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Egerton (Mrs.), actress, her portraits, i. 186

Egg, Easter, and rabbit, iii. 488

Egg dance, description of, vi. 404

Egg, standing, i. 386, 472 ; ii. 53, 132

Eggiste= magpie, iv. 307, 357

' Egio.' See ' 3gio?

Eggs, their price, ix. 147, 277, 412 ; x. 154

Egmont (Count) and the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica, ix. 184

Egypt, medical specialism in, ii. 344

Egyptian chessmen, v. 28, 111, 273, 341

Egyptian flag and Khedive's, iii. 307

Egyptian kite, ii. 9

Eighteenth-century characters, xii. 348

Eighteenth-century histories of England, v. 127, 189, 276, 398

Eighteenth-century sporting record, v. 495 ; vi. 72 130

'Eikon Basilike ' motto, xi, 389, 497

Ejulate, use of the verb in 1660, xi. 47

Elam (W.) on author of books wanted, ix. 188

Elan (A.) on Fe*libre, iii. 28

Eland on Chinese discovery of America, vii. 129

Elder (Abraham), author, vii. 148

Eldin (Lord), anecdotes concerning, iv. 443

Eleanor Cross, Waltham, vi. 211, 296, 353, 413

Electioneer as a substantive, vi. 426

Electoral nomination, iv. 496

Electric light in theatres, early use of, viii. 294

Electrical Dispensary, London, iii. 348, 495

Electrocute, derivation of the word, viii. 420, 487

Elegiacs and English hexameters, vii. 321, 514

Elegy imitating poem by Gray, vii. 8

Elephant, derivation of the word, i. 187, 335, 374

Elephant, Latin epitaph on, i. 228 ; ii. 95 ; and Caesar in Old and New London,' xi. 224

Eleusinian mysteries, article on the, xii. 467, 509

Eley (C. C.) on ladle, viii. 94

Eliot (George), her pseudonym, i. 344 ; ii. 54 ; anec- dote concerning, vi. 287 ; vii. 70 ; her house at Richmond, vi. 104 ; and Mark Kutherford, x. 204 ; and blank verse, xii. 441

"Elixir Vitae" in fiction, iv. 187, 257 ; v. 38

Elizabeth (Queen), at Horham Hall, iii. 408 ; scandal concerning, iv. 187, 272, 541 ; v. 51; ring of, vii. 368, 438 ; her godmothers, viii. 345, 490 ; epitaph on, xii. 3 ; and New Hall, Essex, 208, 410, 477, 496; her visit to Lord Burleigh at Hedingham Castle, 328, 396, 411, 478 ; her Pocket Pistol, 368,

Elizabethan era, paucity of books in, xi. 44, 150, 336,

455

Elizabethan players, xi. 444

Elizabethan poem, author wanted, x. 489 ; xi. 13 Elizabethan terms, v. 148, 365 Elizabethan worthies, descendants of,x. 208, 310, 433-

xi. 10

Ell (H. G.) on boundary stones in open fields, x. 195. 1 family, x. 190. Surnames from single letters,

ix. 474

111 family, x. 487; xi. 77 Ellacombe (H. N.) on 'An Apology for Cathedral

Service,' iv. 524. Book of Common Prayer, viii. 50.

Cottiswold, xii. 506. Figs in fruit, v. 209. " Hedge"

in Bacon's essay, viii. 53. Watch candle, vi. 48.

Watson (Dr. Forbes), vii. 247, 454. Weather-lore, iv. 486

Ellenborough (Lord) on India and Egypt, iii. 146 Ellers (Peter), Westminster scholar, 1771, ix. 348 Ellesmere (first Earl of), his poem ' The Mill,' vii. 427 Elliot (Alexander and Robert), Westminster scholars,

1769 and 1772, ix. 268 Elliot (L. M.) on ' The Watch,' x. 347 Elliott (Anne), character in 'Persuasion,' xi. 347, 411 Elliotson (Dr.), his biography, x. 132, 197, 329 ; and

Dickens and Overs, x. 405 Elliott (Ebenezer), the Corn-Law Rimer, ix. 246 ;

x. 445

Ellis (A. S.) on Thomas Aske, iii. 416. Bohun and Plugenet families, v. 400. Botoner (John), v. 402. Brunanburh, viii. 253. Castle Carewe, x. 453. De Laci family, temp. Henry 1. and Stephen, x. 173. Father of Eustace Fitz John, vii. 123. Fitz Aldeline (William), viii. 42. Frobisher family, ii. 116, 354. Glisson (Dr. Francis), x. 149. Hugh fitz Grip and the Martels, i. 221. Knocker family, ix. 8. Londres, ix. 35. St. Jordan, iii. 414. Seriff, printing term, v. 246. Tennyson family, i. 312 Ellis (Cartwright J. W.), Westminster scholar, ix. 427 Ellis (F. G.) on author wanted, vi. 107 Ellis (F. S.), his death, vii. 200 Ellis (Thomas), Westminster scholar, iii. 247 Ellis family of Wales, v. 109, 358 Ellison (William), Westminster scholar, 1769, xi. 49 Elliston (R. W.) and Richard Moniplies, ii. 285 Elliston(Thos.) on instrumental choir, iv. 12. Hum- phrey, Duke of Gloucester, iii. 264. Theobald (Simon), Archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 186 Elphinstone (Mountstuart), his ' History of India,'

vi. 288

Eltham, Pope Street at, iii. 28 Eltonhead (Rev. George), vicar of Preston next

Wingham, ii. 289

Elucubration, use of the word, x. 25 Elverton Manor, co. Kent, its history, v. 356, 406 ;

vi. 11 Elverton Street, Westminster, origin of the name,

xi. 288

Elwood (Mrs. Col.), traveller overland to India, ix. 428 Elworthy (F. T.) on archaeological rarity, iv. 214. Birmingham : Brumagem, x. 112. Boats, ancient, viii. 508. "Box Harry," x. 14. Cork leg, viii. 413. Fire at Ilminster, viii. 524. Groat : bits, xi. 58. Hele : to hele, iv. 174. " Hill me up,'] iii. 435. Horn dancers, viii. 444. Huish, its origin, vi. 95, 231, 392. Ignorami, iv. 395. Lady-day Day, ix. 447. Lair and lairage, i. 133. Larks Field : Barons Down, viii. 372, 453. " Misegun beans," iv. 462. Piert, its etymology, iv. 461. Place-names in -head, ii. 422. Pronunciation of ng, x. 393. Rather, ix. 137. Ratlings, ix. 358. Smallest church in Eng- land, ix. 430. Snodgrass, a surname, ix. 496. Through-stone, i. 210. Uncovering at National Anthem, ix. 109. " Upwards of," x. 38. Ycleping the church, ix. 55, 394

Ely Place, Holborn, technically a part of Cambridge- shire, vi. 284, 311

Embalming milk, preservative practice, iv. 495 Embarras des richesses, use of the phrase, xi. 355 Ember on Napoleon and a coat of mail, vii. 467