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 Notes and Queries, Jan. 25, 1902.

INDEX.

555

May all (A.) on abacus, 413 Alewives, 250

" Almost quite" : " Verbatim as possible," 482 Alright = all right, 312 American slang, 111 Arms of European countries, 248 "As warm as a bat," 142 Bolten, its meaning, 307 Clock and watch figures, 514 Commando, 402 Co-ruff, 45 Crest and motto, 169 Crouch family of Wiltshire, 372 Cultivation, 230

Dictionary, grammatical, wanted, 321 Docklow, 488 Duels, 491

English detenus of war in France, 532 Floyd v. Lloyd, 329 Gaze hound : greyhound, 260 Green Crise or Cryse, 511 "Grin through," its meaning, 310 Grundy (Rev. George Docker), 501 Halsh, 81, 327 Huguenot, its derivation, 308 Hunt (Leigh), 130 Knifeboard of omnibus, 507 Lanspisadoes, 212 "Looks wise, the pretty fool," 308 Manurance, 351 Manx words, 152 Marengo, Napoleon's horse, 271 Mouchard, police spy, 467 Nang nails : nubbocks, 431 Needle pedlars, 229 Newcastle (Staffs) families, 431 Nobility, 253

" Penny in the forehead," 189 Quotations, 113 Racing, 150, 347 Royal borough, 131 Sarten, 410

Sawney, its meaning, 170 Scott query, 130 Smoking a cobbler, 149 Socrates, saying of, 410 Strawberry leaves, 513 "Tall Leicestershire women," 248 " Vgesac Mihm," 232 Valia as a female name, 75 Wage = wages, 508 Widow of Malabar, 446 Yorker = tice, 284 Mayhew (Henry), his farce 'The Wandering

Minstrel,' 341

Mayors, Lord, unmarried, instances of, 49, 153 Measures : skipple - measure or short bushel, 283 ;

quarter of corn, 452 Medals, almanac, 344, 467 Meeting, use of the word on the Continent, 163 Megan on designs of early printers, 265 Fleur de Marie, 304 Languedoc, 284

Mein (E.) on family likeness, 68 National Covenant of 1638, 453 Place-names, Cornish, 93

Mein (E.) on ornamented lace sticks, 293

Valia as a female name, 75 Melbourne on " Looks wise, the pretty fool," 184 Memor et Fidelis on Peche" family, 232 Menilek=" Who is like (unto thee) ? " 470 Merchants of Lukes : merchants of Luk, 481 Meredith (George), his ' Nuptials of Attiln,' 443 Merlin, editions of his ' Prophecies,' 103, 234, 287,

386 'Merry Tales,' edited by W. C. Hazlitt, sources of

and references to, 297, 380

Mexico, designation of foreigners in, 21, 130, 210 Military prisoners and turned coats, 422 Mill (John Stuart), his birthplace, 65 Milne (J.) on " As warm as a bat," 293

Motto on Venetian coin, 885 Milton (John), poem attributed to, 69 Mistakes, artists', 171, 328 ; authors', 181, 252, 334 Mitre, its use in the Church of England, 324, 498,

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Moline family, 69

Molony (A.) on paying rent at a tomb in church, 355 Monckton : Kerr : Arundel, heraldic connexion, 205 Monks of Tintern Abbey at the Suppression, 264 Monolith with cup-markings in Hyde Park, 448 Monosyllables in literary composition, 521 Moore (Sergeant), soldier-architect of Colombo Cathe- dral, 384, 487

Moore (Sir John), his burial, 72, 169, 188 Moorhouse (Lieut.-Col.), his burial, 354 Morris (Capt.), the poet, his wife, 343, 533 Mortara (Marchese de) and Conte de Arro, 443 Mortimer (Robert) and the Mortimers of Wigmore, 68 Morton (J. H.) on Royal Antediluvian Order of

Buffaloes, 524 Moseley (B. D.) on Dickens and Tong, 303 "Glorious uncertainty of the game," 231 " Le pauvre diable," 285 'Tablettes d'un Spectateur,' 482 Moss Rose,' authorship of poem, 82, 148 Mosse (Rev. William), chaplain to William III. in

1689, 185

Mottoes : on sundial, 89 ; Ordnance Office, 124 ; 'N. & Q.,' 162, 269; "Scientia fiducia plenus provocare," 270 ; on bell in Thruxton Church, 304, 430 ; on Venetian coin, 385, 507 I for door of house, 443, 469

Mouchard, police spy, 340, 467 MouleJH. J.) on transfer of land by "church gift,

248

Little Gidding: Stourbridge Fair, 227 Mound burial in North Wales, 80, 151, 470 Mount (C. B.) on " Penny in the forehead," 1 Tempest ' anagram, 512 " There were giants in the land, J Yorker=tice, 370 Mozart (J. C. W. A.), his skull, 322 Mug, arms on, 823, 469 Mulock (Thomas Samuel), 1789-1869, his biography,

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Mummy wheat, 82, 170 Mural paintings : St. Clement's, Jersey, N Murray (D.) on transfer of land by "church gift, 81 Murray (J. A. H.) on "Kentish fire, ' 1 Oceania, 342 "Odiuin theologicum," 483