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SUBJECT INDEX.

Notes and Queries, Feb., 1918.

Pictures :

By Bach, Martineau, Carter, Weatherhead,

Polsnerd, and Pellegrino, 70, 153, 476 Covent Garden green-room in 1853, 507 Jesus Christ, painted in profile on wooden

panel, 332, 401 Millais's ' Christ in the Carpenter's Shop,'

250, 307

Oil painting of a man's head, c. 1601, 504 ' Shooting Party, Banton Abbey," 385 Swiss picture, Benedictine saint, 1670, 331,

392

' Venus and Bacchus,' the artist, 504. Water-colour drawings, the whereabouts of,

476

' Woodman,' oil painting, 98 Zoffany (Johann), his ' Porter and Hare,' 477

Pidgeon (H. C.), antiquary and archaeologist,

1807-80, 211, 307 Pigeon-eating for a wager, 75 Pitt (William), his last speech, 1805, 241, 382;

his saying about the English peasant, 274 Place (Francis), social reformer, 109, 200

Plaoe-Names :

Balleny Island, 149, 253 Copthorne, 126 Crewkerne, 16, 99, 158 Devizes, 524 Low Ford, 479, 519 Quaker's Yard, 211, 282

Place-names, London suburban, of 18th century,

476

Place-names of Surrey, curious fact about, 208 Plate-marks, the date of, 15 Play, c. 1811-27, identified, 386, 458 Plays, Elizabethan and Jacobean, emendations,

441

Plymouth Brethren, two pamphlets, 1882, 231 Poe (Edgar Allan), Alexander Smith on, 230, ,339 Poetical enigma, " We rule the world, we letters

5," 249

Poetry, Welsh, Christ's " Seven Eyes " in, 462 Pole (Cardinal), saying attributed to, 70, 192 Pole (Sir William de la), c. 1329% s descendants, 9 Police custom at Dunbar, the origin of, 506 " Politicanting," " politicanter," use of the words,

444

Pollaky. See Paddington.

Polsnerd, his picture ' Dutch Merry-Making,' 70 ' Polydoron,' 1631, Dean John Donne the author

of, 443 Poole family, their descent from Sir William de la

Pole, c. 1329, 9

Portraits : of the deceased, on headstones, 14 ; in stained glass, 15, 36, 76, 95, 159, 198, 218, 286, 344, 430 ; theatrical, with tinsel ornaments, 18 ; old family, in carved wood, 51 ; of certain authors, the "whereabouts of, 210, 313; of Governor Gawler and others, the whereabouts of, 230, 314 ; by John Phillip, R.A., 272, 391, 457 ; by James Lonsdale, 285 Portsmouth dockyard in 1756, diary of an in- spection of, 221, 406 Posset pot rime, 1805, 66 Pounds in villages, their construction, 340 Prelates, English, at the Council of Bale, 153 Prescot (Kenrick), D.D., of Cambridge, c. 1700-

1779, 449, 488

Preston parish church, its chantry priests, chaplains, and curates, 505

Price, Uvedale, and Cary families, 91, 180, 371,

490

Priesthood, the ordination of women, 449 Prints : of Eglinton Tournament, 1839, 211, 285,

367 ; of the play ' The Dog of Monturgis,'

. 1814, 386. 458

" Profiteer," use of the word, 383 Proteus (Sir Gilbert), c. 1720, his biography, 445

Proverbs and Phrases :

All round the Wrekin, 417, 455

Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.

330

And the child's name's Anthony, 478 Blood is thicker than water, 356

Call of the 69, 216

Chatter about Harriet, 450

Corruptio optimi pessima, 503

Derby Bam, 70, 1 54, 309

Donkey's years, 39, 74

Englishman's house is his castle, 274

Gray's Inn pieces, 57

Leicester plover, 357

Life isn't all beer and skittles, 230, 282

Mad as a March hare, 297, 522

Men of Kent, 477

Nosey Parker = inquisitive person, 170

Tartar's bow, 12

Tattering a kip, 170, 235

There has been dirty work at the cross-roads,

509

Touch (a person) for money, 26 Weep Irish, 31

Prudde (John), " King's glazier," 1440, 419 Publishers, their method of describing themselves,

the " House " of, 331, 402

' Punch,' an artist's signature, his identity, 15 Purple in heraldry, families entitled to, 211, 278

Quakers, their London Yearly Meeting, 504

Quaker's Yard, Glamorganshire place-name, origin of, 211, 282

Quartermain (Roger), his ' Conquest of Canterbury Court,' 366

Quartermaine (Anna) and Anthony Sorel, charac- ters in fiction, 445

Quincey (Thomas de), his stay in Eifionydd, 26

Quotations :

A lie travels round the world while Truth is

putting on her boots, 38 Again she spoke : " Where is my lord the

king ? " 360

Austria, the China of Europe, 520 Battle-fields are strange, 169 Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest

arose, 130 Birthless and deathless and changeless re-

maineth the Spirit for ever, 450 " Books," says Bacon, " can never teach the

use of books," 108

Bat when they came to Easter Gate, 148 Charms and a man I sing, to wit a most

superior person, 36 Chatter about Harriet, 450 Christ came to establish a kingdom not a

church, 274 De tenente tota nox est perviglanda canticis,

318