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Billingsgate, Latin rime on, ii. 262 ; monuments
and inscriptions in St. George's, v. 463 Billington (Mrs.), her trustee Mr. Savory, xii. 321
391 " Billion," the number used c. 1450, ix. 228, 278
315, 453
Billson (C. J.) on author of quotation wanted, x 177 Bentham (Jeremy), viii. 28 Burbidge (Thomas) and other poets, viii. 471 Easter hare, xi. 407
Billyng (W.), ' Five Wounds of Christ,' i. 267, 33 Bilsborrow (Dewhurst) and Sir W. Scott, vi. 210 Bingham (H.), Etonian, 1756, ix. 408 Birch (H. C.) on Stowmarket effigies, i. 348 Birch (J. Basil) on Glastonbury, and Joseph oj Arimathea, iv. 448 ; Jew's eye, ii. 208 ; Pedlar'* Acre, Lambeth, i. 487 Birch (W. H.), organist of Amersham, 1855, iv
348, 433
" Birch's," 15, Cornhill, old carving at, v. 186 Birch tree folk-lore, i. 146
Bird (E. P.) on Lord of Burleigh and Sarah Hoggins, vii. 204 Way, Rev. Lewis, xi. 176 Bird (I. F.), his drawing of A. Caccia, xii. 85, 128 Bird (T.) on ' St. James's Chronicle,' ii. 409 Bird (W. H. B.) on John Niandser, iv. 254 ; Sir
John Prisot, Chief Justice, vi. 187 Bird and Tallis, their licence to print songs, &c.,
1574, iii. 487 Bird Island, latitude and longitude of, viii. 388,
453, 496 Bird-lover on ' Who killed Poor Cock Robin ? ' i.
188 Bird name, " etotoli," its meaning, ix. 348, 372,
395
Birds, drawings of, 1760, iv. 150, 190 ; effect of German raid on, xi. 29 ; i'alling dead at soldiers' shouts, ii. 309, 393 ; phosphorescent, the belief in, xii. 213, 306
Birds of St. Cuthbert, terms describing, v. 48, 115 Birkenhead, last survivor of the wreck, ix. 468 ;
death of a survivor of the, xi. 246 Birkenhead on armour of William the Conqueror
xi. 322
Birkin, Yorks, cross-legged effigy at, viii. 207, 446
Birmingham, buildings associated with Dickens,
vii. 325, 432, 510 ; " The toyshop of Europe,"
x. 346
Birmingham statues and memorials, ix. 202, 243
257, 278, 282, 322, 363, 377, 411, 437 Birnie (Sir Richard), d. 1832, ix. 369, 454 Birth " neither by land nor sea," v. 166
- Birth of Merlin,' play, 1614-23, iv. 128, 178,
235, 295, 395
Birthdays and the change of calendar, iii. 387, 474 Birth-records on pincushions, c. 1750, ii. 326 Births, extraordinary, xi. 27, 175 Bishop, Prince, of Basle, his biography, ii. 68, 118 Bishop (D. H.) on Dr. Joseph Warton and the
Rev. John Wooll, vii. 288 Bishop (James), Etonian, 1764, ix. 408 Bishop (John), Etonian, 1764, ix. 408 Bishop (L.) on Rumbelow, i. 224 Bishop, wages of household of, temp. Henry VIII.
ix. 84
Bishop as boxer, 1796, viii. 468 ; ix. 215 Bishops, boy bishops of York Minster, 1416-85,
vii. 30, 78 " Bishops, eight Irish," in Thackeray's ' On
Clerical Snobs,' xii. 139 Bishops, Irish, and the Pope, i. 170
Bishops addressed as " My Lord," iv. 508 ; v. 36,
76, 96, 287 Bishops and Deans in Cathedrals, lists of, ix. 7,
78, 117
Bishops' lands in 1660 : proceedings of Com- missioners, i. 347 Bishops of Belgium and Northern France, list of,
xi. 341, 390 Bishops of the Church of England and University
degrees, xi. 381 Bishop's Stortford, Queen Elizabeth's visit to,
iv. 27, 72
Bishop's transcripts, the storing of, vii. 66, 155 Bishops' transcripts of London parish registers,
c. 1664, iii. 303, 475 Bishopsgate Street Without, its history, iii. 2,
142, 403, 476 ; iv. 118 ; its widening, ii. 246 Bismarck (Prince), his saying on the Eastern
Question, x. 387 Bismarck (Prince), Miss Russel, and Miss Loraine,
1836, iii. 47 Bisset (R.), Westminster scholar, 1775, vii. 270,
354
Bisset (Walter), M.A., Cambridge, c. 1860, v. 149 Bisset (William), c. 1670-1747, his marriage, ii.
409
Bissextus, Romans' unlucky day, xii. 281, 326 Black (A. & C.) on " vail " in Scott, iii. 131 ;
Scott's " Woodstock " : the Rota Club, vii.
493 Black (W.' ? G.) on ancient wit and humour, viii.
334 Folkestone Cross, viii. 331 Glasgow Cross
and Defoe's 'Tour,' viii. 349 "King Richard
of Scotland," v. 146 ' Mensae Secundse,' viii.
510 " Pointers," v. 447 Pope's position at
Holy Communion, iv. 105, 492 " Black Boy " house of Gillingham, 1447, vi. 507 Black Cap on prisoner at Plumpton, iv. 389 Black Hole of Calcutta, its survivors, i. 420 ;
Henry Lushington and other survivors, iii. 74,
111, 192, 265, 272, 432 ; list of victims, viii.
28, 94 ' Black Joke ' from Hogarth's ' Rake's Progress/
vi. 189,311 ; vii. 18, 114
Black-letter, or Old English, printing, i. 188 Black Mass of the Germans, x. 388 Black Prince, his language, iii. 7, 116, 158 Blackall (J.), M.D., his marriage, vii. 270 Blackfriars, bibliography of, ix. 229, 332, 416 ;
liberty of the Great Wardrobe at, iii. 465 Blackfriars Road in 1796, ix. 185, 254 Blackfriars Theatre, Shakespeare and, xii. 47,
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Blacklaw, in Scotland, its locality, ii. 527 ; iii. 135 Blackmore (R. D.), phrases in his ' Lorna Doone,'
viii. 427, 614; "Mum," ix. 15; " Stooled,"
ix. 15 ; " Shepherds' Chess," ix. 15, 76 ;
" John the Baptist and his cousins," ix. 15,
137 ; allusion to Dryden in, ix. 75 ; " stinging
soap," ix. 75 ; " Capias," ix. 75, 116 Blacksmith, epitaph on, v. 504 Blackstone's Commentaries, first edition, iii. 98 ;
xii. 58
Blackwall, Cold Harbour at, ix. 261 Blackwell (B. H.) on Sir Peter Wyche, iii. 470 Blackwood (John), painted by Reynolds, 1753,
viii. 189 Blacow (R.), Liverpool vicar, convicted of libel,
i. 369, 438
Blacow (R.), Westminster scholar, 1783, vii. 270
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