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INDEX
TO
THE EIGHTH VOLUME.
[For classified articles, see Anonymous Works, Notices of New Books, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Folk Lore, Inscriptions, Photography, Proverbs, Quotations, Shakspeare, and Songs and Ballads. Articles with an asterisk (*) prefixed denote unanswered Queries at the date of Publication.]
A.
A. on birthplace of Edward I., 601.
A. (A.) on encore, 387.
Aa (A. J. Van der) on portrait of Andries de Graeff, 573.
* Abbé, French, status of one, 102.
Abhba on Archbishop King, 44.
—— judicial families, 384.
Abigail, a lady's maid, 42. 86. 653.
Abraham and Isaac, mythological notices of, 566.
Abredonensis on battle of Cruden, 173.
—— Dictum de Kenilworth, 57.
—— Picts' houses in Aberdeenshire, 264.
—— Scottish national Records, 405.
—— Sir Thomas de Longueville, 103.
—— Statute of Kilkenny, 80.
—— Temple lands in Scotland, 317.
—— volcanoes in Scotland, 285.
—— Willingham boy, 66.
A. (C.) on a "wilderness of monkeys," 413.
Acharis, its meaning, 198. 280.
Acworth (G. B.) on poetical tavern signs, 452.
—— school libraries, 498.
Adamson (John) on the Cid, 574.
Adamson's Lusitania Illustrata, 104. 257.
Adamsoniana, 135. 257.
Admiralty office, shield and arms, 124.
* "Adrian turn'd the bull," its meaning, 79.
* Advent Hymn, why omitted in Common Prayer, 639.
Advertisement, curious poetical one, 268.
Advertisements and prospectuses, their utility, 562.
A. (E. H.) on Adamsoniana, 257.
—— Adamson's Lusitania Illustrata, 257.
—— "Alterius orbis Papa," 254.
—— books chained in churches, 206
—— Burnet, Wharton, and Smith, 167.
—— church towers detached, 376.
—— Delaval's poems, 171.
—— Denison family, 468.
—— parochial libraries, 275.
—— Portuguese folk lore, 382.
Æschylus, Potter's translation, 622.
A. (F. S.) on Louis le Hutin, 199.
—— minuteness of detail on paper, 157.
Age, the feelings of, 550.
Agmond, on etymology of contango, 586.
A. (I. T.) on Henry I.'s tomb, 630.
* Aix Ruochim, or Romans Ioner, 150.
A. (J.) on copyright law, 468.
A. (J. P.) on "Celsior exsurgens pluviis," 220.
A. (J. S.) on Czar, or Tsar, 150.
—— inscription on a tomb in Finland, 34.
—— religion of the Russians, 582.
—— Seven Oaks and Nine Elms, 34.
—— sneezing, 625.
Aldress, an instance of its use, 503.
Alethes on worm in books, 412.
Alfred (King), the locality of his battles, 129, 130.
* —— pedigree to the time of, 586.
Ἁλιεύς on Bulstrode Whitlock, 454.
—— Cawdray's Treasurie of Similies, 499.
—— Donatus Redivivus, 492.
—— gale of rent, 655.
—— Keate family, 525.
—— Mitre and the Crown, 80.
—— murder of Monaldeschi, 160.
—— passage in Whiston, 397.
—— Preparation for Martyrdom, 152.
Aliquis on epigram on Rome, 584.
—— fire-irons, their antiquity, 587.
Allan (Peter) of Sunderland, 539. 630. 647.
Allcroft (J. D.) on hour-glass in pulpits, 83.
—— watch-paper inscriptions, 452.
Alledius on Rousseau and Boileau, 470.
—— "When we survey yon circling orbs," 515.
Allen (H. L.) on female parish clerks, 475.
Allen (R. J.) on will of Peter the Great, 539.
—— wood of the Cross, 329.
All Hallow Eve, custom on, 490.
"All my eye," its early use, 254.
Alma Mater, its origin, 517.
Alms at the eucharist, superstition respecting, 617.
Alms-basket described, 297.
Alpha on the mother of William the Conqueror, 564.
Αλφα on descendants of Milton, 630.
* Alsop (George) noticed, 585.
Altars, portable, 101. 183.
A. (M.) on honorary degrees, 162.
—— Newton memorial, 172.
Amateur on multiplying photographs, 158.
Amateur Photographer on precision in photographic processes, 301.
Amcotts' pedigree, 387. 518.
American names, 638.
Americus on "Vox populi vox Dei," 494.
Amicus (Veritatis) on quadrille, 441.
* "Amor nummi," the author, 149.
Ampers and (&), its derivation, 173. 223. 254. 327. 376. 524.
Anathema, maran-atha, 100.
Anderson (Dr. James), notices of, 198. 326.
Anderson (James), his Historical Essay, 347.
André (Major) noticed, 174. 277. 399. 604. 643.
* Andrew's (St.) Priory Church, Barnwell, 80.
Andrews (Alex.) on Anna Lightfoot, 281.
—— Irish rhymes, 602.
—— poetical tavern signs, 627.
Angel-beast, a game, 63.
* Animal prefixes, 270.
Anne (Queen), her motto, 174. 255. 440.
Anon on camera obscura, early notices of, 41.
—— Dodo Bardolf, 605.
—— door-head inscriptions, 162.
—— epitaph on Tuckett's wife, 274.
—— inscriptions in books, 153. 652.
—— manliness, its meaning, 127.
—— "peg" or "nail" for an argument, 561.
—— Sir John Vanbrugh, 65.
—— "Virgin wife and widowed maid," 56.
—— "When the maggot bites," 244.
Anonymous names and real signatures, 5. 94. 181.
Anonymous Works:—
André, a tragedy, 174.
* Blockheads, 174.
* British Empire, Present State of, 174.
* Convent, an elegy, 172.
Days of my Youth, 467.
Delights for Ladies, 495.
De Omnibus Rebus et quibusdam aliis, 569.
Devil on Two Sticks in England, 413.
* Donatus Redivivus, 492.
Doveton, a novel, 127. 517.
Elijah's Mantle, 295. 453.
* Fast Sermon in 1779, 174.
* History of Jesus Christ, 386.
Indians, a tragedy, 174.
* Jerningham, a novel, 127. 517.
Les Lettres Juives, 541.
* Lessons for Lent, &c., 150.
Liturgy of the Ancients, 588.
Man with Iron Mask, 112.
Match for a Widow, 174.
* Mitre and the Crown, 80.
* National Prejudice opposed to Interest, 174.
Pætus and Arria, 219. 374.
* Poems published at Manchester, 388.
Preparation for Martyrdom, 152.
* Professional Poems by a Professional Gentleman, 244.
Rock of Ages, 81.
* Watch, an ode, 174.
Whole Duty of Man, 564.
Anstruther (Mr.) on the authorship of Jerningham and Doveton, 517.
Antecedents, its use as a plural, 439.
Anti-Barbarus on Latin termination -anus, 386.
Antipodes, what day at our Antipodes? 102. 479. 648.
Antiquaries, Society of, changes proposed, 45.
Antiquary on Sir Arthur Aston, 480.
-anus, quantity of the Latin termination, 386. 552.
Applauding, national methods of, 6.
A. (P. T.) on Park the antiquary, 8.
* Aquinas (Thomas) lines by, 366.
Arademaravasadeloovaradooyou, its meaning, 651.
Aram (Eugene), his Comparative Lexicon, 255.
Archæological Institute, annual meeting, 45.
Aristotle's checks, 97, 98.
A. (R. J.) on naming infants in Scotland, 468.
Armorial bearings, modern practice of assuming, 50.
Arms, battle-axe, 113.
Arms of ladies borne in a lozenge, 37. 83. 277. 448, 652.
Arnim (Bettina), her German-English, 437.
* Arrow-mark found in North Devon, 440.
Arrowsmith (W. R.) on misunderstood words, 120.
Arterus on Shakspeare's Seven Ages, 384.
Arthur (King) in the form of a raven, 618.
Arun on Letters respecting Hougomont, 293.
—— Shakspeare on the winds, 338.
* Ash-trees attractive to lightning, 493.
Astolpho on slang expression, 89.
Aston (J. W.) on a mistletoe query, 621.
Aston (Sir Arthur) noticed, 126. 302. 480. 629.
Astrology in America, 561.
Ath Chliath on chimney-piece emblem, 219.
* Athenæus, fragments in, versions of, 104.
Attwood (Wm.), his book burnt, 347.
Audley (Lord), his attendants at Poictiers, 494. 573.
Audoënus (Johannes) alias John Owen, 495.
Augusta on orange blossom, 341.
Authors' aliases and initials, 124.
—— remuneration of, 81.
Autobiographical sketch, 350.
Autumnal tints, 490.
Awkward, its etymology, 310. 438. 602.
B.
B. on the small City Companies, 470.
—— "Corporations have no souls," &c., 587.
—— digest of Shakspearian readings, 75.
—— green pots at the Temple, 171.
B. (A.) on launching query, 127.
Bacon (Lord) and Shakspeare, 438.
Bacon's Essays, notes on, 141. 165. 303. 353. 479.
—— sentences taken from, 289.
Bacon or beechen, 63.
Bad, its etymology, 207.
B. (A. E.) on attainment of majority, 198. 296. 541.
—— day at our Antipodes, 648.
—— Shakspeare readings, 28. 168.
—— Shakspeare suggestions, 169.
B. (A. F.) on "Hip, hip, hurrah!" 605.
—— Pierrepont and his descendants, 303.
—— quotations, 366.
Bagot (C. E.) on Capt. Cook and the Sandwich Islands, 108.
Bagshawe (E. L.) on an old saying, 197.
B. (A. H.) on splitting paper, 604.
Bailey's Annuities, spurious edition, 242.
Balch (T.) on Martha Blount, 182.
Balderdash, its meaning and etymology, 342.
Bale MSS. referred to by Tanner, 311.
Ballard (E. G.) on Bond, a poet, 513.
—— Calves' Head Club, 315.
—— "Good Old Cause," 421.
—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83.
—— house-marks, 135.
—— inscription in Peterborough Cathedral, 303.
Ballina Castle, co. Mayo, 411. 577.
Balliolensis on Abigail, 653.
—— Joannes Audoënus, 495.
—— books burned by the common hangman, 272.
—— bottled beer, 289.
—— Bulstrode's portrait, 293.
—— death on the fingers, 362.
—— epitaph in Torrington churchyard, 537.
—— epitaphium Lucretiæ, 563.
—— Eve, its etymology, 655.
—— hour glass in pulpits, 279.
—— lawyers' bags, 281.
—— Muscipula, 550.
—— Napoleon, anecdote of, 292.
—— parochial libraries, 274.
—— "Quid facies, facies Veneris," &c., 539.
—— Rev. Josiah Pullen, 489.
—— Sheridan, Latin translation from, 563.
—— Sir Philip Warwick, 268.
—— Sir Walter Raleigh, 267.
—— tenet or tenent, 258.
—— Thomas Aquinas, lines by, 366.
* Ball (Lord) of Bagshot, 365.
Balmoral, Natural History of, 467. 584.
Baretti, his portrait by Reynolds, 411. 477.
* Bargain cup, 220.
Barnacles in the Thames, 124. 223. 300.
Barrett (Eaton Stannard), his lines on Woman, 292. 350. 423.
Barry (C. Clifton) on animal prefixes, 270.
—— Fauntleroy, 270.
—— midland county minstrelsy, 357.
Barton (Mrs. C.) and Lord Halifax, 258. 429. 543. 590.
Basil (Oscimum basilicum), a plant, 40.
Basilica, a digest of laws, 367.
Baskerville the printer, his burial-place, 203. 349. 423.
Bates (Wm.) on Gibbon's library, 88.
—— Rosicrucians, 106.
—— soul and magnetic needle, 87.
—— "When the maggot bites," 526.
Bath, knights of, their escutcheons in St. Peter's, Westminster, 444.
Bathensis on Jamieson the piper, 126.
* Bave (Anthony), his manuscripts, 469.
B. (B. E) on Burke's marriage, 158.
B. (C.) on font at Islip, 363.
B. (C. W.) on epitaph from Stalbridge, 289.
—— Huc's Travels, 516.
—— "Like one who wakes," &c., 292.
—— Potenger's unpublished letter, 53.
—— right of redeeming property, 516.
B. (D. E.) on John Campbell of Jamaica, 410.
B. (E.) on manual of handwriting, 639.
Bealby (H. M.), notes on newspapers, 333.
* Beauty of Buttermere noticed, 126.
Beccles, its parochial library, 62.
Bede (Cuthbert) on books chained in churches, 206. 596.
—— "boom" as used by the poets, 183.
—— Brasenose, Oxford, 221.
—— burial in an erect posture, 59.
—— burial on north side of churches, 207.
—— centenarian couple, 490.
—— children called imps, 623.
—— curfew, where rung, 628.
—— dial inscriptions, 224.
—— epitaphs, 273. 315.
—— funeral custom, 218.
—— hour-glasses in pulpits, 209.
—— Innocents' day, custom on, 617.
—— inscriptions on bells, 248.
—— marriage service, 525.
—— nightingale, character of its song, 257.