'Ad Amantem,' manuscript, identification of, i. 370
Adair (James), historian, x. 94 Adam as a family ancestor, examples, iv. 271 "Adam ceiling, Greek letters on, vii. 390, 436 Adams (Rev. Alex.), d. 1789, viii. 390 Adams (Thomas), of Warkworth, Northumber- land, dates of birth and death wanted, x. 310 Adams (W. H. Davenport), d. 1891, ix. 435 Adamson and Burry families, ii. 508 Addison and the puff preliminary, xi. 121 Addison family, a tradition of, i. 408 Addison (Joseph), his descendants, iii. 383 Addison's Spectator,' edition published by Tonson and Draper, x. 168, 235
Address to a Mummy,' by H. Smith, xii. 111 Adeste Fideles,' its date, and Rabelais's sup- posed parody, v. 292, 329; vi. 23, 73, 119 Adgate family, xii. 53, 99
Adieu to the Turf,' satire on 4th Earl of Abingdon, iv. 16, 55
Adjectives from French place-names, i. 399 Adolphus (Rev. Otto), pseud, "A Clergyman,"
Adonis gardens, plants grown in, xii. 133, 177 Adventures of a Post Captain,' 1817, iii. 70,
Ainslie Bond, its whereabouts and history, v. 41, 80
. Ainslie (Philip Barrington), his Reminiscences of a Scottish Gentleman,' 1861, iii. 30. 118 Ainsworth's 'Crichton': tions, xi. 512
Alcohol, its effect on Moslems, vii. 188 Aldeburgh: Commonwealth marriages burials in Register Book, x. 81, 104, 124, 142, 175; destruction of church in 1643, 301 extracts from Aldeburgh: Chamberlain's Account-Book, viii. 163, 224, 265, 305, 343, 387, 426, 463, 506; ix. 26, 39, 94, 145, 222, 266 Aldeburgh records, extracts from, vii. 141, 185, 225, 287, 327, 366, 402, 443, 503 Aldelima, 1280, its locality, v. 96, 157 Aldersons, Warrington glassmakers, informa- tion wanted, v. 152
Aldgate, Duke of Suffolk's head in St. Botolph's Church, iv. 299, 340
Aldgate, earliest form of the name, vii. 294 Aldrich (Dr.), Bibliography wanted, xi. 230 Aldrich (Henry), b. 1647, his parentage, xii. 414, Aldridge (Ida F.), negro actor, his history, v. 263
Aldworth (Avery), m. 1630/31, x. 197 Aldworth famliy, ix. 449
Aleichem (Sholoum), d. 1916, his will and epitaph, ii. 83.
Aleria (John Andreas, Bishop of), d. 1493, iii. Ales, medicinal, vi. 186, 233 300
Aleston, Middlesex, its whereabouts, iii. 475;
Alexander, Athlone merchant, c. 1750, partic- ulars wanted, v. 292
Alexander of Aphrodisias, his treatise about fevers, xii. 90, 137 Alexander (Pat=Martha),
tavern-keeper, Franklin's illustra-
Air-guns, inventor of, vii. 430 Airship, London-Paris project, 1835, 7. advertisement, 59, 107
Alexander's (Cardinal), epitaph, vii. 131, 195 "Alexandrina non preparata," meaning of the term, vii. 91
Alexius the Protosebatos, his wife and mother, vii. 449
Alexius III. (1195-1203), his wife, vii. 468 Alfieri (Vittorio), 1766, his tutor, vi. 68 Alfred (King), the place of his last battle, iii. 10; Works of, published 1852, 249, 315- Statue, in Trinity Square, Southwark, ix. 122,
Ali and Mohammed in Hell, Dante on, vi. 149 Alice in Wonderland' and Wordsworth's Leech-Gatherer,' vi. 161
Aliens in England: eighteenth and nineteenth century returns, xi. 29 - - in Maidstone in 1567, v. 169
66 Alinement," spelling of the word, i. 246 Aliustrel, bronze tables discovered in, viii. 10 Allan (Sir W.), portrait of Helen Faucit as Antigone, iv. 76
Allen (or Alleyne) and Ferrers families, i. 84 125, 156, 160, 416
Allen (Dr. Fifield), d. 1761, ix. 329, 374 Allen (Edward), painter and engraver, partic-
Allen (James), Dean of St. David's, his burial- place, ix. 211
Allen (John), of Dulwich College, xi. 490 Allen family, alliances of, viii. 132, 196-Entries in Bible of 1739, iv. 11
Aller, Somerset, font in the church at, vii. 207,
Alphabet in the Christian Church, mystic signi-
ficance of, iii. 271, 340, 369, 459
Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany,' the author of, ii. 464, 484, 503
Alps, a great writer inspired by, quotation, xii. 394
Alresford, Hants, fires at, c. 1620, i. 209, 294 Alsop (Anthony), his parentage, xii. 452, 519 Alsop (Bernard), printer, viii. 293, 337 Alstonfield and the Mundy family, ii. 129, 214 Alstonfield, co. Staffs, notes from the parish register, viii. 292
Altar, Christian, the largest in the world, xii. 392, 436
Altar-slabs, St. John's head, vi. 227, 276 Altar tables, changes in shape and dimensions of, vi. 251, 275
America, first steamship to, 1838, iii. 189, 281, 368
America, Seneca's lines anticipating its dis- covery, iv. 272, 312
America's Reply,' poem, particulars wanted, v. 317 American Bluejackets and the Port of London, American Civil War, books on, x. 431, 476; xi. 59
American currant and Ribes sanguineum, i. 247 American customs: a long grace, viii. 151, 458 American English, ix. 97, 136, 218 American geography, map of, c. 1720, ii. 265 American humorists: Captain G. H. Derby, ix. 353, 394, 491, 535; x. 154, 219 American Indian, North, word for "Morning Star," iii. 9, 74, 179
American link with Winchester, v. 206 American Presidents, wives of, xi. 368, 499 American soldiers, the first killed in the War, v. 36
American war, 1776, British reverses and fast- day, vii. 331, 375
Americanisms, so called, the derivation of, ii. 287, 334, 414, 496; iii. 35, 115, 313, 364 Amerongen, historical facts concerning, ix. 228 Ames (William), M.A., author, c. 1652, i. 508 Amherst (William), his connexion with Hythe and Sandgate, c. 1767, iii. 503
Amiens, Peace of, 1801, commemorative medal, Ammianus Marcellinus and the legend of the Holy Grail, i. 201
Amneville (Adam de), royal charter confirming grant of the Manor of Bitton to, ix. 481, 526 Amontons (W.), inventor of telegraph device, vii. 32
Amore family, x. 371; xi. 358
Amorous Miser,' anonymous play, and 'Fare- Amsterdam, rapehouses or rasphouses at, iv. wel Folly,' v. 310
"Amtmann," office of, viii. 350, 394 Amyand House and the Rider family, i. 349. 419 Anacharis Alsinastrum, its appearance in Eng- land, xi. 286, 353
Ananias as Christian name, vii. 426
Anastatic printing, Edgar Allen Poe and, i. 13, 32
Anathema cup, 1500-1, origin of the name, vi. 150, 198
Ancaster, Guor Anegon of, x. 443 Ancaster, oldest form of the name, vii. 227 Andersen (Hans), his 'The Improvisatore,' viii. 490
Anderson (Douglas Edward), Harrow School 1865-9, information wanted, iv. 300 Anderson (Sir Francis), his descendants wanted, v. 122
Anderson (Francis and John), writers to the Signet, Edinburgh, viii. 348
Anderson (J. Eustace), his Surrey prints, i. 486 Anderson (John), Falconer of Barochan, Ren- frewshire, c. 1820, xii. 353
Anderson (Joseph), gamekeeper to Marquess of Tweeddale, viii. 292
Anderson (Mary Welsh), d. 1788, viii. 266 Anderson (Patrick), schoolmaster of Channel- kirk, 1664, ix. 511
Anderson (William), artist, place of his death wanted, v. 209
Anderson family, Baronets of Broughton, viii. 268; ix. 175
Anderson, Forrester, Simpson, and Dickson families, ii. 428
Anderson's British Poets,' notice in Critical Review, 1799, iv. 94 Anderson's (Miss Jessie)
Church's Year,' vii. 48, 118 Andrewes (Thomas), sheriff at execution of Mary Stuart, x. 410
Andrews (Bernard), poet laureat, viii. 431, 475 Andrews (D.), de Swaythling, book-plate of, x. 191, 236
Andrews family, detail wanted, v. 124 Andria,destruction by fire of the cathedral, 1916, i. 427
Anecdote of a Popular Character,' vii. 49 Anerley, origin of the surname, i. 228
Angelica, plant, significance of an offering of, iii. 51, 259, 312, 372
Angelo (Domenick) his burial place, viii. 491; ix. 33, 79, 153, 215
Angelo (Sophia), her connexion with Eton, ix. 33, 79, 153
Anger, Aungier or Angier (William), m. 1683, ix. 170, 215, 334, 413
Angier, his will, c. 1792, the whereabouts of, xii. 334
Angier (John), Nonconformist minister, b. 1605, ix. 278
Angiers, Abbey of St. Nicholas, and Spalding Priory, c. 1074, i. 309
Anglesea (Earl of), his MS. History of the Troubles in Ireland, viii. 488
Anglesey House, Drury Lane, site of, vii. 271, 335, 457
Anglesey topography in 17th century, informa- tion wanted, iv. 74
Anglican clergymen, biographical particulars wanted, iv. 13
Anglican clerks in non-Anglican orders, i. 27 Anglo-Cæsarus," explanation wanted, vii. 89 Anglo-Dutch relationships, ix. 108 Anglo-FrenchDe Sanctis': St. Bethone in Copland, vi. 44
Anglo-Saxon contagion," Matthew Arnold on, Anglo-Saxon riddle : The Cuckoo,' x. 109 Angsoka, meaning of the word, xii. 171 Anguish family of Somerleyton, v. 165 Anguish Street, Lowestoft, origin of name, v. 122, 165, 194, 221
Animal-lover, an eighteenth-century, his epi- taph, v. 290; vi. 78
Animals, carving terms for, iii. 446 Animals, fines for cruelty to, c. 1797, i. 69, 177 Animals or birds, names for collections of, iv. 255
Animals, three most dangerous, x. 72, 113 Ann of Swansea, identity wanted, v. 322; a sister of Mrs. Siddons, vi. 45 Annamaboe, notes on, x. 41 'Anne of Geierstein,' elucidation of passages in, vi. 90, 136, 175
Anne (Queen), her "three Realms," i. 91, 152, 217, 277; her exercise of Sovereign's Veto, v. 95, 155, 214, 272; Statue on Hotel Russell of, vi. 6; death of, vii. 508; white handkerchief incident at her death, viii. 17
Annhun, King of the Greeks, vii. 227 Annoyance, Jury of Annoyance, particulars of, i. 287, 374
Anodyne necklace and its inventor, c. 1750, information wanted, iv. 302
Anonymous Works:-
Adieu to the Turf, 1778, iv. 16, 55
Adventures of a Post Captain, 1817, iii. 70, 172, 283, 371
Advice to Sportsmen, 1809, by Marmaduke Maxwell, i. 110
Agaynst ye Streame, i. 209 Albania, v. 211
Amorous Miser, v. 310
Annals of Ireland, viii. 210, 276
Annals of Sporting, 1809, by Caleb Quizem, i. 110
Apology for the life of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, vi. 312
Art of Book-keeping, iv. 17, 114 Art of Conversation, v. 267
Ascanius; or, The Young Adventurer, 1746, i. 369
Bellegarde, the Adopted Indian Boy, 1832, i. 447
Bombay, Life in (1852), viii. 29 British Melodies, x. 48
Canadian Girl; or, The Pirate of the Lakes, i. 447
Centenary of the Bells, St. Mary's, Ware- ham, viii. 270
Charlie Seymour; or, The Good Aunt and the Bad Aunt, c. 1820, i. 228 Christopher Tadpole, xi. 290 Comic Natural History, x. 92
Count Teleki, by Eca," 1869, iii. 230 Diaboliad, the author a private soldier," iii. 48, 99
Diary of Lady Willoughby, iii. 524
Duke of Mantua, The: a Tragedy, x. 288
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