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INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 30, 1909.
Maycock (Willoughby) on Meets of hounds
announced in church, 468 Surrey Gardens, 32 Mayhew (A. L.) on Chautauqua, 68
Christmas Day and Lady Day, 508 Dear : " O dear no ! " 434 Edinburgh : its derivation, 473 " Every mickle makes a muckle," 286 Grisbet, Somerset word, 427 Mediterranean : the name, 351 Piddle as a land measure, 373 Plaxtol, 33 Scaramouch, 153 Teenick, Kentish word, 467 Thurcet, its meaning, 29
Mayhew (Horace), ' Letters left at the Pastry- Cook's, 427, 475
Maylam (P.) on th as a symbol, 436 Maynard (Lady), Nancy Parsons, d. c. 1808, 447 May on Tenths and Fifteenths, 88 Maylor Grange, its whereabouts, 89, 277 Mazes, village, 96 Measles and donkey, 326, 398 Measures, weights, and coins, Turkish, 488 Meat, maturing, and fig trees, 53, 96, 453 Medals : Peace Treaty, 1814, 37 ; Charles I., 68, 134 ; Accession and Coronation, 130, 190, 230 Mediolanum, Jesuits at, 1685, 309, 374, 437 Mediterranean, derivation of the word, 308, 351,
376, 456, 495
Meets of hounds announced in church, 468, 515 Melampus and the Saint, identification wanted, 68 Melbourne (Lord) and Thackeray, 387 M61usine on bridal stone, 394 Memorials : in London, 122, 211, 258, 290, 370,
491 ; in the British Isles, 387 Mercer (W.) on missing word, 398 Mercer (W. J.) on Nonconformist burial-grounds,
151
Merry (Anthony), statesman, d. 1835, 228 Merry England, earliest use of the phrase, 88 Meschianza, meaning of the word, 30, 97, 258 Meyer (Prof. Dr. F.) on authors of quotations, 408 Mezzotints in colour by Le Blon, 450 Michaelmas Day, its date, 150, 194, 336 Michel (Francisque), his ' Les Ecossais en France,'
132
Mickle : Every mickle makes a muckle, mis- quotation, 286
Midday at Bale, story of, 310, 392 Midsummer festivities, 52
Milan, Alexandrian Library at, 158 ; and Medio- lanum, 374
Military officer, our oldest, 97
Military punishment, the bastinado, 246, 355, 397 Militia : North Bungay Fencibles, 429 Militia lists, early, 489
Milk, snakes drinking, 265, 316, 335, 377, 418 Mill at Gosport, Hants, 68, 118 Milton (John) and Christ's College, Cambridge, 30, 72 ; ' Paradise Lost,' i. 84-94, 242 ; his songs set to music, 249 ; his father-in-law, 281 ; his house in Aldersgate Street c. 1641, 404 ; his relationship with William Blackbrough, 488 ; memorial in All Hallows Church, 491 Milton portraits, 445, 447, 481, 508 Milton relic : tortoiseshell case with ivory tablets,
388 Minakata (Kumagusu) on dead animals exposed
on trees, 457 Bees and lucky days, 285 Born with teeth, 453
Minakata (Kumagusu) on Crows and rain, 415
Guernsey lily, 368
Son, disobedient, 408
Tiger folk-lore and Pope, 358 Minister in Anglo-Saxon charters, 109 Mint, keeper of the, 467 Missing word, 327, 398 Mistletoe, its curative properties, 506 Mistletoe on Maghull Yates, 14 Moles, dead, exposed on willows, 149, 457 Moloker, Yiddish for a silk hat, 385, 435, 477 Mompesson (Col.), Lieutenant-Governor of Isle of
Wight, 29
Monastic estates, their extent, 250, 354 Monday (A. J.) on old tunes, 218 Money, cremitt, meaning of the term, 106 Money, value of, temp. Edward III., 320 ' Monimusk, ' old tune, 93 Monism and Spinoza, C. Bradlaugh on, 347 Monkeys stealing from a pedlar, 373 Monoux (George), Alderman, c. 1520, 57 Monroe (Dolly), Irish beauty, 268 Montefiore (Mrs. F. G.) on authors of quotations
wanted, 428 Moreton (B. L.) on Queen Caroline, 94
Eleventh Commandment, 437
Hackett (Mrs. Conwai), 269
Heraldry in Froissart : pillow, 452
Latin lines on sleep, 17
Peacock (T. L.) : skylight and twilight, 76
Promethean, 76
Snodgrass as a surname, 113
Voltaire on love, 69
Montfort (Peter de), Speaker of House of Com- mons, 388, 518
Montholm (General) at St. Helena, 162 Monymusk, old tune, 48, 93, 138, 218 Moon, legends about, 347, 456 ; man in, 446,
518
Moor, the word and its derivatives, 405 Moore (J. B. G.) on McDonald and McPike
families, 314
Moors= Urdu or Hindustani language, 405 Mooyaart (Miss N.) on " Old King Cole," 510 Morgan (F.) on buff, 170
Tooth, single, 75
Txines, old, 48
Morganatic, derivation of the word, 470 Morris (Edward), M.P. for Newport, 350, 397, 434 Mot or motte, a clump of trees, 265, 413 Mottoes : Castigat ridendo mores, 126 ; of St.
Pancras Borough Council, 369, 412 Mount Grace : Augustinian cardinal, 234 Moxham (E. F. W.) on Dickens's surnames :
Guppy, 327
Muir (Surgeon-General) on regimental marches,312 Mulatto, etymology of the word, 191 Munro (J.) on Spenser allusions, 121 Murray (Dr. J. A. H.), his knighthood, 20; on Promethean, 10
Proximo, 447
Prussian, 407
Psychological moment, 488 Murray (John) II., 147 Murray (John) on ' Childe Harold,' 312 Mutton and races at Banstead, 246 Myddelton (W. M.) on James Preston, 295 Myrtle, Dr. Johnson's verses on sprig of, 204 N. (J. A.) on first English bishop to marry, 475 N. (M.) on " It is the Mass that matters," 470
Rushlights, 275 Names terrible to children, 509
