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GENEEAL INDEX.
Playfair (G. M. H. ) on Chinese pronunciation, xi.
376. White Ensign, ix. 514 Playfair (N.) on children on the stage, i. 108 Playhouse, Fortune, 1660-61, vi. 107 Playhouses, early, vi. 287 Playing cards, Japanese, i. 29, 75 Plays, printed in Ireland, i. 84 ; eighteenth-cen- tury and older, iii. 48 ; their censorship, xi. 485. Plea Bolls of Chester, their publication, iii. 388,
494
Pleachy, dialect word, its meaning, v. 327, 393 Pleasure digging his own grave, engraving, x. 89 Pledge in a bumper, origin of the custom, vi.
7, 92, 132 Pleiades : Atlas and Pleione : the daisy, iv. 387,
475, 497
Pleshey fortifications, iv. 48, 116 Plew, history of the word, vi. 8, 51 ^leydell (John), Spitalfields silk weaver, ii. 188 3 liny on flint chippings in barrows, ii. 188 Plomer (H. R.) on booksellers in the provinces,
xi. 127. Cowley (Richard), the actor, vi. 369.
Fortune Playhouse, vi. 107. Gascoigne the
poet, viii. 189. Genealogical notes in books,
viii. 381. 'Plough, thack, stack, and willing," farmwork,
service, xii. 47
r'loughgang and other measures, i. 101, 143, 354 D loughing, peculiar, in Wiltshire, ii. 345 Ploughing customs and Gray's ' Elegy,' xii. 309,
389
Plowden (Walter Chichele) in Abyssinia, xii. 69 'him : Jack Horner, vi. 67, 111, 131, 171, 211 'lum^ raisin, vi. 67, 112 'lum-list, use of the term, xii. 235 Plum pudding and mince pie, ix. 46, 73, 95, 117,
357 Plump in voting, use of the verb, vi. 148, 212,
276, 377 ; vii. 77, 205 ; xii. 235 ' Plumper's Inn," vii. 205. See also Plump in
voting.
' Plumpton Correspondence,' mistakes in, i. 466 5 lurality of office in thirteenth century, ii. 527 3 lus and minus, use of the terms, vi. 27 Ply : to ply, etymology of the verb, iv. 44, 110 Pneumatic tyres, their introduction, xii. 445 Pockethandkerchiefs, " moral," v. 368 Pocketings, definition of the word, ii. 268, 312 Pocock (Nicholas), his paintings of battle of Nile,
iv. 468 Podike, derivation of the word, vi. 128, 176, 275,
311,472 ; vii. 293
Poe (E. A.), ' Leonaine ' not by him, i. 145 Poem, English, in Welsh metre, xi. 367 Poem in one sentence, v. 148, 217 Poem in Welsh, containing only vowels, iv. 208,
Poem on a boy and his curls, xii. 88 Poems, French, translations of, i. 409 Poems attributed to Dryden, xi. 169 ' Poems of Early Years,' author wanted, v. 110 Poensin-Ducrest on precept on drunkenness, vi. 372
Poet, " saucy English," and Sir W. Scott, ii. 109,
153
Poet Laureate read at head of troops, iii. 345 Poetical curiosity, ii. 47 Poeticus on Herbert Knowles, ii. 489 Poetry, English and Greek, compared, ix. 310, 494 Poets, agnostic, ii. 528 ; iii. 38 Poets, English, and the Armada, iv. 346, 414 Poets Laureate and the Emperor of Germany,
v. 187, 237, 315
Pogrom, meaning of the word, v. 149, 197
' Point and Indian Queen," sign, xii. 328
' Point and Star," sign, xii. 328
Point of war, origin of the phrase, viii. 8, 96, 195,
313 ; xi. 337
Poisons, slow Eastern, ix. 308, 412 Poland (Sir Harry B.) on " As the crow flies," i. 372. Attorney-General to the Queen, x. 170. Authors of quotations wanted, iii. 335 ; x. 514 ; Bathing-machines, ii. 230. Canning : Costello : Scott, viii. 148. Canning on " Toby Philpot," xii. 470. Canning's riming dispatch, iv. 307. Capital punishment in eighteenth century, x. 392. Courvoisier, viii. 450. Dryden on Milton's portrait, xi. 246. High treason and its punishment, x. 314, 417. London taverns, xii. 524. Mesmerism in the Dark Ages, ii. 314. " O dear, what can the matter be," vi. 92. Throat-cutting at public executions, x. 236. Treaty of Tilsit, viii. 510 ; ix. 31, 171 ; x. 11 ; xi. 471. Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee, ii. 7 ; viii. 487, 518. Webster (Daniel), ii. 472. Welsh judges, xii. 93 Polar exploration, ix. 6
Polar inhabitants, their folk-lore, iii. 30 ; iv. 413 Pole : North Pole, its etymology, xii. 426 Pole (David), Fellow of All Souls, x. 125 Pole (Margaret), Countess of Salisbury, xi. 429,
477 ; xii. 16 Pole or Poole (German), his knighthood, vi. 181,
257, 474 ; vii. 16, 54, 113 ' Polemo-middinia,' Macaronic poem, 1683, ix. 288,
411 Polhill family : Cromwell descent, xi. 149, 314,
412
Police Court, use of the term, vi. 433, 494 Police Office, use of the term, vi. 369, 414, 433,
494 Police Office, Police Court, and Public Office, vii.
47, 90, 217,
Police uniforms in London, iii. 29, 75, 136, 432 Polinda and Albarosa, picture by Cosway, vii. 190 ' Poliphili Hypnerotomachia,' error in, i. 4, 97 Polish Dragoons, the military term, xi. 189, 256,
277, 497
Polish royal genealogy, iii. 429 ; iv. 196 Polisman, ' Historia del Valoroso Cavalier Polis-
man,' ii. 108
Politeness = literary elegance, iv. 465 Politician on balance of power, i. 507. ' Bel- lamy's," i. 169; viii. 75. Bloc: Block = political amalgamation, viii. 87. B.V.M. and the birth of children, vii. 417. Closure-by- compartment, ii. 106. Conscience money, ii. 227. Conservative Club, viii. 368. " Every man has his price," vii. 367; viii. 313. "Father of his Country," ix. 70. Fathers of the House of Commons, vii. 486. Fire : fire out, vii. 308. " Giving the hand ' in diplomacy, ii. 126. Hatless cardinals, vi. 489. Hazel in politics, ix. 126. Italy a " geographical expression, " iv. 249. Mugwump, ii. 327. North Sea Bubble, v. 509. Nuns of Minsk, vi. 356. Parliamentary applause, x. 376, 452. People's Charter : political song, vii. 128. Prime Ministers and newspapers, iv. 146. Public meetings, iv. 148. Roundhead, ix. 170. Sinews of war," ix. 470. Tea as a meal, i. 176. ' Times ' as " The Thunderer," ix. 348. Two- penny " for head, iv. 331. Politician v. states- man, viii. 66. Viceroy of Ireland, ix. 210. War Office in fiction, iv. 127. " What Lancashire thinks to-day," xii. 428
