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Laager, its origin, vb 148

Lability, use of the word, vii. 386

Labrusca (Don Diaz), Spanish poet, ii. 89, 199

Lac on Bonaparte queries, viii. 227. Civil War : storming of Lincoln, viii 148

Lacaux (Elizabeth), 1712-73, her parentage, xi. 349, 452

Lace sticks, ornamented, viii. 164, 292

Laconic prayer, xi. ] 26, 255

Lacy on De Lacy family, x. 148, 275

Lacy (Counsellor), of Dublin, xi. 149, 213, 314 ; xii. 115

Ladbroke family, iv. 328

La-di-da, early use of the word, vii. 425 ; viii. 19, 270

Ladies and Leap Year, v. 356, 478

Ladle, ancient silver, iii. 28, 137, 474 ; iv. 96

Ladle, name for a collecting-box, vii. 467 ; viii. 94, 174, 292, 490

Ladles, brass drinking or dipping, ii. 187

Lady and gentlewoman, vii. 309

Lady shoemakers, v. 87, 157

Lady Day, Russian cage-birds set free on, i. 423

Lady Day Day, use of the term, ix. 447 ; x. 39

Ladybird, names for, v. 48, 154, 274; vi. 255, 417; vii. 95, 396 ; viii. 87

Ladysmith, origin* of the name, vi. 307

Lafayette (Marquis de), picture of, v. 228

Laffitte (Madame), portrait of, v. 7

Laffoley (H.) on Nicolas Pay en de Montmore, i. 388

Lafontaine, ' Les Oies de Fr&re Philippe, ' parallel to, v. 512 ; vi. 54

Lafosse (Antoine de) in England, viii. 15

Lagan, earliest use of the word, viii. 501

Laicus on Cambridge University in the seventeenth century, vii. 388

L'Aiglon, impersonations of, vi. 286

Laing or Long (W.), Gretna Green priest, iv. 541

Lair and lairage, their meaning, i. 133, 176

Lake, a precious stone, vii. 506 ; viii. 49

Lakoo, plant-name, French original, v. 435 ; vi. 92

Lally-Tolendal, bibliographical sketch, vii. 303 ; and French e'migre's, x. 328, 453

Lamarche (John Francis), Bishop of Leon, xi. 428, 515

Lamb (Charles), and the sea, i. 126 ; his mystifica- tions, vi. 85, 216 ; his ' To Margaret W ,' vi. 309 ; vii. 328 ; and 'The Champion,' vi. 442 ; vii. 12, 131, 213 ; notes on Canon Ainger's life, vi. 481 ; and Joseph Paice, vii. 232 ; as a journalist, viii. 60, 85, 125, 166 ; queries, 82, 135 ; and the Royal Academy, 104, 150, 233; his allusion to " a very judicious actor," 244 ; and George Dawe, 245 ; his poem 'Angel Help,' viii. 384 ; his ' Satan in search of a Wife,' x. 27 ; on the ass, 307, 393, 451 ; ' Palenque,' poem by, 1849, xi. 308

Lamb (F.) on Lamb family, vi. 47

Lamb (T. A.) on ' Cranford,' vi. 445

Lamb family, vi. 47, 155

Lamb and banner, as crest, iii. 387, 417, 431 ; and publicans, x. 283

Lamballe (Princess de), her 'Journal,' ii. 149, 193 ; iii. 97

Lambart = Stewart, i. 46

Larnberhurst Church, Kent, curious recess in, xii. 354

Lambert (General), his life in Guernsey, v. 7, 91

Lambert (L.) on Pindar family, xii. 448

Lambert (Michael), Governor of St. Christopher's, ob.

1723-4, ix. 268

Lambeth, 2 Kic. II., its meaning, xii. 48, 153 Lambeth, Roman remains in, vi. 368 Lambeth degrees, vi. 72

Lamboys, early mention of the term, vi. 248, 375 Lambsuckle, plant-name, viii. 63 Lampeter, Chancellor Silvan Evans at, xi. 361, 422 Lamppost : " To the lamppost," i. 266, 395 Lampposts in front of chief magistrates' houses, ii. 526 Lanark, origin of " Whuppity Scoorie" at, xi. 265 Lancashire, holy wells in, iv. 396, 464 ; -argh as ter- mination of place-names in, v. 48, 97 Lancashire customs, i. 172, 274 Lancashire families, viii. 123 Lancashire wills, xii. 485

Lancashire witches of seventeenth century, iii. 223 Lancaster, co. Pal., Vice-Chancellor, v. 149 Lance-corporal, its derivation, iv. 189, 273 Land, house as a measure of arable, v. 349 ; open

field in Cambridgeshire, 411 ; transfer by " church

gift," viii. 81, 134, 248, 432 ; surrender by a straw,

303, 468 ; curious way of letting, ix. 365 Land measures, English and Roman, vi. 303, 381, 461 Land of Green Ginger, street name in Hull, its origin,

vi. 135

Land tax, antiquity of the word, viii. 62 Land (S. T.) on avoid extremes, ix. 389 Landed property, earliest auction of, viii. 485 Landes, bull races at, iv. 208, 292 Landguard Fort, Sussex, its present possessor, ix. 308 Landlord, misuse of the word, ii. 245 Lando (Ortensio), monograph on, v. 312, 385 Landor(W. S.), his marriage, iii. 125, 197; his preface

to ' Simonidea,' v. 456 ; vi. 38 ; his epigram on

Georges I.-IV., ix. 100, 164, 318, 354 ; on singing

birds, x. 62

Landrail = corn- crake, iii 385, 474 ; iv. 57 Landreyn (John de), Fellow of Oriel, 1360, xi. 402 Landtoft for Sandtoft, xi. 326 Lane (F. J.) on Rev. Randolph Marriot, ii. 116 Lane (H. M.) on royal personages, ix. 495 Lane (Lionel), one of Admiral Blake's flag-captains,

iv. 249, 315 Lane (S. E.) on ' Charlotte Temple : a Tale of Truth,'

v. 218

Lanes, sunken, their origin, iv. 207, 289, 336, 404 Lanfranc (Archbishop) and church at Pavia, i. 364,

435, 478 ; ii. 73 Lang (A.), contributions to the ' Saturday,' v. 260 ;

inaccuracies in his ' Prince Charles Edward,' vi.

504 ; and Homer, xii. 24 Lang (A.M.) on " Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark,"

xii. 387

Langbourne (J. ) on author of quotation, vii. 248 Lange (D. G.) on archery, ix. 407 Langrishe (Sir Hercules), his biography, i. 467 ; ii.

190, 349

Langrishe (R.) on Sir Hercules Langrishe, ii. 349 Langstaff and Longstaff family, vi. 374 Langtoft (Pierre de), his ' Chronicle,' iv. 147, 236 Language, to conceal thought, vi. 368, 432, 476 ; vii.

57, 156 ; letters of the alphabet in Dutch, vi. 409 ;