Chapter M

M. A. and A. M. degree, 475. 599.
Macaulay (T. B.) in error, 196.
* MacGregor (Helen) noticed, 350.
Machyn (Henry) noticed, 483.
* Mackerel, blind, 245.
Mackey (Samson Arnold), 89. 179.
Macklin and Pope, 239.
Madden's Reflections and Resolutions, 199.
* Maid of Orleans, 374.
Mairdil or mardle, 233. 336.
* Maisterson's Lords' descents, 76.
Majority, the attainment of, 18. 83.
Maltese knights, 80. 99. 263. 333. 417. 442.
Mammet, its derivation, 43. 82.
Man in the moon, 184.
Mantel-piece, its origin, 302. 385. 576.
* Manuscript catena, 33.
Maps, dates of, 396. 553.
Market crosses, 209.
Marmortinto, or sand-painting, 217. 327.
Marriage agreement, a curious one, 193.
---- ceremony in the fourteenth century, 33. 84.
Marston and Erasmus, 513.
* Martyrs feeling pain, 246. 590.
* Mary Queen of Scots at Auchincas, 325.
Mathew, a Cornish family, 222. 289. 551.
Mattaire (Michael), letter to Earl of Oxford, 28.
Matthew of Westminster, Bohn's edition, 8.
Mawkin, a scarecrow, 303. 385. 601.
* May-day custom, 516.
* Maydenburi, 516.
Mayor of London a Privy Councillor, 137. 158.
Mazarin (Duchess of), her monument, 249.
Medal of Queen Anne, 399.
* Medicine, Eastern practice of, 198.
Meols, name of a parish, 409. 553.
* Mereworth Castle, Kent, 124.
Mermaid Tavern club, 327.
Merryweather's Tempest Prognosticator, 273.
Middleton's Tragi-Comedy, the "Witch," its music, 196.
Milbourne (Luke) and Dryden, 563.
Miller (James) noticed, 496.
"Milton Blind," a poem, 395.
Milton's correspondence, 504.
---- widow, 38. 225.
Minshull (Richard) noticed, 38. 225.
Mirabeau, Talleyrand, and Fouché, their Memoirs, 542.
Miser, its original and present meaning, 12. 161.
Mob, its derivation, 601.
Monaldeschi, 233.
Money, its value in the seventeenth century, 375. 478.
Monicke (Dr.), his Notes and Queries on the Ormulum, 465.
Monster found at Maidstone, 106.
Monteith bowl, 452. 599.
Monumental brasses in London, 200.
* Monumental figures, cross-legged, on the Continent, 77.
Moon superstitions, 430.
* Moral philosophy, writers on, 351.
* Morant (Rev. Philip), his lineage, 34.
Morant (Sir John), his pedigree, 56. 250.
More (Sir Thomas) and equity suitors, 420.
Morrice (Sir Wm.), his papers, 7.
Morwenna, lines on the Minster of, 17. 83. 135.
Mother Russel's post, 299.
Motto on an old damask, 11.
Mount Mill and London fortifications, 174. 207. 256. 288.
Mousehunt described, 65. 135. 385. 477. 602.
Muffins and crumpets, origin of, 77. 208.
Muffs worn by gentlemen, 90.
* Mummy chests, 422.
* Mustard, proclamation for making, 450.
Myddleton (Sir Hugh), his burial-place, 495.
Myrtle bee, 205. 602.

N.
* Nails, the master of the, at Chatham, 36.
Namby-pamby, 161.
Names assumed, 32.
---- long, 312.
---- reversible, 184. 285.
Napoleon's spelling, 203.
Narbrough (Sir John) noticed, 418.
Nash (Beau), lines on visiting his palace, 146.
Nattochiis, its meaning, 36. 84. 183.
* Naval atrocities, 10.
"Ned o' the Todding," 36. 135.
Nelson (Lord), inedited letters of, 241. 337. 344.
---- his death, 297.
"-ness," as a termination, 522.
Newman (Professor) on the Celtic language, 356.
Newspaper folk lore, 29. 84. 276. 523.
Newspaper (foreign) leaders, 218. 463.
Newton and Milton, 122.
New Zealander and Westminster Bridge, 74. 159. 361.
Niagara, its pronunciation, 573.
Nicholas, emperor, anagram on, 561.
Nicholas (St.) Cole Abbey, 107.
Nichols's Collectanea, errata in, 371.
* Niebuhr's "ingenious man," 56.
Nightingale and thorn, 162.
* Noctes Ambrosianæ, 397.
Nonjurors' motto, 87.
* Norman towers in London, 222.
North-west passage, 516.
* Norton, origin of this local name, 272.
Nowell (Dean), his first wife, 300.
Nugent (Earl), his poems, 149.
Nugget, its meaning, 232.

O.
Oaths, 61. 45. 402.
Objective and subjective, 170.
O'Brien of Thosmond, 125. 328.
* "Obtains," its conventional meaning, 589.
Odd Fellows, origin of the union, 327. 578.
* Odevaere's history of an ancient clock, 302.
Odoherty (Morgan), 209.
Offices, the sale of, in the seventeenth century, 562.
Ogborne's History of Essex, MSS. of, 322.
* Ogden (John), noticed, 541.
Oglander (Sir Wm.), his chapel, 17.
* "Old Dominion," or Virginia, 468.
Olympic Plain, &c., 270. 526.
Orange blossoms, 386. 527.
Orchat, or orchard, 400.
* Order of St. David of Wales, 125.
"Ordericus Vitalis," Bohn's edition, 512.
Ordinary, a provincialism, 219.
Oriel, as applied to a window, 400.
* Orme, aide-de-camp to General Braddock, 562.
Ormulum, edited by Dr. White, 465.
Orrery (Earl of), his letter to Dr. Thomas Birch, 29.
Osmotherley in Yorkshire, 152.
* Otterburn, battle of, 348.
Oufle (M.), his history, 57.
Ought and aught, 419.
Oxford Commemoration squib, 113.
Oxford jeu d'esprit, 168.
"Oxoniana," a desirable reprint, 300.

P.
Page, its derivation, 106. 255.
Painting, the English school of, 220.
Paintings of Our Saviour, 270. 550.
Palæologi, the last of, 312. 572.
Paleario (Aonio), "Of the Benefit of the Death of Christ," 321.
Paley's plagiarisms, 64.
Palindrome verses, 343.
Pamphlet, curious old one, 391.
Pandras, its derivation, 334.
Paper water-marks, false dates on, 32. 41. 75.
Papyrus, specimen wanted, 222. 529.
Parallel ideas from poets, 121. 466.
Parallel passages, 345.
Parliament, a member electing himself, 285.
Parma (Ferdinand Charles III., duke of), 417. 598.
Parochial libraries, 186.
---- registers, 590.
Party-similes of the seventeenth century, 96.
Paschal eggs, 483.
Passion of Our Lord dramatised, 373. 528.
Patriarchs of the Western Church, 384.
Paul's (St.) school library, 65.
Pax pennies of William the Conqueror, 562.
* Peckham--"All holiday at Peckham," its origin, 35.
Peckwater quadrangle, 400.
Pedigrees forged, 221. 271.
Pelham (Sir John), his monument, 51.
Pepys's letters on Christ's Hospital, 199.
Perspective, 300. 378. 577.
* Petley (Elias) noticed, 105.
Pettifogger explained, 287.
Philip's (St.), Bristol, priory, 150.
PHOTOGRAPHY:--
albumenized paper, 332. 502.
albumenized process, 206. 254.
box sawdust for collodion, 358.
calotype on the sea-shore, 134.
calotype process, 16. 40. 134. 230. 502.
cameras, 571.
cameras, light in, 525. 548.
cautions, 525.
céroléine process, 382. 429. 526.
chlorides and silver, their proportions, 358.
collodion, 156. 158. 206. 254. 406. 525. 549.
collodion negatives, 282.
collodion plates, 429.
cotton made soluble, 548. 571.
Crookes (Mr.) on restoring old collodion, 206.
Crystal Palace photographs, 571.
cyanide of potassium, 230. 254.
experiences in photography, 429. 456. 501.
ferricyanide of potassium, 549.
glass rod, how to be used, 62.
gun cotton, 283.
history of photographic discovery, 524. 549.
Hockin's Short Sketch for the Tyro, 16.
Hunt's specimens, 41. 182.
his letter, 524.
hydrosulphite of soda baths, 230.
iodized paper, 62.
iodized solution, 182. 230. 254. 310.
light in cameras, 525. 548.
Lyte on collodion, 156. 333.
Lyte's new instantaneous process, 570.
Mansell (Dr.), his operations, 134. 182. 207.
manuscripts copied, 83.
mounting photographs, 310. 381.
negatives multiplied, 83. 110. 502.
nitrate of silver adulterated, 111.
test for, 181.
photographic excursions, 407.
photographic litigation, 598.
photographic queries, 207. 282. 406.
Photographic Society's exhibition, 16. 83. 181.
positives mounted on cardboard, 332.
printing positives, 406.
Rembrandt, photographic copies of, 359.
sensitive collodion, 158.
silver, its recovery, 476.
slides for the magic lantern, 332.
splitting paper for photographic purposes, 61.
spots on collodion pictures, 310.
stereoscopic note, 282.
tent for collodion purposes, 83.
Talbot's patents, 83. 526. 599.
Townsend's wax-paper process, 598.
Turner's paper, 41.
Towgood's paper, 110.
wax negatives, 456.
waxed-paper pictures, 182. 381. 382. 429.
Pickard family, 10. 87.
Picts' houses, 208.
* Picture queries, 198.
[Greek: Pistis], unde deriv., 324. 551.
* "Plain Dealer," original edition, 303.
Planets, recently discovered, 36.
Plantagenets, their demoniacal descent, 494. 550.
* Plants and flowers, 421.
Plants of the months symbolised, 37.
* Plaster casts, 126.
* Pliny's dentistry, 467.
Plowden (Edmund), his portrait, 56. 113.
* Plowden (Sir Edmund) noticed, 301.
* Plumley (Mr.), dramatist, 516.
Plymouth calendar, 585.
Poets Laureate, notices of, 335.
Pocklington (Dr. John) noticed, 247.
Political predictions, 559.
Polygamy, 246. 329. 409.
Pope (Alex.) quoted, 469.
Pope and Dennis, 223. 516.
Pope and Macklin, 239.
Popiana, 445. 568.
Portionists at Merton College, 304.
Portrait painters of the last century, 563.
Postage system of the Romans, 350. 549.
Postmasters at Merton College, 304.
Prayer, occasional forms of, 13.
Precedence, 327. 541.
Precious stones, emblematical meanings of, 37. 88. 284. 408.
* Prelate noticed by Gibbon, 56.
Prerogative office, its exclusive constitution, 215.
Pretenders, their births and deaths, 177. 230. 572.
Pricket, its meaning, 434.
Primers of the reign of Elizabeth, 170.
"Prince Royal" launched, 464.
* Prints of London before the fire, 348.
* Prints, on repairing old, 104.
Prior's epitaph on himself, 283.
* Pronunciation of foreign names, 222.
Property, right of redeeming, 601.
Prophesying before death, 550.
* Prospect House, Clerkenwell, 375.
Prospectuses of works, 45.
Prototype, its misuse, 44.
PROVERBS AND PHRASES:--
All Holiday at Peckham, 35.
As snug as a bug in a rug, 322.
As dead as a herring, 347.
Bath: "Go to Bath," 421. 577.
Begging the question, 136. 284. 359.
Chip in porridge, 45.
Corruptio optimi est, 173.
Cui bono, 76. 159.
Cutting off with a shilling, 198.
Deus ex machinâ, 77.
Feather in your cap, 220. 378.
Fig: "A fig for you!" 149.
Flea in his ear, 322.
Good wine needs no bush, 113.
Hypocrisy the homage, &c., 127.
I put a spoke in his wheel, 45. 601.
Jump for joy, 466.
Kick the bucket, 107.
Obs and sols, 176.
Paid down upon the nail, 196. 384.
Service is no inheritance, 20. 41.
Spoke in his wheel, 45. 601.
* To pass the pikes, 516.
* Turk: "A regular Turk," 451.
Proverbs, unregistered, 392. 527.
* Proxies for absent sponsors, 324.
Psalm cxxvii. 2., its translation, 107.
Psalm, the great alphabetic, 121. 376. 473.
Psalms for the chief musician, 242. 457.
* Psychology, when first used, 271.
Publican's invitation, 448.
Publishers, a hint to, 146.
Pulpits, stone, 79.
Punctuation, errors in, 481.
Pure, its peculiar use, 527.
* "Purlet de Mir. Nat.," 126.
Put, its pronunciation in Ireland, 432.

Q.
Quacks, 345.
Quakers' Calendar, 589.
Quakers executed at Boston, 305. 603.
Queenborough borough debts, 448.
QUOTATIONS--in Cowper, 247. 402.
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind, 301. 402.
All Scotia's weary days of civil strife, 589.
All went merry as a marriage bell, 399.
Bachelors of every station, 301. 402. 477.
* Condendaque Lexica mandat Damnatis, 421.
Convince a man against his will, 107.
Corporations have no souls, 137.
Could we with ink, &c., 179. 256. 482.
Days of my youth, 601.
De male quæsitis gaudet, &c., 600.
Extinctus amabitur idem, 421. 552.
Firm was their faith, &c., 17. 135.
For he that fights and runs away, 137.
Forgive, blest shade, 542.
* He no longer shall dwell, 301.
Hic locus odit, amat, 552.
Homo unius libri, 89.
* Had I met thee in thy beauty, 374.
* Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, 301.
Man proposes, but God disposes, 87. 102. 384.
Marriage is such a rabble rout, 184.
Off with his head! so much for Buckingham, 543.
Of whose omniscient and all-spreading love, 301. 402.
One New Year's Day, 467. 526.
One while I think, 76. 184.
Perturbabantur Constantinopolitani, 452. 576.
* Poeta nascitur, non fit, 398.
Quid facies, facies Veneris, &c., 18. 161.
Quid levius calamo? 301. 402.
Rex erat Elizabeth, sed erat Regina Jacobus, 421.
Sat cito, si sat bene, 137.
* Sir John once said a good thing, 301.
* Sometimes, indeed, an acre's breadth half green, 301.
* The clanging trumpet sounds to arms, 301.
The knights are dust, 301. 402.
The spire whose silent finger points to heaven, 9. 85. 184.
* Then what remains, but well our parts to chuse, 301.
Vita crucem, et vivas, &c., 505.
Wise men labour, good men grieve, 468. 553.

R.
Rain, sign of, 53.
* Raphael's pictures, symbolism in, 589.
Rapping no novelty, 12. 62. 200.
Rat, black, 209.
Rathlin island, in Ireland, 589.
* Rebellion of 1715, trial of the prisoners, 349.
Records, Irish, 536.
Red Cow sign, 87. 306.
Regiment, 10th, or the Prince of Wales's Own, 85.
Registers, parochial, 590.
Reprints suggested, 171.
Repton (Humphry), landscape-painter, 400.
* Restall, its meaning, 539.
Reversible names, 285.
* Review, designation of works under, 516.
Rhymes, French season and weather, 9. 277.
---- Irish, 575.
Rich (Lieut.-Colonel) noticed, 546.
Richard, abbot of St. Victor, 352.
Richard I. noticed, 44.
Richard III., his burial-place, 400.
Richard, King of the Romans, his arms, 185.
Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge, 493. 601.
Ridings and chaffings, 370. 578.
* Ridley (Bp.), his reply to Bp. Hooper, 221.
---- university, 538.
Rigby correspondence, 369.
* Rileys of Forest Hill, 398.
Robinson (Lady Elizabeth) noticed, 148. 234.
Roche (James) of Cork, 217.
Rocking-stones, 561.
Roland the brave, 372. 475.
Roman roads in England, 325. 431.
Romanists conforming to the English Church, 98.
Romford jury, 396.
Rosehill (Lord), who was he? 422. 519.
Rous (William) the Scottish Psalmist, 440.
---- his will, 441.
* Rowe (Owen) the regicide, 449.
Rowley, Old, 235. 457. 477.
* Rubens query, 561.
Ruffins, a fish, 106.
Rush (Dr. Benjamin) noticed, 451. 603.
Russell, or Du Rozel, the house of, 416.
Russia (Emperor of) and the Order of the Garter, 420.
Russia and Turkey, 103. 132.
Russian emperors, 222. 359.
---- manifesto, 463.
---- maps, 433.
Russians, their religion, 86.
* Rutabaga, its etymology, 399.

S.
* Sacheverell (Dr.), his residence in the Temple, 562.
Sack, its qualities, 272. 427.
St. Asaph, ruin near, 375.
Saladin, as described by Scott, 76. 257.
* Sale of offices in seventeenth century, 562.
* Saltcellar, its derivation, 10.
Salutations, 420.
Salutes, royal, 245.
Sanctius (Rodericus) noticed, 530.
* Sandfords of Thorpe Salvine, 303.
Sangarede, its meaning, 495.
* Sanxon (S.), the fee of, 222.
Satin, its derivation, 17.
Savage and Dennis, 223.
* Sawbridge and Knight's numismatic collections, 9.
Saw-dust recipe, 148. 255.
"Sawles Warde," suggested to be printed, 6.
* Scarlet regimentals of the army, 55.
Schindler (Valentine) noticed, 530.
School libraries, 65.
Scotch heraldic grievance, 74. 160. 284.
* Scott (Rev. Dr.), inquiry respecting, 35.
Scott (Sir Walter) and Sir W. Napier, 53.
---- quoting himself, 72. 162.
Scottish airs, original words of, 245.
Screw propeller, 394. 473.
* Scroope family, 350.
Seamen's tickets, 452.
Secker (Abp.) and George III., 447.
Selah, its meaning, 423.
Selleridge, 146.
"Semper eadem," origin of the motto, 78.
Sepulchral monuments, 514. 539. 586.
* Sermon, a short one attributed to Swift, 589.
Seven Sisters Legend, 465.
Sewell family, 86.
Sexes, their separation in church, 336. 566.
Sexton office in one family, 171. 502.
Seymour (Elizabeth), daughter of Sir Edward, 174. 313.
Shakspeare, on his descent from a landed proprietor, 75. 154. 479.
---- digest on critical readings, 540.
---- Othello annotated, 375. 577.
---- Passionate Pilgrim and Griffin's Fidessa, 27.
---- portrait, 571.
---- Rime which he made at the Mytre, 439.
---- Stratford Shakspeare, 90.
Sharers at theatres, 199.
* Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, letter by him, 373.
Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, 351. 481.
Sheridan (Richard Brinsley), his patrimony, 447.
---- translation of a song in his Duenna, 59.
* Sheriff of Somersetshire in 1765, 173.
* Shippen family, 147.
Shropshire ballad, 320.
Shrove-Tuesday customs, 65. 223. 299. 324. 504.
* [Greek: Sikera], 126.
Silo, its derivation, 42.
Simmels, a Viennese loaf, 322.
* Simmons (B.) noticed, 397.
* Skin-flint, its derivation, 34.
Skipwith (Sir Henry) noticed, 326.
Slavery in England, 98. 421.
Slaves, names of, 480.
Slow-worm superstition, 73.
Smith (Col. Michael), his family, 222. 575.
Smith families, 148. 234.
Smith (Ferdinando) of Halesowen, 285.
Smith (John), hydropathist, 395. 575.
Smoke-farthings, 513.
Snake escapes from a man's mouth, 29. 523.
Sneezing, 63. 250.
Snub, antiquity of the word, 219.
* Snush, or snish, 324.
Soldier's Discipline, 218.
Sollerets, armour for the feet, 459.
SONGS AND BALLADS:
Barrels regiment, 63. 159. 545.
Blue Bells of Scotland, 209. 600.
Christmas ballad, 325.
Fair Rosamond, 163. 335.
Horam coram dago, 58. 186.
I could not love thee, dear, so much, 125. 208.
Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, 56.
One New Year's Day, 467.
Shropshire ballad, 320.
Syddale's execution, 105.
Three cats sat by the fireside, 173. 286. 574.
Truth, an Apology for speaking the, 56.
Songs of Degrees, 121. 376. 473.
Sophocles, passage in, 42.
Sotades, notice of, 18.
Sounds heard at great distances, 561.
South's (Dr.) Sermons, queries on, 515. 578.
---- verses upon Westminster School, 28.
Souvaroff's despatch, 20.
Sovereigns dining in public, 120.
"Spanish Lady's Love," its hero, 305. 573.
Spellings (false) from sound, 113.
Spence (W. S.), his factitious pedigrees, 221. 271.
Spencer (Edward) of Rendlesham, his marriage, 273.
* [Greek: Sphidê], its meaning, 541.
* Spinning-machine of the ancients, 515.
Staël (Madame de) noticed, 451. 546.
Standing at the Lord's Prayer, 127. 257. 567.
* Star and Garter, Kirkstall, 324.
Star of Bethlehem, 103.
Starvation, an Americanism, 54. 151.
* Stationers' Company and Almanac, 104.
* Stock-horn, 76.
* Stoke and Upton, 421.
* Stokes (General), his parentage, 34.
Stone-pillar worship, 535.
Storms, ominous, 494.
Stornello, 299.
Stound, as used by Spenser, 459.
Stradling (John), epigrammatist, 483.
Strawberry-Hill gem, 3.
* Suffragan bishops in Convocation, 35.
Sunday, its commencement and end, 198. 284.
Surrey Archæological Society, 21. 433.
Swedish words current in England, 601.
Swift (Dean) and Trinity College, 244. 311.
---- an unpublished letter of, 7.
* Syddale (Thos.), ballad on his execution, 105.

T.
Table-turning, 39. 88. 135. 201. 502. 551.
Tailless cats in the Isle of Man, 10. 111. 209. 479. 575.
Talfourd (Mr. Justice), notices of, 393. 497.
---- on Lamb's Elia, 269.
* "Tarbox for that," its meaning, 324.
Tavern signs, poetical, 58. 330.
Taylor (Dr. John) noticed, 137.
Teddy the Tiler, 248.
Te Deum in the Russian Church, 325. 498.
Teeth superstition, 64.
* Temperature of cathedrals, 56.
Temple (Dame Hester), her descendants, 468.
Tender, a curious one, 196.
Tenure of lands, 173. 309. 448.
Teonge (Henry), his Diary quoted, 418.
Terms, misapplication of, 44. 361. 554.
* Texts preliminary in church service, 515.
Thackeray's anachronisms, 367.
"That," a grammatical puzzle, 300.
Theodore de la Guard, 517.
Thom's Irish Almanac, 219.
Thornton Abbey, 161.
"Three Crowns and Sugar-loaf" sign, 350. 481.
Three maids tradition, 299.
Three Pigeons inns, 331. 423. 528.
Thumb-biting, 88.
* Thurstan (Abp.), his burial-place, 172.
* Tilly, of the Westminster Courts, 35.
Tin, its early use, 64. 111.
Tippet, its derivation, 370. 430.
Tobacco-pipes, their history, 372. 546.
Tom-cat, tortoiseshell, 338.
Tonson (Mons.), its author, 530.
Tooke (Horne) on the meaning of libel, 398. 575.
Tooth, on burning one with salt, 345.
---- the golden, 337.
Trafalgar battle, 297.
* Tremesin (Dompe Peter) noticed, 375.
Trench on Proverbs, 107.
Trinity, the secunde Person of, 56. 114.
Triolet explained, 483.
Trogloditæ, interment of, 278.
Trojan horse, 96.
* Truth, an Apology for speaking the, 56.
Truthteller newspaper, 569.
"Try _and_ get," a vulgarism, 76. 233.
Turkey and France, 397.
---- and Russia, 348.
Turkish language, 352. 456.
* Turlehydes, sea-fish, 10.

U.
Uhland, the German poet, 147.
Universities, foreign, 150.
* University College, Oxford, custom at, 468.
Usher (Sir William) noticed, 576.