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Buller (Dr. William), Bp. of Exeter, 148, 216, 251, 393
Bullifant, its meaning, 72, 239

Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, interments in, 222, 411
Bunyan (John), and "Holy Mr. Gifford." 77; spurious
parts of Pilgrim's Progress,' 217, 258
Burghead, burning the Clavie at, 112

Burgoyne (Sir John), residence at Fulham, 48

Burial, twice in one day, 26; in point lace, 54, 237,

473; on north side of church, 75, 132, 235; by
torchlight, 97, 275; in fetters, 157

Burial customs, 487

Burke's Landed Gentry,' notes on, 21, 155, 235
'Burlington Magazine,' 248

Burnes (Sir Alexander), his family, 27, 71

Burnet family in Scotland, 19

Burton (A.) on Alfred Club, 208

Burton (E. F.) on Mendip Hills, 490

Buss (R. W.), his 'College Life at the Universities,'
187

Butcher family of Dulwich, 467

Bower (Archibald), author of · History of the Popes,' | Butler (J. D.) on Olympic victors, 8
74

Boys (H. S.) on picnic, 12

Brackenbury (G.) on burial in point lace, 473

During, use of the word, 137

Bradshaw (W. R.) on property disposed of from the
pulpit, 227

Bramstone (Sarah), buried at Upton, Slough, 208, 352
Brass, derelict, 486

Brasses, ancient, 388, 518

Brasses, monumental, their reintroduction, 306
Brazil salts, medicine, 108, 199, 512

Brazil wood, 415

Bread, "fancy," in 1836, 148

Breakspear (Nicholas), his biography, 307, 411
Breasail on Donelan: Donnellan, 408

Gent, the abbreviation, 417
Valois (Abp. Thomas), 455

Brereton family, Queen's Co., Ireland, 514
Brett (Timothy), his biography, 287, 353, 418

Brewer (E. C.), new edition of 'Dictionary of Phrase

and Fable,' 224; misquotation in, 346

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Brewer (E. C.) on 'Jingo," 373

Lagan, its etymology, 317

So-ho, its meaning, 455

Bricks, early, 487

Bridge (Thomas), clockmaker, 347

Briset (Jordan), founder of Clerkenwell priories, 366,
458

British Museum Library, Elizabethan literature at, 201
Brittany, wedding dance in, 481

Brittany (Dukes of), their pedigree, 488
Broadside, old Oxfordshire, 364, 456
'Brontës in Ireland,' note on, 504

Brooke (Sir Basil), knights of the name, 395

Brough (Robert), his 'Songs of the Governing
Classes,' 16

Browne (D.) on Adeliza of Louvain, 217
Browne (G. A.) on General Wolfe's sword, 187
Browne (Sir Thomas), his skull, 64, 233, 269
Browning (Robert) on buttercups, 108

Brushfield (T. H.) on Stationers' Company in 1671, 363
Buck (Adam), painter, his biography, 107

Bull (F. W.) on Germain and Desvaux families, 508
Shorthand, old, 347

Bullen (M. W.) on Cambridge Chronicle,' 392

Somma, cypress at, 388
Sultan, his cipher, 408
Butt-flounder, 449

Butt (Miss), of Bath, verses on, 295
Buttercups, Browning on, 108
Butts (Sir William), physician, 208
Buz (Captal de), his title, 246, 314

Byron (George Gordon, 6th Lord), epitaph on his dog,
95; The Mountain Violet,' 144, 194, 355, 515
C. on Cornelius O'Connor, 86

C. (A. C.) on Col. Tasker, 248
Heraldic query, 147

C. (C. H.) on a tray-cloth, 227
C. (G. E.) on Hastings arms, 198

C. (H. J.) on Kin, in English surnames, 436

C. (J.) on Aristotle quoted, 168

C. (J. D.) on Creole, 117

Gride, the verb, 8

C. (S. G.) on second-hand book prices, 477
C. (T. W.) on Dr. Coyle, Bp. of Raphoe, 227
Heraldic query, 108

Cake-bread superstition, 74, 454
Calverleyana, 166

'Cambridge Chronicle,' where filed, 327, 392
Cambridge University, its foundation, 29
Campbell (J. D.) on Coleridge, 5
"Canary bird," opprobrious term, 14
Candlemas Day folk-lore, 15
Candy (F. J.) on "Jingo," 150
Cantab. on archiepiscopal English, 195
Capital letters, initial, 24, 152
Captal or Capital, the title, 246, 314
Cardinals in Church of England, 325, 452
Cards, Twelfth Night, 507

Cards, visiting, their introduction, 67, 116, 196,272,332
Carew family of Garrivoe, 112

Carew (William), of Lisbon, 112

Carey (Thomas), son of Earl of Monmouth, 127,318,511
Carmichael (C. H. E.) on Baron of Bute, 336

Washington family, 451

| Carre (Jean), glass-maker, 186

Carrel (Sir Daniel), his biography, 69
Carrington (N. T.), Devon poet, 428, 491
Cass (C. W.) on Duke of Orleans, 330
Cassons cakes of cow-dung, 475

Supplement to the Notes

, with No. 160, Jan. 19, 1895

"Castle and Falcon," Aldersgate Street, 287
Cathedral closes, 71

Caucus, in English politics, 48, 309, 413

Caunt family, 488

Cazza (Agostino), Italian poet, 229, 315
Celer et Audax on Against=near, 214
Alfred Club, 331
Epitaph, 426

Highland Light Infantry Regiment, 74
Lincoln, Roman pottery at, 364
Manchester civic insignia, 116

Mentone, prehistoric remains at, 143
Milliner's bill, early, 46

Newspaper, pioneer, 154

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'Pauper's Drive,' 150

Raffling for Bibles, 66

Regicides, their portraits, 249
Saxon church, search for, 266
"Take two cows, Taffy," 252

Celliwig, its locality, 67, 132, 292, 474
Centenarianism, 305, 457, 493, 508

Cervantes, translations of Don Quixote, 145

Chance (F.) on Abarbanel, 237

Derail, its derivation, 171

French words, puzzling, 206
Jingo, its etymology, 312
Spa, its pronunciation, 361
"Tom, Dick, and Harry," 244

Chancel screens, post-Reformation, 37, 99
Chanticleer of the Gospels, 485
Charcoal braziers, 502

Charlemagne (Emperor), his daughter, 406
Charles I., Bishop Juxon and "Remember," 158;
genuine relics, 226, 315, 357, 414; place of signa-
ture of death warrant, 249, 374; picture in St.
Botolph's, Bishopsgate, 407

Charles XIV. of Sweden, his biography, 248, 338
Charles (George), LL.D., bis degree, 227

Charlton, Horn Fair at, 126, 196

Chronology in England before Ussher, 91

Church of England, its Archpriests and Lord Rectors,
325, 452

Churches, egg service in, 12; built by Wren, 23;

chancel screens in, 37, 99; in City of London, 44,
86, 136, 232; ostrich eggs hung in, 57; burials on
north side, 75, 132, 235; dedicated to Thomas à
Becket, 468; dedication crosses in, 488

Churches in medieval times, their dedication festival,
508

Churching of women, curious custom at, 11, 276, 512
Cibber (Colley), his death and buria!, 12
Clark (R.) on City church registers, 421
Greenstead Church, 297

Jigger, its etymology, 517
Mansion House, London, 38

Royal Exchange, church near, 138
Tunbridge Wells, New, 189

Waller (E.) and Gray, 271

Waller (William), 91

Westminster Abbey, 437

Whittock (N.), 288

Clarke (Hyde) on ancestors of Agatha, 102

Letters, capital, 152

Milicent of Louvain, 217

Stature of men and women, 337

Sunset, 132

Clarke (Sir Robert), his biography, 509
Clarkin on Chicago, 515

Claude de Lorraine, mistake about, 306, 410, 478
Clavie: Burning the Clavie, 112

Claybrooke, co. Leicester, its parish registers, 343
Cleeve (Alexander), his biography, 78
Cleeve (Bourchier), his biography, 78
Clements (H. J. B.) on De Longueville and other
families, 330

Knights of the Garter, 194
Somersetshire families, 296

Cleopatra's Needles, their removal, 446

Chatterton (Thomas), portrait attributed to Gains- Clerical attire, coloured, 328

borough, 308, 394

Chaucer (Geoffrey), glossary to, 503

Cherry Day at the Foundling Hospital, 166

Chewton Mendip Priory, its history, 488

Cheyney, its derivation, 448

Chicago, its pronunciation, 368, 416, 515

Chichele (Abp.), his will, 227

Chienfou (Madame), who is she? 289, 356, 410
China, semi-Nankeen, 427

China . Japan, 1600, 506

Cholmeley (R. F.) on Shakspeariana, 8
Chortled, origin of the word, 260

Christian names: Veinea Lucretia, 126; Sibyl spelt
Sybil, 158, 438; Welsh surnames for, 166, 293,
433; Inigo, 227, 290, 375, 414; Smart Adam, a
woman's, 306; Arabella and Annabella, 325, 472;
Patrick, 468

Christmas, Calvin on, 484

Christmas anthem, 1232, 484
Christmas bibliography, 483

Christmas cards, Latimer on, 484

Christmas fare, 1632, 484

Christmas greetings, epistolary, 8
Christmas poem, 484

Christ's Hospital, its name, 188, 272
Chronogram for the year 1656, 125

Clerkenwell priories, their founder, 366, 458
Clio on Venice Preserved,' 38

Cochrane (B. A.) on 'Lords and Commons,' 187

"Cock and Pye" taverns, 103, 356, 436

Cockburn family, French branch, 205
Cockney, its original meaning, 64, 135
Coffee, its early use, 345, 495
Coghill (W.) on local longevity, 29
Coitmore (C.) on Russell of Strensham, 203
Colbeck (R. A.) on foreign arms, 251
Colby's Mulberry Garden, its locality, 267
Cole's Residences of Actors,' 467, 518
Colebrooke Row, Islington, its history, 364
Coleclough family of Tintern Abbey, 227
Coleman (E. H.) on professional accountants, 499
Advent preachers, 158
Alehouse, "blind," 478
Apple-pie bed, 78

Asses, their braying, 276
Battle-Axe Guards, 19
Breakspear (Nicholas), 411
Candlemas Day folk-lore, 15
Cards, visiting, 116
Carrington (N. T.), 491
Christ's Hospital, 272

Cox (James), his museum, 118

Coleman (E. H.) on "Cune," 498

Dendand, its meaning, 74
D'Eon (Chevalier), 151
Derail, its derivation, 172
Derby stakes, 132
Directories, old, 90
Dominichetti (Dr. B.), 36
Du Hamel (Isaac), 438
Easter sepulchres, 114
Grass widow, 258
Greencastle, Ireland, 277
'Groves of Blarney,' 137
Hadleigh Castle, 272
Holy-stone, 92

Inventories of household goods, 497

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'King's Head," 58

Knights of the Carpet, 70

Knights of the Garter, 195
London livery lists, 496
Noyade punishment, 193
Oaths, strange, 153
Orkney, its Norse earls, 352
Paper water-marks, 198
Paragone, its meaning, 278
Poole (John), dramatist, 372
Postal cover, early, 117
Prayer, bidding, 268, 377
Pritchard (John Langford), 457
Regiment, late 34th, 334
Resurrection, numbers at, 458
'Roisin Dhu,' 34
Samuel (George), 133
Scratch-back, 156
Snake stones, 319

Sojournar: Advena, 136

Tower of London, 12

Translation wanted, 153

War songs, 215

Whittock (Nathaniel), 413

Colenso (Bp.), lines on, 128, 177, 337
Coleridge (S. T.), letter to John Fellows, 5
Coles (J.) on 'Don Quixote,' 145
Colgan, hagiographer, 269, 318
Collinson (J.) on vanishing London, 46, 316
Small-pox inoculation, 32

Colton (Rev. Caleb C.), his biography, 197
Columna Rostrata, inscription on, 287, 434
"Combe (T.)," Swiss woman of letters, 161, 296
Combridge (Mrs. Margaret), her book-plate, 469
"Come and go," the phrase, 137

Comets, Halley's, 364; ominous, A. D. 1800, 401
Common Prayer Book of the Church of England,
"High Court of Parliament" in, 249

Commons House of Parliament, biographical notes on
members, 5; its "Fathers," 74; Whips in, 76;
Oxford members, 75, 132; ladies' gallery, 187, 213
Commonwealth, drama during, 95
Compass falsified by iron and garlic, 65
Condé family, 268, 330

Conservative, as a political term, 61, 181
Constables, special, 488

Constitution in a political sense, 221, 263, 303, 417
Contamination, technical use of the word, 107, 255
Conti family, 268, 330

Conway Castle, old custom at, 285

Cooper (T.) on William Day, Bp. of Winchester, 45

Notes

Cooper (T.) on Langdale's 'Shorthand,' 65
Cormick (Mr.) inquired after, 449

Cornelius O'Connor, 86, 212

Cornelys (Mrs. Theresa), her biography, 3, 93

Corney (B. G.) on ominous comet and Fiji, 401
Cornwall (Reginald de Dunstan vill, Earl of), his
wives, 274

Cornwallis (Lord), miniature engraving, 247

Corrientes, its meaning, 407, 458

Cotgreave (A.) on Smedley's Frank Farleigh,' 8

Cotman (John Sell), his marriage, 306

Cotterell (S.) on Lieut. Peter Lecount, 149

66

Coupe (C.) on Blandykes," 252

Cow-dung for fuel, 475

Cowper (J. M.) on Salisbury Close, 71
Trepsack (John), 269

Cowper (William) and Newton, 488

Cox (James), his museum, 87, 118

Coyle (Dr.), R.C. Bishop of Raphoe, 227, 334
Craik (George L.) and Macfarlane's
England,' 465

Cranstoun (James), his wife, 409

Craven of Spersholt baronetcy, 154
Crawford (W.) on Sir David Rae, 231

Rae (Sir William), 231

Creole, its meaning, 117

Crepusculum, use of the word, 92, 157, 217
Cressing, co. Essex, grants relating to, 105
Crimea, English monuments in the, 31

History of

Croft (William), Mus. D., engraved portrait, 148
Croker (John Wilson), his niece, 71

Cromartie earldom, 205

Cromer, Maid Ridibone's Chapel at, 47, 115

Cromwell (Oliver), couplet on, 407, 496

Crop, county and country, 485

Cross, sign of the, 149, 317

Cross (C. H.) on "kin" in English surnames, 209
Crosses, dedication, 488

Crosses for kisses, 208

Crowdy (G. F.) on Simon de Montfort, 69

Crucifix, name of a racehorse, 308, 492

"Crying down the credit " custom, 76

Cui, its pronunciation, 92

Culcheth of Culcheth arms, 208, 397
Culpeper (Nicholas), book by, 407
Cundall, Yorkshire place-name, 388
Cundall family arms, 192

Cune, its meaning and derivation, 389, 498
Cunliffe family, 288, 354

Cunliffe (J. W.) on Cunliffe family, 354
Cup-cake, its ingredients, 49, 211, 395
Curfew bell, its hour, 74, 193, 515
Curios curiosities, 347
"Curse of Scotland," 185
Cypress of Somma, 388, 509
Czar. See Tsar.

D. on pronunciation of Hindostan, 234
Irish family, 194

Jingo, its etymology, 74
'Lords and Commons,' 214
Malgache language, 438

Rome, diplomatic language at, 251

D. (A.) on George Samuel, 28

D. (H.) on lemon sole, 236

D. (J.) on Irish army, 88

D. (J. U.) on Tusculum University, 333

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Dollar on cake-bread, 454

Cup-cake, its ingredients, 396
Hurd (William), D.D., 377
'Pilgrim's Progress,' 217

Domesday Book, fractions of hide in, 133
Dominichetti's, "fumigated at," 35

Davies (W. W.) on "Thirty days hath September," 13 Domrémy, place-name, its etymology, 9, 72

Davis (M. D.) on Jews and place-names, 45
Day (William), Bishop of Winchester, 45
Dead bodies, temperature round, 65, 132

Deadlock, its metaphorical usage, 226, 278, 374
Death, "blocks which presage," 54
Death, its causes in effigy, 158, 292
De Bohun family, 447

De Bohun (Mary), her burial-place, 329, 378
De Burghs, Earls of Ulster, 10

De Butts (G.) on Araucanian language, 167
De Cundale family arms, 192

Deedes (C.) on heaving and lifting, 192
De Flavy (William), his tomb, 363

Deft, earliest instance of the word, 228, 396
De Ghuy (Marcenay), engraver, 468, 495
De la Pole arms, 95

De la Salle (Antoine), his writings, 300
Delescot, its meaning, 16

De Longueville family, 268, 330

Delta on banded mail, 56

De Manny (Sir Walter), his arms, 368, 519

Demi-pique saddle, 118

Donelan (J.) on 'Roisin Dhu,' 34
Donelan (Sir James), Irish judge, 408
Donnellan families, 408
Dorset, quaint custom in, 125
Douglas (W.) on Dickens's sister, 226

Pym's Amateur Theatre, 476
'Shakspeare's Early Days,' 338

Dove, reverence for, in Russia, 25, 176
Doveton (F. B.) on "Sea-blue bird of March," 367
Downie (Capt.), R.N., 16

Drake (H.) on Anthony Horneck, D.D., 191
Drama during the Commonwealth, 95
Dreams, references to, 328, 394

Dreyheller-Watson (W.) on Cundall or De Cundale, 192
Droitwich, its ancient seal, 409
Drought, remarkable, in winter, 26
Drowning, punishment by. See Noyade.
Drury (C.) on Major John Fairfax, 448
Dubh (Ineen), or Black Agnes, 68

Dubosq (C. A.) on Mrs. James Cranstoun, 409
Du Hamel (Isaac), clockmaker, 347, 438
Dunand (H.) on salads, 377

Dent (John), M.P., inventor of dog tax, 349, 436, 494 Dunboy Castle, fire at, 366

Deodand, its meaning, 73

D'Éon (Chevalier), his book-plate, 88, 151

De Quer (Fernando) and Maoriland, 331

Derail, its derivation, 107, 171, 314,-514

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"Derby," first race for, 68, 91, 132

Derry, Australian word, 247

Descamisado, references to, 167, 192, 231
'Despair,' mezzotint engraving, 68
Desvaux and Germain families, 508

Detail, military use of the word, 387

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Devil and his dam," 44, 284

Devonshire May custom, 5

De Warenne family, 154

Dickens, Newington register, 1758, 126

Dickens (Charles), his funeral, 14; the White Horse
at Ipswich in Pickwick,' 25; churchyard in
'Bleak House,' 213; his elder sister, 226, 251; his
Christian names, 345; continuation of Edwin
Drood,' 348, 418, 472

Dictionaries published in parts, 7

Dictionary of National Biography,' notes and cor-
rections, 142, 383, 512

Dilke and Fisher families, 48

Dioscorides, the stone, 89

Directories, early, 89, 254

Dirt defined, 448, 495

Disestablishment and Church property, 12
Dissenters at dinner in 1790, 244

Dunheved on Edward Bacon, 518

Launceston as a surname, 348

Dunn surname, its meaning, 505
During, use of the word, 28, 137, 214
Dutch MSS. in English libraries, 307
Dwight family, 129, 449

E. (E. H.) on Crucifix, name of racehorse, 492
E. (H. D.) on Cundall, Yorkshire, 388
E. (K. P. D.) on " Algerine Act," 186
Animals, their ages, 46
Basque people, 128
Black Death, 106
Brasses, monumental, 306
Eustace (Rev. J. C.), 329
"Farthing of land," 309
Fuchsia, its introduction, 165
Hervey (T. K.), his poems, 228
'Imitatio Christi,' 6

"Modern author," 249
'Pickwick,' 25

Shakspeare's Early Days,' 108
"Each of them," the phrase, 225, 349, 496
Earle (A. M.) on Sarah Wilson, 328
"Earth's immortal three," 134, 211, 395
Easter sepulchres, 27, 114, 210, 338
Eaton family, 422

Eblana on Pamela, 513

Eboracum on Palliser surname, 26

Ebsworth (J. W.) on " modern author," 315

Reay (Martha), 324

Ecclesiastical ornaments, 72
Ecclesiastics licensed to ride, 7

Edgar Atheling, his mother Agatha, 2, 101, 317
Edgcumbe (R.) on Timothy Brett, 287, 418

Butt (Miss), of Bath, 285
Byroniana, 355, 515

News, its derivation, 175

St. Anthony, his MS. Bible, 336

Slang, rhyming, 202

Tales, twice-told, 294

Waterloo, army of, 17

Edinburgh city guilds, 489

Edinburghean grammar, 8, 53, 133, 216

Edward II. memorial tablet, 428

Edwin (Lady Charlotte), her biography, 239

Egg service in churches, 12

Elections, polls at, before 1832, 63

Eliot (George) on Shelley's Cloud' and "Mr. B.," 368

Elizabeth (Queen), her tomb, 368, 471

Elizabethan English, its survival, 85

Elizabethan literature at British Museum, 201
Ellis (A. S.) on Clerkenwell priories, 366

Elyot (Sir Thomas), his armorial quarterings, 88
Employé or employee, 166

Engineer on 'Once a Week,' 427

England, in 1748, 84, 216; chronology in, 91; slaves
in, 1771, 506

English, archiepiscopal, 45, 150, 195; slipshod, 185,
292, 375, 398, 513; survival of Elizabethan, 85
English heraldry, its origin, 342

English prosody, treatises on, 71; notes on, 99
Englishmen buried abroad, epitaphs on, 343
Engravers, Irish, 307

Engraving by W. T. Fry, 368, 456

Enquirer on heraldry, 397

Entertain to, the phrase, 188

Epigram:-

"Hic liber est, in quo quærit sua dogmata quis-
que," 168, 211, 252, 434

"Epistle Dedicatory," 88

Epitaphs:-

"A sting of death there is we know full well,"
12, 195

"Come gentle stranger, turn aside," 425
Englishmen buried abroad, 343

"His illness laid not in one part," 292
Horses, 157

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How soon I was cut down." 158

Randes (Richard), in Hartfield Church, 112

"Stay Traveler until my life you read," 426

Ernst (C. W.) on 66 Cockney," 64

Rum, when first made, 363

Esk on "Antigropelos," 37

Directories, old, 89

Magic, Indian, 94

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Tennyson Kingsley: Dickens, 126
F. (J. T.) on 'Book of Dorrow,' 317
Chancel screens, 37

Colgan, hagiographer, 318
Cow-dung for fuel, 475
Graces, university, 36, 438
Monastery, plan of, 376
Prayer, bidding, 452

F. (R. J.) on Prince of Wales, 9
F. (S. J. A.) on visiting cards, 332

F. (T. F.) on Queen Elizabeth's tomb, 368

F. (W. G. D.) on Arrowsmith family, 308

Books, unfinished, 357

Fage (Major-General Edward), his issue, 488,
Fairfax (Major John), his biography, 448
Fairlie (J. O.) on lion of Scotland, 33
Fampoux, French place-name, 389, 417
Farm implements, their longevity, 426
Farmer (Capt. George), his portrait, 365
Fathers of the House of Commons, 74
Farthing of land, its meaning, 309, 390
Feasey (H.) on Easter sepulchres, 27
Felch (W. F.) on the ancestry of Agatha, 2
Hales (Admiral), 49

Fell (T. K.) on Furness Abbey, 56
Fenton (G. L.) on unfinished books, 357
Feret (C. J.) on Francis Allen, 513
Baillie (Dr.), 166

Barbados, its spelling, 173
Black Death, 256

Blenkard, its meaning, 398
Bonfire, its etymology, 174, 252
Books, unfinished, 357

Brasses, ancient, 388, 518
Burgoyne (Sir John), 48
Butts (Sir William), 208
Carey (Thomas), 127
Contamination, its meaning, 255
Conway Castle, 285

Croker (J. W.), his niece, 71
Danlove (Lady), 57, 177

Dickens (C.), his funeral, 14

Directories, old, 255

Dominichetti (Dr. B.), 35

Dorset custom, 125

Dwight and White families, 449

Exits exit, 216

"Flotsam and jetsam," 150

Fulham churchwardens' book, 445

George (Prince), his title, 32

Green-wax process, 433

Haggerston, its name,

Ha-ha fence, 198

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Hanging and wiving," 218

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