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Birth-marks, their cause, i. 362, 430, 493 ; ii. 516 ;
iii. 173
Births, miraculous, viii. 208 Births, marriages, and deaths, their registration,
ix. 89 ; xi. 348 ; xii. 96 Bischof (E.) on authors of quotations wanted, xii.
288. Hawk and the eagle, xii. 249. Joanna
and the Westmorland hills, xii. 210 Biscuit's throw, use of the term, xii. 326, 376 Biset (Margaret), maid of Queen Eleanor, her
death, i. 468 ; ii. 69 Bisham Abbey cartulary, xi. 210 Bishop, verbal use of the word, vii. 449, 496 Bishop, boy, at Botherham, x. 506 Bishop, first English, to marry, x. 366, 412, 474 ;
xi. 51, 147
Bishop family of Bray, Berks, vi. 66 Bishop Island, off coast of Clare, its name, vi.
29, 76 Bishop Island, South Pacific, its locality, vii. 69,
116
Bishop of Man imprisoned, 1722, iii. 57 Bishoprics, their traditional naming, viii. 407 Bishops, punctuation of their signatures, iii. 487 ;
iv. 55, 276 ; fourteen consecrated at one time,
v. 347, 417, 494 ; lists of, x. 309, 377 ; and
Parliamentary elections, 390 ; scarves worn by,
xi. 130, 295, 494 Bishops, English Roman Catholic, their arms,
x. 128, 316, 458 ; xi. 176 Bishops, French refugee, viii. 87, 149, 171 Bishops, Nonjuring, their succession, vi. 307 Bishops, Scandinavian, ii. 67, 153 Bishops, " suffragan," at Parker's consecration,
iv. 430 ; their arms, xi. 109, 193 ; xii. 98 Bishops of St. Asaph, xi. 147, 435 Bishopsgate, Aldermen of, x. 466 Bisk, derivation of the word, i. 138 Bismarck (Prince) on the Cretans, i. 406 Bit, American coin-name, vi. 381 ; vii. 36 ; viii.
63, 115 Bitton Church, epitaph on Sir J. Seymour in,
i. 87, 137, 232
Black (A.) on Argyle Stone, vi. 369 Black (W. G.) on Antwerp Cathedral, ii. 57.
Armorial visiting cards, iii. 36. Barga, Italy,
ii. 449. Blaikie's ' Lazarus Redivivus,' ix. 348.
Bridge, its derivation, i. 394. British castles :
Stokesay : Raglan, vi. 338. Danish surnames,
iii. 390. ' Defixionum Tabellse " : Disraeli,
xi. 186. English cardinals' hats, ii. 28.
41 Gallants of Fowey," i. 505. " Go for "=
attack, i. 225. Heidelberg matriculations, vi.
354. Horse-pew= horse-block, iv. 334, 513.
Indian magic, x. 428. " I sit with my feet in a
brook," iii. 408. " Little Mary," i. 70. Mosky,
i. 266. Prison farce, ix. 507. Richard of
Scotland, ii. 408. " Sal et saliva," ii. 55.
Scottish judges : their titles, iii. 362. Sheep
in church, v. 126.
Black and yellow, the Devil's colours, iv. 10, 97 ' Black Bull," sign in Holborn, v. 367 Black Dog Alley, Westminster, ii. 5, 118, 174 ' Black Horse " Inns in London, vii. 369, 475 Black images of the Madonna, iv. 305 Black Notley Parish Register, 1671-1735, xii. 88 Black Prince (Edward, the), his portrait, xii. 308 Black ram, riding the, ii. 173 Black Strap, a kind of drink, xii. 420 Blackacre (Widow), her identification, v. 27 Blackberries and the Devil, iv. 265, 358, 396 Blackborough (William), his relationship with
Milton, x. 488 ; xi. 13
Blackburn (C. F.), his father's death, viii. 107
Blackburn representatives in Parliament, v. 326
Blackburne (Abp.), his biography, viii. 350, 415 ;
ix. 36 ; grave in St. Margaret's, Westminster,
xi. 508 ; xii. 54
Blackett family, ii. 9
Blackfriars, French ambassador's house, 1623,
viii. 69 Blackfriars Road, demolition of old houses near,
xi. 106
Blackguard and the ' N.E.D.,' v. 187 ; xi. 446 ' Blackheathen,' publication of Blackheath Pro- prietary School, xii. 89
Blacklock (Thomas), his ' Poems,' ii. 228, 396 Blackman (A. M. ) on Blackman= Fairway, x. 70 Blackman (John)= Anne Fairway, c. 1740, x. 70 Blacksmiths and dentistry, x. 216, 416, 474 Blackstone on Goldsmith tablet, vii. 436 Blackstone's Commentaries, first edition, xii. 385 Blackwall, ministerial whitebait dinner at, i. 213 Blackwell (Barnaby). See Backwell. Blackwell (T.), his ' Life and Writings of Homer,'
xii. 68
Blackwood v (A.) on ' Death and the Sinner,' vi. 388 Bladder and blather, use of the words, vi. 406, 456 ;
viii. 55 Bladen (H. W.) on author of quotation wanted,
vii. 169
Bladud on " Angel " of an inn, x. 14. " Making buttons," x. 13. Man in the almanac, x. 56. Otway and Kipling, ix. 426 Bladum, use of the word, 1297, viii. 5, 114 Blagrave (Joseph), 1689, and electric telegraph ,
ii. 136
Blaikley (R.) on step-brother, i. 329 Blair (Robert), his ' North-Country Parish Re- gisters,' xii. 48
Blairs College portrait of Queen of Scots, ii. 516 Blake (Benjamin), his biography, ii. 447 ; iii. 15 Blake (Rev. John), Sterne s letters to, v. 247 Blake (Sergeant Valentine H. ), d. at Christchurch,
N.Z., x. 287
Blake (William), c. 1650, and S. T. Coleridge, ix. 63 Blake (William), pictures wrongly attributed to, v. 86 ; and S. T. Coleridge, 89, 135 ; life, by C. Tatham, 108 ; his residence in Great Queen Street, vi. 147, 253 ; parallel in Buchanan, 226 ; early private reprint of his ' Songs,' vi. 421, 473, 511 ; vii. 56 ; at Felpham, viii. 231, 277 ; his residence in Lambeth, x. 258 ; and ' Gym- nastics,' xi. 287
Blakeney (E. H.) on Tennyson on Britain, i. 166 Blaker (R.) on ancient Britons, i. 169 Blakesley, Northants, lost register restored, viii. 45 Blakie (N.), author of ' Lazarus Redivivus,' ix. 348 Blakiston (H. E. D.) on name-puzzle in Spenser,
ix. 114
Bland (Esdras), Rector of Buckland, Herts, ii. 227 Bland (John), the Edinburgh actor-manager, iv.
204, 314
Bland and Glover families, vii. 89, 131, 191, 354 Blanchard (M.), balloon from Dover to Calais,
viii. 311
Blanched, use of the word in 1549, iii. 348 Blancherd or Blancher, Alderman of Hull c. 1640,
xi. 69
" Blancs chaperons " at Ghent, iii. 390 Blandford (G. F.) on church spoons, v. 13 Blandford (John, Marquis of), his death, ii. 494 Blandina, martyr-saint, her biography, v. 409,
450, 517
Blarney Castle, Capt. James Jefferyes of, iv. 404, 496 ; his widow's heroism, v. 211
