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C. on Abigail, 86. ---- cash and mob, 524. ---- Christian names, 63. ---- encore, 524. ---- "Hip, hip, hurrah!" 255. ---- honorary degrees, 86. ---- island, its derivation, 209. ---- kissing hands, 64. ---- Lord North, 230. ---- Napoleon's spelling, 502. ---- Pennycomequick, 255. ---- "Sat cito si sat bene," 18. ---- "Up, guards, and at them!" 204. ---- Vandyke in America, 228. C. (1) on Rev. Joshua Brooks, 639. C. (A.) on pedigree to the time of Alfred, 586. ---- Tangier queries, 33. C. (A. B.) on cob-wall, 151. ---- curious posthumous occurrence, 6. ---- designed false English rhymes, 249. ---- first and last, 439. ---- "For man proposes, but God disposes," 411. Caen, encaustic tiles from, 493. 547. Cæsar (Sir Julius), his letter to Sir W. More, 172. * Caldecott's Translation of the New Testament, 410. * Caley's Ecclesiastical Survey, 104. Calves' Head Club, its doings, 315. 480. Calvin's correspondence, 62. Cambridge graduates, 365. 525. Cambro-Briton on the coronet of Llewelyn ap Griffith, 514. "Came," its early use, 468. 631. Camera lucida, 271. 354. 503. * Campbell (John) of Jamaica, 410. Campvere, privileges of, 88. 231. * Canning on the Treaty of 1824, 365. * Cannon-ball, singular discovery of one, 366. Cantab. on pedigree indices, 453. Cantab. (A.) on Nelly O'Brien and Kitty Fisher, 440. Cantab (Emmanuel) on passage in Bacon, 303. Cantabrigiensis on honorary D. C. L.'s, 8. * Canterbury, ancient privileges of the See, 56. Canute's Point, Southampton, 204. Capital punishment, mitigation of, 42. 112. Captain on Adm. Sir T. Tyddeman, 317. Caret on camera lucida, 271. Carey (Patrick), 406. Carlist calembourg, 618. Carnatic on "Begging the question," 640. Carr (Sir George) noticed, 327. 423. Carter (R. W.) on Yorkshire tradition, 617. * Cary (Dr. Robert) noticed, 79. Cash, is it an English word? 386. 524. 573. 651. * Castles of Scotland, how maintained, 366. * Castle Thorpe, Bucks, 387. C. (A. T.) on Sir Geo. Downing, 221. Cateaton Street, its derivation, 540. Cato (Isaiah) on monumental brasses abroad, 497. Cats, are white ones deaf? 135. Caucasus on the spelling of D'Israeli, 441. Cause: "The Good Old Cause," 44. 421. Cavaliers' Common Prayer Book, 536. Caves at Settle, in Yorkshire, 412. 651. Cawdrey's Treasure of Similes, 386. 499. Cawdrey (Zachary) noticed, 152. C. (B. H.), a chapter on rings, 416. ---- ballad of Sir Hugh, 614. ---- Baskerville's burial, 423. ---- black as a mourning colour, 502. ---- books chained in churches, 453. ---- chronograms, 280. ---- De Quincey's Account of Hatfield, 26. ---- engin-à-verge, 231. ---- examples of the word its, 12. ---- Hackney Church tower, 63. ---- "Haul over the coals," 280. ---- letter X on brewers' casks, 439. ---- magnet symbolical of Venus, 280. ---- mammon, an idol, 173. ---- monk and till, 527. ---- passage in Job, 205. ---- Pepys and East London topography, 263. ---- "Salus populi suprema lex," 526. ---- St. Paul and Seneca, 205. ---- scrape, its meaning, 422. ---- sheer hulk, 280. ---- Tsar, its etymology, 422. ---- weather rhymes, 512. C. (E.) on Hupfeld, 34. ---- Peter Allan, 539. ---- scale of vowel sounds, 34. Cecil (Lord), his Memorials, 442. 502. Celt, its derivation, 271. 651. Celtic etymology, 229. 551. Celtic words, collection of, wanted, 654. Celtic and Latin languages, their connexion, 174. 280. 353. Centenarian couple, 490. Ceridwen on Shakspeare controversy, 124. ---- yellow bottles for chemicals, 86. Cestriensis on book inscriptions, 591. ---- Geo. Wood of Chester, 34. ---- Minshull's Cheshire Collections, 467. ---- Wilbraham's Cheshire Collections, 270. Ceyrep on door-head inscriptions, 38. 454. ---- oaths, 605. ---- Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 574. ---- rings worn by ecclesiastics, 387. C. (F.) on Boswell's Johnson, 439. C. (F. G.) on symbol of sow, &c., 493. C. (G. A.) on Major André, 604. ---- Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury, 604. ---- pronunciation of Coke and Cowper, 603. C. (G. M. E.) on execution for murdering a slave, 112. C. (H.) on splitting paper, 413. * Chadderton of Nuthurst, 564. Chaffers (W.) on voiding-knife, 297. Chair-moving, 537. Chandler, Bishop of Durham, accused of simony, 341. 630. Chanting of jurors, 502. Chapman (Mr.), one of the binders of the Harleian MSS., 335, 336 Charity-schools, origin of, 69. 435. Charlecott on Shakspeare portrait, 438. Charles I., his portrait, 151. 233. Chartham on Sir Arthur Aston, 126. Chasles (Philarète) on berefellarii, 420. ---- blagueur and blackguard, 414. ---- comminatory inscriptions in books, 472. ---- Italian-English, German-English, &c. 436. * Chatham (Lord) on Fox and Newcastle ministry, 33. Chatterton and the Rowley Poems, 62. C. (H. B.) on Booty's case, 62. ---- capital punishment, 112. ---- historical impossibilities, 72. ---- old jokes, 146. ---- passage in Whiston, 645. ---- Tieck's Comoedia Divina, 570. C. (H. C.) on arms: battle-axe, 113. ---- Osborn filius Herfast, 654. ---- Richard Geering, 504. ---- Sir Arthur Aston, 629. ---- Sir G. Browne, 114. Chemistry, its derivation, 470. * Chester (Sir Wm.) noticed, 365. * Chester (Thomas), Bishop of Elphin, 340. Chesterfield (Earl of): see _Wotton_, Henry, Earl of. Cheverells on burial in erect posture, 5. ---- hurrah! &c., 185. ---- ornament in Crosthwaite Church, 200. Chicheley (Abp.), date of his birth, 198. 350. "Chip in porridge" explained, 208. "Chip of the Old Block" on the Heveninghams, 103. Choice of Hercules, 89. Choirochorographia, 151. 229. Christian names, 63. Christian year, note on its motto, 335. * ---- on a passage in, 539. Christmas in Pennsylvania, 615. ---- tree, 619. Christ's cross, 18. Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, 561. Chronograms, 42. 280. 351. ---- in Sicily, 562. Church, high and low, 117. Churches of England and Rome, which committed schism? 485. 631. * Church temporalities before Constantine, 412. Churchwardens, origin of, 584. * Cicero quoted in an unknown work, 640. Cid, a poem, 367. 574. City Companies, the smaller ones, 470. Civis on Edward Bysshe, 318. C. (J. G.) on poetical tavern signs, 353. C. (J. M.) on Anna Lightfoot, 87. Clare, legends of the county, 145. 264. 360. 437. 616. Clarence, origin of the dukedom, 565. Clarendon (Lord) and the tubwoman, 19. Clark (Alex.) noticed, 18. 517. Claymore, the original weapon, 365. 520. Cleek, a game, 63. Clem, as meaning starve, 64. Clement (St.), his apple-feast, 618. * Clergyman (English) in Spain, 410. 574. * Clerical duel, 7. Clericus (A.) on administration of the eucharist, 292. Clericus (D.) on Queen Anne's motto, 174. ---- arms of De Sissonne, 503. ---- head-dress temp. Charles I., 172. ---- Laodicean council, Canon xxxv., 7. ---- lines on Sir Francis Drake, 195. ---- Ravilliac, 219. Clericus Rusticus on cash and mob, 386. ---- namby-pamby, 318. ---- tailors' cabbage, 315. ---- topsy-turvy, 385. Clerk (A.) on photographs by artificial lights, 228. Clifford (Roger, fifth Lord) noticed, 184. 251. Clipper, its meaning, 100. 398. Close (Antony) on canonisation in the Greek Church, 292. Cloth, decomposed, discovered at York, 438. Clouds, classification of, 337. Clunk, origin of the word, 65. 654. C. (M. A. W.) on French Prayer Book, 343. C. (M. E.) on raining cats and dogs--helter skelter, 565. Cob and Conners, 43. Cob-wall, 151. 279. Cobb (Francis), his Diary, 18. Cocker's Arithmetic, later editions, 540. Coffins, their shape, 104. 256. Coin, its etymology, 443. Coke (Sir Robert), his ancestors, 517. Coke and Cowper, their pronunciation, 54. 603. Colchester corporation records, extracts from, 464. Coleridge's Christabel, 11. 111. ---- unpublished MSS., 43. Collar, a gold one found in Staffordshire, 537. Collar of SS., 398. College (Stephen), 310. * College exhibitions, work on, 57. Collier (J. Payne) on passage in "The Taming of the Shrew," 73. ---- Monovolume Shakspeare, 35. Collis (Thomas) on the churches of England and Rome, 631. Collyns (W.) on house-marks, 62. ---- Hon. Miss E. St. Leger, 89. ---- old lines newly revived, 76. ---- pronunciation of Bible names, 630. Comet superstitions in 1853, 358. * Confirmation, prejudice against, in adults, 440. Conger, its etymology, 444. Conner or Connah's quay, 43. Consecrated roses, 38. 135. Constanter on movable metal types, 454. Constantinople--Istamboul, 148. Constant Reader on Bishop Ferrar, 103. ---- Muller's processes, 451. ---- "Solamen miseris," &c., 272. * Contango, its derivation, 586. Convocation and the Propagation Society, 100. Convocation in the reign of George II., 465. Cook (Capt.), did he discover the Sandwich Islands? 6. 108. * Cookworthy (William) noticed, 585. Cooper (C. H.) on blotting-paper, 185. ---- "delusion, a mockery and a snare," 302. ---- dream testimony, 287. ---- Sir Thomas Elyot, 276. ---- strut-stowers and yeathers, 148. ---- "Tub to a whale," 304. Cooper (R. Jermyn) on "We've parted for the longest time," 388. Cooper (Samuel), the painter, 368. Cooper (Wm. Durrant) on longevity in Cleveland, 488. Cooper's Chronicle, 494. * Copyright law and the British Museum, 468. Corner (G. R.) on Reynolds' portrait of Baretti, 411. Corney (Bolton) on Capt. John Davies, 450. ---- Milton and Malatesti, 237. ---- Robert Drury, 181. ---- Sims's Handbook to the Library of the British Museum, 511. ---- Vida on Chess, 4-9. Cornish (James) on Hamlet and George Steevens, 195. ---- "Mary, weep no more for me," 385. ---- Pennycomequick, 184. Cornish miners, superstition of, 7. 215. * "Corporations have no souls," &c., 587. Corpse, curious occurrence respecting, 6. 205. Corser (Thos.) on parochial libraries, 369. Coryate's Crudities quoted, 558. * Cotterell (Sir Charles), his death, 564. Cotton (Archd.) on Roman Catholic Bible Society, 494. * Cottons of Fowey, 317. County rhymes, 615. Court House in Painswick, 493. 596. Cousins, marriage of, 387. 525. Cowgill on Talleyrand's maxim, 136. ---- the termination -by, 105. Cowper and Pope, 383. Cramp (W.) on origin of book reviews, 411. Cranmer's Correspondences, 183. 222. Cranston on Milton's Familiar Correspondence, 640. Crashaw (Richard), epigram by, 242. Crassus' saying, 258. Craton the philosopher, 441. 603. Creed (G.) on Judas Iscariot's descendants, 56. ---- Tom Thumb's Castle at Gonerby, 35. Creed, the superstitious use of, 613. Creole, its meaning, 138. Crescent, origin of the standard, 196. 319. 653. C. (R. H.) on Craton the philosopher, 441. ---- passages in Shakspeare, 216. ---- Prie-Dieu: ancient furniture, 101. * Crieff compensation, 540. * Crispin and Crispianus, story of, 619. Crito on city bellmen, 538. * Cromwell's descendants, 442. ---- portrait, 55. 135. 279. Cross, its anticipatory use, 132. 417. 545. Cross of Calvary composed of four kinds of wood, 329. * Crosses on stoles, 411. Crossley (Francis) on Celtic etymologies, 345. ---- humbug, its signification, 422. ---- letter "h" in humble, 298. ---- longevity, 523. ---- pronunciation of humble, 551. ---- yew-trees in churchyards, 448. Crosthwaite Church, ornament in, 55. 200. 452. * Crow--"To pluck a crow with one," 197. Crow-bar, its derivation, 439. * Cruden, the battle of, 173. Cruickstown Castle noticed, 445. C. (R. W.) on Cottons of Fowey, 317. C. (S. G.) on Derbyshire folk lore, 512. ---- Gabriel Poyntz, 440. ---- gold collar found in Staffordshire, 538. ---- Illustrium Poetarum Flores, 243. ---- lemon-juice as a medicine, 217. ---- pronunciation of humble, 393. ---- sincere, simple, singular, 567. ---- Sir William Hankford, 342. ---- tin, early notices of, 593. C. (T.) on family of Hoby, 525. Ctus (J.) on Lofcopp or Lufcopp, 245. Cucumber time, 439. Cumming (J. G.) on St. Patrick and Maune, 291. ---- yew-trees in churchyards, 346. * Curates, stipendiary, 340. Curfew, places where still rung, 466. 603. 628. Curtis (J. Lewelyn) on liveries worn by gentlemen, 473. * Curwen (Archbishop), his letter to Archbishop Parker, 442. Cusack (Capt. George), the pirate, 272. Custom of y^e Englishe, 362. C. (W.) on "I put a spoke in his wheel," 351. ---- Laird of Brodie, 232. ---- manners of the Irish, 279. ---- white bell heather transplanted, 79. Czar or Tsar, its derivation, 150. 226. 422.