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Bleachfield horn, iv. 309, 356 Blease (W. T.) on chess playing, a legend, x. 239 Blenkard, Rhenish wine, v. 402 ; vi. 16, 155 Blenkinsop (John), pioneer of steam locomotion, xi

407

Blenkinsopp (E. C. Leaton), his death, ii. 180 Blessing of the throats, v. 169, 273 ; vi. 197 ; vii.

196, 317 Bletheramskite, use of the word, x. 507 ; xi. 335, 490 ;

xii. 93, 154

Bligh (General Thomas), his biography, vii. 166 Bligh (Admiral William), his wife, iii. 427 ; his bio

graphy, iv. 33, 97, 150, 217, 253 ; xii. 501 Blight, use of the word, v. 408 ; vi. 210 Blind (K.) on the ' Marseillaise,' viii. 126, 245, 331, 407. New Testament, Greek, diction of the, viii. 333

Blind man's lantern := owl-light, xii. 511 Blistra, old Cornish name, i. 407 Blithe (Capt. Richard), his biography, x. 281 Blizzard, correct use of the word, v. 185 Blockhead applied to a woman, ix. 287 Blood as a prophylactic, vii. 509 ; used as paint, xi.

499

Blomfield (E. T.) on gulls in London parks, iii. 6 " Blood of Hailes," famous relic, iv. 375 ; v. 351, 431 ;

vi. 197

Bloody Monday, allusion in letter of 1 682, v. 377 Bloomers, quotations in ' N.E.D.,' xii. 84 Bloomfield (Robert), his epitaph, xii. 364 Blot, earliest use of the word at backgammon, iv. 476 Blotting paper, black, ii. 506, 537 ; iii. 72 ; its early

use, iii. 136, 336 Blount (Sir Josceline), his biography, iii. 288 Blount (Margaret), American author, iv. 287, 355 ;

v. 16

Blount and Eyre families, iv. 438 Blue associated with the Blessed Virgin, xi. 388, 496,

511 ; xii. 96, 177 Blue Beard, supposed original, vii. 224, 355 ; viii. 24,

149

Blue Gentian on portraits by W. Ward, ii. 389 Blue Lamp Hotel=police station, ii. 145 Blunden (Trevor Lloyd), his biography, ii. 309 Blunders. See Mistakes and Printers' errors. Blunders and bulls, iii. 366 Blythe, painter of the Dutch School, circa 1790, viii.

285

Blythe (William), his descendants, xii. 29, 92 Boadicea, its pronunciation, x. 64, 117, 253 Boadicea or Boudicca (Queen), her name, i. 94 ; x. 64, 117, 253 ; repulsed at Verulam, iv. 457 ; v. 14 ; names of her daughters, xi. 449 ; xii. 14, 357 ir or bore, fashionable slang, viii. 481 ; ix. 152, 352 Board of Agriculture, its reports, i. 386 Board of Green Cloth, Clerks of, iv. 329, 443, 486

v. 51 Board schools, Parliamentary returns relating to, xii

107, 157 Boase (C. W.), ' Registrum Collegii Exoniensis,' xi.

283, 402

Boase (F.)on John Garratt, Lord Mayor, ix. 390 Boast, its etymology, x. 444

Boats, ancient, found in the United Kingdom, viii. 366, 407, 507 ; ix. 31, 194

Bob-baw = don't touch, ii. 226, 354, 491 ; iii. 213 ;

vii. 232

Boca Chica, origin of the name, vii. 69, 154, 312 Boccaccio (Giovanni), tales reproduced by English

poets, iii. 247, 369, 435 ; iv. 313 Boddington (R. S.) on Rev. E. Ashburner, ii. 316.

Bowles (Mary), ii. 413. Browne family, vii. 430.

Butler (Sir Nicholas), of Edmonton, viii. 122.

Cheselden, Radcliffe, and Pridmore, viii. 65 ; ix.

197. Cooke (Sir Thomas), Sheriff of London,

1692-3, viii. 19. Grivegnee (Baron de) and Power,

vii. 409 ; viii. 701 ; ix. 278. Hotham (Sir Richard),

i. 448 ; ii. 176, 313. Jones and Ellington families,

viii. 423. Master family, ii. 178. Stevenson family,

iv. 499. Stonard : Vincent : Newcombe, ii. 507 ;

iv. 90. Vincent (Dean), his engraved portrait, iv.

313, 408

Boddle, Scotch coin, ii. 341, 529 Bodies, drowned, recovered, iv. 343 Bodleian Library, Heuskarian rarity in, viii. 377 ;

ix. Ill, 415 ; x. 14, 97, 191, 496 ; xi. 31 ; books

rejected, x. 384

Bodley (J. E. C.) on " The policy of pin-pricks," x. 412 Bodley (Sir Thomas), his descendants, x. 207, 277 ;

his pedigree, x. 410, 497 ; his election as M.P. for

Hythe, xi. 6 Bodmin, clergyman's duel at, in 1260, xii. 112 ;

Anglo-Saxon heraldry at, xii. 247 Bodvoc, its etymon, ii. 284 Bodysnatching, watchhouses against, x. 448 ; xi. 33,

90, 216, 313

Boer, use of the word in Scotland, v. 3, 57, 136, 191 Boer War. See Africa and African. Boers and the Bible, v. 66, 198 Boethius, his 'De Consolatione Philosophise,' ii. 462,

517 Boger (C. G.) on Kin^ Alfred, i. 301. Christian

names, ii. 74. Ellenborough (Lord), iii. 146.

Epitaph, "Too much beloved," &c., iv. 97.

Heraldry, its restoration, i. 391. Shakespeariana,

iii. 64.

Boger (Mrs. C. G.), her death, xii. 180 Boggis-Rolfe (D. H.) on Kerr family, iv. 8 Bogie, railway carriage and engine, i. 509 ; ii. 92 Bogle = bogey, xii. 430, 494

Bohemia, in the ' Winter's Tale,' viii. 341 ; Wycliffe's teaching borne to, by P. Payne, xii. 308, 495 ; and

Prague, xii. 382 Bohemian language, v. 489 Bohn (John), his death, ii. 400 Bohun family, Earls of Hereford, v. 269, 400 " Boiled " butter, its meaning, iv. 475 Bois (Jules), English translation of, vi. 169 Boisdanne (Edward), his biography, vi. 48 Boissier (A.) on Don Manuel Rosas, xii. 167 Bolbelt (Roger) and Donhead St. Mary, xii. 205 Boleyn (Queen Anne), her execution, ii. 468 ; iii. 17,

114 ; portrait of her mother, xi. 229 Bolingbroke (Viscount) and the classics, viii. 460 Bolland (W. C.) on " Babies in the eyes," ix. 405 ;

x. 56

Bologna, Scots heiress as a recluse in, vii. 488 Bolsterstone Dannikins or Custard Feast, i. 287, 490 ;

ii. 250 Bolt, miraculous, near Limoges, vii. 46