Pamela, pronunciation of the name, 265

Peyton (E.) on Lady Hatton, 90

Pantaloons v. trousers, 207, 271

Paolo and Francesca, Dante on, 229

Papal styles: "Pater Patrum," 368, 450

Papyrus and parchment, 48

Paramoudra, etymology of the word, 209

Paratout, use and meaning of the word, 206
Parchment and papyrus, 48

Parham (Arthur Groom), Magdalen chorister,

recollections, 383, 477

Paris, Massacre of St. Bartholomew in, 389
Parish bull and boar in 16th century, 126

Parish document, curious, 248

Parish registers, curious entries in, 26

Phin (J.) on flint and steel, 452

Matches in Congreve, 451

Pedestrianism in 1733, 511

Pedlar's rest at Lapworth, 266, 415

Peet (W. H.) on Byron's Don Juan,' 34

Jukes (Rev. Andrew), 97

Kent (Duke of), his children, 115, 235
Macaulay's letters to Randall, 55
Newbery (John), his grave, 76

Pemberton (H.), Jun., on Sir Anthony Cooke's wife, 490
Stanley (William), sixth Earl of Derby, 248
Vere (Edward de), 17th Earl of Oxford, 409
Pennell (Mrs.), Magyar oath in her 'Life of Leland,'
25, 77

Penny (F.) on Californian English, 36

Eslyngton: Islington, 93

Matross: topass, 412

Poonah painting, 195

Penny wares wanted, 497

Penrose (Llewellin), turtle riding story in his

'Journal,' 148, 216, 277

Pentonville, John Stuart Mill's house at, 413

People to be avoided or cultivated, 130, 175

People's Charter, political song, 128

Perring (Sir P.) on Shakespeariana, 483

Persia, mourning rites in, 230, 338

Petherick (E. A.) on Bishop Island, 116

Petherick (J.) on 'The Kingdom's Intelligencer,' 238
Petrarch, two greyhounds in Canzone cccxxiii., 445

Piccaninny, origin of the word, 27, 128, 255, 317, 515
Pickford (J.) on Admiral Christ epitaph, 475
Authors of quotations wanted, 328, 428
Bell inscriptions at Siresa, 436
Benbow (Admiral), his death, 56

Charles I.: his physical characteristics, 211, 414
'Christmas Boys, The,' 75

Dump, its meanings, 426

Edward IV.'s wooing at Grafton, 27
Granger annotated by Caulfield, 225
'Henry IV.' Part I., II. i., 145
Kent (Duke of), his children, 172
Kirby Hall, Northants, 275, 458
Linwood (Miss), her gallery, 393
Moke, a donkey, 115

Pacolet, its meaning, 355

'Penrose's Journal': turtle riding, 216
Pillion flails, 497

"Poor dog Tray": ‘Old Dog Tray,' 137
Popjoy, a verb, 136

Scott illustrators, 131

Seringapatam, 317

"Then with Rodney we will go," 295

Thirkell family, 252

Toad's immurement, 185

Vernon (Dorothy), the legend, 53

York's "oldest inhabitants," 245

Pictorial blinds, 429, 493

Pictures in Teddington Library from Elmfield House,
88, 136, 194

Pierpoint (R.) on Adespota, 215

"Bawms March," 516

"Black Horse" Inn, 475

Britisher, the term, 243

'Cantus Hibernici' 73, 257

Charles I.: his physical characteristics, 252
Dyche (Thomas), schoolmaster, 307

Ely House or Albemarle House, 312

Pierpoint (R.) on rump of a goose and drinking bouts,

190

St. George's Chapel Yard, Oxford Road, 135
Scott (Rev. Dr. F. G.), 386

Thune: Eil-de-bœuf, French slang, 50
"Tire le rideau, la farce est jouée," 266
Toole (J. L.), 118

Walker (Sarah), "Old Campaigner": "Marquis
of Granby" public-house, 464

Pigott (W. J.) on Graham and Little parentage, 427
Jefferson of Westward, Cumberland, 508

Pikes for arming the people, Chalfont St. Giles tradi-
tion, 210

Pincushions, their introduction, 447, 496
Pink (W. D.) on "Idle Dick Norton," 376

Moore (Mr. D. M.), 466

Pins, crooked, considered lucky, 447, 496

Piscon-led, meaning of the term, 226, 376

Pollard-Urquhart (Col. H. E. R.) on Bidding prayer, 32
Poll-books, Sussex, 70; bibliography, 349, 415; Lin-
colnshire, 509

Pomme on Cox's orange pippins, 508
Pomperkin, old term for cider, 187, 232
Ponthieu (Countess of), her family, 148
Pony, earliest quotation for the word, 267

Pithay, street-name, its origin, 168, 235, 418
Pitt, Lord Macaulay on satire on, 289, 315
Pius X., anagram on, 158, 251

Place-names, American, their varying pronunciation,
17, 276

Platt (I. H.) on Abraham Lincoln and European
politicians, 433

Copin (King): St. Coppin, 74

"

Esprit de l'escalier," 237

Habib Ullah, its pronunciation, 87

Haze, its meanings, 213

Hurstmonceaux, its pronunciation, 248

Ixtlilxochitl and other Aztec names, 325
Linguistic curiosity, 357
Maghzen, its meaning, 11
Mahalla, its meaning, 96
Maru, Japanese word, 318

Matross topass, their meaning, 411
Mesteque, its etymology, 105
Mitis, its etymology, 115
Pennell's Life of Leland,' 25
Powwow, its meaning, 265
Rājā-i-Rājgān, Indian title, 66
Ramsammy, its meaning, 473

St. Oswald: "Gescheibte Turm," 11
Scivroogh, its meaning, 516
Slovenish language, 436
Supawn, its origin, 163

Thune: Eil-de-boeuf, French slang, 8

Tobacco, its etymology, 167

Tradagh Drogheda, 328

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Ulidia, house motto, 356

Wangun, its etymology, 367
Ward surname, 154

Ytene, its pronunciation, 186
Plump in voting, use of the word, 77
"Plumper's Inn" and plump in voting, 205
Podike, use and meaning of the word, 293

Poonah painting, 107, 232

'Popery, tyranny, and wooden shoes," the English-
man's antipathy, 327, 393

Popjoy, etymology of the word, 88, 136
Porlock Church, niche in nave of, 228, 293

Porter (Miss Jane), Highgate romance in her 'Scottish
Chiefs,' 343

Porter (Sir R. K.), his panoramic painting of the
'Storming of Seringapatam,' 230, 317

Portobello, game and place-name, its derivation, 88,
198, 277, 355

Portraits of engineers, 347, 514

Post, used for bugle or trumpet sound, 389

Post boxes, their introduction, 72, 173

Post Office, new General, Roman remains found on
site of, 510

Postage stamps, 1839-62, literary references, 289
Pot-gallery, use and meaning of the word, 388, 431
Pot-hooks and hangers explained, 388, 432

Potie Warden, meaning of the term, 6, 79
Potter, Dr. Johnson as, 468

Potts (R. A.) on sonnets by A. and F. Tennyson, 159
Pourcuttle: pourcontrel, original form of the word, 427
Power (Lieut. T. B.), killed in naval action, 246, 352
Powwow, use and meaning of the word, 265, 497
Poynts, use and meaning of the word, 1640, 189, 232
Præmunire, etymology of the word, 189, 257
Precedent, spelt president, 227

Precket, Devon dialect word, its meaning, 206
Pre-Reformation usages, chantries and church stores,
467

Presbytery, last will of a, 244

President, used for precedent, 227

Preston Jubilee, theatrical performances, 227, 276, 417
Prideaux (Col. W. F.) on Charles I., 253, 414

Goldsmith's elegy on a mad dog, 297

Hornsey Wood House: Harringay House, 216, 371
Houses of historical interest, 312, 472

Linguistic curiosity, 307

Pamela, 265

Spelling changes, 218

Westminster changes, 1906, 232

Prideaux (W. R. B.) on "La Hueste Antigua," 387

Pictures at Teddington, 194

Primero, obsolete English game, 402
"Prince" Boothby, his biography, 405

Princess Royal, earliest use of the title, 469

Esprit de l'escalier, 189, 237, 250, 295, 393
Every man has his price, 367, 470, 492
Face upon conscience, 288

Il a les pieds blancs, 378

Lead his own horse, 367

Mony a pickle maks a mickle, 11, 112, 215
Mother of dead dogs, 457

Non sentis, inquit, te ultra malleum loqui ? 249
On the mending hand, 387

Ossing comes to bossing, 69, 135
Parson's nose, 420

Paws off, Pompey, 329, 377
Peacock feathers unlucky, 240

Penny saved is twopence got, 48, 97
Petty France, 120

Pop goes the weasel, 107

Possession nine points of the law, 167

Postage stamps first perforated, 320
Pull one's leg, 164

Road of words, 290, 354
Rump of a goose, 190, 418
Set up my (his) rest, 53, 175
Sham Abraham, 469

So long, 160

Sordid bonds of empire, 348, 417

Telling tales out of school, 407
Thumb-hand side, 467

To go to pot, 106

Toujours perdrix, 407, 457
Unconscionable time dying, 8

White man's burden, 348, 417

Public Office, Police Office, Police Court, 47, 90, 217
Public service, long, 7

Pugh (A. M.) on people to be avoided or cultivated, 175
"Pull one's leg," U.S. slang term, 164

'Punch,' and Lord Brougham, 246; on Oldridge's
Balm of Columbia, 289

Quadi and Marcomanni, Gibbon on, 89

Quapladde, family name, 14, 256

Querist on "Kingsley's Stand," 109

Quilt, use and meaning of the word, 244
Quintain, obsolete English game, 403
Quotations:-

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A long day's journey there lay before, 89
A primrose by the river's brim, 28

A qua ego nullum confiteor ætatis meæ tempus
abhorruisse, 309, 374

A sable cloud turns forth her silver lining, 60

All over loathsome with affectation of the fine
gentleman, 309, 374

̓Αλλ' οἱ γὰρ ἀθυμοῦντες, 158

Quotations:-

Amongst the wide waves set, 208, 254

An old lady in Babylon bred, 448

And while the priest did eat the people stared, 309
At enim trophæum, 49, 158

Bells they shall ring for thee, 428

Beware lest it be the desire for change, 49
Black is the raven, black is the rook, 212
Blessings beyond hope or thought, 40

But the man himself with his mind and heart, 309
But when I came into merry Carlisle, 489
Christian soldier, must we sever? 269, 394,413, 516
Cloth of gold, do not despise, 245

Custom lie upon thee with a weight, 508
Did we think victory great, 228

Δύ ̓ ἡμέραι γυναικός, 453

Errata alterius quisques correxerit, 149
Est bene non potuit dicere, dixit, erit, 338

Et la bonne vieille de dire, 149

For those short hours of happiness I thank thee, 508
For Witherington needs must I wayle, 426
Fought full fairly with their wrathful hands, 309
Frescas belvederes, 190, 233, 295, 391

Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables,
389

Gentle Achates, reach the tinder-box, 396

Get money, my son, get money if you can, 33
Give my youth, my faith, my sword, 10

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day,
228

He came on the angel of victory's wing, 149
He died as such a man should die, 149

He nothing common did or mean, 211
How vain is life, 356

I expect to pass through this world but once, 140

I hear a voice you cannot hear, 55

I must confess your wine and vittle, 232

I praise the Frenchman, 328

Icicles clink in the milkmaid's pail, 208

If more is needed to be known, 69

In marriage are two happy things allowed, 309,
374, 453

Je ne voudrais pas reprendre mon cœur de cette
sorte, 215

La vie est vaine, 15

Let Persian dames th' umbrella's ribs display, 267
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 356
Man dwells apart, but not alone, 208

Man never rises higher than when he knows not,
208, 435, 514

Matches and tunder, 396

Mony a pickle maks a mickle, 11, 112, 215

Ne gubernatoris quidem artem tranquillum mare,
337

No star ever rose or set without influence some-
where, 389, 453

Non sentis, inquit, te ultra malleum loqui? 249, 354
Not by the power of commerce, art, or pen, 233
O Charidas, what is there down below? 228, 274,
412

O marriage, happiest, easiest, softest state, 309
O mortal man, thou art born in sin, 309

O sinner! I come by Heaven's decree, 35

O ye who patiently explore, 200

Of all the operas that Verdi wrote, 12

Of those for whom we fond emotions cherish, 158

Omnia incommoda suo iure bona vocabuntur, 176
Once, we confess, beneath the patriot's cloak, 237
One impulse from a vernal wood, 28
Patience and gentleness are power, 208
People to be avoided or cultivated, 130, 175
Perchance from Salem's holier fields return'd, 213
Plato, that plank from the wreck, 208
Popery, tyranny, and wooden shoes, 327, 393
Posui Deum adjutorem meum, 29, 78
Quæ venit indigno pœna, 228, 274

Quhen to Makferland, wicht and bauld, 231
Radnorshire, Radnorshire, 205

Read the Rede of this Old Roof Tree, 314
Rest thee on this mossy pillow, 208

Robin promis'd me, 231

Sabina saw, but would not see, 69
Sardana, le preux chevalier, 509

She let the legions thunder past, 428
Ships that pass in the night, 200
Silenus, old drunken Silenus, 448

Since all our lives long we travel towards, 266
So passeth in the passing of the day, 208, 254
Some say the age of chivalry is gone, 169, 217
Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna, 105
Speak, History, who are life's victors? 328
Steal not this book, my friend, 212
Straight is the line of duty, 140

Supine in Sylvia's snowy arms he lies, 309

Tears are the oldest and the commonest, 309, 374
The first crowned head that enters Lincoln's
walls, 75

The hand that rocks the cradle, 140
The heart two chambers hath, 489
The maiden's delight, 35

The snowclad yew tree stirred with pain, 208
The tombs of Macleod and Maclean, 149
The words of the tragedian, Jam mansueta mala,
293

Their visnomies seemed like a goodly banner, 228
There dwells the scorn of vice and pity too, 309
There is a sweetness in autumnal days, 12

They mistook the end and overrated the force of
Government, 389, 453

They say that war is hell, a thing accurst, 269, 312
Tho' nature, red in tooth and claw, 40
Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, 35
Though with pistols 'tis the fashion, 448

Thy brandished whynyard all the world defies, 309
Till down he fell, yet falling fought, 426
Timidi nunquam statuerunt tropæum, 49, 158
Tire le rideau, la farce est jouée, 266
'Tis only in the land of fairy dreams, 309
To an exact perfection they have brought, 309
To-day, too, you hindered the cook, 426
To me the meanest flower that blows, 28
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 356
Toujours mécontent de ce qu'il vient de faire,
448, 493

Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner, 400
Ubi rudentes stridunt, 337

Un gros serpent mordit Aurèle, 246, 297

Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, 55, 436

Vir bonus es, doctus, prudens, 228

Walking in style by the banks of the Nile, 508
We grow up at random, 309

Quotations:-
:-

We mortals cross the ocean of this world, 208, 254
We possess an aristocracy the most democratic,
428, 493

We think so because all other people think so, 176
Weel, it disna matter mickle, 113
Whate'er in her horizon doth appear, 309, 374
When Byron died we held our breath, 208
When griping grief the heart doth wound, 498
When late I attempted your pity to move, 460
When Shakespear, Beaumont, Fletcher, 247
When we poor middies are pacing the deck, 489
Whereas by you I have been driven, 166
Whereas we've rescued you, ingrate, 166

Who does not venerate the chief of that illustrious
family, 448, 514

Who God-like clasps the triple forks, 428, 493
Who see a pin and pick it up, 496

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, 220

Winding 'neath rocks impending, 309

You may trust him, for he is a frugal man, 309
R. on Burton's 'Scented Garden,' 449

Roses of Gibraltar, 390

R. (A. B. E.) on Scott's Quentin Durward,' 508
R. (A. F.) on female auctioneers, 206

R. (D. M.) on mysteries of the Embo baronetcy, 315

R- -e (J.) on Roscoe arms and family, 328

R. (H.) on Cambridge booksellers and printers, 26
R. (I.) on picture of lady in red, 129

R. (M. A.) on Masonry and religion, 467
Racedham on William Seaton, 446
Radcliffe (J.) on treats: mullers, 517
Radford (G. H.) on 'The Confinement: a Poem,' 368
Radnorshire rime, 205

Rain and lunar halo, 193, 355
Rājā-i-Rajgan, Indian title, 66

Ramsammy, a drunken spree, 407, 473

Rance (A. K.) on a musical family: Dr. Jay, 293
Randolph (J. A.) on religious houses of Sussex, 415
Ratcliffe (T.) on bossing, 135

'Christmas Boys,' 31
Churchyard cough, 7
Cubbardy, its meaning, 287
Flint and steel, 396
Forwhy, its meaning, 375
Hammals, its meaning, 353
"Lead his own horse," 367
Life-star folk-lore, 196
Mansfield Gooseberry-Tart Fair, 476
Matches in Congreve, 451
Pincushions, 496
Pins, crooked, 496

Pot-hooks and hangers, 432
Shadow-catcher=photographer, 158
Spring-heeled Jack, 394

Step-dances, 378

"Taping shoos," 259

Three-candle folk-lore, 54

Twilt: quilt, 244

"Wax and curnels," 267, 497

Wound, its pronunciation, 391

Rauthmel (Rev. R.), curate of Whitewell, 8, 115
Read (F. W.) on Public Office Police Office, 90
Reade (A. L.) on "Prince" Boothby, 405

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Fleetwood of Penwortham, 474
Russell (Sir William Howard), 465