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V. on ephippiarius, 207.
---- Genoveva, 212.
Vanbrugh (Sir John), his birthplace, 619.
Vandyke on Sir Kenelm Digby, 85.
Vanes, early notice of, 534.
Valentine (St.), popular in America, 281.
Valentine's day, 523.
Venda, origin of the word, 179.
Verbum Sat on suggestions to photographers, 294.
Verney papers, 568.
Via Lactea on a quotation, 305.
Vicars-apostolic in England, 242. 308. 390.
Villerius (Loselerius) noticed, 454. 534.
Vincent family, 501. 586. 629.
Vincent (R.) on epigram by Sir W. Scott, 498.
Vinegar plant, 454.
Vinos on the word Claret, 237.
V. (J. H.) on prophecy in Hoveden, 284.
Vogel on the meaning of boom, 620.
V. (W. D.) on English comedians in the Netherlands, 114.
---- Lord Goring, 143.

W.

W. (A.) on conyngers, 182.
---- Tate, an artist, 236.
Wadstena, monument at, 26. 72.
W. (A. F.) on Pope's inedited poem, 57.
W. (A. F. A.) on the brazen head, 39.
W. (A. G.) on Chipchase of Chipchase, 133.
Wages in the West in 1642, 86.
Wake family noticed, 51. 164.
Wake (H. T.) on Hall-close, Silverstone, 620.
Walcot (Col. Thomas), his sons, 382. 488.
Walcott (Mackenzie) on Annueller, 438.
---- burial service said by heart, 95.
---- degree of B. C. L., 167.
---- Westminster parishes, 535.
Walker (Ellis) noticed, 382. 487.
Wallis (Dr. John), his anonymous pamphlet, 476.
Walmer Castle, old fortification there, 475.
Walter (Hen.) on Cranmer and Calvin, 621.
---- discovery of plants, 211.
---- legend of Lamech, 432.
Walter (J.) on Turner's view of Lambeth, 89.
Wandering Jew, the myth, 261. 511.
"Wandering Willie's Tale," 527.
Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors, 431.
Warde (R. C.) on sermons by parliamentary chaplains, 34.
Warden (J. S.) on Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, 179.
---- Clarendon and the tub-woman, 634.
---- descendants of John of Gaunt, 628.
---- Le Balafré, 201.
---- Macpherson's Ossian, 201.
---- Pepys's Diary, 129.
---- Pepys's Morena, 118.
---- quotation from Juvenal, 633.
---- quotations, 165.
Wards of the crown, 236.
Washington and Major André, 62.
Washington (Gen.) inedited letter, 277.
Waterford charter, 65.
Waterloo, Latin poems on, 6. 144.
---- an ancient battle ground, 82. 117.
Watkins (Charles) on Swedish words current in England, 231.
Watson (T.), bishop of St. David's, 234. 365.
Wauchope (Abp.) noticed, 66. 166. 552.
Way (Albert) on national portraits, 258.
Waylen (J.) on origin of Devizes, 11.
---- Marlborough corporation, 63.
Waymor (C.) on Walmer Castle, 475.
W. (C.) on washing collodion process, 484.
W. (C. T.) on Isthmus of Darien, 351.
---- alleged cure for hydrophobia, 379.
Weather rules, 373. 522. 599. 627.
Weather, volcanic influence on, 9.
Wedding divination, 545.
Wednesday Club, 261. 409. 576.
Wednesday, why a Litany-day, 86.
Welborne family, 259. 630.
Wellesley pedigree, 87.
Well-flowering, 280.
Wellington (Duke of) a Maréchal de France, 283. 317.
---- his first speech, 453.
Welsh genealogical queries, 408.
West, Kipling, and Millbourne, 408.
West (Philip) on axe which beheaded Anne Boleyn, 332.
Westmacott (A. F.) on Martha Blount, 38.
Westminster Assembly, its proceedings, 260. 368.
---- parishes, 454. 535.
Weston (Robert) noticed, 404.
Wet season in 1348, 63.
W. (G. B.) on lines on Landseer's print, 67.
W. (H.) on Philip d'Auvergne, 296.
W. (H. D.) on early reaping machines, 456.
Wheale, its meaning, 96.
Whetstone, the game of, 208. 319. 463.
Whippiad, 393. 417. 457.
Whipping-post, 188.
Whipping Toms at Leicester, 235.
Whitborne (J. B.) on cures for hooping-cough, 104.
---- gold signet ring, 12.
---- Graves family, 319.
---- portrait of Baron Lechmere, 39.
---- town-halls, 71.
White (A. Holt) on cross and pile, 560.
---- Gibbon's library, 535.
White (J. Blanco), sonnet by, 404. 486.
W. (H. T.) on derivation of lowbell, 181.
W. (I.) on immoral works, 66.
Wife being sold, 429. 602.
Wilbraham (Randle), his diploma, 498.
Wilde (G. J. De) on the author of The Family Journal, 392.
Wilkinson (Henry) on levelling cameras, 604.
Wilkinson (T. T.) on Clarke's Essay on Mathematics, 15.
---- Lawson's mathematical MSS., 526.
Will and shall, their distinction, 356. 553.
Williams (B.) on Anglo-Saxon localities, 473.
Williams (John) of Southwark, his descendants, 260.
Williams (Wm.) on epitaph in St. Helen's, 577.
Williams (Wm.) of Geneva, 528.
Wills (A. W.) on the sun's rays, 439.
---- spontaneous combustion, 440.
Wilson (A. C.) on collodion pictures, 485.
Wilson (C.) on Vincent family, 501.
Wilson (Dan.) on Mr. John Munro, 179.
Winchester and Huntingdon, their population, 38.
Windfall, its derivation, 285.
Winebibber on Jeroboam of claret, 528.
Winters, on early, 405.
Winthrop (Wm.) on American fisheries, 107.
---- Bacon's hint to our correspondents, 36.
---- bells _versus_ storms, 343.
---- Cadenham oak, 180.
---- catching a Tartar, 73.
---- Charles I.'s statue, 134.
---- curfew, 530.
---- execution for whipping a slave, 107.
---- fuss, its etymology, 180.
---- "God tempers the wind," 193.
---- inscriptions in books, 438.
---- Juxon (Bishop) and Walton's Polyglott, 476.
---- "Mater ait natæ," 155.
---- Malta, the burial-place of Hannibal, 81.
---- mummies in Germany, 194.
---- Order of St. John of Jerusalem, 628.
---- Orte's maps of 1570, 109.
---- round towers of the Cyclades, 425.
---- serpents' tongues, 537.
---- Sir Edward Grymes, 234.
---- "To talk like a Dutch uncle," 65.
---- trees, their age, 194.
---- windfall, its derivation, 285.
---- "Your most obedient servant," 382.
Witchcraft, 326. 446.
---- in Somersetshire, 613.
---- sermons at Huntingdon, 381.
W. (J. F.) on vicars-apostolic, 242.
W. (J. K. R.) on Jenny's bawbee, 345.
---- Tickell's Elegy on Addison, 72.
W. (J. R.) on royal assent to bills, 50.
---- vicars-apostolic in England, 308. 390.
W. (L. S.) on a modern plan of London, 382.
W. (M.) on God's marks, 246.
Wmson (S.) on Ben Jonson's adopted sons, 167.
---- Lord Duff's toast, 105.
---- satirical prints, 27.
---- "Then comes the reckoning," &c., 189.
Wolfe (General), his death from a deserter, 127. 220.
---- portrait, 63.
Wolves nursing children, 355.
Woman, her formation, 593.
Wood (Thos.), chief-justice, noticed, 14. 95.
Woodward (B. B.) on Cene's Essay for a New Translation, 142.
---- "Dimidium scientiæ," &c., 180.
---- door-head inscription, 190.
---- eagles supporting lecterns, 191.
---- Folger family, 248.
---- History of Formosa, 232.
---- Owen Glendower's arms, 205.
---- pot-guns, 190.
Words misunderstood, 352. 375. 400. 520. 542. 566.
Wordsworth, passage in, 85. 191.
Worth, its meaning, 584. 630.
Wotton (Sir H.) and Milton, 7. 111. 140.
W. (R.) on Orkneys in pawn, 412.
Wray family, notices of, 52.
Wright (R.) on Canada, its derivation, 504.
---- pronunciation of enough, 455.
---- ethnology of England, 246.
---- Niagara, 137.
---- other-some and unneath, 571.
---- Santa Claus, 549.
---- smock marriage in New York, 84.
Wyatt (Thomas) on developing paper, 266.
Wyle Cop explained, 440.

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