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INDEX.

Notes and Queries, Jan. 21, 1899.

Shand-Harvey (J. W.) on cedar trees, 333 Funeral customs, 428 Scotch coins, 530 Sheep, new varieties for parks, 50 Sheepfold in church chancel, 289 Sheffield, Yorkshire, and Sheffield, Berkshire, 148 Sheldon (Mr.), collector of medals, 468 Shephard (A.) on Belfast book-plates, 464 Shepherd or Shephard family, 529 Shepherd's chess, a game, 8, 132 Sherborn (C. D.) on Charles Sherborn, 11 Sherborn (Charles), engraver, 11 Sheridan (Mrs.), her portrait as St. Cecilia, 247, 347,

455

Sheridan (R. B.) and Dundas, 28, 118, 274, 413 Shipton, Salop, its parish registers, 66 Shropshire place-names, 144, 255, 294 Shroud, sable, 133, 231, 357, 397. 535 Siborne (Capt), his Waterloo models, 128 Sidesman, his duties, 14 Siena, its siege, 49

Sigma on St. Clement Danes burial-ground, 46 Sigma Tau on Capt. Gibbs, 87

Signature, facsimile, as mark of ownership, 108, 293 Silcheater, church (?) at, 101, 158, 277, 429 Silhouettes of children, 307, 353, 396, 436, 494 Silly Boy and his sweetheart, Leicestershire story, 329 Silo on Thorpe family, 348 Silver plate, Act relating to, 227, 375 Simpson (P.) on Archduke of Austria, 386

Hoyle, archery term, 252 ' . Pitt (W.) on oratory, 529 Sirr (H.) on Brummell family, 94

Callings of various persons, 324

Ewing (W.), 168

Field-names, 352

White way (Mrs. Martha), 147 Sisters, three, married at once, 246, 453 Sisters, two, with same name, 145 Skeat (W. W.) on Aldersgate, 10

Baulk : Balk, 377

Contrast, 1344 and 1898, 525

English, its antiquity, 261

Ghost-words, 341, 406, 485

Gillery, its meaning, 312

-Halgh, the termination, 115

Heron, its etymology, 4, 293

Honi, its spelling, 366

Jibba, its etymology, 282

Letters, old English, 336

Lion, its etymology, 146

Morning " betuix midday and nicht," 152

"Pig-a-back,'^?

Piggin, its etymology, 85

Rotten Row, 17

Hounds or rungs, 430, 530

Taw, its derivation, 385

Tipuler, its meaning, 492

Tit-tat-to, its derivation, 26

Welking, its meaning, 517

" Who sups with the devil," 334

Wishy-washy, 64 Skelts, print publishers, 163, 292 Skevington (T. W.) on Puddle Dock, 514 Skimmington riding, Dorset custom, 56 Slack up, nautical term, 468, 531

Slake (J. J. G.) on the termination -halgh, 15

Slane family arms, 78

Slavonic names, 93

Sleeper awakened, story about, 361

Slingsby and Jelf families, 408, 457

Smith (B. E.), errors in his ' Cyclopaedia of Names,'

102, 178, 237 Smith (R. H.) on " Coute que coute," 425

Epitaph, well-known, 41

"Mending or ending," 424 Smith (W. F.) on claret and vin-de-grave, 156 Sneezing folk-lore, 55 Snell (F. S.) on cope and mitre, 35 Sni, dialect word, 1 1 Sny. See Sni.

Soho, Greek Church in, and its vicinity, 2, 75 Soleby, co. Leicester, its locality, 89, 158, 196 Solicitor on " Perform'd" in old will, 148 Somersetshire superstition, 186 Song wanted, 8

Songs and Ballads :

' Alonzo the Brave,' 35 ' Cherry Ripe,' 98 "Come, lasses and lads," 68, 132 ' Comin' thro' the Rye,' 66, 197, 270, 434 FairDorinda,' 127, 173 ' Farmer of St. Ives,' 386, 430 French, 529

Jones (Paul), 306, 353, 495 ' Lake of the Dismal Swamp,' 287 ' Sir Simon the King,' 127, 173, 235 "Sumer is y-cumen in," 7, 109, 176, 234, 512 " There is a garden in her face," 98 ' Three Jovial Huntsmen,' 88, 110, 177 Soot, its pronunciation, 427 Sorrow, remembrance of joy in, 252 Soudan folk-lore, 224 Spango, Scotch place-name, 448, 535 Spanish language, accent in, 6 Spence (R. M.) on " Another story," 133

Boethius, his ' De Consolatione Philosophise,' 462 Gary (H. F.), his translation of Dante, 4 Church of Scotland Commissioners, 276 Egg, standing, 53 Epitaph, well-known, 229 Helpmate and helpmeet, 311 Macaulay (Lord) and Montgomery, 294 Modestest, use of the word, 91, 351 Montaigne, judgment on, 468 New Testament query, 431 Septuagint, lexicon to, 133 Shakspeariana, 204, 402, 403 Spenser ( E. ), " And through the persant aire, " 167 Spiders in hell, 366

Spielmann (M. H.) on Abraham Lincoln, 292 Squab=long seat, 167, 352 st, consonantal combination, 424, 515 Staircases, houses without, 89 Stambuloff, its pronunciation, 288, 311 Stamps, old postage, collected, 425, 478 Standish (Miles), his wife, 78

itannard (Rev. Francis), rector of Stourmouth, 427 Stars consulted at birth, 385 5 ted man and Barton families, 489 Steele (A. B.) on Acorus calamus, 457