530
SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 29, 1921.
N
Naas, Sovereign of, 109, 172
Napoleon, news of his death in London, 409, 495 Napoleon (Louis), poetic works, 490 Negro drummers in the British army, 169 " Neopurgensis," meaning, 312, 354 Nettle-sting, remedy for, 14 Newcomen Society, objects, 440 New England, religious persecutions in, 446, 493 " New Exchange," London, site of, 371, 398, 435 Newman (Jacob), b. 1676, 311 Nicaea, ancient painting at, 408 Niches in churchyard crosses, 13 Nicholson (Renton), his autobiography, 216, 235 Noah's ark coats, use of term, 367 " Noise," etymology of, 246 " Nola," use of the word, 502
Noris (Cardinal Entico), 1631-1709, his descen- dants, 8, 35
North American Indians, 149, 215, 298 ' Northampton Mercury/ its bicentenary, 108 North Woods, novels of the, 231. 295, 338 " Now, then ! " use of term, 469, 512 Nunc Dimittis, 290, 337
Oak Apple Day : Royal Oak Day, 15
Obituary :
Fynmore (Col.), 100
Guiney (Louise Imogen), 400
Peacock (Mabel), 120 " OfEoldfall," meaning wanted, 48, 133 ' Old Bachelors ' : author wanted, 89 " Old China," meaning of the term, 16 Oliphant (Sir Oscar), poet, 349, 394 Osborne's (Dorothy), letters, 243, 263, 304, 324,
344, 385
' Our London Letter,' origin of, 128 Owen (Dr. Robert), Dr. in Phvsick, of St. Martin-
in-the-Fields, 7 " Ox " in place-names, 16, 36 Oxford, age of matriculation at in the eighteenth
century, 208, 237
" Oxford Blues " = " The Blues," 15 Oxford House, Walthamstow, 469
Palazzo Martinengo, siege of the, 468
Palindromes, interpretation of, 131, 173
Palmerstcm (Lord) letter to Delane on ministerial
appointments in 1863, 1 Pannier Market, 110, 258 Paper shortage, 189 Paris : Arms of : the ship, 288, 335 ; English
plays performed in, 89, 134, 497 ; English
pugilist in, 1814, 230 Parish registers, 278 ; Cranford : curious entry in,
34
Parks (or Perks) family, 18
Parliament : duration, act of 1641 limiting, 45 Parliamentary Petitions, " &c.," 270, 338, 417, 436 Parr's Bank, history of, 149, 193, 215 Parry (Dr. Caleb), 1755-1822, physician of Bath,
83
Parsons (Nancy), Gainsborough's portrait of, 149,.
216
Paulet (Lady Catherine), miniature of, 511
Fa villions= Tents, 92
Payne (Judge), d. 1870, 232, 273, 338, 378
Peacock family of Durham, 210
Peacocks' feathers, folk-lore of, 137, 277, 477
Peladan (Josephin), b. 1859, 70, 96
Pembroke (Mary Herbert, Countess of), 1555 ? 1621, 417
Pepys (Samuel), the stature of, 155, 212, 318 ; his salary as Admiralty Secretary, 367 ; the Fair Maids of Foscott, 448 ; note on his ' Diary/ 507
Percival (Viscount), diary of, 1730-1733, 161
Percival (Thomas), 1740-1804, physician and; author, 83
Permit Office, London, c. 1757, 429
Philip II. of Spain, his surname, 271
Phillips family of Stratford-on-Avon, 382
Phipps- Waller, eminent oculist, 108, 172
" Pick up Brown at Hyde Park Corner," entry in* parish register, 34
Pierrepont (Sir George), d. 1564, 48
Pike (Albert) and freemasonry, 137
Pilate (Pontius), descendant 'of, at Rovereto, 36
Pilgrim Fathers, 251, 265, 374 ; and Communism,. 403 ; Squanto, their Indian interpreter, 384
Pinnock (James), 12
Pinnock (Thomas), b. 1745, 12
Pinnock family, 12
Pipe, meerschaum : presented to House of Com- mons, 389
Place-Names :
Aldgate, 294
Ancaster, 227
" Apple " in, 49, 74
Bowling, 86
" Bug " in, 28, 77, 97, 152
Culcheth, 71, 172, 193, 255
Finkle Street, 151
Friday Street, 490
Gnaton, 108, 136, 337
Golemuth, 89
Gunton, 108, 136, 337
Heathton, 290, 354
Hodnell, 397
Hyde, 409, 459
Le Tir Anglais, 108
Liverpool, 68, 96, 188, 254, 313, 373, 395-
" Ox " in, 16, 36
Pomonkey, 211, 314
St. Omer, 221, 241
Sinodun, 6
Sonning, 401
Telegraph Hill, Hampstead, 55
Wadbidding, 89
Plaes (David van der), d. 1704, 29
Poetess, earliest English, 351, 417, 438, 453
Police truncheon, 191
Police London : uniform in fifties and sixties.
475
Pomonkey (West Indies), 211, 314 Pope (Alexander) and Stourhead, 231, 256, 298 Pope and Queen of England on china pot, 33 Porcelain, Staffordshire : makers' marks, 410, 478 Porter (Joseph), of Mortlake, 209, 314 Portugal, eighteenth century English merchant*
of, 429, 492