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GENERAL INDEX.
Medicinal waters, their bibliography, viii. 130,
214, 272
Medicines, patent, denned, iii. 86, 175 Mediculus on Acqua Tofana, ii. 353. Authors of quotations wanted, ii. 49, 289, 388 ; xii. 128. Birth at sea in 1805, ii. 512. Blopd-funkers, iii. 29. Britten, East End burying-ground, xi. 29. Broken heart, iii. 9. Bunyan's ' Holy War,' iv. 88. Burial-grounds : their conse- cration, vi. 9. " By hook or by crook," iii. 409. Churchyard cough, vii. 156. " Eyelashes of the road," vi. 69. " First gentleman in Europe," ii. 309. Free trade = smuggling, ii. 250. " Gospel of fatness," iii. 49. " Great Unpaid," xi. 50. H in Cockney, ii. 351. Mass meeting, ii. 250. Medical coroner, v. 489. Motherhood late in life, viii. 449. " Ocular demonstration," ii. 189. Pepys's ' Diary,' ii. 314. Phrases and reference, ii. 128. ' Pilgrim of eternity," iv. 68. " Pop goes the weasel," iii. 430. Portraits which led to marriages, iv. 92. Potts family, ii. 313. Psalm- singing weavers, ii. 194. Quotations wanted, iv. 10. Raynolds (Thomas), ii. 377. Bockall, ii. 47. Searchers, vi. 150. Selling oneself to the Devil, v. 29. Sexes, their disproportion, ii. 315. ' Sit on the body," ii. 409. " Solidarity of the human race," vi. 29. Translated surnames, iv. 275. Valadi (Marquis of), v. 69. " Vine ' Tavern, Mile End, ii. 253. Wedding-ring finger, iii. 236
Mediolanum, Jesuits at, 1685, x. 309, 374, 437 Mediterranean, derivation of the word, x. 308, 351,
376, 456, 495 ; xi. 10
Medley (Edward), Westminster scholar, xi. 230 Medmenham Abbey, Monks of, their history, xii.
467
Mee (A.) on Coslett, vii. 30. Earthquakes in Wales, vi. 74. Glamorgan, xi. 306. Lunar halo and rain, vii. 355. Bamsgate Christmas procession, v. 374
Meets of hounds announced in church, x. 468, 515 Meighen (Thomas), his biography, iv. 509 ; v. 35 Meignell (Sir Hugo), his wife, ii. 49 Meikle and muckle, variants of same word, vii. 112 Melampus and the Saint, identification, x. 68 ; xi.
353 Melancholy : " Nullum magnum ingenium sine
melancholia," i. 148, 212, 334
Melbourne (Lord), memorial brass at Hatfield, ii. 526 ; his ancestry, vi. 410 ; and Thackeray, x. 387 ; and Baldock, xi. 9 Meldenius and the dictum " In essentials, unity,"
viii. 347
Melisande, Christian name, iv. 107, 156, 393 Mellish (Sir George), d. 1877, his burial-place, ix.
169 Mellish (J. T.) on Carlyle and Lady Bannerman,
331 Mellon (Harriet), portrait by Sir William Beechey,
vii. 385 ; and the Wigan stage, xii. 405 Mellon (Sarah Jane) (Miss Woolgar), death, xii.
266, 337
Mellycaton, modern equivalent for, vi. 288, 338 Melmoth (William), his correspondents, vi. 449 Melons, musk, c. 1632, xi. 324 ' Melton Breakfast,' by Sir F. Grant, viii. 269, 315,
333 Melton cloth, origin of the term, iv. 467, 490 ;
v. 36 Melton jacket, meaning of the term, iv. 467, 490 ;
v. 36 Melusine on bridal stone, x. 394
Melville (Lewis), on authors wanted, xi. 387. Beck-
ford queries, xi. 386. Southy's ' Authentic
Memoirs of George III.,' viii. 27. Waiter,
murdered, charged in the bill, xi. 410
Melville (Lord) on " Painted and popped," i. 407
Melville (Whyte), lines by, iii. 408
Member of Somerset Archaeological Society on a
brass, xii. 338
' M&noires de St. P^tersbourg,' inquiry con- cerning, v. 188, 271 Memorial tablets on houses, ii. 369 Memorials : in London, x. 122, 211, 258, 290, 370,
491 ; in the British Isles, x. 387 ; xi. 441 ; xii.
51, 114, 181, 234, 277, 401 Men, self-made, list in Wroughton House, Wilts,
iii. 426 Men, young, their light in pre-Beformation
churches, vi. 34, 274 Men of family as parish clerks, viii. 448, 516 ; ix.
35, 271, 334
Manage (Giles) and W. S. Landor, viii. 407, 451 Menager (Dr. Michel) and the Douglas cause, viii.
3
Mendez (Moses), Maginn on, ix. 211, 416 Menken (E.) on Oscar Wilde's ' De Profundis,' iv.
233 " Mens " on mural tablet in Sussex church, iv.
389 " Mensuration School," Robert Burns's, viii. 70,
115 Mentor on " Blancs Chaperons " at Ghent, iii. 390.
" Wharncliffe Meeting," iii. 367 Mercer (W.) on " Esare," xii. 264. Inscriptions at
Naples, viii. 425 ; ix. 17 ; xii. 363. Louis
XIV. tablecloth, xii. 408. Missing word, x. 398 Mercer (W. J.) on Gower, a Kentish hamlet, xi. 95.
Kentish newspapers, viii. 68. Nonconformist
burial-grounds, x. 151. Poll-books, viii. 177 Mercurius on ' Kingdom's Intelligencer,' vii. 270,
395. Latta surname, viii. 190. Poll-books,
viii. 178
Mercury, the planet, and Copernicus, i. 509 ; ii. 56 Mercury in Tom Quad, Oxford, ii. 467, 531 ; iii. 32,
97
Merdon Manor, Hursley, and John White, xii. 148 Mereday, Christian name, its origin, iv. 248, 334 Meredith (George), " your rips and your reps,'
ix. 249 ; and T. L. Peacock, xii. 88, 132, 175 Meredith (Richard), Dean of Wells, his school,
xi. 410, 474 ; his marriage, xii. 34 Meredith (William) and Taylor the Platonist, i.
409 Merewether (Hy. Alworth), Town Clerk of London,
mistake in ' D.N.B.,' iii. 447 Meriah, word used by Khonds, v. 190, 252 Meridian, Angel of, his identity, xi. 148 Meriole : Le Meriole, sign in Westchepe, 1435, xii.
149 Merivale (R.) on woolmen in the fifteenth century,
ii. 448
Merltette (Mile. G. M.) her death, v. 267 Merlin (Louis or Ludovic), Roman Catholic
priest, xi. 369 Mermaid baptized, ix. 371 Merrian (Maria Sibylla), her drawings, vi. 466 Merrick (W. P.) on authors of quotations wanted, xi. 56. Benbow (Admiral), his death, vii. 55. French dictionary for the blind, v. 247. Har- vest Supper songs, xii. 276. Norfolk folk-songs, iii. 452. Nursery rime, ix. 478. * Old King Cole,' xi. 56. ' Rinordine,' Irish song, vm.
518 Merrill (L.) on engineers' portraits, vii. 514
