Purgatory, Cardinal Bellarmin’s treatise on, i. 204.
Puritans, turn bacchanalian songs into spiritual ones, ii. 148.
Puritans and Precisians, party nicknames at the Reformation, iii. [84], [85].
Pyrotechnics.—See Fireworks.
Quadrio, his Universal History of Poetry, iii. [233]; his ignorance of English poetry, [234]-236; his opinion of English comedy, [236]; praises our puppet-shows, [238].
Queen Mary the First, her marriage with Philip of Spain, i. 469; her letter of instructions, ib.
Queen Elizabeth, letter of, to her brother, Edward VI., i. 461; her exhibition of youthfulness to the ambassador of the Scottish king, 463; remarkable period in her annals, ii. 179; her maiden state, ib.; real cause of her repugnance to change it, ib., and note; her artifices to conceal her resolution, 180; debates of the Commons on the succession to, 181; address to, by the Duke of Norfolk, and her answer, ib.; despatch of the French ambassador on this occasion, 181-186; her judicious conduct, ib.; her conduct towards printers and authors, 221, 222; her dislike to the appointment of a successor, iii. [331]; account of her death-bed, [331], [332].
Queen Anne Bullen, anecdote relative to her execution, i. 462.
Querno, made laureat for the joke’s sake, i. 455.
Quevedo, his love for Don Quixote, iii. [339].