GENERAL INDEX.
Burglar, derivation of the word, xi. 165
Burgoviae, its locality, xii. 92
Burgoyne (F. J.) on Armada quotation, viii. 508.
Quotations, xii. 468 Burial, upright, instances of, xi. 465, 514 ; xii. 34,
137, 294 ; sham, xii. 246, 432 Burial custom at Ardoch, xi. 7 Burial register, Benwell, vi. 247, 336 Burial service read over a rail, viii. 524 Burial-ground in Portugal Street, viii. 343, 414 Burials in Westminster Abbey, x. 206, 257, 451 "Buried, a stranger," register entry, i. 207, 375 "Buried for truth," register entry, i. 487; ii. 77 Burke (Edmund) on Malvern, vii. 68 ; his visits to Monmouthshire, ix. 108 ; religion of his wife, xi. 8; his residence at Plaistow, 427
Burke (W. J.) on Cleburne : Bowes : Ward, ix. 189 Burkitt (A. P. C.) on Fleetwood cabinet, iii. 347 Burleigh (J. C.) on Goethe's ' Mason-Lodge,' i. 428 Burleigh (Lord of), his marriage, xi. 4, 75 Burleigh (William Cecil, Lord), his 'Ten Precepts,' iii. 409, 489 ; iv. 73, 151 ; biographical details, v. 28, 137 ; and Shakespeare, xii. 328, 396, 411, 478 Burleymen, name and duties, iii. 421, 490 Burmese wedding customs, i. 505 Burn (J. H.) on Schulze, the German organ-builder,
xi. 247
Burnaby (R. B.) on Rockall, x. 157 Burne-Jones (Sir E.), his Welsh descent, ii. 529 ;
meaning of ' Golden Stairs,' iii. 88 ; x. 427, 491 Burnet manuscripts, v. 314 Burnham family, vii. 287, 455
Burning bush and Church of Scotland, i. 174 ; ii. 153 Burningham (R.) on Batty, printer, 159, Fleet Street, ix. 272. 'John Bull, 'a newspaper, vi. 116. Machine = public coach, ix. 38. Parody on 'The Mistletoe Bough,' vi. 314. Stukeley (Sir Nicholas), ii. 96. Walker (Donald), vi. 237
Burns (Robert) : first edition of his ' Poems,' i. 185 ; and Wordsworth, i. 208, 278 ; " Daimen-icker," i. 227, 318; and Coleridge, i. 405; ii. 35, 97; 'Comin' thro' the Rye' or "rye," ii. 66, 197, 270, 434 ; " Will ye go and marry, Katie ?" ii. 366, 518 ; his prophecy, ii. 526 ; iii. 75 ; " Heels o'er gowdie,' iii. 386, 453 ; and Cervantes, iv. 144 ; "a Donald hastie," iv. 346; "hoodock," iv. 517; fallacies about, vi. 362 ; stanza in ' Tarn Glen,' vii. 46 , book belonging to, 66 ; lines by, 125 ; and Michael Bruce and John Logan, 466 ; viii. 70, 148, 312. 388, 527 ; ix. 95, 209, 309, 414, 469, 512 ; x. 69', 130, 449; xi. 11, 132; his "Green grow the rashes, O," viii. 210; his use of "brattle," 500; and James Cririe, ix. 183 ; poem by J. Nicholson on, 185, 374 ; and the ' Greek Anthology,' xii. 82 Burnt offering, continual, vii. 408, 476 Burpham, earthworks at, x. 129, 214, 493 Burr (E. T.) on ' Life of a Lawyer,' x. 448 Burr (G. S.) on upright burial, xii. 34 Burrell (A.) on Sutton Valence School, xi. 186 Burrington (Major), his biography, vi. 349, 415, 472 Burton (A.) on Thurlow and Duke of Grafton, viii. 405 Burton (B. H.) on Mimmes family, iv. 248 Burton (Robert), bibliography of * Anatomy of Melan choly,' i. 42, 115; his acquaintance with English writers, ii. 1, 131, 295, 351 ; on tobacco, 221, 454
and Shakspeare, 501 ; play by, iii. 46 ; Shilleto's
edition of his 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' xi. 181,
222, 263, 322, 441 ; xii. 2, 62, 162, 301, 362, 442
Burton (Simon), M.D., d. 1744, his biography, vii. 466
Burton bottled ale, v. 67, 174
Burton-on-Trent, arms of the abbey, x. 468 ; xi. 76
Burwell family, iv. 380, 427
Bury (J. B.), slip in his History of Greece,' x. 126
Bury Head, South Devon, forts on, ii. 347, 450
Bury St. Edmunds, abbots of, xi. 106
Bushby (F.) on Little Giddmg : Stour bridge Fair, viii. 350
Bush-harrow. See Harrow.
Busillis, meaning and origin of the word, x. 384, 490
Businesses, their antiquity, xi. 165, 191, 410; xii. 176
Buss (O.) on Buss queries, x. 386
Buss (R. W.), his Dickens illustrations, i. 87, 256, 333 ; his engravings, x. 386, 493
Bussy (Ernest), Swiss poet, his biography, vii. 449 ; viii. 48
Busts made by Alcock of Cobridge, v. 127
Butcher (Thomas), his biography, vii. 109
Bute (Lord) and George III., xi. 492
Bute (third Marquis of), his heart buried on the Mount of Olives, vi. 307, 375 ; viii. 162 ; and the ruined chapel at Roscoff, Brittany, vi. 346, 433, 479, 517
Butler (A. J.) on Danteiana, iv. 50
Butler (G. G.) on English detenus of war in France, viii. 532
Butler (J. D.) on Arabic star names, i. 15. Aristotle on a fly, vii. 449. Barnyard for farmyard, v. 343. Bath slipper, i. 98. Books on Elizabethan times, xi. 455. Campus = college grounds, i. 384. Charles II. on weight of fish, ix. 308. Cigar, early English quotations for, x. 4. College of Surgeons, its motto, i. 435. Court of St. James's, ix. 84. Crossing knives and forks, viii. 325. Dark ages, vi. 406. " Dewy -feathered," ii. 7. Draughts of air, vi. 346. Editions, c. 1600, xi. 509. "Fall below par," vii. 488. Frankliniana, x. 329. Genius and insanity, ix. 269. Greek spear in the left hand, viii. 385. Green fairies : Woolpit green children, v. 422. Harvest bell, ix. 418. "Hill me up," iv. 234. ' Historical English Dictionary,' i. 84 ; vii. 436. Honorificabilitudinitas, ix. 243. Inwardness, use of the word, vi. 237. Ipplepen, co. Devon, vii. 473. London libraries in the Elizabethan era, ix. 329. Magnetic Pole, iv. 198. Mascot, its etymo- logy, i. 229. "Not a patch upon it," i. 175. Obelisk, Egyptian word for, viii. 285. Obelisk at St. Peter's, viii. 405. Palm Sunday, wind on, i. 1 7. Patches and patching, ii. 454. Pitched battle, vi. 286. Pope's Bull against comet, ii. 477. ' Prodigal Son,' i. 137. Quarter of corn, vi. 253. Rome, Ghetto in, ii. 463. Rouen and succedaneum, their meaning, vii. 453. Royal roads to knowledge, iii. 263. Scott (Sir Walter), medallion of, vi. 229. Shakespeare : First Folio, i. 70 ; Shakespeariana, iii. 228 ; allusion to, vii. 69 ; his vocabulary, x. 385 ; "Temple Shakespeare," xi. 407. Todmorden, its etymology, ii. 173. Trunched, its meaning, i. 28. Turthel cow, iii. 295. " Two is company," ii. 136. Unram, xii. 9. Windward and Leeward Islands, i. 349. " World without end," xi. 448