V.

* Van Bassen noticed, 538. Vanbrugh (Sir John) noticed, 65. 160. 232. 352. 480. Vandyke in America, 182. 228. Variety is pleasing, 490. Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire, 388. 573. V. (C.) on Lady Percy, wife of Hotspur, 184. ---- Philip III. of Spain, his death, 583. * Vellum cleaning, 340. Verney note decyphered, 17. Vernon (Lady), maid of honour, 462. Veronica on Queen Elizabeth's true looking-glass, 220. Victor on Thornton Abbey, 469. * Vida on Chess, 469. Vigors (Rev. Urban) noticed, 340. 477. Villers en Couché, battle of, 8. 127. 205. 370. Virgil, passage quoted by Dr. Johnson, 270. 400. 523. 576. Vix on Mrs. Tighe, 230. Voiding knife, 232. 297. Volcanoes and mountains of gold in Scotland, 285. Voltaire on railway travelling, 34. 65. "Vox populi vox Dei," 494.

W.

[W (Old English)] on blue bell--blue anchor, 388. ---- clipper, as applied to vessels, 399. ---- Ireland a bastinadoed elephant, 366. ---- nugget not an Americanism, 375. ---- table-turning, 398. W. on Leeming family, 587. ---- Norman of Winster, 126. ---- Natural History of Balmoral, 467. W. (A.) on passage in Wordsworth, 77. W. (A. F. A.) on the Brazen Head, 367. Wake (H. Thomas) on Castle Thorpe, 387. ---- Inscriptions on monuments, 215. Walcott (Mackenzie) on birthplace of Edward I., 601. ---- books chained in churches, 596. ---- school libraries, 298. * Wall (General) noticed, 318. Wallace (Sir Wm.), state prisoner, 509. * Wallis's Sermons on the Trinity, 172. Walpole (Horace) on Grammont's marriage, 549. Walpole (Sir Robert), his medal, 57. 231. Walter (Henry) on Cranmer and Calvin, 222. ---- Froissart's accuracy, 604. ---- translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., 642. Walton (Christopher), his collection of mystic authors, 247. Walton (Izaak), Duport's lines on, 193. Ward (J.) on Mackey's Theory of the Earth, 468. Warde (R. C.) on Anthony Bave's MSS., 469. ---- bargain-cup, 220. ---- "custom of ye Englishe," 362. ---- distich on the late harvest, 513. ---- fable of washing the blackamore, 150. ---- inscriptions in books, 591. ---- John Frewen, 222. ---- Lanquet's Chronicle, 494. ---- Lovell, sculptor, 342. ---- Mrs. Shaw's tombstone, 222. ---- "Our English Milo," 495. ---- party, its earliest mention, 137. ---- Plantin Bibles in 1600, 537. ---- parochial libraries, 327. ---- polarised light, 552. ---- Roden's colt, 340. ---- tavern signs, 242. ---- "Trail through the leaden sky," 494. ---- variety is pleasing, 490. ---- weather superstitions, 512. ---- yew-tree in churchyards, 244. ---- Zincali dictionary, 517. Warden (J. S.) on Captain Cook's discovery of the Sandwich Islands, 6. ---- Coleridge's Christabel, 11. ---- Creole, its meaning, 138. ---- Goldsmith's Haunch of Venison, 640. ---- Hoveden, Riley's translation, errors in, 637. ---- letter "h" in humble, 54. ---- literary parallels, 30. ---- Man with the iron mask, 112. ---- nightingale's song, 112. ---- Reformed faith, 135. ---- sheer hulk, 126. ---- Sir Isaac Newton, 102. ---- Sir Walter Raleigh, 78. ---- St. Dominic, 136. Wardhouse, fishermen's custom there, 78. 281. 400. Warmistre (Miss), maid of honour, 461-463. * Warville, Brissot de, derivation of, 516. Warwick (Eden) on anticipatory use of the cross, 132. 546. ---- gloves at fairs, 601. ---- nursery rhymes, 605. ---- swan marks, 256. * Warwick (Sir Philip) noticed, 268. * Washington (Gen.), anecdotes wanted, 125. Watch-paper inscriptions, 316. 375. Waterloo, poems in connexion with, 549. Watson (Bp.), quotation by him, 587. Watts (W. T.) on an inscription in a belfry, 561. Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, his family arms, 271. 400. 525. Way (Albert) on Caen tiles, 547. ---- Lord Montague's Household Book, 540. W. (B. B.) on Sir John Daniel and Sir A. N. Salter, 318. W. (C. M.) on apparition of the White Lady, 317. W. (C. S.) on ash-trees attracting lightning, 493. ---- Burton's death, 495. ---- the queen at chess, 469. W. (E.) on marriage service, 150. Weather proverbs, 218. 326. ---- rhymes, 512. ---- rules, 50. 535. ---- superstitions, 512. * Webb and Walker families, 386. * Webb of Monckton Farleigh, 563. Webb (Susannah), her burial and disinterment, 43. Weber's Cecilia, 589. Wedding divination, 455. * Weights and measures, standard in different countries, 340. Weir (Arch.) on St. Luke and Juvenal, 195. Wellesley, derivation of, 173. 223. 255. Wellington, the Duke's first victory, 491. ---- curious coincidence respecting, 619. "Well's a fret," its meaning, 197. 258. 330. Wentworth (Sir Philip) noticed, 184. 251. Werenfrid (St.) and Butler's Lives, 342. West, praying to the, 102. 208. 343. 591. Westbury Court, inscription over the door, 129. * Westhumble Chapel, 410. Weston, "Going to Old Weston," 232. Weston (Edward), secretary to Lord Harrington, 103. 205. Weston (Valentine) on "That Swinney," 374. W. (F. B.) on Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14. W. (G.) on derivation of Britain, 445. 651. ---- Patrick's purgatory, 327. ---- praying to the West, 208. ---- tin, its early use, 291. 445. ---- veneration for the oak, 468. 632. W. (G. H.) on a title wanted, 151. W. (H.) on "giving quarter," 353. ---- kicker-eating, 564. ---- Luther no iconoclast, 477. ---- "When the maggot bites," 353. Wharton (Dr. Henry) noticed, 167. Wheale, its meaning, 302. Whisperers, the seven, 436. Whiston, a passage in, 244. 397. 645. Whitborne (T. B.) on churchwardens, 584. ---- Hoby Family, 244. ---- lapwing and the vine, 127. ---- Mrs. Tighe, author of Psyche, 103. ---- Stillingfleet's library, 389. ---- Thomas Blount, 286. 603. ---- Warwickshire custom, 490. Whitchurch, parochial library at, 370. White (A. Holt) on Gilbert White of Selborne, 304. ---- nugget, a thick bullock, 481. ---- yew-trees in churchyards, 447. White (Blanco), sonnet by, 137. White (Gilbert), his portrait, 244. 304. White (John), folk lore in his "Way to the True Church," 613. * White bell heather transplanted, 79. * White Lady, apparition of the, 317. Whitelocke (Lieut.-Gen.) noticed, 521. 621. Whithamstede (John), abbot of St. Albans, 351. Whitmarsh (F.) on the Templars' jugs, 574. Wife, on selling one, 43. 209. Wilbraham's Cheshire collections, 270. 303. Wilde (G. J. de) on caves at Settle, 651. ---- curious epitaph, 147. ---- True Blue, 589. Wilde (W. R.) on the forlorn hope, 569. ---- groaning elm-plank in Dublin, 397. Wilkinson (H.) on stereoscopic angles, 181. * William the Conqueror, his mother, 564. * ---- his surname, 197. * Williams' (Rev. Robert) Dictionary of the Cornish Language, 7. Williams (Samuel) the artist, 312. Willingham boy, 66. 305. Willison (Charles) on tavern signs, 627. Wills on Advent Hymn, 639. Wilson (Arthur C.) on London Labour and the London Poor, 620. Wilson (Bishop), his Sacra Privata, 470. ---- and Cardinal Fleury, 245. * ---- notices wanted, 220. * ---- quotation from his Sacra Privata, 243. * Wilson (Samuel) noticed, 242. Windfall, its meaning, 14. Winds, their action, 338. Windsor Military Knights, 294. Wingfield Church, Suffolk, monuments in, 98. Wingfield (Sir Anthony), his portrait, 245. 299. 376. Winthrop (Wm.) on ambages, 232. ---- American epitaph, 491. ---- bells rung for the dead, 55. ---- black as a mourning colour, 411. ---- comet superstitions in 1853, 358. ---- epitaph on an editor, 274. ---- "Full moon brings fine weather," 79. ---- house-marks, 231. ---- injustice, its origin, 338. ---- longevity, 113. 399. ---- Maltese Knights, 99. 189. 557. ---- "Mater ait natæ," &c., 160. ---- punning divine, 586. ---- "Putting your foot into it," 77. ---- reversible names, 655. ---- rulers of the world in 1853, 638. ---- Spendthrift, a publication, 102. ---- "To pluck a crow with one," 197. ---- weather rules, 535. ---- Wolfe's army, the last survivor, 6. Winwood (Sir Ralph), notices of, 272. 519. Wishaw (Jas.) on Colchester records, 464. ---- matriculations at inns of court, 650. Witchcraft, burning for, 470. * Withered hand, picture at Compton Park, 125. W. (J. K. B.) on Barthram's Dirge, 231. ---- Blanco White, 137. ---- Hogarth's picture, 294. W. (J. R.) on the Porter family, 526. Wmson (S.) on Byron's Childe Harold, 258. Wodderspoon (John) on Wingfield's portrait, 299. Wolfe (Gen.) at Nantwich, 587. ---- last survivor of his army, 6. Wolsey (Cardinal), his arms, 233. 302. Woman, lines on, 292. 350. 423. Women and tortoises, 534. Women, their rights in the United States, 171. * Wood (George) of Chester, 34. Wooden tombs and effigies, 19. 255. 455. 604. Words, misunderstood, 120. ---- small and low, 416. Wordsworth, on a passage in, 77. Worm in books, 412. 526. Worsaae (J. J. A.) on names of places, 58. Wotton (Henry Earl of) noticed, 173. 281. 563. Wren (Sir Christopher) and the Young Carver, 340. Wright (Robert) on shape of coffins, 256. Wright (Thomas) of Durham, 218. 326. Wt. (T.) on arms of See of York, 233. Wurm, in modern German, 624. W. (W.) _Northamptonshire_, on "Going to Old Weston," 232. ---- Longfellow's Poetical Works, 267. W. (W. S.) on meaning of wheale, 302. Wylcotes (Sir John), motto on his brass, 494.