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GENEEAL INDEX.

Port Arthur, origin of the name, i. 407, 457 ; ii.

212, 251

Porta del Popolo, Rome, its meaning, ix. 329, 433 Portcullis on Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV., v.

202 Porter (C. P.) on McDonald of Murroch, ii. 448.

Pownill, ii. 449 Porter (Miss Jane), Highgate romance in her

' Scottish Chiefs,' yii. 343 Porter (Sir B. K.), his panoramic painting of the

' Storming of Seringapatam,' yii. 230, 317 Porteus (Bishop), painting of his birthplace, viii.

128

Portfolio Society, 1861, its history, ix. 510 ; x. 53 Portico Library, Manchester, its early history/ v.

368

Portion, ecclesiastical, denned, x. 310, 358, 437 Portland, Dorset, Court Leet .in, viii. 148 ; ix. 491 Porttnan estates and local history, x. 307 Portman family, v. 48, 150, 178, 198, 217, 272,

351, 383 Portmanteau words and phrases, v. 110, 170, 235,

512 Portobello, game and place-name, its derivation,

vii. 88, 198, 277, 355

Portrait, eye of, following the spectator, i. 186 Portrait painting, Gainsborough on, ix. 90 Portrait substituted for Sir Walter Raleigh's, i. 403 Portraits, engraved index of, iv. 200 Portraits, historical, will-power in, v. 9 Portraits of engineers, vii. 347, 514 Portraits which have led to marriages, iii. 287,

334, 377, 435 ; iv. 92 Portsmouth (Eveline, Dowager Countess of) on

Portsmouth known as " Pompey," xi. 427 Portsmouth Road in 1756, xii. 509 Portsmouth Street, Lincoln's Inn, No. 14, ix. 346,
 * There's not a crime," i. 508

395

Portugal, wehr-wolf in, ii. 15 ; Southey's collec- tions regarding, xii. 169 Portugalete, etymology of the name, i. 443 Portuguese Hymn : " O come, all ye faithful," i.

10, 54

Portuguese pedigrees, ii. 167, 255 Portuguese version of Aphikia story, i. 466 Posie rings, xi. 127 Possessives and place-names, x. 150 Post, used for bugle or trumpet sound, vii. 389 Post, London penny, and W. Dockwra, viii. 370,

410

Post, ocean penny, its early advocates, viii. 405 Post, Parcel, referred to in 1790, x. 450 Post boxes, their erection in London, vi. 389, 453,

475 ; vii. 72, 173 Post card, first folk-lore, ii. 200 ; picture, its

origin, vi. 266

Post cards, churches on, vi. 48 Post Office, 1856-1906, vi. 163, 182, 232, 251, 273,

315, 354 Post Office, new General, Roman remains found on

site of, vii. 510

Postage, earliest use as applied to letters, i. 134 Postage stamps, used, iii. 400 ; walking-stick made of, vi. 487 ; literary references, 1839-62, vii. 289 ; first perforated, 320 ' Post-Boy,' Swift's connexion with, viii. 21 Postboy, oldest in England, his death, xi. 247 Postboy, Yarmouth, the last, ix. 484 Postlethwaite (T. N.) on book-stealing, vi. 353. Butler of Toderstaff, v. 468. " Cera panis," v. 490. Franceys : Francissus : Le Franceys, <fec., vi. 88. Furness Abbey, xii. 249

Postliminious, use of the adjective, ix. 48 Post-mortem examinations, earliest instances, v

29

Posts, early, in England, i. 57, 133, 175 Postscript of a woman's letter, xi. 489 ; xii. 18 Potarbo or botargo, its meaning, ii. 137 Potato rings, Irish, iii. 149 Potemkin, transliteration and pronunciation of the

name, iv. 152, 193

Pot-gallery, use and meaning of the word, vii. 388, 431 ; viii. 172, 254, 312, 493, 517 ; ix. 36, 212 ; xi. 333 ; xii. 31

Pot-hooks and hangers explained, vii. 388, 432 Potie Warden, meaning of the term, vii. 6, 79 Potrel (Jeanne) on Huquier engravers, i. 469 Pott (Percivall), his biography, i. 434 Pottage called hok, and Hockday, i. 187, 496 Potter, Dr. Johnson as, vii. 468 Potter (A. G.) on 'Metrical Effusions,' xi. 389.

Persian translation by Shelley, x. 349, 438 Potter (G.) on " beating the bounds," iv. 31. Cromer Street, iii. 375. Elm, great hollow, at Hampstead, iii. 187

Potter (John) and Miss Roach, xii. 470 Potter (J. D.) on ' Lights in Lyrics,' xi. 18 Potteric Carr, Doncaster, its changed condition,

vi. 13 Potter's Bar, place-name, xi. 89, 154, 234, 335,

376

Pottery, French Revolution, iv. 228, 252, 292 ; Wedgwood, of Australian clay, x. 261, 412 ; English topographical, xi. 230, 337 Potticary (John), Lord Beaconsfield's school- master, xi. 362, 454 Potto, etymology of the word, iv. 286 Potts (A.) on Robert Noyes, xi. 431 ; xii. 71 Potts (R. A.) on ' Address to Poverty,' i. 151. " All right," xii. 314. Authors of quotations, iv. 134, 249 ; vi. 449 ; viii. 32 ; ix. 192, 214 ; x. 173, 397 ; xi. 94 ; xii. 148, 355. Brindley (James), i. 376. Browning as a preacher, xii. 258. Browning's text, i. 237. Burial- places of notable Englishwomen, xii. 298. Coleridge items, ix. 133. Cunningham's ' King of the Peak,' v. 271. ' Duke of Mantua,' viii. 370. Dyer (Sir Edward), ii. 33. Hudson (Jeffrey) the dwarf, x. 438. Inedited poem by Kingsley, iv. 212. Lamb's Panopticon, iv. 127. ' Memoirs of a Stomach,' i. 57. ' Ocean, 'mid its uproar wild," v. 77. Ode to Napoleon, x. 258. ' Philobiblion,' ix. 92. Poem by Lyte, ii. 351. Proverb on beating, ix. 298. Seven- teenth-century quotations, x. 271. Sonnets by A. and F. Tennyson, vii. 159. Tasso's ix. 194. " Though lost to sight," xi. 498 Potts family in 1774, i. 127, 434 ; ii. 17, 313 Pot-waller, its etymology, viii. 181, 233, 298, 371,
 * Aminta,' xi. 235. Tennysoniana : Cleopatra,

413 Poulton (Prof. E. B.) on Dr. Burchell's diary and

collections, ii. 486

Pound, The, Rochester Row, iv. 288 ; v. 54 Poundbury, its early history, x. 382, 450 Pounde (Thomas), S.J., his biography, iv. 184,

268, 472 ; v. 14, 96, 172 Pour, its pronunciation and etymology, v. 261, 329,

392, 435 ; vi. 95 Pourcuttle : pourcontrel, original form of the

word, vii. 427

Povey (Capt. Charles) and Bombay Regiment, x. 1 Powell (David), Fellow of Oriel, x. 125 Powell (David), Fellow of All Souls, x. 126 Powell (Eliza) -John Shaw, i. 226