O.
Oates (Titus), autograph, 464.
Oath of the Lord Chancellor, 182.
Occleve, Chaucer's portrait by, 442.
"Ockley's History of the Saracens," 277.
Octogenarius on punishment of death by burning, 260.
Ogden (Dr. Samuel), 105.
—— family, 73. 106.
0ld Bailey, on the punishment of death by burning, 90.
Oldenburg horn, 417. 516.
Oliver and Roland, 132.
Omens from birds, 435.
Omnibuses, 215.
"One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church," 217.
Orchard, derivation of, 393.
Organ-blower, the term, 374.
"Orkneyinga saga," 278.
Orkney under the Norwegians, 309.
Ormerod (George) on mistletoe on oaks, 214.
—— on Scotch prisoners, 379.
Orosius (Altred's), 177.
Osmuna the Waterman, 199.
Osnaburg, bishopric, 353. 417. 481. 500.
Our world, 71.
Overyssel superstition, 356.
Owen's epigram, translation of, 460.
Owls, 164.
Owl is broad, song of 393. 495.
Oxford's (Earl of) patent, 235. 255.
Oxaniensis on Lord John Townshead's poetical works, 9.
——, Nondum-gradatus, on lands, 23.
P.
P. on Chaucer's portrait, by Occleve, 412.
Pacificus, on the Rebel, 31.
Pagomian version of the Scriptures, 427.
"Pair of Twises," 327.
Pallet meaning of, 41.
Palmerston (Lord), lines attributed to, 30.
Paneras (St.) Old Church, 164. 496.
Pandect, Florentine edition of 421. 450.
Pantheon, 404.
Papal bulls, true or false. 491.
Paper hangings, 268.
Paper mill the first in England, 43. 522.
Parallel passages in celebrated authors, 31. 196. 213. 373. 458. 491.
Parish registers, 1.
—— tax, 10. 60.
—— in London, 18.
Parliament, etymology of 8. 139.
Parr (Queen Catherine), MS. book of prayers belonging to, 167.
Parson the Statfortshire giant, 13. 314
Partrige family, 230. 286.
—— (J.) on the l'artrige family, 230.
Partington (Mrs.), 377. 411.
Pascal and his editor, Bosatt, 217. 383.
Paslan (C.) on nice as a medicine, 310.
—— on meaning of cauking, 523.
Pasquinade on Leo XII, 131.
Pasrer or Plaister, 102.
Passilodior and Beratrynde, 515.
Pastoral staff and crozer, 313. 123.
Paying through the nose, 348.
Peacock (E. jun.), on Lord Delamere, 101.
Peal of bells, anecdote of, 347.
Pears (Stewart, A.) on portrait of Sir P. Sydney, by Paul Veronebe, 296.
Peep of Day, 118.
Pedestrian on dales in Yorkshire, 154.
Pedlar's Song, by Shakspeare, 39.
Pen and Ink on cultivation of geometry in Lancashire, 8. 438.
Peniteas Cito, its authorship, 42.
"Penseroso," Milton's, 545.
"Pension," meaning of, 134, 268.
Perjury, papers of, 182, 316.
Perrot (Sir John), 217. 254.
P.(F.T.), the Carpenter's Maggot, 104.
P.(H.) Cardinal Allen's admonition, 497.
—— on Poor Philgarlick, 302.
Philanthropos, cheap books of reference, 213.
Philip II. of Spain, his letters to Queen Elizabeth, 102.
Phillipp's (Sir Thomas) manuscripts, 460.
Philo-Chaucer on Nicholas Brigham's works, 136.
—— on pilgrims' road to Canterbury, 199.
Philosophy, Beothus' Consolations of, 53.
Philobibion, translation of, 153, 202.
Pigeons, 165.
Pilgrim's road to Canterbury, 199. 237. 268. 269. 515.
Pinolico, 13.
Pilco, 13.
Piskies, or Pixies, legends of, 475. 511. 514.
Pistol and Bandolph, 152.
Pixey Legends, 514.
Pixies or Piskies, 475. 511. 514.
P.(I.Z.) on crozier and pastoral staff, 248.
P.(I., jun.) on meaning of "Thwaites," 521.
Plain Sense on "He who runs may read," 439.
Plaister or Paster, 162.
Planche (J.R.) on Guy's armour, 252.
—— on collar of, 88, 393.
Playing cards, 462, 517
"Please the jugs." 423.
Plectrum on Chantrey's sleeping children in Lickfield Cathedral, 70.
P.(L.G.) on Croker's Boswell, 374.
Plunket (Lord) and St. Agobard, 226.
"Plurima Gemma," author of, 163.
Pox Cynosuwides, 592.
Poet Leureates, 20.
Poetry early, queries respecting, 374.
——, ancient, pretended reprint of, 463.
Poisons, 424.
Poker, 264.
Pote money, 231. 285.
Poley (Sir John) and the Golden Frog, 76.
Pontefract on the Thames, 56. 205.
Pool of the Black Hound, legend of, 515.
Poor Pillgarlick, 292.
Poor Robin's almanacks, 258
Pope and Bishop Burgess, 310.
Pope's Villa, 479.
Popular rhymes, 355.
Porridge-pot, Guy's, 187
Porson's Imposition, 71. 106.
—— epigram, 278.
Portrait of Cardinal Beaton, 431.
—— unknown, 217.
Poultry, 164
Power of prophecy, 196.
P.(P.) on vineyards, 446.
P.(H.) on "De male quesitis," etc., 107.
Praed a Poetical Works, 238.
Prayers and preaching distinct services, 95.
Preaching in nave only, 95.
Prelates of France, 182. 252.
Presages of death, 116.
Prelum Ascensianum, 422.
Price (E.B.) on umbrellas, 25.
—— on wood carving, Snow Hill, 220.
—— on Eskon Basilike, 265.
—— on riots of London, 533.
—— on chimney-money, 379.
—— on curfew, 175.
—— on puzzing epitaph, 346.
—— on watermarks on writing-paper, 347.
Price (I.L.) on Socinian boast, 412.
"Pride of the morning," small rain so called, 309.
Prin (John G.A.) on Kilkenny cats, 71.
Printer's errors, corrigenda of, 388.
Priscian on Haberdasher, Martinet, 167.
Prisoners (Scottish) sold to plantations, 379. 448.
Prolocutor of convocation, 21.
Prophesying before death, 435.
Prynne or Lilburn, 118.
P. (S.) on Cardinal Chalmers, 493.
—— on portrait of Cardinal Beaton, 497.
Publishers hints to, 439. 492.
Pulteney's ballad "The Honest Jury," 147.
Punishment of death by burning, 6. 50. 90. 165. 260.
Pusin, meaning of, 27.
Puzzling epitaph, 311. 316.
"P.V." the meaning of, 440.
P.(W.) on Chaucer's portrait by Occleve, 435.
—— on Dr. Thomas Bever's Legal Polity of Great Britain, 254.
—— on hanging out the broom, 226.
—— on Nicholas Breton's Fantastcks, 476.
—— on Nicholas Ferrar, 485.
—— on Thrurscross, 484.
P.(W.H.) on playing cards, 517.
Pwcca, query on Aubrey family, 72.
—— on Darvon Gatherall and St. Uncumber, 286.
Q.
Q. (2.) on passage from Burke, 359.
Q. (F.) on Albanian literature, 323.
—— on America, 277.
—— on Can du plera meteor cera, 475.
—— on coins of Gandophares, 298.
—— on collar of SS., 393.
—— on etymological notes, 276.
—— on Fastitocalon, 295.
—— on Kongs skuggsia, 298.
—— on Luther's Hymns, 327.
—— on numerals, 294.
—— on Poa Cynosuwides, 392.
—— on satirical medals, 298.
—— on Satyavrata, 308.
—— on whales, 308.
Q.(F.S.) on insignia of mayoralty, 394.
Q.(J.S.) on the meaning of Pallet, 41.
Q.(Q.Q.) on Regis ad Exemplar, 267.
Q.(T.H.) on "A Chrysostom to smooth the band in," 188.
Q.(Q.P.) on "Never did cardinal bring good to England," 424.
—— on death of Richard II., 448.
—— on mariner's compass, 470.
—— on Members for Durham and Calais, 9.
—— on wife of Edward the Outlaw, 318.
Quaero, on Lass of Richmond Hill, 103.
Quaesior on Charade, 10.
Quarles, was he pensioned? 171. 218.
Quasimodo on Cat and Bagpipes, 266.
"Quein Deus vult perdere," 317.
Querela Cantabrigiensis, 163.
—— on the authorship of, 233. 448.
Querist on Aeneas Silvius, 423.
Query put to a pope, 104.
Questor on Dandridge the painter, 442.
Quin's incoherent story, 405.
Quotations in Bishop Andrewes, 284.
—— wanted, 391.
R.
R. on Cat and Bagpipes, 397.
—— on Concolinel, 217. 378.
—— on Hornbooks, 236.
—— on map of London, 220.
—— on passage in Bishop Butler, 464.
R.(A.) on "The Owl is abroad," 308.
R.(A.B.) on clergy sold for slaves, 253.
—— on Querela Cantabrigiensis, 448.
—— on Sir Robert Howard, 248.
Rab Surdam, meaning of, 498.
"Race," in shipbuilding, meaning of, 72.
Radix, derivation of, 362.
Rainbow, 89.
Ram, of Darby, 235.
Randal (John), epitaph on, 517.
Ransom of an English nobleman, 9.
"Rapido contrarius orbi," 120. 159. 253.
Rathbone Place, 404.
Rawlinson (Robert) on swans hatched during thunder, 511.
Rayned Deer, the Earl of Essex and the finding of the, 103.
R.(B.) on "Noli me tangere," 153.
—— on Pimlico, 13.
R.(C.I.) On "Noli me tangere," 452.
—— on Pusan, 27.
—— on smoke money, 269.
—— on Tristan d'Acunha, 413.
R.(D.P.) on death of Richard II., 4.
Reader (A) on curfew at Over, near Winsford, 312.
Reader (W.) on Guy's porridge pot, 118.
Rebecca—charade, 77.
Rebel, the, 34.
Red hand and the Holt family, 506.
—— Holt family, Ashton church, 451.
Red Sindon, 495.
Reed (Isaac) on Alderman Beckford, 262.
Regiolapidensis, Thomas, 406.
"Regis ad exemplar," 267. 331.
"Regis ad exemplam totus componitur orbis," 381.
Relton (F.B.) on an alms dish, 516.
—— on child's book by Beloe, 495.
—— on Osnaburg Bishopric, 500.
Remains of James II., 427.
Renouard (G.C.) on umbrellas, 25.
Reves. alias Michael Servetus, 187.
R.(F.B.) on the Rolliad, 440.
—— on Bishop Durdent and the Staffordshire historians, 309.
R.(G.) on Roman Catholic theology, 347.
—— on scalping, 78.
Rheumatism, 37.
Rhymes, popular, 515.
Rib, why the first woman formed from a, 213. 264.
Richard II., death of, 391. 447.
Richardson family, 230.
Richardson (G. Bouchier) on curfew at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 312.
—— on earwig, 28.
—— on Fenkle Street, 29.
—— on Long Lonkin, 270.
Richmond Hill, the Lass of, 350.
Ridley (Bishop), MSS. of, 65.
Rimbault (Edward F) on Agapemone of the sixteenth century, 50.
—— on "Ale draper," 414.
—— on Andrew Becket, 317.
—— on Arminian nunnery, 407.
—— on "Boethius' Cosolations of Philosophy," 169.
—— on Bolton's Ace, 497.
—— on satirical song on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 292.
—— on Sir George Buc, 73.
—— on "The Carpenters Maggot," 173.
—— on Caxton's printing office, 99.
—— on George Chapman, the poet, 373.
—— on the churchwardens' account of St. Antholin's, 172.
—— on Colvil's Whigg's Supplication, 53.
—— on Concolinel, 318.
—— notes on the second edition of Cunningham's London, 211. 227. 404.
—— on Lord Delamere, 158.
—— on Lady Deloraine, 479.
—— on Edward the Confessor's crucifix and gold chain, 406.
—— on Gaudentio di Lucca, 327.
—— on Hubert le Soeur's brass statues, 54.
—— on Hugh Holland and his works, 266.
—— on Rob. Innes, a Grub-street poet, 164.
—— on Dr. King's poem of The Toast, 480.
—— on Ruding's annotated Langbaine, 407.
—— on Francis Lenton, the poet, 117.
—— on London Bridge is broken down, 338.
—— on Samuel Rowlands and the "Choice of Change," 420.
—— on Parsons, Staffordshire Giant, 314.
—— on Stepony ale, 346.
—— on Stone's diary, 480.
—— on the Duke of Warton's poetical works and Titos Oates, 464.
—— on Lady Jane of Westmoreland, 485.
—— on "The Widow of the Wood," 406.
—— on a mistake about George Wither, 293.
—— on George Wither, the poet, a printer, 390.
—— on traditional story concerning Cardinal Wolsey, 390.
Ringelbergius, 376.
Ringing a hand-bell before a corpse, 478.
Ring, Viscount Dundee's, 70.
Riots in London, 273. 332. 446.
R.(J) on epitaph on John Randall, 517.
R.(J.C.) on Baron Münchausen, 519.
—— on Becket, 469.
—— on Becket's mother, 270. 364.
—— on Father Blackhal, 421.
—— on chance in the appearance of the dead, 435.
—— on power of prophesying before death, 435.
—— on the troubles of Frankfort, 349.
—— on the nonjurors, 421.
R.(J.H.) on Margaret Dyneley, 358.
R.(L.M.M.) on "Bamboozle," 266.
—— on Modena family, 265.
R.(M.C.) on vineyards, 446.
R.(N.E.), a subscriber, on sitting during the Lessons, 285.
—— on Luther's hymns, 413.
Roberd the Robber, 321.
Robertson, of Muirtown, 135. 172. 253.
—— (J.C.) on grant of leave to the Earl of Sussex to be covered in the royal presence, 264.
Robins and wrens. 164.
Rock (Dr.) on "Aedricus qui signa fundebat," 231.
—— on collar of SS., 280.
—— on confsession, 317.
—— on Abbe Strickland, 237.
Rocque, Jean, query, Who was he? 72.
Roffe (A.) on death-bed mystery, 356.
—— on a passage in "All's well that ends well," 434.
Rogers (Thomas) of Horninger, 421. 521.
"Roland" and "Oliver," 132.
Rolle (Alice), 72.
Rollin's Ancient History and History of the Arts and Sciences, 357. 491.
Rolliad, authors of the, 114. 242. 378. 439.
Roma subterranea, inscription from, 263.
Roman Catholic theology, 279. 347.
Roman coin, countermarks on, 327.
Rome, ancient and modern, 21. 62.
Romagnasi's works, 425.
Roman roads, 21.
Rood (black) of Scotland, 308. 409.
Room-paper, when introduced, 134.
Roscommon (first earl of), 325. 468. 521.
—— peerage, 493.
Rose, under the, 323.
Ross (C.) on pole money, 285.
—— on punishment of death by burning, 61.
—— on strangers in the House of Commons, 83.
Rowlands (Samuel) and the authorship of "The Choice of Change," 419.
Rowley Powley, 74. 251.
Royal Society, Jas. West, president of, 382.
R.R. on umbrellas, 25.
R.S. on papers of perjury, 182.
R.(S.T.) on Wraxen, 366.
Rushbearing, 197.
Russian language, 152. 190.
Rusticus on Thomas Regiolapidensis, 407.
S.
Saffron bag, 217. 345.
Salut and Crozier, legend of, 287. 429. 468.
Sale of gems, drawings, and curiosities, 390.
Salingen, a sword cutler, 135.
Sansom (J.) on Jewish music, 88.
—— on Lammas Day, 88.
—— on living dog better than a dead lion, 62.
—— on a passage in Lucian, 89.
—— on Lux Fiat, 89.
—— on Poeta Angelicus, 288.
—— on power of prophecy, 196.
—— on rainbow, 89.
—— on scalping, 78.
Scott's Waverley, 308.
Scotus on Beatrix Lady Talbot, 478.
—— on Elizabeth and Isabel, 159.
—— on Handfasting, 342.
—— on Lady Morgan and Curry, 30.
Scriptures, Roman Catholic translations, 229. 319.
S.(E.) on specimens of Erida in bloom, 120.
Sejanus, P. Mathieu's Life of, 215.
Seleucus on Cromwell's estate, Magor, 127. 141.
—— on Folk-Lore of Wales, 388.
—— on "Hook or by crook," 78.
—— on Long Lonkin, 168.
Senex on punishment of death by burning, 165.
—— on riots of London, 278. 447.
Sepulchre, watching the, 270.
Servants, on hiring, 89. 157.
Servetus and Calvin, 152. 187.
Sexes, theur separation during Divine service, 91.
Singer (S.W.) on Antonio Malatesti's dedication to Milton, 146.
—— on "The Bar of Michael Angelo," 166.
—— on eisell and wormwood wine, 315.
—— Joachin, the French ambassador, 230.
—— on May marriages, 52.
—— on more borrowed thoughts, 82.
—— on Shakespeare's use of the words "captious" and "intenible," 354.
—— on Shakespeare's use of the word "delighted," 201.
S.(J.A.), Pope Felix, 42.
S.(J.D.) on armorial bearings, 479.
"Skeleton in every house," 231.
S.L., translation of the Philoboblion, 153.
S.(M.N.) on Chaucer's monument, 490.
Snake charming, 514.
Sneek-up or snick-up, 13.
Songs, old, 257.
—— of the fourteenth century, English and Norman, 385.
Spa Fields, or London Spa, 404.
"Speak the tongue that Shakspeare spoke," author of? 125. 219.
Speke family, 479.
Spiders, 165.
Spider and the Fly, 245.
Spiders a cure for ague, 259.
S.(R.) on Dr. Euseby Cleaver, 450.
S.(R., jun.) on the origin of dragons, 517.
S.(R.J.) on when does East end? 43.
SS, collars of, 134. 394. 415.
S.S. on collar of SS., 394.
—— on marganitic marriages, 351.
—— on vineyards, 446.
S.S.S., on earwig, 28.
—— on etymology of Totnes, 237.
—— lines attributed to Lord Palmerston, 30.
—— on the New Temple, 339.
—— on Totnes church, 452.
—— Wellington, Wyrwast, and Cokam, 26.
S.(T.) on exhumation of a body ominous to the family, 4.
—— on Folk Lore, 36.
Statistics, 1.
Statue of French king, epigrams on, 89.
St. Crolx (II, de) borrowed thoughts, 101.
Steele's burial place, 375. 411. 430.
Stephens (George) Cupid and Psyche, 429.
—— on legend of a saint, 429.
Stevens (George), portrait of, 476.
Straw necklaces, 512.
St. Savious, Canterbury, church of, 478.
St. Thomas of Lancaster, 182. 269.
Stukeley, medal of, 40. 78.
S.(W.) on Gray's Elegy, 501.
Swans hatched during thunder, 544.
——, the singing of, 475.
——, swearing by, 399. 451.
S.(W.G.) on Bacon family, 450.
—— on derivation of Penny, 78.
Swords worn in public, 130. 218.