ELEVENTH SERIES.
99
Eggs, Easter, origin of, xi. 320, 382 ; St.
Swithin and, xii. 480 ; used in payment by
serf -tenants, viii. 465
" Egoism " v. " egotism," use of the word, ix. 450 Egypt, letters from an army officer, 1801, xi. 334 ;
number of gods in, in pagan times, ix. 8, 78 Egyptian Book of the Dead, ix. 191, 253 Egyptian davs in the Middle Ages, superstition,
xii. 181, 225, 305 Egyptian deity, human and stork-like figure, xii.
85
Egyptian Literary Association, ii. 69 " Egyptian Pompe," use of the term, 1598, ii. 166 Ehrlich (Dr. Ludwick) on Przemysl : language of
Galicia, x. 497 ; pronunciation of " Chopin,"
xi. 217 ; pronunciation of Polish, xi. 122 " Eight and fortie men " of Shropshire, 1642
viii. 49, 117 Eighteenth century, manners and society in, i.
85 ; school-book, iv. 289, 392 Eiloart (Arnold) on Dean Alford's poems, ii. 108 ;
authors of poems wanted, iii. 329 Eisteddfod, revived about 1788, xi. 334 Elbee family, arms of, xi. 108, 213 Elder tree,' folk-lore of, xii. 301, 410, 429, 450,
470, 489, 5d7
Eldredge (Zoeth S.) on " Seven Seas," ix. 207 Eleanor of Bretayne, manner of her death, iv.
464 Eleanor of Provence, her burial-place, x. 150, 195,
318 ; and fine remitted, xi. 334 Election, most expensive, i. 107, 191, 258 ; Glouces- ter, 1761, i. 127 ; Parliamentary, at Lincoln, . 1724, ii. 287
Elections, first, under Ballot Act, i. 268, 378, 416 Elector Palatine, c. 1685, iv. 68, 136 Electric light in 1853, iv. 66
Electro-plating, discoverers of, xi. 297, 365, 459 ' Elegies, Descriptive and Moral,' 1760, x. 309 Elephant and castle in heraldry, i. 508 ; ii. 36,
115, 231, 353, 398 ; iii. 36, 237, 298, 377 " Elephantine "= ivory, 1513, vi. 387 Elephants, performing, in England, 1720, ii. 366 Elford family, viii. 7 Elfou, place-name, the locality, ix. 470 ; misprint
for Edfu, x. 18 Eliot (George), biographical details, ii. 327 ;
on a magic ring, iv. 48 ; Edward Casaubon in
' Middlemarch,' 507 Eliott (General), his visits to Aix-la-Chapelle,
1789, vi. 466 Elizabeth (Queen) and astrology, ii. 107, 197,
359 ; observance of her accession day, ii. 401,
453 ; iv. 439 ; pressgang, temp., ii. 525 ; her
statue in Royal Exchange, iii. 187, 230, 315 ;
names of her horses, iii. 346 ; her portrait with
Italian proverb, iii. 487 ; her visit to Bishop's
Stortford, iv. 27, 72 ; her portraits at Hampton
Court, iv. 244, 292 ; and grant of lands Belfast,
1571, vi. 368 ; and a portrait of Richard II.,
vii. 6, 57 ; her use of " My own Crow," vii. 366 ;
and Walsingham, painting, c. 1831, ix. 288 ;
adulation of, x. 48, 136 ; and well in Surrey, xi.
334 ; her fifth Parliament, 1584, xii. 159, 207,
251 Elizabeth (Mother), Superior O.S.M.A., on
authors of quotations wanted, xi. 90 Elizabethan heraldic MSS., i. 168, 210 Elizabethan licence to eat flesh, ii. 68, 115, 135 Elizabethan plays in MS., iv. 205, 275 Ell, length of Dutch ell, vi. 335, 412, 511
Ellacombe (Canon H. N.) on authors wanted, i.
227 Christian rule, viii. 149 ' Crystals from
Sydenham,' iii. 127 Curfew bell, vii. 17
' Drawing-Room Ditties,' ii. 48 Reference
wanted, vii. 127 Repudiation of public loan,
xii. 14 Tennyson's ' Flower in the crannied
wall,' iii. 167 Will-o'-the-wisp, ix. 108
Ellerman (C. F.), c. 1854, author, xi. 452 ; xii. 141
Elletson (J.), Westminster scholar, 1719, vi. 209
Elley (Lieut.-General Sir J.), d. 1839, v. 248, 356
Ellice (Sir C. H.), G.C.B., Colonel, 24th Regiment,
1851, ix. 188
Ellice (Peter), at Oxford, 1743, vi. 209 Ellice (R.), Colonel, 24th Regiment, 1842-56, ix.
170
Elliot (G.), Westminster scholar, 1724, vi. 271 Elliot (General), c. 1755, his identity, vii. 150,
216, 328
Elliot (R.), Westminster scholar, 1728, vi. 271 Elliot (W.), Westminster scholar, 1743, vi. 271 Elliott (Mrs. G. D.), her ' During the Reign of Terror,' ii. 324, 371 ; the spelling of her sur- name, iv. 392 Elliott (Mrs. M.) on Elizabeth Dixon, Quaker,
iii. 109
Elliott and Parker families, xi. 229 Ellis, booksellers of New Bond Street, history of
the firm, ix. 285
Ellis (A. S.), his ' Notes on Ralph Thoresby's Pedigree,' iii. 188, 258 on " Aschenald,' x. 317 Beaver-leas, ii. 263 Boothby family quarter- ings, iii. 416 Breton origin of the noble house of Ormonde, vi. 161 Brooke (John), ii. 257, 457 Chippendale (Thomas), up- holsterer, vii. 94 De Grey: Henry de Grey of Thurrock, viii. 235 Edwards, Kings of England, i. GOi ; ii. 70 Families : duration in male line, v. 174 Fitzwilliam family, v. 312 Jennings case, v. 311 Latin inscription, xii. 339 ' Norman People,' xii. 390 Parker family of Gloucestershire,* xi. 106 Pontefract Castle : an unknown picture at Hampton Court, iv. 403 Royal Christmases at Gloucester, ii. 501 Sweepstake as a sur- name, ii. 86 Thackeray : Thackery : Wray, iv. 283 Ellis (G.) on Dick's ' Summer Morning on the
Thames,' ix. 410
Ellis (George), and Westminster School, i. 268, 433 Ellis (H. D.) on alphabetical nonsense, xi. 57 "Ampersand," vii. 247 Authors of quotations wanted, v. 137 Autograph letters of Charles I., viii. 29 "Bushel and Strike," ix. 393 " Check," v. 366 Dickens : Mr. Magnus's spectacles, v. 106 Cley-next-the-Sea Church, ii. 472 German proverb : " Gut verloren," vi. 454 " Kibob " : derivation wanted, ix. 396 " Largesse," viii. 306 Legett (Thomas), x. 110 " Madame Drury, aged 116," xi. 18 ' Old Wishart's Grave,' if. 327 Overing sur- name, iv. 216 Teapoy : cellarette, iii. 194 Theatre lit by gas, viii. 11 Ellis (Deputy J.) and Miss Boydell, 1786, viii.
507
Ellis (M. A.) on forms of the name James, ix. 151 Ellis (Mrs. Sarah), author, 186(5, v. 289, 397, 498 Ellison (Capt. Lieut. Thomas), Royal Reg
Artillery, xi. 151 Ellops (or elops) and scorpion, Milton's use of the
words, xi. 150, 212
Ellwood (T.), date of his death, 1713, xii. 359
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