Ω. on millers of Meath, 13.
Oaks: the Essex broad Oak, 10. 40. 113.
—— Hankford's oak, 43.
—— the Shelton oak, 43.
Oasis, its proper pronunciation, 465. 521.
Oath of pregnant women, 393.
Oats, wild, origin of the phrase, 227. 306.
Obelisk between Yarmouth and Gorleston, 78.
Objective and subjective, 11. 141.
O'Connor (Arthur), account of, 579.
O. (C. R.) on an annotated copy of Prynne's Breviate by Abp. Laud, 314.
Offor (George) on Bishop Coverdale's Bible, 59. 153.
O. (Geo.) on the Earl of Chepstow, 300.
O'G. (T.) on the Azores, 439.
—— the Chamberlaine family, 306.
—— marriage at Mrs. Claypole, 381.
Ogle (O.) on the meaning of Lesteras and Emencin, 58.
"Oh Nanny," authorship of the song, 227. 306.
O. (J.) On Burnomania, 428.
—— Robert Drury, 543.
—— Thomas Gill, the blind man, 608.
—— Moravian hymns, 492.
—— the Heavy Shove, 515.
O. (J. N.) on "Stunt with false care," &c., 538.
O. (J. S.) on Friday at sea, 330.
Oldys (William), autobiography of, 529.
Oley (Rev. Barnabas) his family and will, 372.
Olivarius de Prophetia, 60. 161.
Omens, lucky, 293.
One-two-three on Duchess of Cleveland, 59.
—— documents relating to Eliza Fenning, 105.
Optical phenomenon, 441. 523. 616.
O. (P.) van der Chs, on coins of Edward III., 150.
Organs and pulpits moveable 345. 475.
Orkney, extermination of Christians in, 111.
Orkneyinga Saga, new edition announced, 262.
Orloff, or Orlop, its derivation, 248.
Otway (Thomas), unpublished song by, 338.
Owen (John), bishop of St. Asaph, 510.
Oxford Manual of Brasses, corrected, 369. 570.
Oxoniensis on St. Paul's quotation of heathen writers, 278.
P.
Paget (Rev. John), notices of, 66. 280. 327. 381.
Pagoda, Joss-house, Fetiche, 415.
Paisley, the Black Book of, 201. 283.
Palæologi, the last of the, 173. 280. 357.
Palmerston (Lord), lines by, 619.
Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, 491.
Pandecte, its early use, 557. 622.
Pantagruel on meaning of Dray, 67.
—— numerous births by one mother, 204.
Pantheon at Paris, its restoration, 73.
Papal seal, a forged one 508. 593.
Paper-mill, the first in England, 83. 255.
Paper of the present day, its inferiority, 188.
Paper, origin of the word, 174.
Pardons, general, 496. 544.
Parish registers, right of search, 36. 207.
Parker (J. H.) on English free towns, 150.
—— mediæval town-halls, 295.
Parliament house, poem on the burning, 488. 547.
Partrige (Julius) on license to make malt, 291.
—— Smyth's Gloucester manuscripts, 512.
Pasquinades, 200. 283.
Passemer's Antiquities of Devonshire, 511.
Paterfamiliæ on cheap maps, 174.
Patrick (St.), his birthplace, 344. 403. 520. 561.
Paul Hoste, 89.
Paul (St.), did he quote heathen writers? 175. 278. 352.
P. (B.) on the authorship of epigram upon the letter H. 522.
P. (C.) on Churchill the poet, 75.
P. (C. I.) on merchant adventurers to Spain, 277.
—— arms of Yarmouth, 200.
P. (C. S.) on churching of women, 293.
—— hexameter on English counties, 305.
P. (C. S. T.) on lines on Crawfurd of Kilbirnie, 464.
—— Thomas Crawfurd, 344.
Peacock (E) jun. on eagles' feathers, 521.
—— portrait of Thomas Percy, 491.
Pearce (Zachary) not a pupil of Busby, 197.
Peasantry, popular stories of the English, 363. 459. 601.
Peel (Sir Robert), his claims to the remembrance of literary men, 433.
Pelham A. (W.) on letters of Arthur Lord Balmerino, 490.
Pelican, a symbol of the Saviour, 59. 165. 211. 452.
Pemberton (Oliver) on Cromwell's burial-place, 477.
Pendulum demonstration, 84. 158.
Penkenol, its meaning, 490. 545.
Percy (Mrs.), portrait of, 306.
Percy Society, its dissolution, 238.
Percy (Thomas), earl of Northumberland, his portrait, 490. 549.
Peredur on charm for ague, 413.
Peregrine A. on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, 289.
Perez on Johnny Crapaud, 545.
—— mummy wheat 538.
Periwinkle explained, 332.
Perjury, papers of, 134.
Persepolitan inscription, 560.
Petheram (John) on Wyld's great globe, 488.
Petrapromontoriensis on banking company in Aberdeen, 196.
—— Earl of Errol 297.
—— emblematical halfpenny, 397.
—— Mr. Miller of Craigentinny, 468.
Petrarch's cat, the last lay of, 174.
Petros on lines on Elizabeth, 467.
P. (G. P.) on the editor of Prideaux's Doctrine of Conscience, 273.
—— the Prideaux family, 248.
—— vol ii. of Prestwich's Respublica, 276.
P. (H.) on marriage tithe in Wales, 89.
Ph*** (C. P.) on Bogatzky's Golden Treasury, 63.
—— Coleridge and Plato, 317.
—— Nightingale and thorn, 305.
—— "Wise above that which is written," 305.
Pharetram de Tutesbit, 138.
Phelp's Gloucestshire Collections, 346.
Φ on whipping princes by proxy, 545.
Philobiblon on Buchanan and Voltaire, 272.
Photographic query, 538.
P (H. T.) on Cynthia's dragon-yoke, 297.
Pictorial Proverbs, work on, 559.
Pictures, an anonymous catalogue of, 296.
Pignon, or Piniwn, its derivation, 352.
Pilgrimages to the Holy Land, 289.
Pimlico, early notices of, 260.
Piscator, on meaning of Barnacles, 13.
P. (J.), jun. on the derivation of Callis, 466.
—— key experiments, 152.
—— the descendants of Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes, 273.
—— portrait of Charles Mordaunt, 521.
P. (J.) on Cromwell's skull, 275.
P. (J. H.) on Anne Boleyn's burial-place, 464.
P. (J. R.) on heraldical MSS. of Sir George Garter, 211.
P. (K. N.) on the meaning of Lindisfarne, 442.
Plague stones, a list of, 226. 308. 333. 374, 426. 500. 571.
Plenius and his lyrichord, 58.
Pocock (Franis) on monuments of De la Beche family, 451.
Poetry, inedited, 387. 435. 580.
Poets, their errors, 102.
Poison, its etymology, 394. 499.
Pole family, particulars of, 105. 163. 567.
Political pamphlets wanted, 319.
Polwarth (R.) on Sir Walter Raleigh's snuff-box, 136.
Polynesian New Testaments, 468.
Pompey the Great, its translators, 129.
Poniatowski gems 30. 65. 140. 190.
Pope, a Dutch commentary on, 27. 93.
—— and Flatman, 17.
—— Imitation of Horace, on a passage in, 426.
Pope's eye, its meaning, 152.
Porcelain, Dutch manufactories of, 343.
Porcus on the phrase "please the pigs," 13. 91.
Portraits, the most correct catalogue 176, 261.
Postman and tubman of Exchequer Court, 490.
P. (P.) on story of Ginevra, 333.
—— arms of Manchester, 332.
—— ornanental hermits, 333.
—— the fernseed charm, 356.
—— plague stones, 374.
—— general pardons, 544.
—— Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative,352.
—— white livers, 334.
Prague, group at, 346.
Prayers for the fire of London, how long used, 78.
Precisian on the meaning of Eliminate, 317.
'Prentice pillars, anecdote respecting, 395. 498.
Presbyterian oath, whether now taken, 274. 323.
Presentiment, instances of, 411.
Prestwich's Respublica, vol. ii. not published, 276.
Prianho and Prideaux family, 248.
Price (R.) on the diphthong ai, 581.
Prideaux's Doctrine of Conscience, its editor? 273.
Prideaux family, 248.
Procurator on inscriptions at Much Wenlock and Windsor, 8.
Protheroe (E. Davis) on the meaning of groom, 57.
Prothonotaries from Edw. III., 294. 333.
Proverb, definition of a, 37. 213.
Proverbs: "Cold pudding settles one's love," 30. 189.
—— "Grin like a Cheshire cat," 402.
—— "Love me, love my dog," 538.
—— "Please the pigs," 13. 91. 450.
Proverbs, national, 397.
Proverbial philosophy, 61.
P. (R. S. V.) on Sir William Hankford, 93.
Prynne's Breviate annotated by Abp. Laud, 314.
P. (S. L.) on lines on Crawfurd of Kilburnie, 546.
—— Milton's epitaph, 548.
—— rhymes on places, 375.
—— Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes, 380.
—— Lord King and the Sclaters, 518.
—— the Silent Woman, 547.
P. (S. R.) on Cornish folk lore, 173.
—— antiquity of county boundaries, 197.
—— the meaning of Maheremium, &c., 248.
—— the meaning of Elvan, 273.
—— persistency of proper names, 174.
P. (T. D.) on Eliza Fenning, 304.
—— Bishop Merriman, 584.
P. (T. G.) on Lothian's Scottish Historical Maps, 498.
P. (T. W.) on St. Christopher, 495.
Punch and Judy, 610.
Purcell (Henry), portraits of, 103.
Puritan antipathy to custard, 321.
Q.
Q. on the derivation of Barbarian, 473.
—— the derivation of Charing, 486.
—— the meaning of Bull, Dayesman, and Dun, 497.
—— the meaning of Gee-ho, 522.
—— "O wearisome condition," 473.
—— spick and span new, 521.
—— the meaning of Twises, 522.
—— the derivation of Ramasshed, 572.
—— the derivation of Sleeveless, 473.
Q. (F. S.) on the great Bowyer Bible, 309.
—— the meaning of Restive, 614.
Q. (O. P.) on the five divines called Smectymnus, 202.
Q. (Q. Q.) on the Layard family, 247.
Q. (S.) on "Venit ad Euphratem," 572.
Quack, its derivation, 347.
Quarll (Philip), its authorship, 372.
Quarter-waggoner, its meaning, 11. 64. 116.
Queen's supremacy, declaration concerning the, 610.
Quero, on Camden's poem Thamæ et Isis, 30.
Questor on the use of the word Reverend, 273.
Quidam on Caldoriana Societas, 13.
Quotation, misappropriated, 607.
Quotations: "Ad viscem Druidæ!" 247.
—— "After me the deluge," 619.
—— "And like unholy men," 512.
—— "Blamed be the man," &c., 177.
—— "Cane Decane canis," 440. 523.
—— "Carmen perpetuum," &c., 104. 187.
—— "Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasures," 539. 572.
—— "Coming events cast their shadows before," 418.
—— "Corruptio optimi fit pessima," 321.
—— "Crowns have their compass," 92.
—— "Dress shows the man," 396.
—— "Et corripuit fluxeum," 512. 572.
—— "Eva stood and wept alone," 416.
—— "Experto crede Roberto," 104. 212.
—— "Felix natu, felicior vitâ," &c., 610.
—— "For they, 'twas they, unsheath'd the ruthless blade," 10. 380.
—— "Gutta cavat lapidem," &c., 510.
—— "He who runs may read," 260. 306.
—— "Hell paved with skulls of priests," 92.
—— "History is philosophy teaching by example," 153. 426.
—— "Inveni portum," 10. 64. 135. 523.
—— "I do not know what the truth may be," 560. 616.
—— "Like a fair lily on a river floating," 539.
—— "Litera scripta manet," 200. 237. 261.
—— "Oh, woman! thou art born to bless," 490. 549.
—— "O Juvenis frustra," &c., 441.
—— "O Leoline! be absolutely just," 78. 138. 212.
—— "O wearisome condition," 473.
—— "Poets beware, never compare," &c., 78. 134.
—— "Posie of other men's flowers," 38.
—— "Preached in a pulpit rather than a tub," 29. 161.
—— "Quid est Episcopus," 177. 255. 380.
—— "Quod non fecerunt barbari," 559. 614.
—— "Rack'd by pain, by shame confounded," 44.
—— "Roses all that's fair adorn," 611.
—— "Son of the morning," 137.
—— "Stunt with false care," 538. 574.
—— "Sum liber, et non sum liber," 152.
—— "The right divine of kings to govern wrong," 128.
—— "'Tis tuppence now," &c., 141.
—— "The last links are broken," 153.
—— "Then comes the reckoning," 585.
—— "'Twas whisper'd in heaven," 214. 258. 522.
—— "Who from the dark and doubtful love to run," 512. 570. 617.
—— "William and William," &c., 559.
—— "Wise above that which is written," 228. 260. 305.
Quotations wanted from St. Gregory and Erasmus, 228. 309.
—— dictionary of hackneyed, 41.
R.
R. on "Crowns have their compass," 92.
—— Wallington's Journal, 489.
r. heraldic atchievement at Fawsley, 331.
R. (A. B.) on the old Countess of Desmond, 15. 145.
—— epitaph on Voltaire, 316.
Rabbit, as a symbol, 487. 597.
Rack, as used by Shakspeare, 390.
Radish feast at Oxford, 610.
R. (A. H.) on extermination of Christians in Orkney, 111.
Rain water a cure for sore eyes, 223.
Raleigh (Descendant of Sir W.) on Raleigh's ring, 621.
Raleigh (Sir Walter) his ring, 538.
—— his snuff-box, 78. 136.
Ramasshed, its meaning, 572.
Rawlinson (Robert) on Dictionary of Provincial Words, 173. 250.
—— the Man in th' Almanack, 405.
R. (C.) on the phrase "Please the pigs," 450.
R. (C. L.) on the term Abigail, 38.
—— the article An, 380.
—— Howard's Conquest of China, 281.
—— History of Commerce, 309.
—— melody of the dying swan, 308.
—— the derivation of Poison, 499.
—— Vikingr Skotar, 499.
R. (E. B.) on "Poets beware," &c., 134.
R. (E. C.) on the authorship of Philip Quarll, 372.
Recorde (Robert) noticed, 469.
Rector's chancel explained, 320.
R. (E. D.) on Abednego Seller, 587.
Red Book of the Irish Exchequer, 258.
Redding (Cyrus) on the Count de Vordac, 229.
—— ancient connexion of Cornwall and Phœnicia, 507.
—— mistranslation in Thiers' Consulship, 243.
—— Spanish vessels wrecked on Irish coast, 491.
—— the Nacar, 536.
Reed family, notice of, 29.
Regalia, Scottish, curious account of, 443.
Regedonum on notices of St. Bartholomew, 129. 499.
—— on Matthew Walker, 10.
—— parish registers, 207.
Rehetour explained, 373.
Reichenbach's ghosts, 89. 115. 136. 162.
Relton (F. B.) on the Chronological Institute, 104.
R. (E. M.) on birthplace of St. Patrick, 520.
Rent of assize, 127. 188. 573.
Restive, its present misuse, 535. 614.
Resurrection, doctrine of, 446.
Retired Christian, its authorship, 104.
Reverend, the title, when first used, 273.
R. (F.) on serjeants' rings and mottoes, 181.
R. (F. R.) on Rev. John Paget, 280.
—— the Tonges of Tonge, 40.
R. (H. G.) on Pharetram de Tutesbit, 138.
R. (H. W. G.) on Margaret Burr, 177.
Rhymes connected with places, 293. 374. 404. 449. 500. 547. 573. 618.
Riccioli's Geographia et Hydrographia recommended, 235.
Rice (John ap), his register, 273.
Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, 443.
Richard, earl of Chepstow, his pedigree, 126. 204. 261. 476.
Richard Fitzjohn, his mother, 511.
Richard of Cirencester de Situ Britanniæ, 491.
Richard, son of the Conqueror, his death, 441.
Richard (St.), notice of, 418.
Richards (George) on the term Milesian, 453.
"Richly deserved," the expression, 3.
Rimbault (E. F.) on Mary Ambree, 321.
—— Latin song by Andrew Boorde, 482.
—— Anthony Babington, 572.
—— ballad of Lord Delaware, 348.
—— Barnard's Church Music, 355.
—— cards prohibited to apprentices, 346.
—— custom of women wearing masks, 536.
—— Davies queries, 331.
—— portrait of Thomas Durfey, 151.
—— Dyson's Collection of Proclamations, 371.
—— autograph music by Handel, 355.
—— the birthplace of Hans Holbein, 104.
—— Handel's organ at the Foundling, 369.
—— the derivation of haberdasher, 137.
—— Hart and Mohun, 466.
—— the earliest use of ruffles, 139.
—— John of Padua, 79.
—— Richard Leveridge's portrait, 151.
—— Long Meg of Westminster, 133.
—— the meaning of Madrigal, 380.
—— Mallet's character and biography, 124.
—— the Miller's Melody, 591.
—— old playing cards, 370.
—— old Scots march, 331.
—— old concert bill, 556.
—— portrait of Henry Purcell, 103.
—— portrait of Orlando Gibbons, 176.
—— ballad quoted by Sir Walter Scott, 345.
—— serjeant trumpeter, 127.
—— Speed's Stonehenge, 395.
—— unpublished song by Thomas Otway, 337.
Ring (a) on the ring finger, 371.
Ring found in France, 395. 477.
—— finger, 114. 208. 492. 570.
—— —— lost by a lady, 371.
Rix (S. W.) on Blakloanæ Hæresis, 44.
—— Bohun's Historical Collections, 539.
—— the introduction of inverted commas, 228.
R. (J.) Brompton, on the word Restive, 535.
R. (J.) Cork, on Arthur O'Connor, 579.
—— elegy on Coleman, 283.
—— epigram on Erasmus, 136.
—— foreign ambassadors, 135.
—— Latin verse on Franklin, 140.
—— the imperial eagle of France, 147.
—— Fouché's Memoirs, 211.
—— Liber Conformitatum, 283.
—— extraordinary births, 304.
—— the meaning of Groom, 347.
—— on the Pantheon at Paris, 373.
R. (J.) Cork, on General Wolfe, 136. 279.
R. (J. C.) on English translations of the Canons, 330.
—— the Muggletonians, 236.
—— etymology of church, 255.
—— Bishop Kidder's autobiography, 281.
—— gat-tothed, 607.
—— quotation from St. Gregory's Homily, 309.
—— ecclesiastical geography, 329.
—— paper-making in England, 255.
—— "Which are the shadows?" 281.
R. (J. Q.) on Junius rumours, 158.
—— Junius and the Quarterly Review, 194.
R. (J. R.) on cock and bull story, 414.
—— a song, "Not long ago I drank a full pot," 437.
Ρ. (Λ.) on "Quod non fecerunt Barbari," 614.
R. (L. M. M.) on the Black Book of Scone, 294.
—— portrait of Mrs. Percy, 306.
—— gipsies in Shinar, 395.
—— the tune, "Well bobbit, Blanch of Middleby," 296.
R. (L. X.) on quotation from Young, 617.
R. (M. C.) on the pronunciation of Oasis, 521.
R. (M. T.) on Sterne in Paris, 254.
Roberson, arms of, 346.
Robin of Doncaster, his epitaph, 179.
Robinson (J. B.) on burning the bush, 437.
Rechabite on an inscription on Job, 140.
—— the use of Misereres, 39.
Rock (D.) on Miraeo's Ecclesiastical Geography, 305.
—— the existence of St. Patrick, 561.
Rogers on the Articles, reference in, 559.
Rogers (John), martyr, 247. 307. 508. 522.
Roman funeral pile, 67. 611.
—— Index Expurgatorius, 33. 82.
Rondeau (J. B.) on Narne; or Pearle of Prayer, 538.
Rood, black, in Scotland, 440.
Ross (C.) on the phrase "There is no mistake," 35.
Rotten Row, origin of the name, 40. 160.
Rouse, the Scottish psalmist, 80.
"Row the boat, Norman," a song, 609.
Rowe (R. R.) on the radish feast at Oxford, 610.
Royal "We," when first adopted, 489.
Royd, its meaning, 489. 571. 620.
R. (R.) on Devonshire superstition, 77.
Rt. on Baskerville the printer, 269.
—— Bow-bell as synonymous with Cockney, 212.
—— Brallaghan, or the Deipnosophists, 508.
—— the poet Collins, 102.
—— the custom of cranes in storms, 582.
—— French Revolution foretold, 100.
—— "Inveni portum," 523.
—— superstitious use of fernseed, 172.
—— "Love me, love my dog," 538.
—— palace of Lucifer, 275.
—— praying to the Devil, 352.
—— pronunciation of Coke and Cowper, 451.
—— a custom at sneezing, 573.
—— lines on woman, 549.
R. (T. K.) on Livy quoted by Grotius, 296.
Ruby on the word Grisly, 344.
—— the expression "wild oats," 506.
Ruffles, when worn, 12. 139. 259.
Russell (F.) on Dr. John Ash, 12.
Rust, superstitious notion respecting, 436.
Rusticus on declaration of 2000 clergymen, 610.
Ruthven family, 320.
R. (W.) on tortoiseshell tom cats, 465.