L.
L. on the age of trees, 43.
—— the mechanical arrangements of books, 49.
—— town-halls, 403.
L. (A.) on "Litera scripta manet," 231.
Lady (a) on Bowdler's Family Shakspeare, 245.
Lady of the ring, its meaning, 296.
Lambert (General), account of his trial, 227.
Lambs, omens respecting, 293.
Lammin (W. H.) on Sir Edw. Seaward's narrative, 185.
—— serjeants' rings and mottoes, 181.
Lamont (C. D.) on collecting folk-lore, 270.
—— traditions from remote periods, 203.
Lamp, perpetual, 87. 211.
Lancaster, Duchess of, is the queen so called? 320. 423.
Lancastrian on the title Duchess of Lancaster, 320.
Lancastriensis on meaning of penkenol, 545.
—— the meaning of Royd, 571.
Land Holland or Land Molland, 330.
Largesse, still in use, 557.
Larking (Lambert A.) on the meaning of Theoloneum, 236.
—— on Waller family, 619.
Larking (Rev. L. B.) on Caxton's birthplace, 3.
Lass of Richmond Hill, its author, 453.
Laud (Abp.) And Prynne, 314.
Laud's letters and papers, 179.
Lawrence (Thomas) on "giving the sack," 585.
—— legend of Theodoric, 196.
—— folk lore of the Kacouss people, 413.
—— inscription at Persepolis, 560.
—— whipping boys to royalty, 469.
Layard (A. H.), his ancestors, 247.
L. (C. M.) on Colonel or Major-General Lee, 611.
L. (D. W.) on snuff-boxes and tobacco-pipes, 246.
L. (E. A. H.) on St. Augustine's Confessions, &c., 417.
—— St. Augustine's Treatises on Music, 584.
—— St. Christopher and the Doree, 536.
—— representations of St. Christopher, 295. 419.
—— Knights Templars and freemasons, 295.
Le Bailly (Joseph Adrien), notices of, 248.
Le Blason des Couleurs, author of, 442.
Lechlade (Edwin) on Johnson's house, Bolt Court, 176.
Lectures on Ecclesiastes, specimen of style, 581.
Ledwich (Dr.) misled Gough in his edition of Camden, 225.
Lee (Colonel or Major-General), date of his baptism, 611.
L. (E. F.) on the parentage of Bp. Leslie, 29.
—— "Poets beware," 78.
—— slavery in Scotland, 29.
Legal worthies, queries respecting, 294. 332.
Leicestriensis on Frebord, 595.
—— on rhymes on places, 618.
Leigh, the book of Nicholas Leigh wanted, 319.
Le Neve (John), notices of, 322.
Le Noble (Eustache), his La Pierre de Touche Politique noticed, 52.
Lent crocking at Okehampton, 77.
Lenthall (F. Kyffin) on Speaker Lenthall, 393.
Lenthall the Speaker, notices of, 393.
Leslie, bishop of Down, his parentage, 29.
Lesteras, its meaning, 58.
Letter to a Brigadier-General, 296.
Leveridge (Richard), painting of, 151.
Livers, white, superstition respecting, 127. 212. 334. 403. 452.
Lewis Castle, monumental plate at, 342. 449.
L. (F.) on Spanish verses on the invasion, 353.
L. (F. H.) on representations of St. Christopher, 549.
L. (G.) on General Lambert, 227.
L. (H.) on collar of SS., 182.
—— on Hogs Norton, 245.
L. (H. B.) on Hoffman, a tragedy, 228.
L'Homme de 1400 ans, 175. 256.
Liber Conformitatum, various editions, 202. 283.
Library of George III., 89.
Lindisfarne, its meaning, 442.
Littledale (Richard F.) on derivation of cou-bache, 212.
—— the etymology of Devil, 508.
—— on the expression white-livered, 212.
—— coinage of Richard III., 293.
—— Sir Thomas Overbury's epitaph, 486.
—— a photographic query, 538.
Livy quoted by Grotius, 296.
L. (J.) on the Lyte family, 78.
—— Thomas Crawford, 448.
L. (J. H.) on Churchill the poet, 142.
—— Sir John Cheke, 260.
—— Moravian hymns, 129.
—— princes of Wales and earls of Chester, 237.
—— the execution of Mrs. Hickes, 395.
—— Ralph Winterton, 420.
—— the Sclaters and Dr. Kellet, 519.
Llandudno on the great Orme's head, 175. 235. 305.
Llewellyn on derivation of Carmarthen, 469.
—— Cilgerran Castle, 537.
—— collars of SS., 81.
—— portrait of George Fox, 464.
L. (L. L.) on the Book of Jasher, 415.
—— Grantham altar case, 57.
—— the last of the Palæologi, 173.
Ln. (W. H.) on Hart and Bohun, 612.
Locke (John) his quotation from Gray, 274.
Lode, its meaning, 345. 450.
Lollard, his burial, 292.
London street characters, 270. 376.
Longevity, instances of, in Shoreditch, 276.
—— of Machell Vivan, 356.
—— authenticated instances of, 178. 389. 401. 448.
Longtriloo, its derivation, 559.
Longueville, or Yelverton MSS., 17.
Lord's Prayer, paraphrase on, 195.
Lossus (Lucas), account of his works, 230.
Lothian's Scottish Historical Maps, 371. 498.
Low (Sampson), junr., on Swift's lunatic asylum, 372.
Lower (Mark Antony) on Abbot of Croyland's motto, 501.
—— the early use of couched, to couch, 298.
—— English surnames, 326. 509.
—— etymology of lunhunter, 127.
—— Vincent Kidder, 137.
—— the Dr. Richard Mortons, 227.
L. (T. H.) on King's College chapel windows, 308.
L. (T. I.) on Weber's material media of music, 201.
Lucifer, palace of, Milton's allusion to, 275. 352.
Luciferi, who was he? 489.
Lunhunter, its etymology, 127.
Lunn (Sally), noticed, 371. 498.
Luther (Martin), inscription by, 441.
L. (W.) on the phrase "Experto crede Roberto," 104.
—— surnames, 424.
L. (W. A.) on derivation of Orlop, 248.
L. (W. H.) on compositions during the Protectorate, 69.
L. (W. H.) on Inquisitiones post mortem, 469.
Lyte family in Somersetshire, 78. 260.
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.
N.
N. on the Athenian Oracle, 230.
—— Gen. James Wolfe, 35.
—— Zachary Pearce not a pupil of Busby, 197.
N. (A.) on Ad viscum Druidæ, 247.
—— quotation from St. Austin, 380.
—— the Amber Witch, 510.
—— Borrow's Muggletonians, 320.
—— Cæsarius Arelatensis, 91.
—— the meaning of Cagots, 493.
—— on Catterich for Cattraeth, 164.
—— Cimmerii, Cimbri, 188.
—— the word Devil, 595.
—— the meaning of Dulcarnon, 253.
—— the etymology of Sept, 277.
—— the Exeter controversy, 296.
—— the abbreviation of Mas, 322.
—— Reichenbach's ghosts, 89.
—— Rex Lucifer of Milton, 352.
—— the sweet singers, 372.
—— the Templars, 353.
—— verses in prose, 379.
—— the Book of Jasher, 476.
—— the Escubierto, 584.
—— Vikingr Skotar, 394.
Nacar, its scientific appellation, 536. 595.
Nails, paring the, 142. 285. 309.
Names, corrupted Christian, 534.
—— persistency of proper, 174.
Nares's attempt to prove a plurality of worlds, 225.
Narne; or Pearle of Prayer, 538.
Nash (Beau) on the phrase "wild oats," 227.
Nashe's Terrors of Night, 467. 488. 562.
National defences, unpublished work on, 171.
N. (B.) on marriage of Mrs. Claypole, 298.
—— King Street theatre, 58.
N. (E.) on John Adair's family, 273.
—— Almas Cliffe, 354.
—— artificial memory, 355.
—— Chasseurs Britanniques, 295.
—— miniature of Cromwell, 255.
—— computing cousinship, 342.
—— Rev. William Dawson, 396.
—— Sir John Darnell, 489.
—— the Earl of Errol, 350.
—— occurrences under certain French dates, 293.
—— ancient trees, 309.
—— game of curling, 309.
—— names of places, 452.
—— rhymes on places, 374.
—— papers on armorial bearings, 416.
—— Macfarlane of that ilk, 416.
—— old Scots march, 235. 449.
—— constable of Scotland, 449.
—— a man being his own grandfather, 464.
—— family likenesses, 499.
—— Macaronic poetry, 302.
—— deaths from fasting, 353.
—— London Genealogical Society, 353.
—— Scoto-Gallicisms, 555.
Neck! a neck! a Devonshire shout, 148.
Nedlam on collar of SS., 183.
—— game feathers, 341.
—— the phrase "and tye," 395.
Nelson (Robert), notice of, 229.
Nelsons of Chuddleworth, notices of, 176. 236.
Nelson's signal at Trafalgar, 67.
Nemo on the meaning of Madrigal, 104.
Neville (Alex.), works of, 442.
Newbury, the History and Antiquities of, 225.
News, its derivation, 178.
Newton (Sir Isaac), and the law of gravitation, 344. 422. 573.
—— his library, 489.
—— Principia, analysis of, 491.
Newtonian system, satirical pamphlet on, 490. 573.
New Year song in South Wales, 5.
N. (F.) on Biblicus on the Apocalypse, 584.
—— pilgrimages to the Holy Land, 429.
N. (G.) on Rouse, the Scottish psalmist, 80.
N. (G. M. T. R.) on bull the barrel, 281.
Nhrsl on monument to Barbara Mowbray, 517.
—— serpent with a human head, 547.
Nicæensis on Lord Say and printing, 42.
Nichols (John Gough) on a baron's hearse, 213.
—— list of English sovereigns, 113.
—— punishment by boiling, 112.
—— general pardons, 544.
—— the fairest attendant of Mary of Guise, 152.
—— Isabel, queen of the Isle of Man, 205.
Nigel, on dial mottoes, &c., 155.
Nightingale and thorn, 39. 305. 380. 475.
Nil Nemini on the article An, 297.
Nimrod, a Discourse of History and Fable, 539.
N. (J. G.) on the father of Cardinal Pole, 163.
—— numerous births by one mother, 204.
—— the bed of Ware, 213.
N. (N.) on Greek epigram, 56.
Nocab on silver royal font, 175.
Norgate (F.) on publications of Stuttgart Society, 484.
Norman (Louisa Julia) on "He that runs may read," 306.
Northman on cheap maps, 257.
—— a Roaring Meg, 260.
—— maps of Africa, 284.
Note on "Inveni portum," 135.
Notes and Queries, prefatory notice to Vol. V. 1.
—— circulated in the Celestial Empire, 214.
Notte of Imbercourt, Surrey, 393.
Nouns printed with capitals, 79.
November 5th custom at Marlborough, 365.
N. (Q.) on political pamphlets, 319.
N. (R.) on Cooper's miniature of Cromwell, 17.
Nuremberg token, 201. 260. 450.
N. (V. D.) on Rev. John Paget, 66.
N. (W.) on Puritan antipathy to custard, 321.