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MANUSCRIPTS, more valued by the Romans than vases of gold, i. 2; two
thousand collected by Trithemius, abbot of Spanheim, who died 1516,
7; recovery of, 17-24; of the classics, disregarded and mutilated by
the monks, 18; researches for, at the restoration of letters, 19;
great numbers imported from Asia, 20; of Quintilian discovered by
Poggio under a heap of rubbish, ib.; of Tacitus found in a
Westphalian monastery, ib.; of Justinian's code found in a city of
Calabria, ib.; loss of, ib.; unfair use made of by learned men, 22;
anecdotes concerning, 22-25; of Galileo, partly destroyed by his
wife's confessor, 28; ancient, frequently adorned with portraits of
the authors, 42; destruction of, at the Reformation, 51; of Lord
Mansfield destroyed in the riots of 1780, and of Dr. Priestley by
the mob at Birmingham, 53; loss of many of Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu's letters, 54; loss of letters addressed to Peiresc, ib.; of
Leonardo da Vinci, ib.; anecdotes of manuscripts of several
celebrated works, 375-377; description of the ancient adornments of,
ii. 28; of Pope's versions of the Iliad and Odyssey, 110; of Sir
Matthew Hale, bequeathed to Lincoln's Inn, to avoid their mutilation
by the licensers of the press, 220; slaves employed to copy, 398; of
the Vision of Alberico, preserved in the king's library at Paris,
422: of Galileo's annotations on Tasso, 444; destruction of Hugh
Broughton's, by Speed, 445; destruction of Leland's, by Polydore
Vergil, ib.; dilapidation of the Harleian, 446; suppression of one
relating to Sixtus IV. by Fabroni, ib.; of the Marquis of Halifax
suppressed, 447; Earl of Pulteney's and Earl of Anglesea's MS.
Memoirs suppressed, ib.; anecdotes of the suppression of various,
448-452; mutilators of, 448; of Oldys's, iii. 493.

MARANA, John Paul, author of the Turkish Spy, i. 377-379.

MARBLES, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244-247.

MARE CLAUSUM, written by Selden in answer to the Mare Liberum of
Grotius, ii. 80; copies preserved in the chest of the Exchequer and
in the Court of Admiralty, ib.

MARIONETTES, improved by the English, iii. 238.

MARLBOROUGH, the great Duke of (See BLENHEIM), account of his
wealth, iii. 108.

MAROLLES, Abbe de, a most egregious scribbler, i. 350; wrote his own
memoirs, 351; good advice in the postscript to the epistle
dedicatory of that work, ib.; his memoirs, ii. 538; anecdote of him
and De L'Etang, a critic, 539; notices of his voluminous works, ib.;
his magnificent collection of prints, 541.

MAROT, Clement, his character, ii. 474; his translation of the
Psalms, ib.; sung to the airs of popular ballads, 476; his Psalms
the fashion, 477; edition published by Theodore Beza, set to music,
ib.; his Psalms declared Lutheran, and himself forced to fly to
Geneva, ib.

MAR-PRELATE, the book suppressed, ii. 453.

MASKS, worn by Italian actors, ii. 124.

MASSINGER a student of the Italian drama, ii. 138.

MASQUES, notices of magnificent, in the time of Charles I., ii. 327;
the farewell masque of the Duke of Buckingham, 369; mistaken notions
of commentators regarding, iii. 5; their real nature, 7, 8, 9;
description of the masque of Night and the Hours, 10; their ultimate
ruin, by their splendour, at the court of Louis XIV., 13, note.

MASSILLON, i. 250.

MASTER of the Ceremonies, created by James the First, ii. 196.

MASTERLY IMITATORS, i. 258-261.

MATRIMONY, its suitableness to learned men considered, i. 332-334;
opinions of Sir Thomas Browne upon, 335; not borne out by his
practice, ib.

MAXIMILIAN the First, founds a poetical college at Vienna, i. 456.

MEALS, hours of, ii. 315.

MEDAL, struck by the Catholics to commemorate the massacre of the
Huguenots, iii. 249.

MEDALS, satiric, used as money in the Saturnalia, iii. 151; modern
applications of, 158-160.

MEDICINE and Morals, considerations on their connection, ii.
464-469; connection of the mind with the body, 470.

MEDINA CONDE, forges deeds and inscriptions to benefit the Church,
i. 136; sold a bracelet to the Morocco ambassador, as part of the
treasure of the last Moorish king, yet in fact fabricated by
himself, ib.

MEMOIRS, remarks on their interest as compared with history, i. 462.

MENDELSSOHN, anecdote of, i. 392.

MENDICITY, punished among the Jews and nations of antiquity, i. 199,
200; first made a trade of by liberated Christian slaves, 201;
punishment of in China, 202.

MENOT, Michael, a celebrated preacher, specimen of his sermons, i.
256.

MENTAL DISORDERS, singular mode of cure of, ii. 466; remarkable
anecdotes of, 468-470.

METEMPSYCHOSIS, doctrines of, advocated in the present age, i. 192;
notion long extant in Greece before the time of Pythagoras, ib.;
taught by the Egyptians, ib.; entertained by many Eastern nations
and by the Druids, ib.; Welsh system of, explained by Sharon Turner,
193; believed in Mexico, 194; Plutarch's description of, ib.

MICHAEL ANGELO, anecdote of, i. 258.

MIGNARD, a celebrated painter, curious anecdote concerning, i. 258,
259.

MILTON, his controversy with Salmasius and Morus conducted with
mutual revilings, i. 152, 153; absurdly criticised by Bentley,
370-373; indebted to Andreini for the first idea of Paradise Lost,
ii. 141; his works suffered at the hands of both Royalist and
Republican licensers, 223; his Areopagitica, 225; a passage in his
History of England suppressed, but preserved in a pamphlet, 448; his
Comus escaped the destruction of the Bridgewater papers, 451; the
story of him and the Italian lady, probably an invention of George
Steevens, iii. 299; copied from a French story purporting to be of
the 15th century, 300.

MILLINERS'bills, ancient and modern, ii. 39.

MIMES, Arch-mime followed the body of Vespasian at his funeral, iii.
120.

MIMI, an impudent race of buffoons, ii. 120; harlequin, a Roman
mime, 121, and note.

MINISTERS, origin of the term as applied to the pastors of Christian
churches, i. 128; palaces built by, notices of several, iii.
186-192; Sir Robert Walpole's remarks on the imprudence of their
erecting such, 193; yet builds one himself, ib.

MINSTRELS, ancient and modern, pickpockets, ii. 146, note.

MISHNA, see TALMUD.

MISSALS, gross adornments of, i. 366.

MODERN stories and plots, many derived from the East, i. 111, 112.

MODES of salutation in various nations, ii. 12.

MONK, General, anecdote of him and his wife, i. 468; his conduct
towards Charles II. at his landing, iii. 389.

MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley, suppression of her MSS., ii. 450.

MONTFLEURY, a French actor, death of, i. 248.

MONTLUC, Bishop of Valence, his negotiations for the election of the
Duke of Anjou as King of Poland, iii. 349-362.

MORALIITIES, see MYSTERIES and MORALITIES.

MORALITY of "Every Man," referred by Percy to the class of tragedy,
ii. 278.

MORE, Doctor, his extravagant Platonic opinions, i. 216.

MORUS, controversy of Salmasius with Milton, continued by, with
mutual abuse, i. 153.

MUSIC, use of, in discovering indispositions by the voice, i. 151;
influence of, in the cure of diseases, 269-271; effect of, on
animals, 272-274.

MUTILATIONS commonly practised in the middle ages, ii. 311.

MYSTERIES, ANCIENT, bibliographical note of such as are printed, i.
352, note; one still performed in Bavaria, i. 360, note.

MYSTERIES and Moralities introduced by pilgrims, i. 352;
subsequently distinguished characters actors in, 353; performed in
open plains, ib.; indulgence granted to frequenters of, ib.; at
Chester, ib.; singular anecdotes concerning a mystery, 354;
specimens from French mysteries, 355; observations of Bayle and
Warton on, 357; distinguished from each other, ib.; specimen of a
morality, 358; moralities allegorical dramas, ib.; passion of Rene
d'Anjou for, 360; triple stage used for representation of, 361;
anecdote relating to an English mystery, ib.; morality of "Love and
Folly," 362; at Kendal, Yorkshire, iii. 442; usually performed in
the festival of Corpus Christi, ib., note.

NAMES, anecdotes relating to, and to their effect on mankind, ii.
65-75; orthography of proper, ii. 237-239; names of our streets,
239-243.

NAMES, significance of Roman, ii. 75, note.

NARDI, his history of Florence, iii. 181.

NATURAL PRODUCTIONS resembling artificial compositions, i. 244-246.

NEAL, his account of the Nonconformists, iii. 240.

NEEDHAM, Marchmont, the great patriarch of newspaper writers, i.
158; short account of, ib.

NEOLOGY, or the novelty of new words and phrases, remarks on, iii.
23; Neological Dictionary proposed by Lord Chesterfield, 26; not
always to be condemned, 27; examples of the introduction of various
new words in French and English, 28-32; the term "fatherland"
introduced by the author, 31; picturesque words, 32.

NERLI, Philip, his "_Commentarj de Fatti Civili_," iii. 182.

NEWCASTLE, Margaret, Duchess of, celebrated among literary wives, i.
327-337; her account of her husband's mode of life, ii. 38, 39.

NEWSPAPERS, forged, and used unsuspectingly by historians, i. 156,
note.

NEWSPAPERS, originated in Italy, i. 155; called Gazettas, ib.; first
a Venetian, published monthly, ib.; circulated in manuscript, ib.;
prohibited by Gregory XIII., ib.; first English, 156; much used by
the English during the Civil Wars of Cromwell, and notices of these,
157-159; origin of, in France, 160; first daily one after the
Restoration, ib.; only one daily, in the reign of Queen Anne, ib.;
union between them and literary periodicals, opinions expressed on,
ib.

NEWTON, remarks on, iii. 413.

NICCOLI, Nicholas, founded the first public library in Italy, i. 4.

NICKNAMES, use of, practised by political parties, iii. 80;
instances of many, 81-89; serve to heat the minds of the people, 83;
of various Parliaments, 85; effect of, on ministers, 89.

NOBILITY, conduct of kings towards, ii. 11, 12.

NOBLEMEN turned critics, pair of anecdotes concerning, i. 131.

NOMINALISTS and Realists, i. 312.

NOSTRODAMUS, consulted by Catherine de' Medici, i. 279.

NOVELS, the successors of romances, i. 450; Adam Smith's favourable
opinion of, ib.

NUMERICAL Figures, of Indian origin, i. 276; introduction of Arabic,
277; Roman, ib.; origin of Roman, ib.; falsification of Arabic, 278.

OBSCURITY, in style, taught by a professor, i. 401; Lycophron
possessed this taste, 402; defence of, by Thomas Anglus, ib.;
Gravina's observations on, ib.

OLD AGE, progress of, in new studies, i. 98; remark of Adam Smith,
on resumption of former studies in, ib.

OLDYS, a literary antiquary, iii. 493; caricature of, by Grose, 495;
released from the fleet by the Duke of Norfolk, and made Norroy King
at Arms, ib., and note; author of the anacreontic, "Busy, curious,
thirsty fly," 496; placed in the library of the Earl of Oxford, 497;
his integrity, ib., and note; his literary labours, 497-499; his
life of Rawleigh, 499; history of his two annotated copies of
Langbaine, 502; fate of his MSS., 503; his diaries, 504; his
readiness to aid others with his knowledge, 506; his Dissertation on
English Poetry curtailed by the bookseller, 507; extracts from his
diaries, 508-511; his intended Life of Shakspeare, 509; anecdote of
him and Pope, 511.

OLIVETAN Bible, iii. 155.

OPINIONS, suppressed, modes of expressing them in ancient and modern
times, iii. 150; in the Saturnalia, ib.; by carvings and
illuminations, 152; preceding the Reformation, 153; instance of the
Olivetan Bible, 155; by medals and prints, 156.

ORCHIS, Bee and Fly, i. 245.

ORDEALS, i. 161-166.

ORDINARIES, the "Hells" of the 17th century, ii. 165; description of
the arts practised at, 165-167.

OROBIO, his description of his imprisonment in the Inquisition, i.
167.

ORTHOGRAPHY of proper names, ii. 261; of the name of Shakespeare,
ii. 238, note; of Sir Walter Raleigh, iii. 111.

OSMAN, Sultan, promotes his gardener, ii. 10.

OXFORD, Edward Vere, Earl of, his secret history, ii. 243-245.

PALACES built by ministers, iii. 186-192.

PALINGENESIS.--See REGENERATION.

PALMER, the actor, his death, i. 249.

PAMPHLETS, sketch of Myles Davis's history of, i. 343; origin and
rise of, 344; one pretended to have been composed by Jesus Christ,
ib.; Alexander Pope denounced as a plotter in a, 345; etymologies of
the word, 345-347.

PANTOMIME, French verses in praise of, and translation of, ii. 116;
Cervantes and Bayle's delight in, 116, 117; harlequin, 119; of the
lower Italians in their gestures, ib.; treatises on, 121;
transmitted from the Romans, 123; improvement of, by Ruzzante, 124;
the history of a people traced in, 125; description of the various
characters in Italian, 126.

PANTOMIMI, tragic actors usually mute, ii. 120; Seneca's taste for,
ib.; their influence over the Roman people, 121.

PANTOMIMICAL Characters. See PANTOMIME; Massinger and Moliere
indebted to, ii. 138; remarks on Shakspeare's "Pantaloon," 139.

PAPER, among the ancients, ii. 27, 28; introduction into England,
29; various sorts of modern, ib.

PARACELSUS, his receipt for making a fairy, iii. 286, 287.

PARADISE LOST, prose and verse versions of, i. 305.

PARISIAN Massacre, apology for, iii. 255-260, 352.

PARK, Mungo, his book interpolated and altered by his editor, Bryan
Edwards, ii. 453.

PARKER, Bishop of Oxford, iii. 279, note.

PARODIES, anecdote relating to, ii. 453; resembles mimicry, 454; not
made in derision, ib.; practised by the ancients, 455; ancient, of
Homer, ib.; modern, 456; dramatic, anecdotes of modern, 458-460;
legitimate use of, ib.

PARPAILLOTS, or Parpirolles, iii. 82.

PARTICULAR Providence, various opinions on, ii. 428-431; the
granting a free-conduct to Luther, by Charles V., possibly one, 432.

PASQUIN and Marforio, account of, i. 208.

PASQUINADES, origin of, and instances of several, i. 208.

PATRONS, their treatment of authors, i. 82; anecdotes regarding, 83,
84; opinion of Dr. Johnson upon, 83.

PAULUS JOVIUS, description of the country-house and collections of
statues, books, and portraits belonging to, i. 45; description of
the villa built by, iii. 397.

PAZZI, Cavaliero, founder of the Accademia Colombaria, ii. 483.

PEG-TANKARDS, ii. 296, and note.

PEIRESC, a man of incessant literary occupations, and an enthusiast
in the importation of exotic plants, ii. 151; anecdotes of, iii.
409.

PEMBROKE, Anne, Countess of, designed a history of her family, iii.
421.

PERFUMERY and costly washes, introduced into England by the Earl of
Oxford, i. 225.

PETITIONS, to Parliament against the Drama, ii. 289; mock, ib.

PETITIONERS and Abhorrers, iii. 87.

PETRACH, formula used at his coronation with the Laurel Crown, i.
455; his passion for literary composition, ii. 592; his Laura, iii.
309.

PICTORIAL Biography.--See MAGIUS.

PISISTRATUS, the first projector amongst the Greeks of a collection
of the works of the learned, i. 2.

PHILIP the First of Spain, i. 469; his marriage with Mary of
England, ib.; sought Queen Elizabeth in marriage, 470; offered
himself to three different sisters-in-law, ib.; his advice to his
son, ib.; his death-bed, ib.; his epitaph, 471.

PHILOSOPHY, dreams at the dawn of, iii. 280-290; mechanical fancies,
291, 292; inquiries after prodigies, 293; further anecdotes of,
294-296.

PHYSIOGNOMY, credited by Louis XIV. and James I., i. 148, 149.

PICART, his _impostures innocentes_, i. 259.

PICTURES belonging to Charles I., ii. 332, 333.

PINAMONTI, his book on the eternal punishments, i. 204, note.

PINELLI, his great library, and its partial destruction, i. 57, and
note.

PLAGIARISM, in printed sermons, i. 400; a professor of, ib.

PLANTS, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 245.

PLANTYN the printer, and his office at Antwerp, i. 77, note.

PLATINA, his account of his persecution and tortures, for having
been a member of the "Academy" at Rome, ii. 486.

PLATO, Aristotle studied under, i. 143; parallel between him and
Aristotle, ib.; contest between him and Aristotle, 144; the model
of the moderns who profess to be anti-poetical, 433; a true poet
himself, ib.

PLATONISM, modern, originated among the Italians, i. 213; system of,
by Gemisthus Pletho, ib.; professed by a Mr. Thomas Taylor, 215; by
a scholar in the reign of Louis XII., 216; by Dr. More, ib.

PLETHO, or Gemisthus, a remarkable modern professor of Platonism, i.
213.

PLATTS or Plots, theatrical discovery of curious ones at Dulwich
College, and remarks upon, ii. 138-140; see SCENARIO.

PLOTT, Dr., his project of a tour, iii. 292.

PLUNDER, etymology of, iii. 87, and note.

POETS, Plato's description of the feelings of, in the Phaedon, i.
433; opinions of various learned men on the works of, 433; remarks
on the habits of, 434, 435; behaviour of Frederic King of Prussia
(father of the Great Frederic) to, 436; different conduct of other
kings towards, 437; honours paid to, in the early stage of poetry,
ib.; anecdote of Margaret of Scotland and Alain the poet, 438;
opinions of the pious on the works of, ib.; too frequently merely
poets, 439; hints to young, 440; to veteran, ib.; mistresses of,
441; change their opinions of their productions, ib.; antiquity of
the custom of crowning, 454; abolished in the reign of Theodosius,
ib.; regal, 457; condemned, ii. 303-308; laureat, see LAUREATS.

POETICAL GARLAND, i. 247.

POETICAL imitations and similarities, ii. 92-113.

POINT-DEVICE, etymology of, iii. 188, and note.

POLAND, history of the election of the Duke of Anjou as King of,
iii. 346-363.

POLICHINELLO.--See PUNCH.

POLITIAN, Angelo, a polished Italian writer of the 15th century, i.
457; his dedicatory epistle, prefixed to his epistles, 458.

POLITICAL Nicknames, iii. 80-90.

POLITICAL Reports, false maxim on the efficacy of, ii. 438;
ancient instances, ib.; of the battle of Lutzen, 439; on the battle
of the Boyne, ib.; other anecdotes, modern and ancient, of the
effect of, 440-443.

POLITICAL Religionism, illustrations of its effects, iii. 238-244.

POLITICAL Prognostics.--See PREDICTIONS. Dugdale hastened his
labours in anticipation of the disorders of the Rebellion, iii. 261.

POLITICAL Parallels, iii. 267.

POLYDORE VERGIL, a destroyer of MSS., ii. 445.

POMPONIUS LAETUS, in the 15th century raised altars to Romulus, ii.
485; chief of the "Academy" at Rome, 486.

POPE, his manuscripts, ii. 110; passage from, with the various
alterations, 111, 112; Dr. Johnson's memorandum of hints for the
life of, 381; anecdote of, iii. 397.

POPE, project of the, for placing a cardinal on the throne of
England, ii. 505; favoured by Henry IV., ib.

POPES, their early humility and subsequent arrogance, ii. 83;
Celestine kicks off the crown of the Emperor Henry the Sixth, ib.;
their infallibility first asserted, ib.; protest of the University
of Vienna against, 84; their excommunications, ib.

PORTA, John Baptiste and John Vincent, found the academy "Degli
Oziosi," ii. 488; Baptiste's mechanical genius, iii. 290.

PORTRAITS, of authors, of celebrated men, i. 42-47; of the Fugger
family, 6; commonly prefixed to ancient manuscripts, 42; collections
of, amongst the ancients, 43; query upon the mode of their
transmission and their correctness, ib.; use of, ib.; anecdotes
relative to the effect of, 45; objections of ingenious men to sit
for, reprobated, 46; Granger's illustrations of, 45; Perrault's
"Eloges" confined to French, ib.; collection by Paulus Jovius, ib.;
doubts as to authenticity of several, ib.; literary, of himself, by
St. Evremond, 102; in minute writing, 275.

PORT ROYAL SOCIETY, the, i. 94; their Logic, or The Art of
Thinking, an admirable work, ib.; account of its rise and progress,
95; many families of rank erected houses there, ib.; persecuted and
destroyed by the Jesuits, 96; their writings fixed the French
language, ib.

POSIES on rings, iii. 39, note.

POVERTY, abridgment of history of, by Morin, i. 198; regulations
regarding, among the Jews, ib.; among the Greeks, Romans, and
Egyptians, 199; uncommon among the ancients, 201; introduction of
hospitals for the relief of, ib.

PRAYER-BOOKS, gross illustrations of, i. 366.

PREACHERS, jocular, i. 251-258.

PREDICTION, political and moral, determined by certain prognostics,
iii. 260; of the Reformation by Cardinal Julian, Sir Thomas More,
and Erasmus, 262; by Sir Walter Rawleigh, 263; of Tacitus, ib.; of
Solon, 264; of Charlemagne, ib.; Cicero's art of, ib.; faculty of,
possessed by Du Vair, 265; principles of, revealed by Aristotle,
266; by Mr. Coleridge, 268; of the French Revolution, 269, 270;
frequently false, 272; anecdotes, 273; of the end of the world, ib.,
note; of the destruction of London in 1750, ib., note; of American
independence, 274; sometimes condemned as false when really
verified, 275; caution to be observed in, 276; instances of, by
Knox, 277; of the death of Henry IV., ib.; reflections on, 278, 279.

PREFACES, frequently superior to the work, i. 71; a volume of,
always kept ready by Cicero, ib.; ought to be dated, 72; anecdote of
Du Clos' to a fairy tale, ii. 340.

PREFERMENT, anecdotes of, ii. 12.

PRESBYTERIANS, their conduct under Charles II., iii. 240; their
intolerance, 254.

PRESS-MONEY, proposition that those who refused it should be tried
by martial law, iii. 462, and note.

PRICE, Robert, a Welsh lawyer, incidents in his life, iii. 422.

PRIMERO, a game at cards described, ii. 166, note.

PRINCE HENRY, son of James I., resembled Henry V. in his features,
ii. 186; Dr. Birch's life of, 187; anecdotes concerning, 187-194;
his diary, 207.

PRINTING, art of, possessed by the Romans without being aware of it,
i. 43, and note; probably originated in China, ib., and note;
general account of early, 73-78.

PRINTERS, mention of early, i. 75.

PRINTS, satiric, iii. 160.

PROCLAMATIONS, against long swords and deep ruffs, i. 222; royal,
against buildings in London, iii. 365; to enforce a country
residence, 367; never possessed the force of laws, 366; of Henry
VIII., 372; of Mary, 373; of Edward VI., 374; of Elizabeth, 375; of
James I., 376; of Charles I., 377; of Charles II. against vicious,
debauched, and profane persons, ib.; others by Charles II., 379.

PROFESSION, the choice of one and its influence on the mind, with
some illustrative anecdotes, ii. 461-463.

PROPER names, orthography of, the uncertainty of, ii. 237; anecdotes
and instances of, 237-243.

PROTESTANTISM, once existed in Spain, ii. 434.

PROVERBS, use of, derided by Lord Chesterfield, iii. 33; records of
the populace, 34; existed before books, ib.; abound in the most
ancient writers, ib.; "the dark sayings of the wise," 35; introduced
into the Greek drama, 36; definition of, 38; influence of, over a
whole people, ib.; collection of, by Franklin, ib.; inscribed on
furniture, ib.; English, collected by Heywood, 39; a speech of, 40;
an era of, amongst the English, 41; long favourites in France, ib.;
comedy of, ib.; family, 42; ancient examples of the use of, 43;
some, connected with the characters of eminent men, 44; use of, by
poets, ib.; Eastern origin of many, 45; collection of, by Polydore
Vergil and Erasmus, of Spanish by Fernandez Nunes, of Italian and
French, English and Scotch, 46, 47; study of, 48; illustrative of
national character, 48-56; anecdotes of the origin of certain,
56-61; historical, 61; remarks on the arrangement of collections of,
63.

PRYNNE, his method of composition, ii. 534; his extraordinary
perseverance, ib.; title of the catalogue of his writings, 535; copy
of his works bequeathed to Sion College, ib.; the pretended
retractation of his Histriomastix, iii. 315, note.

PSALM-SINGING, remarks on, ii. 472; first introduction of, ib.; T.
Warton's criticism of, 473; history of, 473-478; practised at lord
mayor's feasts, 479.

PSALMANAZAR, his extraordinary literary forgery, i. 137, note; iii.
311; some account of, 312-314.

PUCK, the Commentator.--See STEEVENS.

PULTENEY, Earl of Bath, MS. Memoirs of, suppressed, ii. 447.

PUNCH, his ancient origin, ii. 122, and note; origin of his name,
ib., note.

PUNCHINELLO.--See PUNCH.

PUNNING, in a dictionary, i. 305.

PUNS, Cicero's, i. 69.

PUPPET-SHOWS in England, iii. 238.

PURGATORY, Cardinal Bellarmin's treatise on, i. 204.

PURITANS, turn bacchanalian songs into spiritual ones, ii. 148.

PURITANS and Precisians, party nicknames at the Reformation, iii.
84, 85.

PYROTECHNICS.--See FIREWORKS.

QUADRIO, his Universal History of Poetry, iii. 233; his ignorance of
English poetry, 234-236; his opinion of English comedy, 236; praises
our puppet-shows, 238.

QUEEN MARY the First, her marriage with Philip of Spain, i. 469; her
letter of instructions, ib.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, letter of, to her brother, Edward VI., i. 461; her
exhibition of youthfulness to the ambassador of the Scottish king,
463; remarkable period in her annals, ii. 179; her maiden state,
ib.; real cause of her repugnance to change it, ib., and note; her
artifices to conceal her resolution, 180; debates of the Commons on
the succession to, 181; address to, by the Duke of Norfolk, and her
answer, ib.; despatch of the French ambassador on this occasion,
181-186; her judicious conduct, ib.; her conduct towards printers
and authors, 221, 222; her dislike to the appointment of a
successor, iii. 331; account of her death-bed, 331, 332.

QUEEN ANNE BULLEN, anecdote relative to her execution, i. 462.

QUERNO, made laureat for the joke's sake, i. 455.

QUEVEDO, his love for Don Quixote, iii. 339.

QUINCE, origin of, ii. 157, note.

QUODLIBETS, or Scholastic Disquisitions, i. 60.

QUOTATION, remarks on the use of, ii. 416; Selden's precept for,
violated by himself, 417; Bayle's remarks on the use of, 418; when
used by an eminent author often appropriated by an inferior, 419;
value of the proper application of, 420.

RABBINICAL Stories, specimens of, i. 120-126; scripture quoted to
support, 126.

RANTZAU, founder of the great library at Copenhagen, stanzas by, i. 5.

RANZ DES VACHES, effect of, i. 274.

RAWLEIGH, Sir Walter, composed his History of the World in prison,
i. 36; assisted in that work by several eminent persons, ib.;
variations in orthography of his name, iii. 111, note; author's
account of his character, 112; Gibbon's and Hume's observations on,
113; cunning practised by, ib.; anecdotes of, 114; account of his
return from Guiana, 115, 116; his attempt to escape, 118; betrayed
by Sir Lewis Stucley, 119; narrative of his last hours, 124-129; his
History of the World, the labour of several persons, 131; note on
Mr. Tytler's remarks on the author's account of, 135, note; his
extravagance in dress, 407; notice of Oldys's life of, 499.

RAYNAUD, Theophilus, his works fill twenty folios, and ruined his
bookseller, 542; notice of, 543; his curious treatises, ib.

REALISTS, a sect of Scholars, i. 312.

REFORMATION, origin of, iii. 142.

REFUTATION, a Catholic's, i. 349.

REGENERATION of material bodies, iii. 286, 287.

RELICS of Saints, bought, sold, and stolen, i, 239; treatise on, by
Gilbert de Nogent, ib.; of St. Lewin, ib.; of St. Indalece, 240; of
St. Majean, ib.; of St. Augustin's arm, ib.; flogging of, ib.;
miracles performed by, ib.; miraculously multiplied, 241; anecdote
of a box of, presented by the Pope to Prince Radzivil, ib.;
Frederick the Wise, a great collector of, 242; phial of the blood of
Christ sent to Henry III., ib.; fall in price of, ib.; deceptive,
243.

RELIGION, state of, during the Civil Wars, iii. 433; illustrative
anecdotes of, 434-436; contest between Owen and Baxter on, 437;
confusion of, ib.; a colt baptised in St. Paul's Cathedral, 439, and
note; anecdotes, 439-441; noticed by George Wither the Poet, 442;
ordinance of the Parliament to rectify the disorders in, 443.

RELIGIONISM distinguished from religion, iii. 239.

RELIGIOUS Nouvellettes, a class of very singular works, i. 363;
account of one, 364; notice of one discussing three thousand
questions concerning the Virgin Mary, 365; Life of the Virgin, 367;
Jesuits usual authors of, 368; one describing what passes in
Paradise, ib.; the Spiritual Kalendar, ib.

REPRESENTATION, right of, not fixed in the 10th century, i. 162.

RESIDENCES of literary men, notices of several, iii. 394-399.

REVIEWS.--See LITERARY JOURNALS.

REVOLUTIONS, maxim on, iii. 278.

RHYMES inscribed on _knives_, and alluded to by Shakespeare, iii.
38, note; on _fruit trenchers_, ib.; on _rings_, 39, note.

RICCOBONI, a celebrated actor, his remarks on the Italian extempore
comedy, ii. 134; anecdote of, 137; his inscription on the curtain of
his theatre, ib.

RICH, a celebrated harlequin, ii. 130, and note.

RICHARDSON, the author of _Sir Charles Grandison_, remarks on him
and his works, ii. 62-65.

RICHELIEU, Cardinal de, his general character, ii. 349; his death-bed,
ib.; anecdotes of the sinister means practised by, 350; his
confessor, Father Joseph, 351-353; projects of assassination of,
354, and note; drives Father Caussin, the king's confessor, into
exile, 355.

RIVE, Abbe de, librarian of the Duke de la Valliere, iii. 341; his
style of criticism, 342; his collections for works never begun, ib.;
his observations on the cause of the errors of literary history,
344.

ROBINSON CRUSOE, remarks on, ii. 274; history of, traced, 275;
written by Defoe, after illness, and in comparative solitude, 276;
not published till seven years after Selkirk's adventures, 277.

ROC, the, of Arabian tales, a creature of Rabbinical fancy, i. 124.

ROCHEFOUCAULT De la, remarks on him and his maxims, i. 110.

ROCHELLE, expedition to, ii. 367; preparations for, ib.; frustrated
by the death of Buckingham, 369.

ROMANCES, the offspring of fiction and love, i. 442; early, ib.;
that of Heliodorus denounced in the synod, 443; forbidden in the
Koran, ib.; of the Troubadours, 444; modern poets indebted to, ib.;
Le Roman de Perceforest, 445; of chivalry, examples of, 446;
Italian, 448; use made of by poets, 449; French, ib.; went out of
fashion with square cocked hats, 450; modern novels, ib.; histories
of, 451; D'Urfe's Astraea, ib.

ROMNEY the painter, his belief in alchymy, i. 282, and note.

RONSARD, the French bard, and his Bacchanalia, ii. 41.

ROSY-CROSS, the President of, proffers his advice to Charles I., iii.
464.

ROUSSEAU, his prediction of the French Revolution, iii. 271, 272,
and note; his favourite authors, iii. 340.

ROYAL Autographs, iii. 165.

ROYAL Promotions, ii. 10.

ROYAL SOCIETY, origin of, ii. 410-413.

ROYAL Society of Literature, ii. 406, note.

RUBENS, his house at Antwerp, iii. 398; his love for collections of
art, 399, and note.

RUFFS, extravagances in, i. 222-227.

RUMP, the origin of the term, iii. 482, 483; three stages in its
political progress, 484; songs upon, 485; debate of the, whether to
massacre all the king's party, 487; parallel between their course of
conduct and that of the leaders in the French Revolution, 489-493.

SAINTE Ampoule, ii. 434, note.

SALMASIUS, his controversy with and abuse of Milton, i. 152-154.

SALVATOR ROSA, fond of acting in extemporal comedy, ii. 133.

SANDRICOURT, the Sieur de, ruined himself by one fete, iii. 402-405.

SANS CULOTTES, iii. 83.

ST. AMBROSE, writes a treatise on Virgins, i. 412; and another on
the Perpetual Virginity of the Mother of God, ib.; his chastisement
of an erring nun, ib.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW, apology for the massacre of, iii. 255-260.

ST. EVREMOND, literary portrait of, by himself, i. 102.

ST. URSULA and the Eleven Thousand Virgins all created out of a
blunder, i. 324.

ST. VIAR, created by an error, i, 323.

SATIRICAL medals, iii. 156-160.

SATIRISTS may dread the cane of the satirised, i. 442.

SATURNALIA, institution of among the Romans, derived by Macrobius
from the Grecians, ii. 256; dedicated to Saturn, ib.; latterly
prolonged for a week, 257; description of, ib.; crept into the
Christian Church, 258, and note; practised in the middle ages, 259;
Feast of Asses, ib.; "December liberties," 260; the boy-bishop, 261;
Lord of Misrule, ib.; Abbot of Unreason, 262; description of a grand
Christmas held at the Inns of Courts, 263-265, and note; the last
memorable, of the Lords of Misrule of the Inns of Court, 266;
anecdote of a Lord of Misrule, 267; the Mayor of Garratt, 269;
regiment de la Calotte, ib., and note, 270; Republic of Baboonery,
ib.; medals used for money in, iii. 150, 151.

SAUNTERING, i. 175.

SAVAGES, various usages of at meals, i. 171-173.

SCALIGER, Julius, his singular manner of composition, ii. 86.

SCARAMOUCHES.--See PANTOMIME. Punch and Zany, prints of, ii. 125;
character of, invented by Tiberio Fiurilli, 126; power of a
celebrated, ib.

SCARON, account of his life and works, i. 421-428.

SCENERY of the old English stage, iii. 4, and note.

SCENARIE, the plots of extemporal comedies, ii. 130; description of,
note; some discovered at Dulwich College, 139, 140, and note.

SCRIBLERAID, the, a poetical jest on pseudo-science, by R. O.
Cambridge, i. 295, and note.

SCRIPTURE story treated like mediaeval romance, i. 163, and note.

SCUDERY, Mademoiselle, composed ninety romances, i. 106; panegyrics
on, ib.; her "Great Cyrus and Map of Tenderness," 107.

SCUDERY, George, famous for composing romances, i. 107; a votary of
vanity, ib.; author of sixteen plays, 108.

SECRET HISTORY, of authors who have ruined their booksellers, ii.
532-546; of an elective monarchy, iii. 346-363; the supplement of
history itself, iii. 380; reply to an attack on the writers of, 382;
two species of, positive and relative, ib.; the true sources of to
be found in MS collections, 383; neglect of by historians, 384; its
utility, 385; of the Restoration, 386; of Mary, the Queen of William
III., 389-393.

SEDAN chairs, introduced into England by the Duke of Buckingham, ii.
36.

SEGNI, Bernardo, his History of Florence, iii. 182.

SENTIMENTAL biography, iii. 414-424.

SERASSI, writes the life of Tasso, ii. 444; finds Galileo's MS.
annotations, copies them, and suppresses the original, ib.

SERMONS, printed, Bayle's saying on, i. 345.

SEYMOUR, William, his family and character, ii. 508; enters into a
treaty of marriage with the Lady Arabella Stuart, ib.; summoned
before the Privy Council, ib.; his marriage, 509; imprisoned in the
Tower, ib.; his wife's letter to him, 510; his escape, 515; is
permitted to return, 519.

SHAKESPEARE, Fuller's character of, i. 380; orthography of his name,
ii. 238, and note; introduces a masque in his "Tempest," and
burlesques the characters in court masques, iii. 5, and note;
bequest to his wife, 302.

SHENSTONE, the object of his poem of the Schoolmistress misunderstood,
ii. 496; his ludicrous index to, 499; his character, his life, and
his works, iii. 90-102.

SHOEING-HORNS, ii. 297, note.

SILHOUETTE, a term not to be found in any dictionary, iii. 84;
originated in a political nickname, ib.

SILK stockings, pair of, presented to Queen Elizabeth, i. 226.

SILLI, ancient parodies, ii. 455.

SKELTON, his satire on Wolsey, iii. 187.

SNEEZING, the custom of saluting after, i. 126; attributed to St.
Gregory, ib.; Rabbinical account of, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 127.

SNUFF-BOXES, the rage, in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 229; the
Jesuits', reported to be poisoned, ii. 442.

SOLITUDE, treatise on, by Sir George Mackenzie, ii. 50; necessary
for the pursuits of genius, 52; discomforts of 53, 54.

SOLOMON, accounted an adept in necromancy, i. 122; story of him and
the Queen of Sheba, 202.

SONGS among the Grecians, ii. 142; sayings of Fletcher of Saltoun,
and Dr. Clerk on, ib.; Greek songs of the trades, 143; of the
weavers among the English, ib.; harvest and oar-songs in the
Highlands, ib.; of the gondoliers, ib.; Dibdin's, 144; old English,
145; Swiss, 146; Italian, composed at Florence, under the Medici,
ib.; French "Chansons de' Vendange," 147; parodied, by Puritans,
148; slang or flash, known to the Greeks, and specimens from
Athenaeus, 149; ancient practices in, connected with old English
customs, 150; political, iii. 179, 180.

SONNAH, the, i. 113.

SOTADES travestied the Iliad, ii. 455.

SOTTIES, more farcical than farce, i. 358; specimen of one, 359-360.

SOVEREIGNTY of the seas, ii. 79-81.

SPANISH Etiquette, instances of its absurdity, i. 194.

SPANISH Poetry, i. 100; remarks on and illustrative quotations of,
101; translation of a madrigal found in a newspaper, 102.

SPEED, the historian, suspicions of his originality, ii. 445.

SPENSER, Fuller's character of, i. 379.

SPIDERS, influence of music on, i. 272; admired as food, ii. 355,
note.

STANZAS to Laura, i. 230.

STARCHING, origin of, i. 227.

STEEVENS, George, the Puck of commentators, iii. 296; account of his
literary forgeries, 297, 298; the story of Milton and the Italian
lady attributed to, 299; his motives for omitting the Poems from his
edition of Shakespeare, 301; his trick on the antiquary Gough, 303,
304.

STEPHENS, Robert, the printer, his family and their works, i. 76,
note; divided the Bible into chapter and verse, iii. 433.

STERNHOLD and Hopkins, their version of the Psalms, ii. 472.

STONES, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244, 245.

STOSCH, Baron, his dishonest collecting, iii. 318.

STREETS of London, origin of many of their names, ii. 239-243.

STUART, Arabella, mistakes of historians regarding, ii. 502; her
history, 503-519.

STUCLEY, Sir Lewis, Vice-Admiral of Devon, accepted a surveillance
over his kinsman, Sir Walter Rawleigh, iii. 116; his base treachery,
119; universally shunned in consequence, 120; convicted of clipping
gold, ib.; his miserable death, 121.

STUDENT in the metropolis, the, description of, by Gibbon, Rogers,
and Descartes, i. 112.

STUDY, plans of historical, ii. 90-92.

STUKELEY, Dr., his Imaginary History of the Empress Oriuna, i. 324,
note.

STYLE, remarks on, in the composition of works of science, i. 89;
strictures on the, of theological writers, ii. 21, 22; on that of
Lancelot Addison, 23.

SUGAR-LOAF-COURT, origin of the name, ii. 10.

SUPPRESSION of MSS.--See MANUSCRIPTS.

SYDENHAM, F., his melancholy death occasions the foundation of the
Literary Fund, i. 34, and note.

TABLETS, and Table-books, ii. 26.

TALMUD, many copies of, burnt, i. 48; a collection of Jewish
traditions orally preserved, 114; comprises _Mishna_, which is the
text of the _Gemara_, its commentary, ib.; general account of, ib.;
believed apocryphal, even by a few among the Jews, ib.; time of the
first appearance of its traditions uncertain, ib.; compiled by
Jewish doctors to oppose the Christians, ib.; analysis of, by W.
Wotton, 115; two Talmuds, ib.; committed to writing, and arranged by
R. Juda, prince of the Rabbins, forming the Mishna, ib.; disputes
and opinions of the Rabbins on the form of the Mishna, ib.; God's
study of, ib.; curious, from its antiquity, 116; specimens of, from
the Mishnic titles, 116-118; and from the Gemara, 119.

TASSO, various opinions on the respective merits of him and Ariosto,
i. 386; Boileau's criticism on, 388; his errors national, ib.; his
verses sung by the gondoliers, ib.

TAXATION, remarks on the popular feeling on, in ancient and modern
times, iii. 193; associated with the idea of tyranny, ib.;
illustrative anecdotes, 194; efficacy of using a mitigated term for,
195; gifts, tribute, benevolences, and loans, 195-198; Burleigh's
advice on, 199.

TAYLOR, Thomas, a modern professor of Platonism, i. 215.

TEA, opposition to the introduction of, ii. 317; present of,
declined by the Russian ambassador, 318; Dutch bargain for, 319;
introduction into Europe, ib.; shop-bill of the first vendor of,
320.

TENURES, curious ancient, i. 187, note.

THOMAS AQUINAS, some account of the works of, i. 63-65.

TIMON of Philius, his parodies of Homer, ii. 455.

TICHBOURNE, Chidiock, concerned in Babington's conspiracy, ii. 171;
his address to the populace at his execution, 176; his letter to his
wife, 177; verses composed by him the night before his execution,
178.

TITLES, origins of, and anecdotes concerning, i. 155; book of,
published in Spain, ib.; Selden's _Titles of Honour_, ib.; of books,
288-292.

TOLERATION, practised by the Romans, and inculcated by Mahomet, iii.
245; caution used in publishing works on, ib.; early English
advocates of, 246, and note; in Holland, ib.; facts illustrative
of the history of, 247, 248; condemned by all parties, 249-253;
opinions of an English clergyman on, 252.

TOM O' BEDLAMS, account of, ii. 311-314, and notes; songs of, 315-317.

TORTURE, Felton threatened with, ii. 376; its frequent use in
England, ib.

TORQUEMADA, first Spanish inquisitor, in fourteen years persecuted
80,000 individuals, i. 166.

TOWNLEY, Zouch, his poem on Felton, ii. 378; collection of antique
marbles formed by his descendant Charles Townley, purchased for the
British Museum, ib., note.

TRAITORS, barbarous mode of execution of, in Queen Elizabeth's time,
ii. 175, and note.

TREASURES in hills, iii. 295, note.

TREVOUX.--See DICTIONARY.

TROUBADORS, their poems and their loves, i. 444.

TRUSLER, Doctor, first vendor of printed sermons imitating manuscript,
i. 400.

TURNER, Doctor, a violent opposition leader in the second Parliament
of Charles I., iii. 451; an agent of the opposition in Parliament
against the measures of Charles I., 466; a disappointed courtier,
467, note.

TURKISH SPY, the, i. 377; John Paul Marana, the author of, 378.

URBAN the Eighth, instances of his poetic sensibility, i. 456.

USURERS of the 17th century, notice of the practices of, ii. 158-170.

USURY, contrary opinions on, ii. 174, 175.

UTOPIA, Sir Thomas More's, missionaries proposed to be sent to, i. 320.

VACCINATION, strange dread of, ii. 317.

VALLANCEY'S Collectanea, curious error in, i. 326, note.

VANBRUGH, the architect of Blenheim, got a power from Lord Godolphin
to contract in the Duke of Marlborough's name, iii. 104; produces
the power, 106; his depositions, ib.; attempt of the Duchess of
Marlborough to charge the debts of Blenheim on, 108; conduct of the
Duchess towards, 109; discovery of his origin, 110, 111.

VARCHI, Benedetto, his "Storie Florentine," iii. 183; remarks of Mr.
Merivale on, ib., note.

VARILLAS, his fictitious work on the Reformation, i. 132, note.

VASARI'S History of Artists, not entirely written by himself, iii.
131.

VATICAN, library of, i. 4.

VAUCANSON, his mechanical figures, iii. 284, note.

VAUDEVILLES, origin of the name, ii. 148.

VERSES, follies in the fantastical forms of, i. 295-300; reciprocal,
ib.

VICAR OF BRAY, story of the, i. 196; Dr. Kitchen, Bishop of
Llandaff, acted the same part, 197; type of, ii. 37.

VIDA, Jerome, from the humblest obscurity attained to the episcopacy,
i. 105.

VISION OF ALBERICO, ii. 422; of Charles the Bald, 423.

VIRGIN MARY, images of, frequently portraits of mistresses and
queens, i. 366; miraculous letter of, 367; Louis II. conveys
Boulogne to, ib.; Life of, by Maria Agreda, ib.; worship paid to, in
Spain, 368; system of, in seven folio vols., 369.

VIRGINITY, St. Ambrose's treatise on, i. 412.

WALKER, his account of the clergy of the Church of England who were
sequestered, &c., iii. 243.

WALPOLE, Sir Robert, his magnificent building at Houghton, iii. 191.

WALSINGHAM, Sir Francis, died in debt, iii. 192.

WALWORTH, Sir William, his private motive for killing Wat Tyler,
iii. 470, note.

WARBURTON, J., by neglect causes the destruction of old manuscript
plays, i. 54, note.

WAT TYLER, anecdote of, iii. 470, note.

WESTMINSTER elections always turbulent from the days of Charles the
First, iii. 461, note.

WHIG and Tory, origin of the terms, iii. 88.

WHISTLECRAFT'S Poem on King Arthur, ii. 496, note; imitated by Byron
in his Beppo, ib.

WHITELOCKE, his Memorials, ii. 212; his remembrances, a work
addressed to his family, lost or concealed, ib.; preface to the
Remembrances preserved, ib.; omissions in first edition of his
Memorials, ii. 448.

WIFE, Literary, i. 327; of Budaeus, 328; of Evelyn, who designed the
frontispiece to his translation of Lucretius, ib.; of Baron Haller,
ib.; Calphurnia, wife of Pliny, ib.; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle,
329; extract from her epistle to her husband, ib.; notices of the
wives of various celebrated men, 332-337.

WIGS, custom of using, i. 217-220; Steele's, 229.

WILKINS, Bishop, his museum, iii. 291.

WINKELMANN, the plan on which he composed his works, ii. 89.

WOLSEY, Cardinal, his magnificent houses, iii. 187.

WOMEN, actors, first introduced on the Italian stage, ii. 140; on
the English, 284; Kynaston a favourite actor of female characters,
285, note.

WOODCUTS, ancient, in the British Museum, i. 74, note.

WORDS, introduction of new.--See NEOLOGY.

WOOD, Anthony, when dying, caused his papers to be destroyed, ii.
243; some, however, preserved, ib.; secret history of the Earl of
Oxford drawn from, ib.; compelled to disavow the translation of his
book, 453; Gibbon's opinion of his dulness opposed, 538, note.

WRITING, minute, i. 275; ancient modes of, ii. 20-26; materials used
for, 27-30.

WRITING-MASTERS, iii. 167; Massey's lives of, 169; anecdote of
Tomkins, 171; Peter Bales, a celebrated, 173; account of his contest
with David Johnson, 173-177.

XENOCRATES, pupil of Plato, attacked Aristotle, i. 142.

YVERY, notice of the History of the House of, iii. 420, and note.

ZANY, etymology of the word, ii. 123; and notes.

THE END.

Transcriber's note: The following typographical errors have been corrected:

In page 45: "Y l pedir dolor." amended to "Y el pedir dolor."

In page 47: "The plan consists of a dialogue betwen a philosopher and
a Sancho Panca..." 'betwen' amended to 'between'.

In page 66: Added double quotes at the begining of: "Lo! the
Nominalists and the Realists again!"

In page 208: Added double quotes at the end of: "He is dead, sir!
asking your pardon for mentioning such a contemptible wretch!"

In page 229: "Journal and Dictionary, which latter is almost an
enclycopaedia as there are few things..." 'enclycopaedia' amended to
'encyclopaedia'.

In page 230: "Duc de Maine" amended to "Duc du Maine".

In page 318: "which of all those things which admit of being secretly
purlioned, can only be practised in this department..." 'purlioned'
amended to 'purloined'.

In page 504: "Cadell to the late Geroge Robinson, and that the
successor of Dr. Kippis." 'Geroge' amended to 'George'.

In footnote 143: "The introductory account of Heylin has enabled us to
correct the present article in some particulars, and add a few usefu
notes." 'usefu' corrected to 'useful'.

In footnote 245: Added double quotes at the begining of: "heretykes,
perverters of Christes relygyon."

In the Index: Discoveries in literature and science, aptitude in,
obtained hy studious men, iii. 'hy' corrected to 'by'.