Chapter I: Front Matter

NOTES AND QUERIES:

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

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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

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VOLUME FIRST.

NOVEMBER, 1849-MAY, 1850.

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INDEX.

A.

Abbey of St. Wandrille, 382. 486. Abdication of James II., 39. 489. Aberdeen, Burnet prize at, 91. Aboriginal chambers near Tilbury, 462. A.(B) on emancipation of the Jews, 475. Accuracy of references, 170. Addison's books, 212. Adolphus on a recent novel, 231. Advent bells, 121. Adversaria, 73. 86. Aelfric's colloquy, 168. 197. 232. 248. 278. Aelian, translation of, 267. 284. A.(F.R.) on Sterne's Koran, 418. ---- on a passage in Goldsmith, 83. ---- Queen of Hearts, 320. Agricola (C.), Propugnaculum anti-Pistorianum, 203. A.(J.D.) on swords worn in public, 415. Alban's (St.) Day, 399. ---- law courts at, 366. Albert (Le Petit), 474. Alchemy, metrical writings on, 60. Alexandria (Ptolemy of), 142. 170. Alfred's (King) geography of Europe, 257. 313. ---- works, 93. Alicui on Becket's grace-cup, 143. ---- on Bishop Barnaby, 132. All Angels and St. Michael's, feast of, 235. "All-to-broke," 490. Allusion in Friar Brackley's sermon, 351. Almanack (Poor Robin's), 470. Alms-basins, ancient, inscription on, 44. 52. 171. Alms-dishes, ancient inscribed, 87. 117. 135. 254. Alpha on the origin of slang phrases, 185. Alsop (Anthony), 215. 219. Alythes on Belvoir Castle, 246. America known to the Ancients, 542. ---- Madoc's emigration to, 12. 56. 57. 58. 236. 282. American aborigines, why called Indians? 254. 491. ---- bittern, 352. ---- Lady, memoirs of, 335. ---- reprints of old books, 209. ---- stamp act; Lord Chatham's speech on, 12. 290. Ames, new edition of Herbert's, 8. ---- by Herbert and Dibdin, 38. Ancient alms-basins, 171. ---- armour (Meyrick's), error in, 342. ---- inscribed alms dish, 87. 117. 135. ---- motto, 93. ---- MS. account of Britain, 174. ---- tiles, 173. Andrews (H.) on Burnet prize at Aberdeen, 91. André (Petit) on Welsh ambassador, 283. Anecdotes of books, 73. Anecdote of the civil wars, 93. ---- of a peal of bells, 382. Angels' visits, 102. Anglo-Cambrian on history of landed and commercial policy, and history of Edward II., 59. ---- on Madoc's expedition to America, 57. Anglo-Saxon "Lay of the Phoenix," 203. ---- MS. of Orosius, 371. ---- word "unlaid." 430. Anglo-Saxons, devices and standards of, 216. Annotators, anonymous, identity of, 213. Annus Trabeatiouis, 105. 252. Anonymous Ravennas, date of, 124. 220. 368. Antholin's, (St.,) 189. 260. Antiquarius on Queen Elizabeth's domestic establishment, 41. Antinephelegesita on Boduc, 232. A or An before words beginning with a vowel, 350. 467. Apocrypha, 401. Apposition, 384. A.(P.R.) on yeoman, 440. Arabic numerals and cipher, 230. 279. 358. 367. 433. 435. Archaeology, mathematical, 132. Archaeus on "Under the rose," 214. ---- on Gray's elegy, 389. Architecture, glossary of terms, 189. ---- introduction to the study of Gothic, 189. Armada, poem on, 12. 18. Armagh, etymology of, 158. 219. 264. A.(R.), "My mind to me a kingdom is," 489. ---- on all-to-broke, 490. ---- on Dr. Strode's poem, 490. ---- on Wotton's poem to Lord Bacon, 489. Arun on autograph mottoes of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and Harry, Duke of Buckingham, 252. ---- on change of name, 337. ---- on a curious monumental brass, 370. ---- on early statistics, Chart, Kent, 441. ---- on ecclesiastical year, 477. ---- on mercenary preacher, 489. ---- on "M. or N.," 476. ---- on Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee of Parson's Charity, Ely, 465. ---- on St. Martin's Lane, 375. ---- on throwing old shoes at a wedding, 468. ---- on trunck breeches, 489. Asher (A.) on books by the yard, 168. ---- on genealogy of European sovereigns, 339. Ashgrove, Duke of, 92. "As lazy as Ludlum's dog, as laid him down to bark," 382. 475. "As morse caught the mare," 320. "As throng as Throp's wife," 485. Astle's MSS., 282. "Atlas Novus," Seutter's, 156. Aubrey (John), 71. Auctorite de Dibil, 460. Augustine on American bittern, 352. ---- on origin of calamity, 352. Augustinian Eremites of York, library of, 83. Austen (H. Morland) on curious symbolical custom, 363. ---- on the emancipation of the Jews, 401. Authors and books, (No. 1.) 42. ---- (No. 2.), 102. ---- (No. 3.), 151. ---- (No. 4.), 178. Authors and books, (No. 5.), 239. ---- (No. 6.), 363. Authors of old plays, 77. 120. ---- who have privately printed their own works, 469. Authorship of a couplet, 211. Autograph mottoes of Henry, Duke of Buckingham, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, 134. 283. 284. 479. Ave Pries and Gheeze Yaecoudi, 215. 267. Avon, derivation of, 285. A.(W.P.), meaning of Cheshire round, 383. Aylmer (Bp.), letter to, from Lord Burghley, 12. Aylmer's (Bishop) letter respecting poem of the Armada, 18.

B.

B. on ancient motto, 136. ---- on Beaufoy's Ringer's True Guide, 137. ---- on change of name, 246. ---- on Colonel Hyde Seymour, 341. ---- on Elizabeth and Isabel, 488. ---- on form of petition, 44. ---- on Gloucestershire custom, 243. ---- on Miss Warneford and Mr. Cromwell, 157. ---- on Norman pedigrees, 214. ---- on Professor de Morgan and Dr. Johnson, 107. ---- query about St. Wini, 344. ---- query on Selden's titles of honour, 351. ---- on Sir Walter de Batton, 17. ---- on Solomon Dayfolke, 476. ---- (A.E.) on derivation of news, 360. ---- (A.) on Martins the printer, 213. ---- on superstitions in the North of England 294. ---- Twm Shawm Cattle, 453. Bacon and Jeremy Taylor, notes on, 427. Baron's Lord metrical version of the Psalms, 202. 243. 261. Baron Roger, hints for new edition of, 350. Badger, the, 324. Bagnio in Long Acre, 194. Bambridge and Buckridge Streets, 34. ---- Gates, 229. Bald Head, defence of, 34. Baldwin's Gardens, 410. Ballad, Kentish, 247. Ballads, Homeric of Dr. Magina, 470. Ballad of Dick and the Devil, 172. 473. ---- of the wars in France, 445. ---- makers and legislators, 133. Ballpolensis, on Stephen's Sermons, 334. Balloons, 389. Baptism, register of Cromwell's, 136. Barclay's Satyricon, some account of, 27. Bardolph and Poins, 353. Barba Lonza, 384. Barker, W.G.J., on Henry, Lord Darnley, 128. ---- on Bishop Barnaby, 132. Barnabas, (St.), 136. Barnaby, Bishop, 53. 132. 254. Barnacles, 117. 169. 254. 340. {498} Barrister, a, on origin of the word chapel, 371. Barry (J. Milner), a note on Robert Herrick, the author of Hesperides, 291. ---- Complutensian Polyglot, 251. ---- M.D., on meaning of palace, 233. Barryana, 212. Bartletts Buildings, 115. Bartholomew Legate, the martyr, 483. Basse (William,) and his poems, 200. 265. 295. 348. Bawn, meaning of, 440. Baxter, (William), 285. Bayley (W. D'Oyly,) on Barryana, 212. Bayswater and its origin, 182. B.(C.) on ancient motto, 104. ---- on Gray's Alcaic Ode, 382. ---- on Cromwell's estates, 421. ---- on shrew, 421. ---- on proverb, God tempers the wind, 325. ---- on horns, 419. ---- on Colderidge's Christabel and Byron's Lara, 324. ---- on hockey, 457. ---- Temple Stanyan, 460. ---- on "Nomade." 389. ---- on the true tragedy of Richard III., 315. ---- on death-bed superstition, 358. ---- on emerald, 340. B.(C.W.) on anecdotes of the civil wars, 338. ---- on shrew, 445. Bear, Louse, and Religion, Fable of, 321. Beauchamp (Stephen) on pilgrimages of kings, &c.--Blind man's buff--Muffin Hundred weight, 173. Beaufoy's Ringer's True Guide, 157. Beaumont, a poem attributed to, 145. Beaver, 417. Beaver hat, when first used in England, 130. 235. 256. 317. 338. 386. Becket's grace cup, 142. Becket (Thomas à), Mother of, 415. 490. Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden, 451. Beeston (Sir William), journal of, 444. Beetle mythology, 194. Beggar's opera, receipts of, 178. Bek (Anthony), Bishop of Durham, 173. Bell (John) of the Chancery Bar, 93. Bell (Dr. W.) on ancient inscribed dishes, 135. Bell (Dr.) on the talisman of Charlemagne, 140. Bells, a peal of, 125. 154. 170. Bells (Judas), 195. 235. 357. Bolvoir Castle, 246. 384. B.(E.M.) on Complutensian MSS., 402. ---- on Dulcarnon, 254. ---- on the emblem and national motto of Ireland, 415. ---- on Luther's portrait at Warwick Castle, 400. ---- on Latin distich and translation, 415. ---- on Luther's translation of the New Testament, 399. ---- on Pope Felix, 415. ---- on Verbum Graecum, 415. Berkeley's theory of vision vidicated, 107. 130. Bernicia, 335. 388. Bess of Hardwick, 276. 330. Beta on prison dicipline and execution of justice, 70. Betterton's Duties of a Player, 67. 105. Bever's (Dr. Thomas) Legal Polity of Great Britain, 483. B.(F.) on Kentish Ballad, 247. B.(F.C.) on Bishop Blaize, 247. ---- on dedications, 386. ---- on error in Meyrick's Ancient Armour, 342. ---- errors corrected, 331. ---- on Hudibrastic couplet, 340. ---- on Mousetrap Dante, 339. ---- on plagiarisms and parallel passages, 347. B.(F.C.) on proverbial sayings and their origins, 332. 347. ---- on shipster, 339. ---- on straw necklaces, and method of keeping notes, 104. B.(F.J.) on quotations from Pope, 102. ---- on masters of St. Cross, 404. B.(G.H.) on Cold Harbour, 50. ---- on Colinaeus, 158. ---- on the Field of the Brothers' Footsteps, 178. ---- on Gilbert Brown, 361. ---- on Lord Erskine's brooms, 138. ---- on Weeping Cross, 154. ---- on thistle of Scotland, 90. B.(H.) on Pandoxare, 202. B.(H.L.) on Ave Trici, 215. B.(J.S.) on the reconelliation of 1554, 186. Bible and key, divination by the, 413. Bibliographic project, 9. Bibliographical notes, 413. Bibliographie Biographique, 42. Bigotry, 204. Bill of fare of 1626, 99. Billingsgate, origin of name, 93. 164. Bills of fare in 1683, 54. Biographers of Lydgate and Coverdale, 379. Birthplace of Andrew Borde, 88. Birchingon's (Stephen) MSS., compilation of, 7. Bis dat qui citò dat, 330. Bishop that burneth, 87. Bishop Barnaby, Why lady-bird so called, 28. 134. Bishop Barlow, 206. Bitton, Sir Walter de, 157. Bive and chute lambs, 63. 474. B.(J.) on bust of Sir Walter Raleigh, 76. ---- on Countess of Pembroke's letter, 154. ---- on D'Israeli on the Court of Wards, 173. ---- on the Marescautia, 167. ---- on Scole Inn, 283. B.(J.M.) Auctorite de Dibil, 460. ---- on As lazy as Ludlum's dog, 475. ---- on Dr. Maginn's Shakespeare's papers, 470. ---- on Doctor Dobbs and his horse Nobbs, 253. ---- on etymology of Totnes, 470. ---- on finkle or finkel, 477. ---- on howkey or horkey, 457. ---- on etymology of Totnes, 470. ---- on a phonetic peculiarity, 463. ---- on Poor Robin's Almanack, 470. ---- queries concerning Chaucer, 303. ---- St. Winifreda, 475. B.(J.S.) what are depinges, 277. B.(L.) of Duncan Campbell, 186. Black broth, Lacedaemonian, was it coffee? 124. 139. 155. 242. 300. 399. Black doll at old store shops, 444. Blaise (Bishop), 247. 326. Blind man's buff, 173. Blink (G.) on a passage in Macbeth, 484. Blisters, charm for, used in Ireland, 349. Blockade of Corfe Castle in 1644, 401. Blood's (Colonel) house, 174. Bloomfylde (Myles and William), writings on alchemy, 20. Bloomfylde (Myles) Ortus Vocabulorum, 20. Bloomsbury market, 115. B.(N.), notes upon "notes," No. 1, 19. Bodenham, or Ling's Politeuphia, 22. 85. Boduc, or Boduoc, on British coins, 238. 252. Body and soul, 390. Bohn's edition of Milton's prose works, 485. Boleyn's (Sir Edward), spectre, 408. Bone-houses and catacombs, 171. 210. 221. Bonner on the Seven Sacraments, 452. Book of the Mousetrap, 154. Book plate, 212. Books by the yard, 166. Bookworm on Bodenham, or Ling's Politeuphia, 29. Boonen (portrait by), 386. Borde (Andrew), birthplace of, 58. ---- Boke of Knowledge, 38. Borromei, Sermones Sancti Carolsi, 27. Borrowed thoughts, 482. Boston de Bury, 186. Botfield (Beriah) on the Treatise of Equivocation, 357. Bothwell and Mary Queen of Scots, marriage contract of, 97. Bourne (Vincent), epigram from the Latin of, 253. ---- translation from, 152. 341. Brass, curious monumental, 247. Braybrooke, Lord, on pilgrimage of princes, &c. &c. 203. ---- on "Where England's monarch," 458. ---- on Lord Carrington, or Karinthon, 490. ---- on etymology of Havior, 230. ---- on pokershop or porkershop, 185. 236. 269. ---- on Vertue MSS., 372. ---- on letter attributed to Sir Robert Walpole, 336. ---- on journeyman, 458. ---- on the word brozier, 485. ---- on Killigrew family and Scole Inn sign, 283. ---- on howkey or horkey, 263. ---- on Catherine Pegge, 200. Breton (Nicholas), 409. ---- crossing of proverbs, 361. Bridge Lane, St. Bride's, 396. Bristol riots, 352. 460. ---- Red Maids of, 219. Britain, ancient MS. account of, 174. Britain (Great), Defoe's tour through, 205. British Museum, portraits in the, 305. British coins, Boduc or Boduoc, on, 235. Britton (John) on John Aubrey, 71. ---- on Mr. Poore's Literary Collections, Inigo Jones, medal of Stukeley, Sir James Thornhill, 122. Brockett's glossary on "to Fettle,", 169. Brooms, Lord Erskine's, 93. 138. Brother's Footsteps, Field of, 178. Brougham (Lord) on Burnet, 40. Brown (Gilbert), 381. Brown study, 352. 418. Brown (W.J.) on Ptolemy of Alexandria, 170. B.(R.S.) As Morse caught the mare, 329. B.(R.W.) on Christian captives, 441. Brozier, the word, 485. Bruce (John), epigram against Luther and Erasmus, 51. ---- lines in the style of Suckling, 20. ---- on capture of Duke of Monmouth, 3. ---- on charm for the toothache, 397. Bruce (Robert de), wife of, 187. ---- captivity of his queen in England, 290. Buccaneers, Charles II., 410. Buckingham motto, 138. 252. 283. 459. Bug, origin of word, 237. Bull (John), 336. Bullfights, Spanish, 381. Bulls called Williams, 440. Bulstrode Park, camp in, 470. Buns, 244. Buriensis on the Duke of Marlborough, 415. ---- on the Song of the Bees, 415. ---- on seal of Killigrew, Master of the Revels, 204. ---- on cook eels, 412. ---- on meaning of Savegard and Russells, 202. ---- on Sangred--Dowts of Holy Scripture, 124. Burnet (Bp.), opinions respecting, 40. 181. 341. ---- as an historian, 493. ---- and Mr. Macaulay, 250. Burnet prize at Aberdeen, 21. Burney (Dr.), musical works of, 135. Burning the dead, 216. 308. Burns (Robert), inedited lines by, 300. Burton's Anatomy of (Religious) Melancholy, 305. Burtt (Joseph) on ancient libraries, 21. ---- on royal household allowances, 86. Buscapié, query as to the, 171. 206. B.(W.) on The Complaynt of Scotland, 428. {499} B.(W.G.) on French leave, 246. B.(W.J.) on genealogy of European sovereigns, 119. By hook or by crook, 205. 237. 281. 405. Byron's Childe Harold and Burton's Melancholy, 163. ---- Lara, on a passage in, 262. 443. Byron and Tacitus, 390. 462.