D.
D. on Chantrey's marble children, 397.
—— the Rev. Barnabas Oley, 372.
—— Gabriel hounds, 534.
—— tenor bell of Margate, 404.
—— the meaning of Moke, 448.
—— Will-o'-the-Wisp, 511.
Δ. on the meaning of Cou-bache, 402.
—— the derivations of Haberdasher, 402.
Δ. (2) on Phelps's Gloucestershire Collections, 346.
D. (A. A.) on Bagster's English Version, 587.
—— Dr. Evans' Sketch, 611.
—— the word Quack, 347.
—— on the saying "Up guards, and at them!" 396.
—— white livers, 463.
—— buzz, to empty the bottle, 187.
—— Moravian hymns, 165.
—— number of the children of Israel, 180.
—— Book of Jasher, 620.
—— melody of the dying swan, 187.
—— hieroglyphics of vagabonds, 210.
—— "the bright lamp in Kildare's holy fane," 211.
—— rhymes on places, 374.
—— stone-pillar worship, 259.
—— Shakspeare, Tennyson, &c., 618.
—— showing the white feather, 274.
—— sneezing, 599.
D'Alton (John) on Banning family, 617.
—— the Basnet family, 92.
—— Edward Bagshaw, 403.
—— the Jenings family, 163.
—— Salusbury Welsh Pedigree Book, 297.
—— the term Milesian, 588.
—— Spanish vessels wrecked on the Irish coast, 598.
D. (A. O. O.) on Anstis' manuscript, 610.
—— a gold bonbonnière, 346.
—— Poniatowski gems, 30. 140.
Damnable (Mother), notices of, 151. 253. 450.
Danes in England, 369.
Darnell (Sir John), notices of, 489. 545. 610.
Daundelyon (John), notice of, 319. 404.
Davis (Sir John), his epitaph, 331.
Davis's Worlde's Hydrographical Description, 488.
Dawson (Rev. Wm.), his ancestry, 396.
Dayesman, its meaning, 497.
D. (C.) on the substitution of I for J, 391.
D. (C. de) on many children at a birth, 138.
—— the family of Grey, 298. 403.
—— Sir Roger de Coverley, 467.
—— old Sir Ralph Vernon, 471.
D. (C. E.) on the surname Arkwright, 429.
—— Countess of Desmond, 565.
—— large families, 357.
—— Mary Queen of Scots, 415.
—— Algernon Sydney, 426.
D. (C. H.) On bishops at Hampton Court
Controversy, 443.
—— burial without religious service, 466.
—— Dr. Toby Matthew's consecration, 466.
—— Mormonism and Spalding's Romance, 560.
D. D., the title explained, 453.
D. (E.) on Rev. Dr. Thomas Adams, 134.
—— anonymous catalogue of pictures, 296.
—— the descendants of John Rogers, 307.
—— John Daundelyon, 319.
—— Dean Swift's snuff-box, 330.
—— epitaph at King's Stanley, 341.
—— a mother of twenty-seven children, 126.
D. (E.) on Moravian hymns, 474.
—— notices of John Winterton, 346.
Deacons, its meaning as used by Foxe, 228. 473.
Death, symbolism of, 213.
Death-watch, 537. 597.
De Clares family, 204. 282. 300. 357.
Dodo, existing specimens of the, 463. 544.
Deep wells noticed, 41.
De Foe (Daniel), his descendants, 392. 476.
De Foe's pamphlet on the Septennial Bill, 577.
Degrees, American, how obtained, 177.
—— French and Italian, how obtained, 79.
De Humilitate, a MS., 610.
De la Beche family, monuments of, 341. 450.
Delamere (Lord), ballad of, 243. 348.
Delighted, its meaning in Shakspeare, 164.
Desmond, the old Countess of, 14. 43. 145. 260. 323. 381. 539. 561.
Devil, its etymology, 508. 595.
—— persons bearing this name, 370. 477.
—— praying to the, 273. 351.
D. (E. W.) on a clergyman marrying himself, 446.
D. (G. T.) on quotation from Cox's Satire, 574.
D. (H. G.) on birthplace of bishop Hoadley, 224.
—— Trinity Chapel, Knightsbridge, 13.
—— lines in Gloucester Cathedral, 56.
—— Frith the martyr and Dean Comber, 201.
—— General Wolfe, 213. 591.
Dial mottoes, &c., 155.
—— at Karlsbad, 65.
—— at Kirk-Arbory, Isle of Man, 66.
—— on Mont Cenis, 285.
Dialects, provincial, 196. 285. 333.
Dictionary of archaic and provincial words suggested, 173. 250. 375. 452. 499.
—— of hackneyed quotations, 41.
Dido and Æneas, by Porson, 68.
Digitalis on the ring finger, 492.
Diotrophes, was he bishop of Corinth? 344.
Dixon (Heptworth) on notices of Algernon Sydney, 318.
D. (J.) on duchess of Lancaster, 423.
—— monton in Pembroke, 164.
D. (M.) on a notice of John Wiggan, 134.
Dn. (W.) on crosses and crucifixes, 39.
—— the word Deacons, as used by Foxe, 228.
—— three quotations wanted, 228.
—— Wiggan or Utiggan, 78.
D. (O. C.) on authenticated instances of longevity, 178.
Dodo queries, 515.
Doncaster tune, its author, 106.
Donkey, its derivation, 78. 165. 237.
Donne (Dr.), his manuscripts, 611.
D. (O. T.) on Baudrand's Dictionary, 305.
—— inscription on Rev. A. Butler, 224.
—— Willson's Life of Grostete, 296.
Dover to Calais, passage temp. Edw. III., 459.
Dray, its meaning, 67.
Dredge (John I.) on Torshel's Harmony, 334.
Drury (Robert), who was he? 533.
Dryden on the age of the oak, 60.
D. (P.) on the word Shunt, 450.
D. (Q.) on a custom at Clement's Inn, 201.
D. (T.) on modern names of places, 61.
—— pure rain water, 223.
—— the crooked billet, 227.
—— lucky omens, 293.
—— the hour and the man, 371.
Ducks and Drakes, 42.
Dulcarnon, the phrase "I am at Dulcarnon," 180. 252. 325.
Dun, its meaning, 497.
Dundrah Castle, inscription on the doorway, 486.
Dunton (John), his literary projects, 230.
Dutch Chronicle of the World, 58. 281.
D. (W. B.) on Mexican grammars, 585.
D. (W. W.) on couplet "'Twas they unsheath'd," &c., 380.
Durfey (Thomas), portrait of, 151.
D. (W. S.) on passage in Troilus and Cressida, 178.
Dyson (T.) on horn-blowing, 307.
—— the dissolution of monasteries, &c., 443.
Dyson's collection of proclamations, 371. 425.
E.
E. on Edwards of Essex, 468.
Eagles' feathers, tradition respecting, 462. 521.
East wind on Candlemas day, 462.
Eastwood (J.) on the surname Arkwright, 429.
—— the derivation of Barrister, 67.
—— St. Christopher, 334.
—— Erasmus' Paraphrase, 332.
—— lines on the Lay of the Last Minstrel, 617.
—— on passages in Nashe's Terrors of the Night, 467.
—— rhymes on places, 619.
—— Speculum Christianorum, 616.
Ebff. (J.) on merchant adventurers, 430.
Eblanensis, on Testaments in the Polynesian language, 468.
E. (C. P.) on passages in Jeremy Taylor, 65. 611.
Ednowain ap Bradwin, 417.
Edward the Confessor, drawing of his shrine, 228.
Edmeston (James) on Moravian hymns, 113.
—— motto on a chimney-piece, 451.
Edwards of Essex, noticed, 468.
Edwards (Henry) on the cross on counsels' briefs, 226.
—— notices of Sir John Fenner, 200.
—— story of Ginevra, 209.
—— the seventh son of a seventh son, 532.
Effigies, cross-legged, 136. 227.
Egypt, language of ancient, 39.
E. (H. F.) on the symbol of the pelican, 452.
E. (H. N.) on anecdote of a clergyman and noble lord, 417.
—— author of Le Blason des Couleurs, 442.
E. (H. T.) on abp. Abbot's letters to the clergy, 177.
—— inquiry respecting Henry Isaac, 177.
E. (H. T.) on bawderich and bells, 426.
—— the poet Gay and his relatives, 197.
Eirionnach on Brogue and Fetch, 557.
—— Irish language in the West Indies, 437.
—— pagoda and joss-house, 415.
—— stilts used by the Irish, 508.
E. (J.) on family of Bullen, 569.
—— "From the sublime to the ridiculous," &c., 187.
—— Nuremberg token, or counter, 450.
—— rents of assize, 573.
—— Robert Recorde, 469.
—— serjeants' rings, 563.
E. (J. C.) on the formation of ground ice, 370.
E. (K.) on Friday at sea, 330.
E. (K. P. D.) on archaic and provincial words, 375.
—— death from fasting, 301.
—— St. Wilfrid's Needle, 573.
—— Will-o'-the-Wisp, 574.
Ellacombe (H. T.) on parish registers, 207.
—— on Smyth's MSS. of Gloucestershire, 616.
Elginensis on the author of Burnomania, 127.
—— trial of Queen Caroline, 201.
—— Lothian's Scottish historical maps, 371.
Eliminate, its meaning, 317.
Elizabeth (Queen), education in her time, 296.
—— her stature, 440.
—— lines on, 467.
—— was she dark or fair? 201. 256.
—— equestrian figure of, 235.
Elliot (R. W.) on a recess in Trumpington church, 104.
Ellis (Sir Henry) on the introduction of stops, 1.
Elm at Hampstead, 9.
Elsevier on Aue Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi, 65.
—— Rev. John Paget, 66.
Elvan, meaning of the word, 273.
Emaciated monumental effigies, 247. 301. 353. 427. 497.
English history, lines on, 405.
Epigram on Queen Elizabeth, 78.
Epitaph in Braunston churchyard, 557.
—— in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, 361.
—— in St. Giles's, Norwich, 317.
—— in St. Gregory's, Sudbury, 245.
—— on Joe Miller, 485.
—— at King's Stanley, 341.
—— at Low Moor, Yorkshire, 486.
Epitaph on Sir Thomas Overbury, 486.
Epitaphs, enigmatical, 174. 452.
Er. on Diotrephes being a bishop, 344.
Era, meaning and origin of, 106. 420.
Erasmus, epigram on, 136.
—— paraphrase, 332.
Erica on Countess of Desmond, 565.
—— John of Padua, 259.
—— the unicorn, 583.
Ernencin, its meaning, 58.
Erroll (Earl of), his privileges, 296. 350. 398. 449.
Error, liability to, 362.
Eryx on Calves or Carrs, 560.
—— the ring finger, 570.
Escubierto, Capateiro da Bandarra on, 584.
Escutcheon at Fawsley, Northamptonshire, 297. 331.
Esquires of the martyred king, 126.
Essex broad oak, 10. 40. 113.
Essex folk-lore, 437.
Este on the grave of Cromwell, 598.
—— definition of a proverb, 37.
—— blessing by the hand, 44.
—— house at Welling, 448.
—— tombstone cut by Baskerville, 618.
—— Indian jugglers, 620.
—— "Posie of other men's flowers," 38.
—— separation of sexes in churches, 40.
Eupator on Cosin's History of Transubstantiation, 531.
Eustachius Monachus, was he in Guernsey, 322.
Evans (Dr.), his Sketch of Denominations, 611.
Evans (John) on Mother Damnable, 450.
Evans (Lewis) on collars of SS., 38. 207.
E. (W.) on Prayers for the Fire of London, 78.
E. (W. M. R.) on the expenses of King John in England, 505.
E. (W. W.) on King Robert Bruce's watch, 186.
Executions deferred, 422.
Exeter controversy, what? 296. 351. 499.
Exon. on Gospel oaks, 210.
—— the origin of valentines, 128.
Exoniensis on deaths from fasting, 301.
F.
F. on Mallet's death and burial, 319. 402.
☞F. on German poet quoted by Camden, 177.
—— story of Ginevra, 129.
—— Robin of Doncaster, 179.
F. (A.) on the mistletoe, 418.
Faber on Gospel oaks, 209.
Faction, the History of, its author, 225. 499.
Fairfax family mansion, 490.
Fairies in Ireland, 55.
Fairlop oak, 113. 417. 621.
Family likenesses, 7. 162. 260. 349. 451. 499.
Fanshaw (Miss), her enigmas, 258. 321. 427.
Farewell (Lady), notices of, 585.
Farnham on the two Gilberts de Clare, 594.
Fasting, deaths from, 247. 301. 353. 427. 497.
Faun (Mary), her ancestry, 585.
F. (E.) on lines on Dr. Fell, 333.
Fell (Dr. John), lines on, 296. 333. 355. 379.
Fenner (Sir John) noticed, 200.
Fenning (Eliza), documents relating to, 105. 161. 304.
Fenton (John) on Dutch Chronicle of the World, 58.
Fern bringing rain when burnt, 242. 280. 301. 500.
Fernseed, superstitions respecting, 172. 356. 453.
Ferrarius (Faber) on Wiggan or Utiggan, 210.
F. (G.) on an early notice of General Wolfe, 186.
F. (H.) on passage in Hamlet, 236.
—— Dyson's Collection of Proclamations, 425.
Fides Carbonarii, origin of the phrase, 523. 571.
Figg (William) on plate in Lewes Castle, 449.
Finsbury manor, and the Lord Mayor, 440.
Fire unknown, 573.
Fishermen's superstitions, 5.
Fishes, Greek names of, 93.
Fitch (Joshua G.) on St. Paul quoting heathen writers, 278.
—— "History teaching by examples," 426.
Fitzgerald (P.) on the old Countess of Desmond, 323.
F. (J.) on fairest attendant of the Scottish Queen, 305.
F. (J. F.) on the execution of Charles I., 28.
—— Dean Swift's library, 292.
—— Grimsdyke, 231.
—— papers of perjury, 134.
—— the meaning of Stoke, 213.
F. (J. G.) on poems in the Spectator, 439.
—— the university hood, 440.
Flanagan on the Round Towers of Ireland, 584.
Flemish illustrations of English literature, 6.
—— problem quoted by Chaucer, 466.
Florence (Ambrose) on white livers, 128.
—— on deferred executions, 422.
Florence on ornamental and experimental hermits, 123.
Fluxions, query on the controversy about, 103.
Folk Lore, 5. 55. 76. 148. 172. 195. 223. 242. 270. 293. 341. 364. 393. 413. 436. 462. 485. 534. 581.
—— Cornish, 148. 173.
—— Devonshire superstitions, 55. 77. 148.
—— Essex, 437.
—— Herefordshire, 293.
—— Isle of Man, 341.
—— Kacouss people, 413.
—— Suffolk, 195.
—— Sussex, 293.
—— Worcestershire, 393.
—— proposals for a pilgrimage in search of, 270.
Folk-Lorist on New Year's rain, and Saxon spell, 5.
Font, a silver royal, 175.
Forbes (C.) on ambassadors addressed as peers, 258.
—— the Abbot of Croyland's motto, 395.
—— infantry firing, 37.
—— ducks and drakes, 42.
—— the meaning of "bull the barrel," 200.
—— the lines "O Leoline," &c., 212.
—— nightingale and thorn, 39.
—— the meaning of sleek stone, 404.
Forbes (Robert), notices of, 510.
Force of Love, a dramatic poem, 225.
Foss (Edward) on collar of SS., 16.
—— cursitor barons, 346.
—— Sir John Darnall, 610.
—— the Rev. John Paget, 381.
—— Sir Gilbert Gerard, 571.
Fouché's Memoirs, 211.
Foundation stones, 585.
Fox (George), his portrait, 464.
Fox (Major-Gen.) on Cooper's miniature of Cromwell, 234.
—— on Lady Diana Beauclerk, 261.
Frampton (Tregonwell), notice of, 16. 67.
France, the imperial eagle of, 147.
—— the mutability of, inquiry after, 12.
Franciscus on Alterius Orbis Papa, 68.
—— a monumental inscription of John Caxton, 4.
—— the Nelson family, 176.
—— Roman funeral pile, 67.
—— the introduction of stops, 211.
Francklin (John Fairfax) on rental of arable land in 1333, 396.
Franklin (Dr.), his tract on Liberty and Necessity, 6.
—— Latin verse on, 17. 140. 549. 571.
—— and Wedderburn, epigram on, 58.
Fraser (W.) on bull, a blunder, 453.
—— Chantrey's sleeping children, 428.
—— paring the nails, 142.
—— Friday at sea, 305.
—— frightened out of his seven senses, 521.
—— old shoes thrown for luck, 413.
—— the title D.D., 453.
—— the author of The Lass of Richmond Hill, 453.
—— rhymes connected with places, 293.
—— three estates of the realm, 539.
Frebord explained, 440. 548. 595. 620.
Free towns in England, 150. 206. 257.
French dates, 293.
—— language, the genders of, 245.
—— revolution, episode of the, 605.
—— revolutions foretold, 100. 231.
Frescheville (John Lord), notice of, 39.
Friday at sea, 200. 305. 330. 381.
Friends, a member of the Society of, on instances of longevity, 401.
Frith the martyr, and Dean Comber, 201.
Frog, a live one used for medical purposes, 393.
Frost (John) on the origin of curling, 13.
Frowyck (Mr.), a lawyer, 295. 332.
Frozen sounds and Sir J. Mandeville, 41.
F. (R. S.) on King Robert Bruce's watch, 105.
—— Canongate marriages, 370.
—— indignities on the bodies of suicides, 272. 357.
—— praying to the devil, 273.
—— extraordinary births, 282.
—— the fernseed charm, 356.
—— customs at sneezing, 364.
—— the order of the cockle, 586.
—— the early use of ruffles, 259.
—— slavery in Scotland, 161.
—— the death of Lord Soulis, 112.
—— Long Meg of Westminster, 259.
F. S. A. (An) on cold pudding settling love, 30.
Fuller (Dr. Thomas), his autograph, 162.
F. (W. E.) on a sign "We Three," 500.
Fy. (S.) on the Rev. T. Adams, 80.
—— on the author of "The Retired Christian," 104.
G.
G. on list of chaplains to the forces, 29.
—— Sir John Darnall, 545.
—— the garter bestowed on the Earl of Moira, 135.
—— marches and Lord Marchers of Wales, 30.
—— on Princes of Wales and Earls of Chester, 178.
—— the last of the Palæologi, 280.
—— John le Neve, 322.
—— Battle of Neville's Cross, 538.
—— serjeants' rings, 110.
Γ on lines on Chaucer, 621.
ᵹ on General James Wolfe, 298.
Gabriel hounds, a species of bird, 534. 596.
Gamble (Rev. J.), notice of, 13.
Gamecock on the white feather, 309.
Game feathers protracting death, 341. 413.
Ganganelli's Bible, 463.
Garlands hung up in churches, 469.
Garrot, its derivation, 104.
Garsecg, its derivation, 126.
Garth (Sir Samuel), his birthplace, 151. 237.
Gat-toothed explained, 607.
Gatty (Alfred) on "Born within the sound of Bow-bells," 28.
—— Cooper's miniatures of Crowmwell, 303.
—— London street characters, 270.
—— Junius and the Quarterly Review, 284.
—— law respecting burial, 404. 613.
—— Mr. Mompesson, 621.
—— origin of terms in change-ringing, 512.
—— placing snuff on a corpse, 462.
—— salting a new-born infant, 77.
—— Sterne at Sutton on the Forest, 409.
Gatty (Margaret) on paper of the present day, 188.
Gay, the poet, his family, 36. 197.
G. (B.) on Cooper's miniature of Cromwell, 67.
—— on portrait of Wolfe, 163.
G. (C.) on Sir Alexander Cumming and the Cherokees, 257.
—— market crosses, 501.
G. (C. W.) on Beocherie, alias Parva Hibernia, 259.
—— bee-park, 322.
—— St. Botulph, 566.
—— the derivation of donkey, 78.
—— ballad of Lord Delamere, 243.
—— ballad of Ashwell Thorpe, 258.
—— John ap Rice's register, 273.
—— King's College Chapel windows, 276.
—— queries respecting legal worthies, 294.
—— mires, somerlayes, and wyned, 321. 474.
G. (E.) on a couplet of Campbell's, 418.
—— the author of Life of Bishop Ken, 443.
G. (E. A.) on family of Bullen, 127.
—— heraldic MSS. of St. George Garter, 135.
Gee-ho, its etymology, 522.
Genealogical queries, 537.
Genealogical Society of London, 297. 353.
Geneviève (St.), church of, at Paris, 73.
Geography, works on ecclesiastical, 276. 329. 449.
George Garter (Sir Henry St.), his heraldic MSS., 59. 135. 211. 253.
George Inn, Wansted, inscription on, 559.
German's lips, meaning of the phrase, 151.
Geronimo on the singing of swans, 107.
Gerrard (Sir Gilbert), when did he die? 511. 571.
G. (G. E.) on a weather prophecy, 534.
G. (G. J. R.) on plague stones, 374.
—— miniature of Cromwell, 403.
—— Scologlandis and Scologi, 416.
G. (H.) on the authorship of Nimrod, 539.
G. (H. H.) on "Experto crede Roberto," 212.
Ghost, evidence of one not received, 417.
G. (H. W.) on mummy wheat, 416.
Gibbons (Orlando), his portrait, 176.
Gibson (Wm. Sidney) on Isabel, queen of Man, 132.
Gilberts de Clare, notices of, 439. 594.
Gill (Thomas), the blind man, 608.
Gill (Thomas H.) on St. Paul quoting Aristotle, 175.
—— epitaph in St. Giles', Cripplegate, 362.
—— the Exeter Controversy, 499.
—— Milton indebted to Tacitus, 606.
Ginevra, her dramatic story, 129. 209. 333.
Gipsies in Shinar, 395.
G. (J.) on Bishop of London's palace in Bishopsgate, 371.
—— parish registers, 141.
—— rents of assize, 188.
G. (J. D.) on Ganganelli's Bible, 466.
—— the pope's eye, 153.
G. (J. M.) on Cowley's Prose Works, 339.
—— Joceline's Mother's Legacie, 37.
G. (L.) on Gospel oaks, 444.
—— classical quotations in Grotius, 320.
—— traditions from remote periods, 203.
Glass, cracked, sometimes musical, 294.
Glass-making in England, 322. 382. 477.
G. (L. B.) on a letter to a brigadier-general, 328.
Gloucester cathedral, lines on whispering gallery, 56.
Glover (Edw. O.) on portrait of Wolfe, 98.
Gloves worn in presence of royalty, 102. 157.
Goblin, its derivation, 248.
God's Love, and other Poems, its authorship, 272. 307.
Godwin (J.) on Wallington's Journal, 569.
Goldesborough (John), notices of, 294. 333.
Goldsborough (Mr.), a prothonotary, 294.
Goldseer (T.) on customs of St. Clement's and St. Thomas' days, 393.
—— the exclusion of mistletoe from churches, 151.
Goldsmith on the Cock Lane ghost, 77.
Goldsmith's Deserted Village, on a passage in, 62.
—— History of Mecklenburg, 461.
—— Poetical Dictionary, 534.