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INDEX.

Notes and Queries, Jan, 30, 1904.

Politician on Cabinet in a Constitutional sense, 7, 71 Fathers of the House of Commons, 33 Games, 425

Ministerial whitebait dinner, 189 " Peace at any price," 367 Premier Prudent, 69 Privy Council in a private house, 368 Questionnaire, 447 School-Board system, 485 Tory, 9, 134

Victoria (Queen), her second Parliament, 407 Pollard (M.) on heraldry, 228 Marriage House, 509 Numeral, 498 Pollard-Urquhart (F. E. R.) on cushions on the altar,

398, 498

Humbert (Madame) and the Crawfords, 497 Young (Thomas), secretary to Lord Melbourne,

391, 493

Polo (Marco), portrait of, 225, 278 Pompadour (Madame de), epigram on, 447 Pontius Pilate, birthplace of, 405, 509 Poole (M. E.) on "Jolly Boat " coaster, 189

Wake=a village feast, 216 Pope (Alexander), his mention of Dryden, 68 ; and

the Earl of Roscommon, 126, 215, 313 Pope, self-condemned for heresy, 52, 115 ; and massacre of St. Bartholomew, 57, 232 ; traditional ceremony on his death, 105

Popes, use of the word in hosiery catalogues, 448 Portable dwellings, 28 Portus Naonis, its locality, 92 Potatoes, whisky, and leprosy, 77 Pott (Emily), her portrait by Reynolds, 15 Potter (Charles), his porcelain manufactory at Chan-

tilly, 325 Potts (R. A.) on God's silly vassal, 447

Johnson's prayer, 516 Pounamu, Maori lucky stone, 384 Prague and Bohemia, 382 Prayer, Latin, of Johnson, 389, 516 Precedence, solution of questions of, 57, 211 Premier Prudent, a French office, 69, 212 Preparatory to, use of the term, 312 Preston-on-Wye, bell inscription at, 68, 152 Price (F. G. H.) on shops in Cheapside, 1650, 295 Prideaux (W. F.) on accorder, 296 Coincidences, 190

Crakanthorp, by Wordsworth : Vildeson, 32 Fawkener and Crewe, 401 Grotto at Margate, 75 Hammersmith, 5 Jennings (Frances,) 471 Letters of Dorothy Osborne, 81 "Merrily danced the Quaker's ' Nash (Richard), 272, 392 Nicholson (General Francis), 296 Pamela : Pamela, 330 Reskimer, Cornish gent., 276 ' Rule Britannia,' 436

St. Mary Axe : St. Michael le Querne, 253, 507 Serendipity, 430

' Serjeant Bell and his Raree Show,' 306 'Three Ravens, '53 Witchcraft in Essex, 187 Prideaux (W. R. B.) on 'Tales from Dreamland ' 333

wife," 370

rimrose superstition, 33, 234, 412 fince of Wales, the first, 383 Prince of Wales's Theatre, Tottenham Street, its

demolition, 365, 476 Winters, bad habits of, 494 Prior to = before, use of the words, 66, 154, 312 > rittlewell Church, Essex, the bells in, 144 Privy Council held in private house, 368 Privy Councillors in the time of James I., 367, 415 Progress, factors of, 506 Progress on public and grammar school, 409 Pronunciation, naval, 28, 118, 257, 434 ; of Erse,

Welsh, and Irish names, 349, 392 Prophecy c. Charles II., 469 Proverbs and Phrases :

All over, 144, 294

Betwixt the devil and the deep sea, 128, 272

Cards and spades, 138

Cold shoulder, 128

Crying down credit, 29, 138, 213, 257, 352

Cut the painter, 307

Economy is second or third cousin to avarice, 486

English take their pleasures sadly, 32, 372, 509

First catch your hare, 125, 518

Flea in the ear, 67, 138, 196

God's silly vassal, 447

Hook it, 33, 156

II faut souffrir pour etre beau, 352

Keep your hair on, 136

Lincolnshire sayings, 514

Nodus Herculis, 313

Out of rodex, 5

Parting of the ways, 309, 377, 415

Peace at any price, 367, 495

Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform, 333

Policy of pin-pricks, 15, 295

Pour oil on troubled waters, 389

Red rag to a bull or an elephant, 309

Scriptures out of church, 429, 496

Shot the moon, 107

Sleep the sleep of the just, 131

Travailler pour le Roi de Prusse, 34, 111, 270, 370, 455

Turn the tables, 128

Uncoup de langue est pire qu'un coup de lance, 175

World without end, 116 Providence, Island of, 428 Prudent, Premier, a French office, 69, 212 Pryme (Abraham), his hidden books, 227 Publication by subscription, 327, 378 Public school, use of the term, 409 Puget (Capt. Peter), his biography, 248, 452 Pulci, Lord Byron's translation of his ' II Morgante

Maggiore,' 12 Pulham Church, co. Norfolk, and William of Wyke-

ham, 249

Punishment : the picket, 325 ; the whirligig, 484 Puns, 386, 435 Purnell (E. K.) on Thos. Howard, Duke of Norfolk,

455

Puttenham on Sinonimia and Paradigma, 464 Puysaye (Comte de), his correspondence, 106 Quality Court, Chancery Lane, origin of the name,

286

Questionnaire, earliest use of the word in England, 447 Quex-Piffle (L. K. B.) on wanted v. wanting, 68