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GENERAL INDEX.

Prince (Lady Mary), resident in the Savoy, 1623, xi. 9

Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, v. 4, 215, 363, 443 ; title of, 69, 214 ; renewal of the title, viii. 401 ; the first, xii. 383

Prince of Wales sovereign, viii. 184

Prince of Wales's Theatre, old, its sale and history, x. 64, 176, 232 ; and Picnic Society, xi. 67, 193 ; its demolition, xii. 365, 476

Pringle (A. T.) on black Jews, iv. 312

Printer's proof of poems, vii. 187

Printers, note on their marks, i. 504 ; designs of early, viii. 265, 393; their bad habits, xii. 494

Printers errors. See Mistakes.

Printing, early, in Ireland, iii. 288, 479

Printing in China, earliest mention of, viii. 84

Printing press, private, near Bath, viii. 384, 489

Prints, satirical coloured, c. 1780, ix. 269, 353

Prior (Matthew), his parentage, iii. 449 ; iv. 32

Prior (W. R.) on Canute and the tide, xi. 313. Mona, xi. 297

Prior to=before, use of the words, xii. 66, 154, 312

Priories, alien, iii. 449 ; iv. 274

Prison reform, its early advocates, iii. 129, 233

Prisoners, discontinuance of branding, i. 328, 413 ; ii. 78

Prisoners of war : in England, 1759-60, v. 269, 380, 465; English literature, vii. 469 ; viii. 46, 153, 514

Pristinensis Episcopus, Robert, D.G-., x. 88, 212

Pritchard (J. E.) on church brasses, vi. 467. Mile- End Gate pottery, vi. 488

Prittlewell Church, Essex, bells in, xii. 144

Prittlewell Churchyard, epitaph in, iv. 326, 427, 504

Privileges of the City of London, viii. 301

Privilegiatus, meaning of the term, xi. 448, 494

Privy Council held in private house, xii, 368

Privy Councillors in the time of James I., xii. 367, 415

" Prizes his cupboard," its meaning, i. 228

Pro Bono Publico on Public Schools, iii. 468

Probate, ancient courts of, xi. 70

Probate of wills, alteration in, i, 66

Probationer, Scotch, i. 67, 177

Processions round buildings, their direction, i. 388, 497

Procter (Adelaide A.), her ' Star of the Sea,' i. 48, 97; her 'Story of a Faithful Soul,' viii. 204, 247, 334

Proctor's sleeve, plucking a, vi. 8, 74

'Prodigal Son,' in old prints, i. 136, 195; as Sir Charles Grandison, x. 487; xi. 77

Prof, on St. Sebastien at Caumont, xi. 328

Profile machine, vi. 255, 356

Progress, factors of, xii. 506

Progress on public and grammar school, xii. 409

Progressing, its pronunciation, ii. 208

Promotion, use of the word, xi. 325

Pronouns, relative, their syntax, iii. 127

Pronunciation, alteration of, v. 395, 453, 497; of various words, vi. 52, 112, 192, 218, 227, 251, 306, 354, 375 ; dude, vii. 15 ; dodo, 16 ; inundate, 71 ; Greek and Latin, vii. 146, 351, 449 ; viii. 74, 192, 372, 513 ; ix. 131, 251, 311, 332, 436, 475 ; Marl- borough, viii. 164, 291, 468; of "sea," ix. 413; of English letters, x. 48 ; Greek, 75 ; of ng, x. 266, 393 ; xi. 77; naval, xii. 28, 118, 257, 434 ; of Erse, Welsh, and Irish names, 349, 392

Proof-reading and mistakes, viii. 502

" Prooshan Blue" in ' Pickwick,' v. 452 ; vi. 18

Prophecy c. Charles II., xii. 469

Prophecy concerning America and Spain, iii. 263

Prophylactic, blood as a, vii. 509

Prosody, the laws of Welsh, vi. 449

Prospect, use of the word in Authorized Version, vii.

486

Prospecti, new word, i. 86 "Prospicimus modo," ix. 34, 273, 358 Prototype, ill-treated word, ii. .487 Proverbs, dictionary of English, i. 487 ; ii. 117, 177;

sermon in, xi. 462

Proverbs and Phrases :

A bad day and a worse, viii. 14

A bolt from the blue, vi. 29

A creaking cart goes long on the wheels, vi. 298

A creaking gate hangs longest, vi. 217

A far cry to Loch Awe, v. 67, 130, 323

A mache and a horseshoe are both alike, vi. 127,

215, 294

A mad world, my masters, ix. 68, 317 A pickled rope, iv. 479 ; v. 15 A rat without a tail, vii. 486 Abraham's bosom, i. 516 Adelphi drama: Adelphi guest, vi. 186, 314 Ah '11 travis ther, vii. 445 ; viii. 52, 130, 229, 294 Albert the Good, vii. 88

All Cooper's ducks with me, ix. 127, 298, 392 All over, xii. 144, 294 An old friend and a good singer, iv. 26 Ance mariole, vii. 47, 95 Angels on horseback, ii. 145, 250 ; iii. 360 Another for Hector, vi. 251, 372 Another story, i. 349, 417 ; ii. 133 Apres nous le deluge, vi. 14, 67, 276, 455 Aria per fenestra ch' e colpa di balestra, vi. Arising out of, x. 107 As black as the devil's nutting-bag, iv. 478 ; v.

38, 95, 197

As fu 's the Baltic, iv. 288, 336, 406 As hard as the devil's forehead, iv. 478 As mad as a tup, viii. 501 ; ix. 98, 237 As mean as tongs, iv. 206 As merry as grigs, xii. 505 As right as rain, xi. 148 As right as a trivet, vii. 227, 335 As sure as there is a hip on a goat, iv. 187, 461 As throng as Throp's wife, v. 414, 526 As warm as a bat, viii. 142, 293 Ask no questions and yo*.'ll get no lies, iii. 47,

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Ass bearing books, iv. 397, 483 Astonish the natives, ix. 267 ; x. 95 At sixes and sevens, xi. 266 Atlantic greyhound, v. 397, 525 Away with, ix. 348, 477

Babies in the eyes, ix. 405, 516 ; x. 56, 195, 299 Bacon : To save one's bacon, ii. 407 ; iii. 33, 472 Bears : Are you there with your bears ? i. 387,

496

Beat a bank, viii. 141 Beatific vision, ix, 509 ; x. 95, 177, 355, 436 ; xi.

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