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271
Verlaine (Paul), versions of * Chanson ' beginning
"Leciel,"iii. 267 Verney (Sir Richard), date of his death, vii. 468; viii.
68 Vernon (Sir Thomas), Knt., his biography, ii. 387;
iii. 397
Verse, blank, and George III., xii. 441 Verse printed on an old jug, v. 416 Verses : in child's book, iv. 499 ; fifteenth-century religious, viii. 240 ; child's book of, 404 ; ascribed to Longfellow and others, xi. 208, 257, 408 Versification, unintentional, viii. 285 Vervain called demon's aversion, i. 387 Vesey (Agmondesham) and his wife, ii. 149 Vesey (Archbishop), Latin inscription to, iii. 306 Vespucci (Amerigo), his birth, i. 244 Vessels, christened with wine, i. 269, 317, 373 ;
Japanese custom at launching, vi. 468 Vestments, ecclesiastical, Greek and Russian, x. 28,
318, 392, 451; xi. 191 Veto at Papal elections, xii. 89, 174, 396 Viad on chapels to St. Clare, xi. 228. Leland's
' Itinerary,' xii. 287
Viator on Wordsworth and Burns, i. 208 Vic (Sir Henry de), his biography, vi. 133 Vicar on arms on Bar Gate of Southampton, v. 292. Fees for searching parish registers, xi. 453. Fryer (Sir John), viii. 343. Moundesmere Manor, Pres- ton Candover, v. 316. Muse plots, iii. 176. Plocks, the, its meaning, v. 382. Savage (Sir John) and Andrew Adames, v. 288
Vice-Admiral, office of, v. 149, 252, 325, 384, 461 Vice-Chancellor, Co. Pal. Lancaster, v. 149 Vicereine, use of the title, xi. 430 ; xii. 56 Vices and virtues, pictorially represented, v. 289, 443 ;
vi. 136, 217, 275
Victoria (Queen), her death, vii. 61; verses on, 149 ; her coronation, vii. 346, 437; x. 208 ; lines by L. E. L. on, vii. 510 ; survivors of her second Parliament, xii. 407
Victoria Street, Westminster, skulls found in, vi. 428 Vicuna, its etymology, ix. 186 Vida on daughters of Boadicea, xii. 357 Vigilans on Marat in London, xii. 109, 357 Vilanova (Arnaldo da), his biography, ii. 161 Vildeson, place-name in Crakanthorp's ' Defensio
Ecclesiae Anglicanae,' xi. 469, 498; xii. 32 Vilett (John) and his brother Richard, ii. 468 ; iii. 171 Village, deserted, iii. 404, 490 ; vi. 37 Village feasts, their names and dates, xii. 107, 134,
216, 448, 473
Village library, suitable bindings for, xi. 8, 91, 196 Village posters, vagaries on, iv. 245 Villanueva (C. A.) on books on Venezuela, vi. 27 Villars (P.) on " Ce canaille de D ," iv. 524 Villiot (J. de) on English translations, ix. 410 Villon, pronunciation of the name, x. 303, 432, 514 ;
xi. 293, 451
Vincent (C. W.) on Shakespeare First Folio, i. 71 Vincent (Dean), engraved portrait of, iv. 185, 253,
313, 408
Vincent (J. A. C.) on missing Parliament, iv. 61 Vincent : Stonard : Newcombe families, iv. 90 Vincent family, ii. 507; iii. 192 Vincent family of Long Ditton, Surrey, x. 227
Vinci (Leonardo da), his ' Flora,' at Hampton Court,
i. 148
Vine = a flexible shoot, v. 47, 194 Viner (Alderman), his house, v. 127 Viney (General Sir James), K.C.H., his estate at
Tainton, viii. 61 Vinrace surname, v. 376 Violet Crown, City of the, origin of the name, xi.
108, 177, 295, 433 Virgil, Lord Burghdere's translation of the first
Georgia, i. 325 ; and the real ^Eneas, ii. 444 ; iii.
74, 132; and Campbell, v. 164; " Putrem,"
'^Eneid,' v. 596, viii. 248, 383, 438 ; as a mediaeval
necromancer, xii. 408, 470, 509 Virgin, Blessed, association of blue with, xi. 388, 496,
511 ; xii. 96, 177 Virginia on heraldic, viii. 66 Virgins, the ten, coloured prints, iv. 49 Virgults = virgulta, iv. 360 Viridical, meaning of the word, v. 416, 504 ; vi. 19,
214 Virtues and vices, pictorially represented, v. 289,
443; vi. 136, 217, 275 Vis-de-Lew family of Berkshire, x. 466 Viscountcies of England without barony, vii. 41 Visitation nuns at Chelsea, 1799, vii. 327 Visitation of county families, i. 297 ' Visitation of the County of Devon,' by Vivian, iv.
246 Visitations, early, of churches in Hertfordshire, xii.
169
Visiting cards in Italy, description, x. 168 Visiting tickets, early mention, vii. 149 Viteni on Bible and Prayer Book grammar, ii. 305 Viva, abbreviation of viva voce, vi. 266, 311, 391,
451; vii. 18, 115
Vivian ( W. C.) on Tennysonian Ode,' viii. 205 Vivian's 'Visitation of the County of Devon,' iv.
246
Vivisection and Bishop Westcott, xii. 205 1 Vocabolario della Crusca,' i. 6 Volant as a Christian name, its origin, v. 229, 293,
401; vi. 15 Volcanic eruption: at Krakatoa, vi. 185, 232, 318,
376 ; at St. Vincent, 1718, ix. 461 Vole = field-mouse, its etymology, iv. 222, 332. See
also Water-vole. Volney (Count de), anonymous edition of his ' Ruins,'
ii. 269 Voltaire, engraving representing, iv. 328 ; v. 95 ; his
church, vii. 466 ; sketch by Lord Bolton, xi. 184 ;
" L' Anatomic vivante," 187
Volunteers, City of London Imperial, regimental nick- name for, v. 104 ; at Capetown, 164 Volunteers, English, serving abroad, Lord Roberts
and Pitt on, v. 164
Volunteers, London, in the time of Elizabeth, v. 371 Vondel and Shakespeare, vii. 147 Voters, centenarian, vi. 366 Voting, plural, vi. 307 Vowel combination eo } v. 52 Voyage in small boat, Portuguese, i. 345, 453 ; across
the Atlantic, viii. 119
Voyez (John), designer, his works, viii. 462 Vulgar, its present meaning, iv. 288, 336, 405
