Notes and Queries, July 26, 1902.
INDEX.
547
Sheres : Kny vett : Downes, 394
Sheridan and Maginn, 305
Sheriffs of Staffordshire, 1699-1730, 342, 415, 514
Sherwood (G. F. T.) on questions of pedigree, 245
Shields, place-names, their derivation, 384
Shimraozzel, Jewish cant word, 12, 395
Shinnanickin' : hannicrochemens, 165
Ships, ancient, still afloat, 66 ; of war on land, 214,471
Shirley (Sir Robert), d. 1638, envoy of the Shah, 50
Shorthand, in the fourth century, 406, 498 ; in the
third century, 446 Shropshire place-names, 449
Shrove Tuesday and Christmas decorations, 86, 217 Sibree (E.) on The Tempest ' anagram, 70 Sibyl or Sybil, its orthography, 297 Sibylline oracles, English or French translation, 289, 391 Siddons (Mrs.), her house in Upper Baker Street, 224,
354
Side- whiskers for whiskers, 145 Sidney (P.) on Brandon, executioner, 9, 151 Siena Cathedral, incised pavement representing the
" Seven Ages," 432 Sieveking (A. F.) on Beau Brummel and Barbey
d'Aurevilly, 110 Sigma on Corbyn family, 88
Fashion in language, 228 Signatures of bishops, 9, 118, 239, 272 Siguenza, cathedral church of, and Thomas a Becket, 344 Silver, Newcastle, marks on, 369 Silver-pence in Herrick's ' Oberon's Palace,' 49, 178, 478 Simeon (S. ) on epigram on women, 288 Simplicissimus on gun, 192
Week, 277
Skeat(W.W.) on filbert, 177 Greek pronunciation, 475 Tennis, origin of the name, 454 Skirret, its meanings, 108, 219 Slang, "bore" or " boar,' 152, 352 ; Anglo-Indian,
266, 373, 455 ; fashionable, of the past, 368, 495 Sleeping garments, earliest use of, 213, 315 Smail (A.) on Michael Bruce and Burns, 209, 469, 512 Smallpox, toads as a cure for, 426 Smith (A.) on Vancouver, 132 Smith (E.) on Yttingaforda, 426 Smith (G. G.) on Clifford's Inn, 389 Smith (J. de B.) on "The moss covered bucket," 257 Smith (J. E.) on ' Hamlet,' I. L 115 sq., 342 Smith (Sir Nicholas), of Devon, M.P., his descendants,
193
Smith (Richard^, ob. 1675, his library, 347, 433 Smith (Sir Thomas), 1556-1609, of Parson's Green, his
biography, 29, 132, 373 Smyth (H.) on stoning the wren, 234 Snodgrass surname, 866, 496
Snowdon : Knockers' Llyn and Llyn Coblynau, 229, 353 Soldiers' card games, their names, 384 Somerset (Duke of), his widow's residence at Han- worth, Middlesex, 148, 218
Songs and Ballads : Beggar's Petition, 76 Charlie is my Darling, 401, 511 Come, all ye lads of high renown, 388, 492 Coronation, 507 Gentle shepherd, tell me where, 113, 416
Songs and Ballads:
Jenny of Monteith, 288
La Blanche Fe*e, 168
Little Tafflin, 347, 391
My father kept a horse, 388
O saw ye my father, O saw ye my mother, 147, 233
Once the gods of the Greeks, 77, 254
Sweet Richard, 168
The doctor [?] his medical man doth tend, 388
There was a miller, he had three sons, 388
Will ye no come back again ? 401, 611 Songs, pseudo- Eurasian, 327 Southam (H.) on bottled ale, 18
Barrosa token, 248
Black bottles for wine, 276
Frail, 96
Parrye (Blanche), 284
Tudor (Lady Mary), 194
Yard of ale, 255
Southwell (T.) on Willughby's Ornithology,' 468 Sparke (A.) on author of books wanted, 232 Spatchcock, meaning of the word, 16 Spelling reform, 349
Spenser ( Edmund), supplement to his ' Faerie Queene,' 28 Spider poison, 449
Spiera (Francis), lawyer of Cittadella, ob. 1548, 389, 491 Spoons, marks on old, 348, 416, 479 Staffordshire, Sheriffs of, 1699-1730, 342, 415, 514 Stage, contemporaries impersonated on the, 224 Stallage, pillage, and toll, meaning of words, 35, 395 Stamp collecting, 438
Stamps, sale of, forbidden by the Inland Revenue, 288 Standsfield (John), of Lewes, his second wife, 309, 414 Star-lore, 227, 357 Staunton, Worcestershire, its postal address, 11, 92,
110, 170, 217, 334 Steele (R.) on Crapelet bibliography, 289
" Romans des Douze Pairs," 290 Steer of wood or bark, its meaning, 509 Steevens's 'Shakespeare,' Boydell, 1802, 188 Steggall (C.) on Annunciation, 433
Standsfield, 414
1 Stemmata Chicheliana, ' Nos. 256 and 258, 468 Stephens (F. G.) on Brandon, executioner, 70
' Gambler Detected,' 149 Stepmother = mother-in-law, 445, 517 Stevenson (A. P.) on "Oh, life so short ! " 72 Stevenson (R. L.) and W. E. Henley, 161 Stewart (C.) on Button family, 492 Stilwell (J. P.) on castor sugar, 417 Stocks, movable, 136
Stoffel (Dr. C.) on poetry needs no preface, 509 Stone pulpits, 56, 157, 356 Stowe Missal, 98, 150 Strand, token found in the, 268, 373 Strawberry leaves in ducal coronets, 153 Streatham Park, Mrs. Thrale's house at, 509 Street (E. E.) on castor-oil plant, 73
Chocolate, 489
Olive : olivaceous, 357
Post-fine, 316
Pre- Victorian M.P.s, the last of, 378 Strohling (Madame), singer, circa 1830, 347 Stronach (G.) on honorificabilitudinitas, 494 Strong (H. A.) on barracked, 232
