of The Shadow of the Tree of Life, 79.
—— mummy wheat, 595.
Σ. on a chimney-piece motto, 452.
Sack, giving the, origin of the phrase, 585.
Sacheverell (Dr.), his Derby sermon, 106. 229.
S. (A. D. F. R.) on inscription over Aldus' door, 152.
S. (A. F.) on the derivation of Beholden, 321.
Saint, emblems of an unknown, 347.
Salmon fisheries in olden time, 343.
Salmon (W. R. D.) on instance of longevity, 276.
—— periwinkle, 332.
—— persons of the name of Devil, 370.
Salting a new-born infant, 76. 141.
Salusbury Welsh pedigree book, 296.
Sanctus bell, 104. 208.
Sandys (Charles) on men of Kent, 615.
Sansom (J.) on the derivation of Church, 136.
—— early instances of teaching the blind to read, 151.
—— esquires of the martyred king, 126.
—— the meaning of hell-rake, 162.
—— hair in seals, 317.
—— enigma on the letter I, 427.
—— sites of buildings mysteriously changed, 524.
Santorin, the island of, etymology of its name, 14.
Sarpedon on "The right divine of kings," &c., 128.
Sax on Cromwell's skull, 354.
—— Cynthia's dragon-yoke, 354.
Saxon spell, 5.
Saxonicus on ballad on Shakspeare, 466.
—— the last slave sold in England, 438.
Say (Lord) and printing, 42.
Sc. on inscription on a pair of spectacles, 39.
Scandret (Rev. J.), notices of, 584.
Scott (George S.) on shrine of Edward the Confessor, 228.
Schola Cordis, its authorship, 92.
Schypmen Hall, London, 294.
Sclater's Reply to Lord King, 457.
Sclater family noticed, 458. 518. 569.
S. (C. N.) on key experiments, 449.
Scologlandis and Scologi, 416. 475. 501.
Scotland, thistle of, 281.
Scoto-Gallicisms, 555.
Scot's Philomythie, &c., 179.
Scots march, the old, 104. 235. 280. 331. 449.
Scott (Sir Walter), ballad quoted by him, 345.
—— hoax on, 439. 546.
Scottish monastic establishments, 104. 188. 208.
Scoundrel's Dictionary, 80.
Scriptures, unacknowledged quotations from, 414.
S. (D.) on Young's Narcissa, 252.
S. (E.) on surnames, 425.
S. (E. A.) on Suwich Priory, 344.
—— plate in Lewes Castle, 449.
Seals, hair in, 317.
Sea-serpent, description of, 405.
Seaward's (Sir Edw.) narrative, its authorship, 10. 185. 352.
Seleucus on deaths from fasting, 301.
Seller (Abednego), notices of, 587.
Senses, seven, by Taliesin, 521.
Sept, its etymology, 277. 304.
September, thirty days hath, the antiquity of the lines, 392. 463.
Septimus on French and Italian degrees, 79.
Serjeant trumpeter, his privileges, 127.
Serjeants' rings, 59. 92. 110. 139. 181. 563.
Serpent with a human head, 547.
Seth's pillars, 609.
Settle's Female Prelate, 52.
Seventh son of a seventh son, 532. 596. 617.
Seventh son, peculiar attributes of, 412. 572.
Sexes, their separation in churches, 41. 539.
Shadow of the Tree of Life, its author, 79.
Shadows, which are they? 196. 281. 475.
Shakes—"No great shakes" explained, 443.
Shakspeare and the English press, 117.
—— "As stars with trains of fire," 75. 154. 210.
—— ballad on, 466. 524.
—— manuscript emendations, 484. 535.
—— notes, 483.
—— readings in, 75. 169. 236. 241. 285. 410. 483.
—— seal, 539. 589.
—— Tennyson and Claudian, 492. 618.
—— passage in All's Well that ends Well, 436. 509.
—— —— As You Like It, 564. 587.
—— Cymbeline, 556.
—— Hamlet, 169. 377. 492.
—— King Henry IV., 462.
—— Measure for Measure, 435. 573. 588.
—— Merchant of Venice, 605.
—— Tempest, "the rack," 390.
—— Troilus and Cressida, 178. 235. 259.
—— Twelfth Night, "We three," 338. 500.
Sham Abraham explained, 442.
Sheriff, his precedency over the lord lieutenant, 394. 494.
Shipton, mother, notices of, 419.
Shoes, thrown for luck, 413.
S. (H. P.) on the meaning of Royd, 620.
S. (H. S.) on a work of Pictorial Proverbs, 559.
Shunt, a provincialism, 352. 450.
Sickle, or shekel, as used by Shakspeare, 277. 325.
Sigma on Moravian hymns, 249.
—— national proverbs, 397.
—— portrait of Mesmer, 418.
Silent woman, origin of the sign, 468. 547.
Simmonds (W. Stanley) on Count Gondomar, 489.
Simon of Sudbury, archbishop of Canterbury, 194.
Simonides on Quaker Bible, 44.
Simpson (W. Sparrow) on churchyard well and bath, 81.
—— the author of the tune Doncaster, 106.
—— commemoration of benefactors, 126.
—— curious inscription in Winchester Cathedral, 149.
—— ink used in ancient MSS., 151.
—— autograph music by Handel, 247.
—— autographs of Weever and Fuller, 162.
—— force of conscience, 165.
—— Hoare's charity, 229.
—— epitaph in St. Gregory's, Sudbury, 245.
—— escutcheon at Fawsley, 297.
—— an obelisk, 78.
—— moveable organs and pulpits, 345.
—— emaciated monumental effigies, 353.
—— a correction in the Oxford Manual, 369.
—— dedication of Middleton church, 372.
—— muffs worn by gentlemen, 560.
—— inedited poetry, 387. 435. 580.
—— Simon of Sudbury, 194.
—— "Speculum Christianorum," &c., 558.
—— a Suffolk legend, 195.
—— Turner's Romish Fox, 448.
Singer (S. W.) on the meaning and origin of æra, 420.
—— the meaning of Dulcarnon, 252. 325.
—— Inveni portum, 64.
—— legend of St. Kenelm, 131.
—— the poet referred to by Bacon, 232.
—— man in the Almanack, 378.
—— notes on books: Humphrey's works, 554.
—— passage in Cymbeline, 556.
—— passage in King Henry IV., 462.
—— passage in Measure for Measure, 435.
—— passage in Merchant of Venice, 605.
—— Tredescants and Elias Ashmole, 367. 385.
Sinaitic inscriptions, 189.
S. (J.) on the great Bowyer Bible, 248.
S. (J. D.) on deaths from fasting, 301.
—— Passemer's Antiquities of Devonshire, 511.
—— the Sclaters, 519.
S. (J. J.) on list of English sovereigns, 28.
—— hieroglyphics of vagrants, 79.

—— plague stones, 226.
S. (J. J.) on sainted kings incorruptible, 223.
Skull, swearing on, 485. 546.
S. (L.) on an inscription on a sun-dial, 79.
—— Scot's Philomythie, 179.
—— translation of Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, 443.
Slang dictionaries, 79. 208.
Slave, the last one sold in England, 438.
Slavery in Scotland, when abolished, 29. 161.
Sleck stone, meaning of, 140. 404. 548.
Sleeveless, defined, 473.
Slings used by the early Britons, 537.
S. (M.) on the disuse of the episcopal mitre, 275.
—— Sterne at Paris, 188.
—— monastic establishments in Scotland, 188.
Smectymnus, the five divines, 202.
Smintheus on a last ode by Collins, 227.
Smirke (E.) on preaching from texts in Cornwall, 2.
—— Lord Marchers of Wales, 445.
Smirke (Sydney) on inundations and their phenomena, 198.
—— Shakspeare's seal, 539.
Smith (W. J. Bernhard) on a case of longevity, 448.
—— waistcoats worn by women, 392.
Smith's Sea Grammar noticed, 64.
Smothering hydrophobic patients, 10.
Smyth (W. H.) on quarter waggoner, 11.
Smyth's MSS. relating to Gloucestershire, 512. 616.
Sneezing, customs observed at, 364. 500. 572. 599.
Sneyd (W.) on Dean Swift on Herbert's Travels, 271.
—— cases of longevity, 389.
Snooks, or Sevenoaks, 438.
Snow (Robert) on sun-dial motto, 619.
Snuff-boxes and tobacco-pipes, account of them, 246.
Snuff placed on a coffin, 462.
Sob on Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, 394.
Sobriquet, its orthography, 174.
Solidus Gallicus, its value, 277.
Somerlayes explained, 321.
Song—"Not long ago I drank a full pot," 437.
Soud, in Shakspeare, its meaning, 152.
Soulis (Lord), tradition of his death, 112.
South (Dr.) on the Apocalypse, 469.
—— the judge alluded to by him, 246.
Southey (Robert) on the hymns of the Moravians, 249.
South Sea playing cards, 217.
Southamiensis on the evidence of a ghost, 417.
—— Gospel trees, 306.
Sovereigns of England, on complete lists of, 28. 113.
Spalatro (Abp. of) assists at an English consecration, 80.
Spanish verses on the invasion of England, 294. 352.
—— vessels wrecked on Irish coast, 491. 598.
S. (P. C. S.) on the Countess of Desmond, 16.
—— nouns printed with capitals, 79.
Spectacles, inscription on a pair, 39.
—— the inventor of, 106.
Spectator, authorship of poems in, 439. 513. 548. 597.
Spectral coach and horses, 365.
Speculum Christianorum, &c., 558. 616.
Spedding (James) on death of Sir G. Gerrard, 511.
Speed's Stonehenge, MS. of, 395.
Spes on antiquaries temp. Elizabeth, 365.
—— arms of Thompson, 521.
—— frebord, 548.
—— the word Wyned, 524.
Spick and span new, 521.
Spinckes (Nathaniel), his descendants, 273. 380.
Sports, the book of, inquiry after, 347.
Spurs, did the Orientals wear them? 467.
Spy Wednesday, its meaning, 511. 620.
Squire Vernon's fox chase, a ballad, 537.
S. (R.) on Muggleton and Reeve, 80.
—— Squire Vernon's fox chase, 537.
S. (R. I.) on lines on Dr. Fell, 355.
S. (R. J.) on essay to procure Catholic Communion, 277.
—— names of places, 452.
Ss. (J.) on burning fern bringing rain, 301.
S. (S.) on catalogue of engraved portraits, 176.
—— chronogram over Sherborne school, 225.
—— collar of SS., 255.
—— Tandem D. O. M., 330.
S. (S. S.) Bishop Hall's resolutions, 150.
—— the Book of Sports, 347.
—— family likenesses, 162.
—— Hogs Norton, 304.
—— the introduction of stops, 379.
—— quotation from Crabbe, 571.
S. 2 (S. S.) on the etymology of Mushroom, 598.
—— the derivation of Stoke, 308.
S. (T.) on the authorship of "God's Love," &c., 272.
—— Tudur Aled's poems, 17.
Standard bearer in Scotland, 609.
Stanley (Sir Wm.) date of his execution, 321.
Statute of limitations abroad, 546.
Stearne's Confirmation of Witchcraft, 416. 620.
Steinman (G. S.) on genealogical queries, 537.
Stephens (George) on the derivation of Church, 79.
—— Northern ballads, 177.
—— popular stories of the English peasantry, 461.
Stephen's lectures on Chaucer, 69.
Sternberg (T.) on Reichenbach's ghost stories, 136.
—— Sterne in Paris, 105.
—— popular stories of the English peasantry, 363. 601.
Sterne in Paris, 105. 188. 254.
—— at Sutton on the Forest, 409.
Stewart (Ann), particulars of, 345.
S. (T. G.) on Black Book of Paisley, 283.
—— Paul Hoste, 89.
—— monastic establishments in Scotland, 208.
Stickle, its meaning, 235.
Still-born children, superstition respecting, 77.
Stilts used by the Irish, 508.
Stoke, its meaning, 106. 151. 212. 308.
Stomachosus on Nottingham horn-blowing, 148.
Stone-pillar worship in Ireland, 121. 259. 377.
Stops, when first introduced, 1. 133. 164. 211. 379.
Storm in 1739, 412.
Stoups, exterior, examples of, 560. 617.
Stuart (Lady Arabella), notices of, 421.
Stukeley (Dr.), his Boston MSS., 490.
Stuttgart Society, publications of, 484.
Subscriber (a) on Dean Swift's snuff-box, 274.
Sudlow (John) on South Sea playing cards, 217.
Suffolk newspapers printed at Bury, 127.
Suffragan bishops, 394.
Suicides buried in cross-roads, 405.
—— indignities on their bodies, 272. 356.
Sun-dial, inscriptions on, 79. 499. 619.
Surnames, their origin, 290. 326. 392. 424. 509. 592.
Suwich priory, particulars of, 344.
S. (W.) on the Audley family, 151.
—— ecclesiastical geography, 449.
—— epigram on Franklin and Wedderburn, 58.
—— Vincent Bourne's Epilogus, 60.
—— "Litera scripta manet," 200.
—— Dr. Hieron Mercurialis, 347.
—— the medical use of live frogs, 393.
—— on Mirabilis Liber, 90.
—— the phrase "Dress shows the man," 396.
—— "Roses all that's fair adorn," 611.
—— Virgil, Georg. I. 55., 58.
Swallows' nests, inquiry respecting, 346.
Swans, the singing of, 107. 187. 308.
Sweet singers, noticed, 372.
S. (W. H.) in writers in Bibliotheca Literaria, 486.
—— Nelson's signal, 67.
—— Nuremberg token, 450.
—— the coin of Vabalathus, 148. 489.
Swift's lunatic asylum, 372.
Swift (Dean), sale of his library, 292.
—— remarks on Herbert's Travels, 271.
—— "a pinch from Dean Swift's snuff-box," 275. 330.
Sword swallowing, 296.
S. (W. R. D.) on Eleanor, lady of the ring, 296.
S. (W. S.) on Bow bell meaning Cockney, 140.
—— clerical members of parliament, 139.
—— cure of hooping-cough, 148.
—— Horæ Belgicæ, 180.
Sydney (Algernon), 318. 426. 447. 497. 516.
Sylva (M. A.) on Lord Wharton's Bibles, 29.
Symbol on the rabbit as a symbol, 487.