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Haggatt (John), information wanted, 68

Hair cut to prevent head- or stomach - ache,
138

Hair, long, as an hereditary trait, 177, 247
Halley (Dr. Edmond), relations with John Flam-
steed, 64

Hamilton (Henry), supposed husband of Margaret
Hamilton, information wanted, 289
Hamilton (Margaret), her identity and history,
289, 327

Hamilton (Walter), F.R.G.S., information about
his writings wanted, 318

Hamilton (William) of Liscloony, particulars
wanted, 317

Hampshire church bells and their founders, 44,
109, 304

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Hampshire field-names, list of, 208, 328
Handwriting as a surname, 93
Hardwick, crest of family of, 13, 100
Harrison (Dr. Thomas) of Bath, relatives enquired
for, 125

Harvard University, Thomas Shepard, a founder
of, 179

Harvey (Francis) of Natal, pamphlets by, 68
Haviland (General William), his history, 278
Hawkins (Dr. William), particulars wanted of his
marriage with Anne Walton, 319
Hawks, kind of fish-trap, 67
Haynes (Emma), evidence wanted of her marriage
with John Aldred Twining, 238


Haynes (Samuel) of Cornhill, evidence of marriage
wanted, 316

Hayward's Survey of Walden,' information
wanted, 94

Heart burial, by French in Palestine, 134
Heater-shaped,' in heraldry, 22

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Heath (Maud), memorial, at Bremhill, Wilts,
90

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Heraldry:-

Barr family arms, 153

Captor and his captive's arms, 26, 133
Cragg family arms,

130

Flanders, changes in its shield, 238, 323. :
Hardwick family crest, 13, 100
"Heater-shaped," 22

Hillman family arms, 67

Royal arms, suggested change in, 1

Sa., a lion rampant betwixt six fusils in pałe,
154

Sable, on a chevron argent, 80

Stags and eglantine in Elizabethan times, 13,
99, 100

Suckling family (Norfolk) crest, 13, 99

Vair, crest, on a torse a bear's head couped,
293

Vassall family arms, 278

Woolmer House, coat of arms, 180

Heredity in long hair, 177, 247
Herod and St. Stephen, song and legend of, 315
Herodias and St. John the Baptist's head, 67
Herrick (Robert), his debt to Andrew Willett, 37
Hervey and Hervet, use and etymology of names,
95, 167, 189, 246, 306

Heton (Martin), Bishop of Ely, information
wanted, 69

Hey, Diddle-Diddle,' nursery rhyme in Latin, 301
Higham Hall, Walthamstow, its history, 287
Hill (Joseph), friend of Cowper, 258
Hillman family, information wanted, 67
Hinchman, Henchman or Hitchman family, 133
Hints to Freshmen in the University of Oxford,'
author wanted, 290

Hitchman (Dr. John), memorial to, at Leaming
ton, 147

Hitchman, Henchman or Hinchman family, 133
Hodges (Charles Howard), engraver, information
about his signatures wanted, 321
Holinshed's

wanted, 317

Chronicles,' meaning of reference

Holly, its connection with mirth, information
wanted, 319

Home, family of, Foulshotlaw, 10
Honywood family's relation to Markshall, 78
Hooker (Richard), a bust of, its location, 152, 306
Hoole (John), poet, his pedigree, 327
Hoorde (William), Winchester scholar, his history,
179, 241

Hopkins (Stephen), priest, sixteenth century,
particulars wanted, 292

Hore, of Bath, artist, work by, 208
Horns, representations of devils blowing, 48, 186
Horse, white, of Kent, origin, 25

66

Horseleperde," its meaning wanted, 320
Hotel Bristol in Calcutta, 25

Houghton Meeting at Newmarket, origin of name,
154, 250

Howard the philanthropist, portraits of, 222
Howard (Mr.), portrait by G. H. Harlow, 222
Hoyta (Henricus de), his Tractatus de Contrac
tibus,' 265, 298

Hudson's Bay Company, its motto, 93, 132, 164,
217, 250

Huett tomb, Millbrook, 206

Hugh (Aaron), innkeeper, 126

Hugo (Rev. Thomas), collector of Bewickiana,
207, 248

Huntsman family, memorial at West Retford, 90
Hyde (Edward), D.D., Royalist divine, his his
tory, 69, 104, 105

Notes and Queries, Jan., 1920.

Ichwe, "Sons of Ichwe," meaning. 48

Icke family, origin of name, 24

K

Keele (David) of Sarum, clockmaker, 153
Kellond surname, its origin, 154, 189, 220

Iconography of London Peace Celebrations, 175, Kent families of Kimberworth and Wadworth, 186
213, 315

Iconography of Temple Bar, 253

Ide (Wm.), of Tunbridge Wells, clock-maker,

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153

“If I should die to-night," authorship debated,

318

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Ingleby (Edward), his descendants wanted, 40
Inscriptions: on Berkshire tombstones, 182; on
Jenner statue at Boulogne, 288; on Louis
XVIII. monument at Calais, 288; in Maryle-
bone Burial Ground, list wanted, 236; in St.
James's Church, Sydney, 174; in St. John the
Evangelist's, Waterloo Road, 63, 135, 193, 216;
on Edna Lyall's grave, wanted, 94; on tomb-
stone in Malvern Priory, 266, 305
Interment in other families' graves, 121
Iona, etymology of place-name, 40
Ireland, an early Italian map of, 120

Ireland, inaugural meeting of Bibliographical
Society of, 111

Irish counties and towns, bibliography of histories

of, 147

Irrelagh ; or, The Last of the Chiefs,' Irish story,

authorship of, 69, 105, 139

Ismenia, Christian name, its origin, 25

J

Jackson (Rev. Jeremiah and Mrs.), memoria' at
Wisbech, 146

Jenner (Edward), his statue at Boulogne, 2881
Jenner family, its history, 149, 245
John, Bishop of Philippopolis, 107

Johnson (Alderman George John), memorial at
Brampton, Cumberland, 90

Johnson (Samuel) confused with Ben Jonson,
38, 103; Anthologia Græca,' epigram in, 10
Jonson (Ben) and P. Henslowe, 81; confused with
Dr. Samuel Johnson, 38, 103

Jowett (Joseph), authorship of the epigram on
him, 288

Juan Fernandez,' poem by Patrick Bramwell
Brontë, 177

Judges' Level, anecdote of, 7

Julius II., Pope, statement about him questioned,
266

Jur de la vile," meaning of, 39

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Kent family of Winchester and Reading, 52, 106,
183

Kettle (Tilly), artist, particulars of, 154, 189, 221
Kilmorey, Earls of, their ancestry, 176

66

King rescued by dogs, subject of picture, infor-
Kimono," early use of word, 80

mation wanted, 317

King's standing wood,' particulars wanted, 318
King's table cloth, old custom of laying, infor-
mation wanted, 318

295

Kinghorn of Fireburnmill near Coldstream, 10
Kington, History of,' name of author wanted, 42
Kleinschmidt (J. J.), engraver, particulars wanted,
Knibb (Joseph), clockmaker, old clock by, 123,
Knight (Michael), of Brighthelmstone, clock-
maker, particulars wanted, 237
Knight's tour in chess, 92, 136, 325
Knocker of door in form of bat, explanation of,
149

241

ism,' 176

Knox (Vicesimus), copies of his 'Spirit of Despot-
Kyffin (Maurice), Blessedness of Brytaine,' 1587
written by, 6

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Law case of eleventh century unfinished, parti-
culars wanted, 293
Lawson (Dorothy), wife of Alexander Collingwood,
information wanted about her parentage, 320
Leap Year: lady's offer of marriage, 24
Le Cateau, mentioned in 1577, 26
Lee (Nat), his Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of
Rome,' 254, 299, 323

Legh (Lady Margaret) of Lyme, Cheshire, 53
Legs, the indelicacy of piano and other, 261, 301
Le Hardy (F.) of London, miniaure painter, his
relatives, 207

Lewknor family, its history, 201

'Life of Henry Maitland,' novel by Morley Roberts,
key to, 151, 269

Light Invisible, The,' source of book-title wanted,
123

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Lloyd (Helicon) of Merionethshire, information
wanted, 68

Locke (Joseph), M.P., statue and memorial tomb
at Barnsley, 147

Log houses in British Isles, information wanted,
320

Lombe (Sir John), information wanted, 42
London: an early orphan asylum, 204; link with
Philadelphia, 148, 188; -Paris Airship, 1835,
58, 107; London peace celebrations, literature
and iconography, 175, 213, 315; Peace Pageant
on the Thames, 1919, 197; 1856 peace rejoic-
ing, 234; its plane trees, 205, 272; rate and
parish books of George Street, Portman Square,
209; Sir Walter Raleigh's connection with East
London, 15, 16, 51

4

Longfellow's Village Blacksmith,' location of
smithy, 211, 248, 299

Longworth Castle, Herefordshire, information
wanted, 320

"Lord, for Thy tender mercy's sake," anthem,
author wanted, 291

"Lorribus," first occurrence of word, 205
Louis XVIII., his monument at Calais, 288
Louisa, Christian name, spelt Leweezer, 237, 276;
Lueazer, 276

Lowestoft street names, 122, 165, 194, 221
Lowndes at Westminster School, 208
Lowthers at Westminster School, 96
Ludlow, Lucien Bonaparte a prisoner there,
236, 300

Lumber Troop, club in Fetter Lane, 306
Lyall's (Edna) grave, inscription wanted, 94
Lytton (1st Lord), his alleged horoscope
the Earl of Beaconsfield, 11

M

Macaroni, origin of its name, 159

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"Mantle-maker's Twist," 75

MS. list of recruits to the Third Crusade, 236
Manuscripts, catalogues of medieval scientific,
206; Norfolk (Frere catalogue), 182, 217
Map, earliest of New York, 204; early Italian, of
Ireland, 120

Marazion, origin of the place-name, 292, 328
Markshall, relation with Fuller family, 8, 78, 132;-
with Honywood family, 78

Marlborough (first Duke of), lack of memorials to..
91; St. Helena Life of, 70, 108
Marlipins," origin of word, 123

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Marriage entries in duplicate, 198; lists of, 262,
305
Marriage service, Sir W. Scott's satire on Church
of England, 208, 242, 278
Marshalls at Westminster School, 208
Martins at Westminster School, 236, 277
Marylebone Burial Ground, inscriptions in, list
wanted, 236
Master Gunner, the status of, 153, 212, 277
Maule (Mr. Justice) on bigamy and divorce, 64,
129; and the Judges' Level, 7
Maules at Westminster School, 236, 323
Maurices at Westminster School, 266
Maw family records, 10, 75
May, borns born then, cruel, 25
Mays at Westminster School, 123, 164, 194
"Mazonomum," Latin word dish,' its gender,

266, 300, 301

Medieval scientific MSS., 207
Medop, persons of the name, 138
Melkart's statue, particulars wanted of its re-
moval to Rome, 292

Memorials and statues in the British Isles, 89, 91,
145, 259, 312

Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Fund for
Preserving the, 183

Memorials of the Dead, Society for Preserving the,
183, 249

Merchant marks and ancient finger-rings, 22, 23

of Mercury drawn by two cocks, in a print, 154,

McCrae's (Lt.-Col.) In Flanders' Fields,' particu-
lars wanted, 317

Macdonell (Col. Sir A. R.), his duel with Norman
Macleod, 9, 43, 76

Mackworths at Westminster School, 96

Macleod (Norman), his duel with Sir A. R.
Macdonell, 9, 43, 76

Magazines, dealers in back numbers of, 40, 104
Magpies in augury in Shakespeare, 5, 116
Maidstone, Kent, aliens there in 1567, 169
Main (David M.), his works on the English sonnet,

236

Maison Rouge, hotel, Frankfort, information
wanted, 321

"Malbrook s'en va-t-en-guerre," in an Ainsworth
novel, 25

Malvern Priory, tombstone inscription, 267
Man-of-war, information wanted about a minia-
ture, 319

Manor House of Higham Benstead, Walthamstow,
its history, 286

Manor records, whereabouts and particulars of,
182, 244

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214

Metal-bridge, Dublin, tolls levied at, 159

Metempsychosis in fiction, 124, 191, 246, 279,
306, 333

Mews or Mewys family, its history, 183

Michell (Davy), priest, sixteenth century, parti-
culars wanted, 292

'Middlesex

wanted, 294

Monuments,' Simco's, particulars

Middleton (Empson Edward), his will, and works,
8

Miers (John), profilist, Mr. G. D. Lumb's paper
on, 162

Millbrook, Beds, Huett tomb at, 206
Million Bank, origin of name, 181, 222
'Mind, memory and understanding,' legal formula,
207

Mistletoe seeds and missel-thrush, 98, 132, 165
Mitchell (Claude), memorial at Rugby, 145
Mitchell of Launceston, clock-maker, information
wanted, 153

Moat Island,' engraving, the origin of its subject,
238, 270

Montague Court, Little, in Little Britain, 118
Monument of Louis XVIII.'s landing, at Calais,
288

Monuments, Simco's Middlesex Monuments,'
particulars wanted, 294

Monumental brasses at East Hatley, 260
Moore family of Milton Place, Egham, Surrey, ita.
history, 204, 284

Morbus Anglicus, identity of the disease, 180
Moresnet, alleged small republic, 205
Morgan (John), paladin in Carew tournament, 152
Morland (Benjamin), High Master of St. Paul's
School, 141

Morland family at Hackney and Bethnal Green,
141, 193

Morland Gallery, Fleet Street, 69, 132

Morris (Charles), of Portman Square, his history,
264, 330

Morrison (Arthur), alderman, memorial at Donny-
brook, 146

Mortars, date of three metal, 209, 250, 277.
Mothering Sunday at Bewdley, 65
Motteux (Pierre Antoine), his

310

Mottoes:

Farewel Folly,'

Fortitudine (Barr family), 153

Oh for a book and a shady nook, 237, 277, 297
Pro pelle cutem, 93, 132, 164, 217, 250
'Tu vois l'heure,' on a Savoy sundial, 233
Mowing and rain, connection between, 41, 81,
106
Municipal officers, elected in churches, 127, 162
Murch (John) of Honiton, clockmaker, informa-
tion wanted, 152

Murray (Lord Edward), died in Jamaica, 1734,
identity wanted, 293'

Myrbach's illustrations of Daudet's 'Jack,' 150,

219

N

"Nablette," its meaning, 66, 108

Names, descriptive, derived from localities in Great
Britain, 290

Napoleon I., conversation with Lord John Russell,
12, 47, 82

Nasturtium plant, names given to it, 267, 302
Navy, British, an early reference, 6

Neal (Nathaniel), secretary of Million Bank, 181
Neate family, history, 13, 50

Nelson (Horatio, Viscount), his coxswain, John
Sykes, 257

Neologism, "lorribus," 205

Neologisms, French, " spidomètre," 287;
bion," 287

"tri-

Nepean (Henry) of Launceston, particulars wanted,

292

Nero, Emperour of Rome, The Tragedy of,' and
'Piso's Conspiracy,' plays, 254, 299, 323
"Never prophesy unless you know," 315
Nevill (Canon E. R.) on origin of slang terms, 294
New College, Oxford, hereditary scholarship at,
48, 297

New English Dictionary,' notes on changed
accentuations in, 32, 105, 137, 166

New Shakspere Society, list of its publications,
162

New York, earliest plan of, 204

Newcome family at Hackney and Bethnal Green,
141

"Newcomes, The " (Thackeray), key to characters
in, 14, 77

Newmans at Westminster School, 13

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Page (John Thomas), 112

Russell (Rt. Hon. George William Erskine),
84

Shedlock (John South), 28

Smith (Edward), 336

Welford (Richard), M.A., 224

Odessa in Roman times, 98, 137
Officers (Army) dead, 1727-60, list wanted, 293
"Old Lady of Threadneedle Street," origin of
nickname, 238, 302

Old Ratcliffe, reflections on naval matters inspired
by, 171, 214

Oldfield (John) of Oldfield, died 1762, particulars
wanted, 235

Oldfield (Mrs.), described by Swift, 230
Oliphant, relation of the name to elephant, 238,
301, 334

"On a summer's day in sultry weather," rustic
rhyme, 26

Opium, Tennyson's views on, 36
Orlingbury family, particulars required, 14
Orphan asylum, an early London, 204
Owen, Samuel, uncle of August Strindberg, 3
Owens (Susannah), information wanted, 68

P

Pace (Thomas), letter to Richard Edwards, 117
Page (John Thomas), his death noticed, 112
Pageant, Peace, on Thames, 1919, 197
Paget (Sir Edward), portraits of, 126
Painting and Sculpture, Boutell's punning cata-
logue of, 173

Newton (Gilbert Stuart), R.A., particulars of his Palliser (Capt.), Canadian explorer, 123

pictures wanted, 236, 277

Newtons at Westminster School, 41

66

Pannag," Hebrew word, explanation wanted,
294

1

Panton Street Puppet Show and Goldsmith, 83
Parish Registers, entries of foundlings in, 40, 71
Parish registers of Philleigh missing information
wanted, 292

Parishes, a 1705 return of English, 122
Parker (T.), etchings by, 1838, 183, 241
Parkinson family, information wanted, 97
Parry (Lieut.), referred to by Borrow, 95, 333
Peace: London celebrations, literature, &c., 175,
213, 315; Thames pageant, 1919, 197; 1856
rejoicing, 234

Peer (William), alleged actor of that name,
263, 331

Pegs of wood in furniture displaced by screws,
date wanted, 236

"Penniles Bench," meaning of, 126, 163, 194
Penrhyn Devil in form of a knocker, 10

Perey (J.), artist, information wanted, 150
"Perksilver" in fifteenth century, 313

"Peterloo," earliest use of word wanted, 291
Philadelphia, link with London, 168, 188

Phillips (Sir Richard), his tour through the United
Kingdom, 232

Philleigh, Cornwall, query about its missing parish
register, 292

Piano legs in trousers, 261, 301

Pidgeon (H. C.), supposed author of "Memorials
of Shrewsbury," 130

"Pipchinesque," use of word, 11

Pipes, source of some old tobacco, 210, 303
Pirkheimer (Wilibald), Dürer's joke about him,
231

'Piso's Conspiracy,' and 'The Tragedy of Nero,'
254, 299, 323

Pitt (William) and Dundas, drinking at New Cross,
151, 195

Place (Francis), political economist, 233

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Seven Kings, 210, 249, 272

Plane trees in London, 205, 272

Pleasure Fairs on Good Friday, facts about,
124, 163

Pope (Alexander), supposed ancestor of Whistler,
70

Pope, the crosier of the, 24

Popes, statements about two popes discussed,
266, 305

Portraits on gravestones, 250, 306, 330
"Poultice wallahs," term for R.A.M.C., 79
Powell (David), priest, at Brussels, c. 1575, his
identity wanted, 295

Powell (George), dramatist, handwriting of, 11
Pragell family, origin of name, 42, 139
Pre-Raphaelite stained glass examples, 74, 105
Price (Cromwell), cornet, 1728, his history,
292, 331

Price (John) of Deptford, watchmaker, 237, 305

Priests executed, Cornish and Devonian, 1548,
96, 131, 183, 243, 332

Prize Compositions at School, origin of custom
connected with, 70

Proclamation stones, their origin and significance,
178, 221, 275

Proctor family of Dublin, 98

Prosser (Richard) of Birmingham, information
about his parentage wanted, 319

Proverbs and Phrases:-

Anglo-Saxon contagion, 38

As dead as a door-nail, 266, 303.
As jolly as sandboys, 180, 279

Cake: Why don't they eat cake? 53, 162
Dans la politique....prendre rien au tra-
gique, 69

Drink by word of mouth, 98, 136, 330

Fire out, 121

Get the needle, 151, 194

Hell for leather, 25

Lambendo effingere, 69, 129

Let the weakest go to the wall, 177, 222
Lick into shape, 69, 129

"Man proposes, God disposes," 232

Never prophesy unless you know, 315
Now then! 295

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, 238, 302
Perversity of inanimate objects, 126

Pro pelle cutem, 93, 132

Querelle d'Allemand, 9

Rain cats and dogs, 108, 166, 326
Scum of democracy, 210
Sheer hulk, 65

Spanish main, 65
Wash an Aethiop, 193

When you die of old age I shall quake for
fear, 235, 278, 325

'Proving a negative,' Matthew Arnold on, 38
83

Parks (or Perks) family, information wanted,
317

Parliamentary papers, preservation of, 41
Parry (Lieut.) mentioned in George Borrow, 95
Paschollen, lake near Thusis, its position, 13,
51

Paten, use and example of, 13, 50, 134
Patristic writings, translations wanted, 295

Patrons and incumbents of Bredwardine and
Brobury, 200

Peace celebrations in London, their literature and
iconography, 175, 213, 315

Peace pageant on the Thames, 1919, 197
Peace rejoicing, official, 234

Peat (Rev. Sir Robert), his history and identity,

23

Peer (William), alleged to be an actor, 173, 263
Prudentius, " Psychomachia,' English translations,
14, 75

Pseudonyms list of, identity of writer s, 293, 329;
Burton (Richard), 95; Robertson (John), 49
Psychomachia' of Prudentius, translations of,
14, 75

Puleston family of Gresford and Hants, 124
Punning catalogue of painting and sculpture made
by Rev. Chas. Boutell, 173

Punt, land of, origin of the name, 149
Puppet Show in Panton Street, and Goldsmith,
83

Puritan hanging his cat, rime about, 232
Pyrgo Park, near Romford, Essex, 229

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