GENERAL INDEX.
Almsdishes, mottoes engraved in, viii. 510
Almshouses nea,r the Strand, c. 1820, vii. 130, 236,
315, 417; viii. 333, 377
Alnwick : walking through a bog, old custom, iii.
47
Alnwick on Florence Nightingale, ii. 165 Alpha on Henry Meyer, engraver, x. 429 Alphabet, biliteral, of Francis Bacon, 1623, v. 426 ;
Origin and history of, xii. 238 Alphabetical nonsense, alliterative, x. 468; xi. 13,
57 Alphabet of stray notes, xi. 261, 293, 334, 369,
375, 413, 459, 500 Alphabets for deaf-mutes, xi. 68 ' Alpine Lyrics,' published 1854, the author, iv.
30, 94
Alsace-Lorraine, harvest custom, viii. 130, 178 Alsop (Timothy), M.P. Cromwell Parliament,
date of his death, iv. 130 Altar, candles on, not lighted, 1603, xi. 261 Altar f rentals from Lanherne Convent, c. 1619, ix.
344 Altar in St. Paul's by Grinling Gibbons, ix. 248,
295, 316 Altars, Christian and pagan, references to, ix.
187, 238, 275, 314, 336, 415 " Alter," in a Latin epitaph, xi. 454 ; xii. 13 Alternative, " third alternative," xise of the word,
xii. 86, 144 Altham (James), Westminster scholar, 1713, ii.
429
Altham (Canon Roger), his marriage, i. 268, 337 Alt Ofen, besieged by the Prussians, 1686, xi. 360 ' Alumni Cantabrigienses,' M.S. of, i. 247, 310,
372 conjectural amendments, ii. 25 ' Alumni Oxonienses,' conjectural amendments,
ii. 25 Alvary, Alvery, and Alveredus, Christian names,
i. 156, 186
Amalafrida in Procopius, xi. 211, 286 Amaneuus as a Christian name, ii. 88, 152, 197 Ambassadors, British in France, 1595, vii. 367,
478, 497 Dutch, in Paris, 1779, viii. 208
Foreign, in London during 18th century, iii.
429 French, in London, 1763-93, iii. 309, 358
Swedish, in London, 1764-70, ix. 51, 95 Sir
H. Wotton on, ii. 425 Ambergris and spermaceti, their source and date
of discovery, i. 386 Ambiguous phrase, " Slav scholar," viii. 429,
316, 395
Ambrose (John), Etonian, 1757, ix. 350, 395 Ambrosian Rite at Campione, v. 447 ; vi. 32, 375 ' Ambulator,' guide to the London district, ii. 16,
92, 315; vii. 430 Ameer chanj ants (Abraham), of Tiflis, c. 1883, xii.
463
Amelia (Princess), daughter of George II., i. 10 " Amener de ffeyns," meaning of the term, ix. 350 " America " as a Scottish place-name, iv. 469; v.
38 America, foreign journals published in, 1910, v.
53, 137 ; Yorkshiremen in, 1657-1794, v. 127 American authors, illusions in, ii. 307, 373 American booksellers, early, i. 423 American historical documents, from 1540, iv.
268 American Indian place-names, Hoboken, Oregon,
iv. 86
American Indians, monuments to, i. 37, 235, 491
- American in Paris,' two books, i. 12
Americanisms and old forms of speech, v. 264 r
398; likely to come into general use, xii. 218,.
307
American national flower, iv. 228, 352, 455
American oracle of 1803, xii. 216
American political verses, v. 210
American pony express, an incident of, ix. 325
American scurrilous epitaphs, iv. 265
American seventeenth-century history, ix. 190
American slang, " nixie," " C2K," " husky," x. 329, 471
American underground railway, stations of, x. 102, 148
American War of Independence, Hessian con- tingent, vii. 364, 436, 475; x. 53
American words and phrases, ii. 67, 132, 193 ; iii,. 48, 172, 196, 315, 354
Amers (H. G.), boy (Army) bandmaster, v. 228,. 356
Amersham, churchyard inscriptions, vii. 464 ? viii. 23, 103, 204, 303, 423; x. 216; clergy buried at, v. 169 ; rectors 1234-1537, L 387 ? 1660-1753, biographies of, v. 169
Amherst (William), his letter, 1767, v. 488: vi=- 416
Amicus on armorial, vii. 91, 235
Amidei (Alexandro), Hebrew teacher, c. 1700, v^ 70
Amiens Cathedral and Heine's " convictions," x. 275
Amphillis, Christian name, x. 488
Amphisba3nic book, in the Bodleian Library, iii.. 69, 176
Amphitheatre in London, proposals for building,- 1620, x. 481, 502
Ampthill, painting of St. Christopher at, viii. 467, 516: ix. 37 ; x. 158
Anmlets worn .by German soldiers, xi. 187, 256, 439; xii. 37
Anachronism in 'The Sacrifice of Isaac,' Chester- play, v. 46, 157
Ananias as a Christian name, iii. 266, 333, 395,. 453, 497
" Anaphylaxis " insomnia, medical term, viiu 85, 157
Anastasie, miniature painter, 1780, vi. 428
Anastatic printing, Edgar Allan. Poe and, xii. 359,. 403, 443
Ancholme on Christmas Bough, ii. 507
Anchor and " the broad arrow," ix. 481
" Ancient Britons " society, and projected natural history, 1763, vi. 270
Anderson (A. W.) on " Carent," ix. 5 Consecra- tion crosses on the outside walls of churches, vi. 451 Divination by twitching, viii, 471 Dooms in churches, vi. 492 " Five wounds : " the Janus Cross at Sherbrun, Yorks, viii. 217 Scottish date-letters, viii. 469 Upright stonesr in churchyards, ix. 158
Anderson (G.), Westminster scholar, 1812, viii.. 310
Anderson (J. A.) on Durham fboat, ii. 207 - Hunter (Governor) of New York, ii. 447
Anderson (J. L.) on Bibliotheca Drummeniana, i, 412 ' Cramond Brig,' i. 436
Anderson (J. S.) on Anderson : Simpson : Dick- son, iii. 188
Anderson (P. J.), on Prince Albert on Balmoral,, iii. 428 bibliography of These : Duncan Liddel, vii. 125 Sam Bough, views in Inverness and Aberdeen, xii. 10 Boys' magazines in th&
