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GENERAL INDEX.

Porter (Helen Violet) on Jane and Bobert Porter

v. 130

Porter (Jane) and ' Sir Edward Seaward's Narra- tive,' ii. 8, 96 ; her * Diary,' v. 130, 353 ; statement in her ' Scottish Chiefs,' x. 469 Porter (Sir B. Ker), his pedigree, v. 130, 353 Porterfield (Boyd), 19th Foot, 1744, vi. 49, 135 Portland cement, its inventor, i. 328, 377 Porto (Luigi da), his ' Boma et Prosa,' 1539, ix.

83, 233

Portrait, meaning of inscription on, vi. 251 Portrait found in an Indian bazaar, iv. 505 Portrait of a lady at Hampton Court, her name,

iv. 505 Portrait signed B., 1738, identification of, vii.

289 Portraits, family, mentioned in wills, x. 427 ; at

Easton Maud it, xi. 63

Portraits of an actress in different roles, vii. 227 Portraits of Broadbent families, 1650-1800, iv.

630

Portygne, gold coin, c. 1571, ii. 83, 138 Poseidon and Athene, variations of the myth,

xi. 377

Positivism, Prof. Huxley on, vii. 288 ; viii. 18 Possessive case, ambiguous use of, viii. 25, 91, 135, 153, 174, 314 ; Ben Jonson and the, x. 204 Possessor of a Nelson Memorial Bing on Nelson

memorial rings, xii. 402 Posset-bowl, farmers' Christmas custom, c. 1840,

xii. 499 Post, aerial, in India, 1911, iii. 265 ; earliest

mention of, 1783, viii. 347

Post Office, season posts for popular resorts, 1679, vi. 287 ; plan for a penny post, c. 1682, xi. 414 Post Office Savings Bank, its jubilee, iv. 423 Postage and ' The Illustrated London News,' x.

250 ; penny, in France, the date of, xii. 279 Postage stamps, inventions for perforating,

iii. 183, 251 ; iv. 197, 298 Postally, use of the word, i. 326, 395 Postboy, oldest, his death, i. 286 " Posteriors," 1605, use of the word, ix. 227 Postgate (Dr. J. P.) on employment of wild beasts

in warfare, xii. 140

Postiers, French slang term, i. 447, 494 Postlothwaite (T. N.) on pre-Beformation Urs-

wick vicars, iii. 387

' Postman, The,' and Jonathan Swift, i. 8 Postmaster, oldest, his death, i. 106 Postmen : " twopenny " postmen, ii. 169 Posts and chains in the City, 1648, x. 149 Pot oo os, racehorse, spelling of the name,'v. 29

97 Potassium on portrait of Wellington by William

Salter, x. 131 Potatoes : ware potatoes, term explained, iii

109, 179 " Pot-boiler," early use of the word, vi. 128, 216 :

vii. 94

Pothinus and Blandina, their imprisonment, i. 9 Potinius (Jo.) and Duncan Liddel, i. 447 ii 12 Pott (Percival), F.B.S., d. 1788, vii. 366 Potter (A. G.) on Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam, vii. 437 Omar Khayyam bibliography, iv. 328, 358, 497 ; v. 295, 464 Polyglot Bu- baiyat,' ix. 15 Shelley (p. B.), death of, vi. 76 Potter (Abraham and Humphrey), steam-engines

erected by, c. 1725, x. 450 ; xi. 15 Potter (Charles), 1634-63, his biography, ii. 230

Potter (G.) on alphabet of stray notes, xi. 459 Bell inscription, x. 328 London directories of the 18th century, iv. 275 ' Married Men's Feast' ; or, the Banquet of Barnet, 1671,' v. 132 Milton Bibles, iii. 70 Bey, xi. 378 St. Pancras, ix. 235 Thread-papers, iii. 90

Potter (J. F. Gill) on Col. Vincent Potter, i. 147

Potter ( J. S.) on Lord Grimthorpe's list of churches, vi. 449

Potter (Col. Vincent), regicide, his biography, i. 147, 214 ; vi. 290

Pottinger (Capt.) on Porringer, c. 1689, ii. 248, 315

Pottinger (I.), his ' Methodist,' comedy, 1760, ii. 526 ; iii. 125

Potts (B. A.) on authors wanted, i. 317, 354 ; iv. 58, 414, 496 ; vii. 434 ; viii. 396, 450 ; ix. 156 ; x. 432 ; xi. 280, 347 ; xii. 346' Bel- gravia,' a poem, iii. 337 Belshazzar's Feast, vi. 495 Bewickiana, vii. 115 Bolton's (Prior) window, vii. 95 " Cruel of heart were they," iii. 129 Dods (Meg) and ' Cook and Housewife's Manual,' iii. 257 Hucks (I.), B.A., vi. 397 ' Intelligencer,' iv. 473 ' John Gilpin ' in Latin elegiacs, ix. 477 Markland, vii. 278 " Notch," vii. 98 Parthenon Club, xii. 149 Poulter's mare, old, iii. 228 ' Beverberations ': Wm. Davies, ii. 134 Boberts (William), Esq., xi. 215 Shrove Monday : Collop Monday, i. 352 Smith (Charlotte), " poem ' St. Monica,' iii. 228 Solomon's advice to his son, xi. 217 " Wastrel "= waste land, xi. 154 Waterloo, model of, viii. 393 Winterton, Lines : epitaph at, xii. 270 Woman throwing her children to wolves, ii. 228

Pouchbelt (Peregrine), artist, Quebec, 1839, viii. 268

Poultney : Pulteney : Pountney, change of name, ii. 329

Poulyne (Mile. Elizabeth) and Napoleon, 1809, iii. 148

Pouncy (B. T.), artist, d. 1799, i. 487

" Pound " for prisoners, use of the word, xi. 471 ;

xii. 32

Pound sterling, " ," stroke through, xii. 201 Fourquoi Pas on Charles I. : ' Biblia Aureau,' iv. 70 Johnson and tobacco, iv. 175 Noble families in Shakespeare, iv. 248 Shakespea- riana, iv. 84

'Poverty Corner," Hyde Park, origin of the

name, xii. 379 Povey (Col. T.), of Massachusetts, 1702, viii. 427

Powell (A. C.) on Follies, ii. 273

Powell (C. L.) on more evidence from Willoby's

' Avisa,' xii. 46 Shakespeare note, xii. 438 Powell (Col.), Westminster School steward, 1845, vii. 251

Powell (Bev. G. Gervas), d. 1811, v. 270, 355 Powell (H. E.) on Scott's ' Woodstock ' : the Bota Club, viii. 58

D owell (Thomas), Westminster scholar, vii. 309

D ower (A. D.) on Tweezer's Alley, viii. 310

3 ower (D'Arcy) on the Frere Caromez, i. 9 Power (Dr. Garret), c. 1771, his biography, viii.

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Power (J.), ensign 1752, and Black Hole of

Calcutta, iii. 74, 111, 192, 272, 432 Power (Pierce), J.P., Ireland = Teresa Coppinger,

ower family, x. 108

Powick, tradition of the bells of, vii. 49, 115 '' Powlert," origin of the word, viii. 148