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An instance has come under my own notice of an old church, or rather chapel of ease, being pulled down, and a new one built on the site, in which the old pre-reformation dedication was altered out of compliment to one of the principal omit their Lists. As they have, however, facilities for getting books of contributors to the funds. The church in ancient days was dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury. It now bears the name of St. Mark the Evangelist. EDWARD PEACOCK. QUOTATIONS WANTED (2nd S. ix. 446.) – 1. "Words are fools' pence, and the wise man's counters."

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B. S. I. We understand that Mr. Sims has in contemplation a new edition of his Index to the Heralds' Visitations, which will include an account of the Davy MSS. and other similar collections.

ALIQUIS. The Earl of Derby's letter to Ireton is printed in Hume's History of England, the Gent. Mag., and most of the works on the Isle of Man.

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A.

A, its philological changes, 384.

A. on armorial bearings, 484.

Napoleon III.'s first wife, 306.

A. (A.) on Beauséant, its etymology, 170.

Classical claqueurs at theatres, 63.
Cutting one's stick, 53.

Electric telegraph in 1813, 26.

María or Maria, 122.

Paynell family arms, 171.

Rifle-pits, early notices, 63.

Sans Culottes, 89.

Stakes with lead as a defence, 27.

Swift's cottage in Moor Park, 9.

Watch cleaned on the top of Salisbury spire, 11.
Yoftregere, or Astringer, 11.

Abedere (Juan Calbodsa), his epitaph, 324. 351. 375.
Abhba on Booterstown, near Dublin, 462.

"Christian's Duty from the Scriptures," 445.
Costello (Mary), her longevity, 500.

Crab's English, Irish, and Latin Dictionary, 435.
Denny (Lady Arabella), 332.
Donnybrook burned in 1624, 444.

Downes (Bp.), Tour through Cork and Ross, 45.
Emerald Isle, origin of the epithet, 199.
Fitzgibbon's Irish Dictionary, 342.
Fitzwilliam family of Merrion, 161.

Fellowes' visit to La Trappe, 403.

Hooke (Nathaniel), patent for peerage, 427.
Hydrophobia and smothering, 454.

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Abracadabra on acrostic on Queen Elizabeth, 65.

Carew (Sir Peter), MS. Life, 143.

De Hungerford inscription, 293.
Mural burial, 425.

Muswell: Clerkenwell, 495.
Rifling, a game, 404.

A. (C.) on bishops elect, 86.
Ache on Dr. Thomas Comber, 371.
"Comparisons are odorous," 310.
Donkey, a modern word, 131. 292.
Durance vile, 353.

Gumption, its derivation, 188.

Heraldic drawings and engravings, 53.

Jesuit epigram on English Church, 161.
Nightingale and thorn, 189.

Three Kings of Colon, 435.
Throw for life or death, 434.
Wright of Plowland, 313.

Acheson family, 344.

Acrostic on Queen Elizabeth's reign, 65.
Action in oratory, dictum respecting, 144.
Adams (Geo.), M.A., his college, 162.

Ady (Thomas), author of "A Candle in the Dark," 180.

266. 309.

Adye (W. L.) on Constantine family, 73.

Rembrandt's engravings, 412.

A. (E. H.) on Bohemian folk-lore, 381.
Buonaparte family, origin of, 341.
Camoens's monument at Lisbon, 502.
Cockburn (Mrs.), her letters, 516.
Hotspur, origin of the name, 254.

Huntercombe House, 514.

Marquis title in abeyance, 341.
Mawhood family, 291.
Medal of James III., 144.
Witty classical quotations, 332.

A. (F. R. S. S.) on etymology of Fonda, 200.
Searcher, origin of the office, 264.
Agnodice, a medical female practitioner, 250.
Agricola on Berkshire folk-lore, 380.

A. (I. M.) on Drummonds of Colquhalzie, 283.
Ainslie (James), of Darnick, 142. 355.
A. (J.) on Macaulay's earlier Essays, 324.
Aldus Manutius, his device, 104.

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Goldsmith (Oliver), relic, 91.

Lingard's England, reviews of, 17.
Meleager, translations of, 94.
Quakers described, 474.

"Revolt of the Bees," its author, 132.
Allantapolides," reference in, 281.511.
Alli, a local prefix, its derivation, 344. 454.
Alliterative poetry, 220; by Christ. Pierius, 123.
Aloysius on Falconer's Voyages, &c., 130.

Songs and Poems on Several Occasions, 123.
Weaver (Thomas), "Songs and Poems," 102.
Alpha on Rutherford family pedigree, 403.
A. (M.) on poetical periodicals, 198.
Amateur on Lyde Browne, 124.
America known to the Chinese, 13.
American Psalm-book, 1640, 218.
Amesbury monastery, historical notices, 60.
Anderson (David), Scottish poet, 402.
Anderson (James), his death, 89. 186.
Anderson (Prof. John), his papers, 157.
Andrewes (Bp. Lancelot), noticed, 237.
Anemometer foreshadowed, 442.
Angelo (Michael), his annuity, 80.
Angels dancing on needles, 180.
Anglofidius on old Welsh Chronicles, 125.
Anglo-Saxon literature, 29.

Anglo-Saxon poems in MS., 103. 311.
Angol, or Angul, a weapon, 402.

A. (N. J.) on G. R. Sammlung, 403.
Gunn (Martha), 403.

Hüttner's autographs, 162.

"Withered violets," a poem, 427.

Annesley (Dr. Samuel), "Account of his Life," 417.
Annexation, its meaning, 302.

Anonymous Works:

Alberic, Consul of Rome, 462.

A Wonder; or an Honest Yorkshireman, 126.
Christian's Duty from the Scriptures, 445.
Death of Herod, 386.

De Templis, a Treatise of Temples, 13.

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Siege of Malta, 282.

Sisters' Tragedy, 255.
Sketch of Irish History, 385.

Spanish Pilgrim, 503.

Tarantula, or Dance of Fools, 230.

Thinks I to myself, 64. 230.

Way of Happiness on Earth, 343.

Yea-and-Nay Academy of Compliments, 12. 110.
Antiquitates Britannica et Hibernica," by the Nor-
thern antiquaries, 64.

Ants, the gold, of Herodotus, 443.
Apollo Belvidere statuette, 280.
Aquaria, how to be cleansed, 181.
Aquatics, dangerous, 401.

Aratus, the Aldine edition, 5.

Archdeacon's visitation articles in 15th or 16th cen-

tury, 135.

Archer (Edw.) of Berks, his will, 387.

Archers and riflemen, temp. Edw. III., 120.

Archiepiscopal mitre, historical notices, 67. 188. 295.

Ariconiensis on Lord Clive and Warren Hastings, 501.

Aristotle's History of Animals, 58.

Arithmetical notation, 52. 147.

Arlington Gardens, St. James's Park, 406.

Armorial bearings, 484.; the tinctures in engravings,

53. 275.; a work on, 260.

Arms, single supporter to, 463.

Armstrong family arms, 198. 354.

Armstrong (Rev. J. Leslie), noticed, 463.

Army and navy toast, 345.

Arthur (King), his grave unknown, 182.

Artist's initials, 199.

Artist's memorandum book, 294.

Ashby Folville, effigy at, 410. 507.

Ashmole (Elias), "Memoirs of his Life," 417.

Ashpitel (A.) on the Beffana, 5.

Asmodeus, its etymology, 428.
Ass, the festival of the, 472.

Astringer, a falconer, 11.

Astrologers treated as criminals, 50.

Astronomical discoveries in the last century, 297. 338.
377.

Athanasian Creed, mode of reciting, 263.

Devotional Poems, by a Clergyman of the Country, Atkyns (Frances Lady), pedigree, 197. 294.

223. 314.

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Atter, a local prefix, its derivation, 344.
Augustine (St.) and St. Ambrose, 506.
Aulios on Bp. Gibson's wife's maiden name, 163.
Aurochs, or wild oxen, 3.

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Baily (Capt.), originator of Hackney coaches, 178.
Baird (James), secretary to Chancellor Seafield, 326.
Baize, or bayze, 25. 90. 150. 207. 471.

Baker (H. W.) on "Rock of ages," &c., 387. 472.
Baker (Wm.) of Clare Hall, 444.

Balk, its meaning, 443. 489.

Baltimore (Charles, 6th Lord), portrait, 485.
Bamfius family at Swanington, 502.

Bancroft (Abp.), letter of 5th Nov. 1605, 173.
Banister (John) on longevity of Rev. J. Lewis, 8.
Bankes (Geo.), MS. Common-place book, 67.
Bankrupts temp. Queen Elizabeth, 6.

Banns published after the Nicene Creed, 492.
Baptismal names, 160. 474.

Barford (Susannah), epitaph, 360.

Barham (Francis) on King Bladud and his pigs, 45.

Barker (Eliz.), daughter of Hugh Peters, her petition,

399.

Barley sugar, origin of the name, 104.
Barlichway, its etymology, 186.

Barlow (H.) of Southampton, arms of, 198.

Barnard (Rev. Edw. Wm.), his " Poems," 12. 94. 290.
Baschet (H.) on Swift's marriage with Stella, 44.
Basset (Edward), rector of Balsham, 447.
Basset (Peter), historian temp. Henry V., 424. 512.
Bates (Wm.), Howe's Funeral Sermon on, 417.
Bates (Wm.) on Boydell's Shakspeare Gallery, 52.
Croker's Epistles on the Irish Stage, 89.
Delphin classics, 351.

Godwin's "Caleb Williams" annotated, 219.
Gumption, 356.

Key to Beloe's "Sexagenarian," 300.
Paoli (Pascal), his son,

93.

"Round about our Coal Fire," 54.

Shakspeare's Hamlet bibliography, 378.

Bath family of Devon, 487.

Batrachyomachia, a modern, 323.
Battie, or Batty, armorial bearings, 55.
Battiscombe family, 45.

Bavin, its meaning, 25. 110. 333. 436. 471.
Baxter (Benj.), his works, 448.

Baxter (Richard), "Life and Times," 417.
Bay Psalm-book, 218.

Bayes (Samuel), Puritan minister, 83.
Bayes (Rev. Thomas), mathematician, 9.
Bayonet and firelock exercise, 76. 109.
Bazels of baize, 25. 90. 150. 207. 471.

B. (B. A.) on Bp. Bedell's form of institution, 326.
Political pseudonymes, 198.

B. (C.) on Bath family, 487.

B. (C. B.) on Shrove Tuesday custom, 194.

B. (D.) on La Schola de Sclavoni, 501:

Beard (John), the singer, his marriage, 182.

Beast, the apocalyptic, 242.

Beatson (A. J.) on "Frederick Latimer," 80.
Beaufort (Frances, Duchess of), her marriages, 181.
Beau-séant, its etymology, 170. 334.

Bebescourt: "Les Mystères du Christianisme," 144. 189.
B. (E. C.) on Lord Chathain before the Privy Council,
324.

Becket (Thomas à), his descendants, 63.; and King
Henry II., 36.

Bede (Cuthbert) on Bags, a slang word, 90.
Bocardo, an Oxford prison, 16.
Inn signs by eminent artists, 291.
Malsh, a provincialism, 63.
Patron saints, 85.

Plough Monday custom, 381.

Pulpit of the Venerable Bede, 241.

Tombstone inscription at Belbroughton, 359.

Bede (the Venerable), his supposed pulpit, 241.; Eccle-
siastical History, lib. i. cap. 12., 428.

Bedell (Bp.), form of institution, 326. 411.
Bedford (Hilkiah), Nonjuror, 105.

Bedford (Thomas), Nonjuror, 105.

Bee superstition, 443.

Beffana, or Italian Twelfth Night custom, 5.
Beheest, its meaning, 101. 208.

Behn (Aphra), her collected Plays, 242.
Beisly (S.) on herb John-in-the-pot, 435.
Macbeth, emendation of, 459.

Beler (Roger le), sepulchral effigy, 410. 507.
Bell, book, and candle, form of excommunication, 246.
Bell (Dr. Wm.) on chalk drawing inscription, 206.

Durie Clavie at Burghead, 169.

Belle, Poor, who was she? 364. 435. 495.
Bellenden (Lord) of Broughton, 16.
Bell's Calvinist Mermaids, 413.
Bells in the Fidgi Islands, 303.

Beloe (Wm.), Key to his "Sexagenarian," 300.
Belus, King of Egypt, 58.

Benedict on Judge Buller's law, 124.
Berkeley (Bishop), Works and Life, 140.
Berkshire folk lore, 380.

Berthold's Political Handkerchief, 281.
Berwickshire Sandy, 304.

Betham (Sir Wm.), sale of his MSS., 475.
Beyer (Mr.) alias "John Gilpin," 33.
B. (F. C.) on blue blood, 208.

Burial in a sitting posture, 250.
Gold ants of Herodotus, 443.
Mural burial, 425.

B. (G.) on cockade, 274.

Jack, as applied to a flag, 281.

B. (H.) on Cawdray's "Treasurie of Similies," 80.
Grotius, passage in, 208.

Longevity of Thomas Parr, 104.

Bible by Barker, 1641, 388.; with Beza's notes, 1642,
282.

Bible of 1631, misprint in 7th Commandment, 33.
Bible, its marginal readings and references, 194.

Translators' Preface, 195.

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Blake family, 388.

Blue: "True Blue," colour of the Covenanters, 289.
B. (N.) on M. Raper, 281.

Bocardo, an Oxford prison, 16.

Bocase tree in Northamptonshire, 274.

Bodmin church register, extract from, 81.

Boevey (Mrs. Catherine), the "Perverse Widow," 222.
Bohemian folk lore, 381.

Boileau (J. P.) on church chests, 63.
Boleyn (Anne), her ancestry, 331.
Boleyn and Hammond families, 425.

Bolingbroke (Lord), "Essay on a Patriot King" burnt,
37.; his house at Battersea, 133.

Bolled, as used in Exod. ix. 31., 28. 251. 309. 349. 394.
Bonaparte family, its origin, 341.

Bonaparte (Napoleon), his marriage, 220.; his testi-
mony to the Divinity of Christ, 280.
Bonasus, historical notices of, 1.

Bonaventure (St.), imitation of the Te Deum, 31. 407.
453. 470. 493.

Book labels on tinted paper, 196.

"Book of Hy-Many," 54.

Book-stall collectors, 92.

Book, the first printed in Greenland, 442.

Books, antipapistical, before the Reformation, 26.
Books burnt, 37.

Books dedicated to the Deity, 180. 266. 309. 350.
Books for middle-class examinations, 364.

Books recently published:

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Adams's Notes on the Geology, &c., of England, 476.
Ainsworth's Ovingdean Grange, 496.
Andersen's Sand Hills of Jutland, 496.
Becket: La Vie de St. Thomas le Martyr, $5.
Bentley's Quarterly Review, 18.

Blacker's Sketches of Booterstown and Donny-
brook, 74.

Bode's Hymns from the Gospel of the Day, 114.
Brimley's Essays, 335.

Burrows's Parochial Sermons, 134.
Calendar of State Papers, 1628-9, 113.
Camden Society: Lord Carew's Letters, 316.
China: Twelve Years in China, 171.
Collier (J. P.), Reply to Mr. Hamilton, 211.
Cooper (Anthony Ashley), Memoirs, &c., 153.
Cornhill Magazine, 172.

Delepierre's History of Flemish Literature, 436.
Delepierre's Histoire Littéraire des Fous, 172.
Devizes, History of, Military and Municipal, 74.
Dictionary of Modern Slang, 415.

Dollman's Analysis of Ancient Domestic Archi-
tecture, 74.

Doran's Book of the Princes of Wales, 235.

Donoghue's Memoir of the O'Briens, 455.
Dugdale's Visitation of York, 190.

Ellis's Chapter on Wives, 496.

Fairholt's Gog and Magog, 18.

Fitzpatrick's Career of Lady Morgan, 376.
Fonblanque's Manual of Household Law, 56.

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Letts' Extract Book for Scraps, 18.
Lewis The Semi-Detached House, 376.
London Corporation Library Catalogue, 415.
Longfellow's Prose Works, 476.
Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual, 113.
Lysons's Romans in Gloucestershire, 276.
Macaulay (Lord), Biographies, 235.

Macaulay (Lord), Miscellaneous Writings, 496.
Mackie's First Traces of Life on the Earth, 335.
Maginn's Shakspeare Papers, 153.
Malone (Edmond), Life by Prior, 295.
Martial's Epigrams (Bohn's), 190.

Moore's Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence, 74.
134. 296. 416. 455.

Morel's Moralistes Orientaux, 35.
Morphy's Games at Chess, 56.

Muir's Pagan or Christian Architecture, 190.
Newland's Commentary on the Ephesians, 455.
Nightingale's Notes on Nursing, 172.

Old Dramatists (Routledge), 416..
Old Poets (Routledge), 416.

Pagès's Bibliographie Japonaise, 210.

Papworth's Dictionary of Coats of Arms, 415.
Parkinson's Government Examinations, 18.
Pichot's Life of Sir Charles Bell, 255.

Pinks's Country Trips, 56.

Plain Spoken Words to Dr. Dodge, 134.
Pre-Adamite Man, 114.

Quarterly Review, No. 213., 74.; No. 214., 335.
Real and Beau Ideal, 436.

Reeves's Stereoscopic Cabinet, 56.

Ridgway's Gem of Thorney Island, 134.

Rowan (Dr.) on the Olde Countess of Desmonde, 455.
Russell's Diary in India, 56.

Saint Martin's Géographie de l'Inde d'après les
Hymnes Vêdiques, 209.

Saint Martin's Mémoire Analytique, 208.

Say and Seal, 255.

Season Ticket, 276.

Secretan's Memoirs of Robert Nelson, 56.

Shakspeare's Hamlet, reprint of first two edi-
tions, 74.

Shaw's Arctic Boat Journey, 376.

Shipley's Eucharistic Litanies, 114.

Solling's Literary History of Germany, 134.

Sotheby's Ramblings to elucidate Milton's Auto-
graph, 335.

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