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 Notes and Queries, July 30, 1910.

INDEX.

Postmaster, oldest, his death, 106

Pothinus and Blandina, their imprisonment, 9

Potinius (Jo.) and Duncan Liddel, 447

Potter (Col. Vincent), Regicide, his biography,

147, 214

Potter ( J. F. Gill) on Col. Vincent Potter, 147 Potts (R. A.) on authors wanted, 317, 354 Shrove Monday : Collop Monday, 352 Pouncy (B. T.), artist, d. 1799, 487 Power (D'Arcy) on the Frere Caromez, 9 Prayer, metrical, and Passion emblems, 67, 152,238 Presidency, official use of the word, 264 Presley (J. T.) on authors wanted, 109 Prestage (Edgar) on Princess Clara Emilia oi

Bohemia, 508 ' Trabalhos de Jesus,' 148 Preston : " Proud Preston " and leather shoes

66, 212

Preston (C. W. A.) on gargoyles, 168 Prideaux (W. R. B.) on Milton and the Company

of Coopers, 244

Priestley and the Birmingham riots, 280 Priests, Irish, banished to Barbados by Cromwell,149 " Prince Fred " satire, earliest version, 148, 292, 355 Princes' deaths and comets : Julius Caesar, 448 Pringle (James Hall), 1689, his descendants, 326 Printers of the Statutes, c. 1500, 106, 238 Printing, Watson's ' History ' of, 90, 154, 234 Proclamation of the sovereign in Scotland, 441 Prophecy : " When our Lord shall lie in our

Lady's lap," 49, 94 Prosser (G.) on parsons not in Holy Orders, 12

Proverbs and Phrases :

Agnes : Do not play Agnes, 290, 495

Altes Haus, fideles Haus, 88, 153

Anne : As dead as Queen Anne, 347, 430

Annus mirabilis, 464

Audi alteram partem, 464

Beneath his horse, 449

Best company consists of five persons, 367, 433

Bis peccare in bello non licet, 464

Broad-Bottomed Administration, 328

But more was lost on Mohacs field, 258

Christians to the lion, 428, 492

Cle>icalisme, voila 1'ennemi ! 306

Cuckoos to clear the mud away, 208, 257, 316, 492

Dickens: what 'the dickens ! 160

Ducks to clear mud away, 208, 257, 316, 492

Fire out, 405

Forbes Mackenzie hour of eleven, 268, 353

He will either make a spoon or spoil a horn, 57

Hem of a noise, 108, 258

In cauda venenum, 505

In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail, 168

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, 369

Keep body and soul together, 27

Kicking up Bob's-a-dying, 150, 258

Making one's parish, 206, 254, 315

Man in a quart bottle, 136

Mesopotamia : That blessed word Meso- potamia, 369, 458

Mohammed and the mountain,|89, 151,231, 275

Monkeys' Parade, 225, 276

Mother of dead dogs, :i2r>

Mother of free Parliaments, 227, 315, 375

Music of the future, 249 ^

Nemesis of words, 149

Nescit servire virtus, 211

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, 89, 177 Psychological moment, 416

Proverbs and Phrases :

Standing for Parliament, 87, 252, 432

"Tace" is Latin for candle, 380

There are more acres in Yorkshire than letters in the Bible, 52

When the devil goes a-nutting, 33 Psalmanazar (George), his biography, 349 Psychological moment, origin of the phrase, 416 Public School Registers, 203, 269, 294, 431 Publishing and bookselling, bibliography of, 5, 44 Pull=a seizure, in Devon inquest, 1651, 407, 457 Pulpit, nosegay in the, c. 1760, 88 Pun, used in 1643, 425 Punjaub or Burmah head, Anglo-Indian term for

amnesia, 206

Purpose, alleged dance-name, 217 Puttenham's ' Arte of English Poesie,' Sir John Harington on, 404

Quarme (Mrs.), c. 1775, 9

Queen of Bohemia's players, 1630, 246

Queue in England, its origin, 486

Quillin (Bernard LordM. )on"jGanion'coheriga," 432

Quilt = traverse quickly, its use, 448

Quotations :

A few white bones upon a lonely strand, 68

A 1'impossible nul n'est tenu, 463

A rose-red city half as old as Time, 340

A rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, 227

A watch lost in a tavern, that a crime, 506

Ambition is more lowly, 269, 317

Amicus est Socrates, 463

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of

privilege, 408, 455, 514

And blind Orion, hungry for the morn, 269, 316 And visions, as poetic eyes avow, 269, 316 Be the day weary, be the day long, 49 Beauty is the lover's gift, 368 Before her face her handkerchief she spread,

109, 197 But Scripture saith, an ending to all fine

things must be, 368, 417 Called aloud on Tully's name, 269, 317 Cane mihi et Musis, 464

Careless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell, 232 Casting all doubt upon the darker side, 128 Cleanse and purify thy heart, 176 Come tell me, thou coy little fiower, 78 Corruption most abhorred, 269, 335 Cum Paris Iliaca tria numina vidit in Ida, 393 Die Wahrheit ruht in Gott, 367, 417 Each moss Each shell, each crawling insect,

227, 291 Enfeebles all internal strength of thought,

269, 316

Eye hath not seen, ear heard, or heart con- ceived, 109, 197 Farewell. Be prosperous in this journey, as

in all, 248 Felix et prudens qui tenipore pacis de bello

cogitet, 50, 113 Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum,

50, 113, 155, 216

Fixing low motives unto noble deeds, 128 For love is old Old as eternity, 137 For sair the English bowmen galled, 88 For sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first,

38, 113 For who, in time, knows whither we may

vent, 68 Give your money to the hospitals, 50