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    Notes and Queries, Index to Ninth Volume, January-June 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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    Notes and Queries, Index to Ninth Volume, January-June 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

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      Notes and Queries, Index to Ninth Volume, January-June 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc - Various Various

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      Title: Notes and Queries, Index to Ninth Volume, January-June 1854

             A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,

                    Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

      Author: Various

      Editor: George Bell

      Release Date: June 12, 2013 [EBook #42922]

      Language: English

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      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

      When found, make a note of.—Captain Cuttle.

      INDEX

      TO

      THE NINTH 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.]

      SUBJECTS.

      A.

      Abbott families, 105. 233. 458.

      Aberbrothock, or Arbroath, 519.

      Abigail, a lady's maid, 359.

      Abscond, its primary meaning, 347.

      Aches rhyming with artches, 351. 409. 571.

      Acrostic in Ash Church, Kent, 146.

      —— on Johannes Glanvill, 322.

      Addison and Watts, 373. 424.

      Ætna, journey to the crater of, 563.

      Ague, charm for the, 242.

      Ἀιὼν, its derivation, 192.

      Alderley, the old clock at, 269.

      Alfred (king), pedigree to his time, 233. 338. 552.

      * Alibenistic order of freemasons, 56.

      Alison (Sir Archibald) in error, 196.

      Almanacs, books of, 561.

      Altar, reverence to, 566.

      Alva (Duke of) noticed, 76. 158.

      Ambiguity in public writing, 52.

      Ambry, its meaning, 459.

      American languages, ancient, 194.

      —— poems imputed to English authors, 377.

      Amontillado sherry, 222. 336. 474.

      Ampers and, its meaning, 43.

      Anachronisms, 367.

      Anagram on Charles Stuart, 42.

      Ancren Riwle, MSS. of, 5.

      André (Major) noticed, 111. 520.

      * Andrews (Bishop), puns in his sermons, 350.

      Annandale (the last Marquis), 248.

      * Anne of Geierstein, noticed, 36.

      Anne (Queen), her motto, 20. 78.

      Anonymous Works:—

      * Adventures in the Moon, 245.

      * Athenian Sport, 350.

      * Austria as it Is, 542.

      Bruce, Robert I., his Acts and Life, 452.

      Christabel, the Third Part, 18.

      Cobler of Aggawam, 517.

      * Cow Doctor, 246.

      * Ded. Pavli, 302.

      * Es tu Scolaris, 540.

      * Gentleman's Calling, 175.

      * Historical Reminiscences of O'Byrnes, O'Tooles, and other Irish chieftains, 11.

      * Innocents, a drama, 272.

      Les Lettres Juives, 160.

      Letter to a Member of Parliament, by W. W., 515.

      Liber Passionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, 447.

      * Life of Lamenther, 173.

      * Lights, Shadows, and Reflections of Whigs and Tories, 245.

      Lounger's Common-place Book, 174. 258.

      * Lydia, or Conversion, 76.

      Lyra Apostolica, 304. 407.

      Marriage in High Life, 590.

      Merciful Judgment of High Church, 97. 160.

      * Negro's Complaint, 246.

      * New Holland, Account of an Expedition to, 271.

      Obsolete Statutes: A Letter to a Member of Parliament, 562.

      * Original Poems, by C. R., 541.

      * Outlines of the History of Theology, 303.

      Pinch of Snuff 408.

      * Posthumous Parodies, 244.

      Rodondo, or the State Jugglers, 589.

      Salmon's Lives of English Bishops, 175.

      * Shipwrecked Lovers, 450.

      * Soomarokoff's Demetrius, its translator, 246.

      Trevelyan, 590.

      Turks in Europe, 542.

      * Village Lawyer, 493.

      Whitelocke's Memorials, 127.

      Whole Duty of Man, 551.

      Wilkins (Peter), 543.

      Ansareys on Mount Lebanon, 169.

      Antipodes, what day at our? 288.

      Antiquarian documents, 513.

      Antiquaries, Society of, annual meeting, 410.

      their collection of portraits, 138.

      Apocryphal works, 542.

      Apparition of the White Lady, 431.

      * Apparition which preceded the Fire of London, 541.

      Arabian Nights' Entertainments, omission in, 44.

      Arabian tales and their sources, 319.

      Archaic words, 491.

      Arch-Priest of Exeter, 105. 185. 312. 568.

      Aristotle on living Law, 373. 457. 529.

      Armorial queries, 398. 421.

      * Arms, French or Flemish, 541.

      Arms, royal, in churches, 327.

      * Army lists for seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 589.

      * Army, scarlet regimentals of, 55.

      Artesian wells, 222. 283. 499.

      Arthuriana, 371.

      * Arundel (Richard Fitz-Alan, ninth earl), 516.

      * Ascension-day custom, 9.

      * Ascham (Roger), his letters, 588.

      Asgill on Translation to Heaven, 376.

      Ashmans, pictures at, 86.

      Ashton (Ralph) the commander, 272. 325.

      Aska or Asca, 488.

      Asteroids, or recently discovered planets, 36. 129.

      * Atchievement in Yorkshire, 349.

      Athens, a violet-crowned city, 496. 575.

      * Atherstone family, 221.

      Atonement, its theological use, 271. 503.

      Atterbury (Bishop), his portrait, 163. 395.

      Augustine on clairvoyance, 511.

      Authors and publishers, hint to, 31.

      Authors, remuneration of, 404.

      Authors' Trustee Society, 269.

      Awkward, its etymology, 480.

      Awkward, or awart, a provincialism, 209.

      B.

      Back, Bristol localities, 517.

      Bacon (Lord) and Bishop Andrews, 466.

      * Bacon (Lord) and Sir Simon D'Ewes, 76.

      Baker (Thomas), letter to Humphry Wanley, 7.

      Balaam box, 483.

      Bale (John), Bishop of Ossory, 324. 407.

      * Bale (John), his work on libraries, 589.

      Ballina Castle, Mayo, 311.

      Barbour (John), Scottish metrical historian, 453.

      Barmecides' feast, 543.

      Barrels regiment, 63. 159. 545.

      Barrett (Eaton Stannard), poem on Woman, 17.

      Barristers' gowns, 323.

      * Bart (Jean), his descent on Newcastle, 451.

      Barton (Mrs. C.) and Lord Halifax, 18.

      Bateman (Christopher), bookseller, 585.

      Bathurst (Dr.), Bishop of Norwich, 422.

      Battel at the universities, 326.

      * Battles, description of, wanted, 246.

      Baxter (Richard) on apparitions, 12. 62.

      ——, inscription on his pulpit, 31.

      B. C. Y. characters, 149.

      Beattie (Dr.) on the English liturgy, 466.

      Bee, the wandering, 370.

      Bees, legends respecting, 167.

      —— on bartering for, 446.

      Belgium ecclesiastical antiquities, 386.

      Bell inscriptions, 109. 592.

      Bell at Rouen, 233. 529.

      Bell literature, 240. 310.

      Bell, why tolled on leaving church, 125. 311. 567.

      Belle Sauvage, its derivation, 44. 89.

      Bellman at Newgate, 565.

      * Berkhampstead records, 56.

      * Bersethrigumnue, its meaning, 373.

      Bible, an illustrated one of 1527, 352. 504.

      Bible, Breeches, an imperfect one, 273.

      Bible Society of the Roman Catholics, 41. 111.

      Bibles, errata in, 391.

      —— reprints of early, 487.

      Bickford (Wm.), letter to Rev. Mr. Amory, 7.

      Bigot, its derivation, 560.

      Binding of old books, how polished, 401.

      Bingham's Antiquities, queries in, 197. 308.

      * Bingham (Sir John) noticed, 450.

      * Birds, marvellous combat of, 303.

      Birm-bank, its derivation, 12.

      Bishops' kennel of hounds, 247. 432.

      —— tombs, 146.

      * Black cap of the judges, 399.

      Blackguard, its original meaning, 15. 153. 503.

      Blase (St.), his festival at Norwich, 353.

      * Blechenden family, 422.

      Blessington (Countess of), her letter to Sir Wm. Drummond, 268.

      B. L. M., Italian subscription, explained, 43.

      Bloater or herring, explained, 347.

      Bloet

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