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 Notes and Queries, Jan. 29, 1916.

SUBJECT INDEX.

531

Waking a sleeper, superstitious objections, 440,

489 Walker (J.), D.D., Archdeacon of Hereford, d.

1741, 101, 151

Walker family of Stratford-le-Bow, 481 Wall (B.), of 'Stratford, Essex, b. 1733, 101 Waller (J. Francis) his ' Revelations of Peter

Brown,' 30, 77, 124

Wallington (Rev. N.), of Dumbleton, 1615, 101 Wallis (George), antiquary and gunsmith, d. 1803,

15

Walpole (Horace) and Samuel Warren, 339 Walter (John) at Oxford, 1723, 101, 147 Wanstead Park, the history of, 121, 164, 222, 246,

271 War, European, 1914-15: effect on wolves in

France, 26 ; Hindenburg wooden figure, 198,

399, 448 ; German princes fallen in 1914, 217 ; use of German libraries during, 458

War, runes for the word, in the poets, 158, 227,

305, 430 War and money, a dictum of Trivulzio, c. 1500,

400, 487

War, relics, ancient, found near Chilcomb, 69

Ward or Warde family, Westminster scholars of, 85

Warfare, the employment of wild beasts in, 140, 186, 209, 463

Warren (S.), " Aubrey " in his ' Ten Thousand a Year,' 339

Warwickshire inn signs, 279, 346, 385, 446

Washer (T.), Rector of Snodland, c. 1723, 201, 266

Wassenaer (Fred. Willem van), Heer van Rosande, b. 1658, 422, 485

Watch (Will), the smuggler, his identity, 127

Water of the Nile, methods of eliminating im- purities, 443, 510

Waterloo, extracts from private letters written from Brussels by the Rev. Spencer Madan, M.A. (1791-1851), 1, 21, 71, 107, 165; Baron de Cambronne's famous reply at, 7, 68, 169

Watford (John de), prior, c. 1200, 67

Way (John and Jane), their marriage licence, c. 1777, 47

Webster, actor and singer, his life, 68

Webster (J.), his work with Massinger, 1647, 134, 155, 175, 196 ; and Sir T. Overbury's ' Charac- ters,' 282

Wedding custom, Welsh, goat tethered, 181

Wedding ring and " left-handed " marriage, 258, 310, 366

Weight after a meal and during hypnosis, 119, 189, 249

Wellington (Duke of), some notes on Waterloo, 1, 21, 71, 107, 165

Weltje, Regent's cook and financial adviser, 9, 56

West, " to go west," = to die, use of the phrase, 0, 391

W T est-Country place-names and surnames, 160

Westbury (Baron), mock epitaph for, 422, 464

' Westminster Review,' the first number, 1824,

125 Westminsters, Old, 50, 69, 85, 119, 147, 160, 182,

201, 222, 229, 266, 341, 360, 380, 400, 421,

442

" While " or " whilst," use of the words, 139 W T hiskers of tigers used in magic rites, 481 " White-headed boys," mentioned by Dickens

and Thackeray, 478

Whitfield (John), Gent., his will, 1692, 120, 164 Whittington (Dick), demolition of his " housi-,"

478

' Widsith,' the date of, 393 Wilkes (J.), his saying on an old man's dotage,

341 ; calling himself a " burnt-out volcano,"

341

Wilkins (G.), and Shakespeare's ' Pericles,' 377 Willett family of Gloucestershire, 182, 199, 305 Williams (John), Archbishop of York, c. 1630,

his ghost, 499 Williams (Marjery), her sampler verses, 94, 164,

229, 250 Williams family of early Boston, Mass., 94, 164,

250 W T illoby (H.), his'Avisa,' evidence about " W.S.,"

46

Wilson (Mary Elizabeth), of Belfast, c. 1763, 401 Wilson (General Sir R.), c. 1847, his representa- tives, 319

Wilson (Sylvester D.), of Badulla, killed 1817, 120 Winchester College, ' The Trusty Servant,' 193,

267, 342 ; accounts entry about feather-beds,

1464-5, 257 ; Hall-book, 1406-7, 1414-15, 293,

313, 494 ; Fromond's Chantry, 433, 472, 509 Winterton, Lines, epitaph, 1810, 118, 210, 270 Wireless messages, c. 1600, 321 " Wistlanwudu " in ' Widsith,' the contracted n,

393

Wither family, 119 Wood, his pamphlet in answer to Boling-

broke, c. 1751, 100 Woolmer or Wolmer family, 57 Worcester, a tale of the Battle of, 281, 324, 490 Worcestershire folk-speech, " plain," 137, 187,

267, 330 Wordsworth (W.), sonnet by, 1849, 100, 146, 166,

190 Wright (Major Amherst), Royal Artillery, c. 1813,

378

" Yes, sir," use of the phrase in America, 458

York, riot in the Minster, 1690, 415

Young (Arthur), his reference to Lord Carrington,

241, 282, 303, 312 Young family of Auldbar, 379

Zulziman, in Dekker's ' Satiromastix,' 1602, 174