Acton-Burnell, Shropshire, a 'History of,' xi. 209, 287
Actors taking women's parts, 1630, ix. 346
Actress, portraits of, in different roles, vii. 227
Adam, mediaeval conceit on the name, vii. 270, 333
Adam (C. F. F.), died 1913, his father at Waterloo, vii. 167
Adam (Major W. A.) on Adam of Fanno, vii. 449 —history of County Down, viii. 310
Adam (Walter), Westminster scholar, vii. 70
Adam family of Fanno, vii. 440
Adams (J.), mutineer of H.M.S. Bounty, xi. 302
Adams (J. Quincy), jun., on Fulke Greville, Lord
Brooke: his epitaph, iv. 301
Adams (Rev. John), d. 1813, his epitaph, viii. 65
Adams (Mary) = Dr. Zachary Pearce, c. 1721, iv. 247
Adams (President), his X. Y. Z. Mission, 1797, i. 366
Adams (W.) on medal: "Brother Adams," i. 289
Adams (W. R.) on Little Dauphin, viii., 506 —tattooed heads, i. 205
Adams families, i. 289
Adcock (Al) on 'Stamford Mercury,' vii. 471
Addams (Lieut.-Col. J.). Royal Regiment of
Artillery, d. c. 1864, xii. 401
Addenbrooke (John), Rector of Sutton, 1724, iv. 410, 497
Adder, "deaf adder that stoppeth her ears," viii. 6, 136
Adders' fat, a cure for deafness, iii. 69, 117, 171
Addison (Gulston and Mary) at Madras, ii. 101, 210, 256, 289, 338
Addison (J.), Cogan's edition of his 'Miscellaneous Works,' 1750, xii. 88 his unpublished letters, ix: 449
Addison family, x. 268, 10
Addison's maternal ancestry, i. 351
Addleshaw (Percy) on authors of quotations wanted, xii. 503 Cat queries, xii. 244 Gwyn (Nell), xii. 99 Hassocks, xii. 29 Was St. Thomas of Canterbury a Benedictine monk? xii. 147 Scissors and jaws, ii. 497 Spitting in Litany, iii., 294 Zanzigs, xi. 409
"Addressed," heraldic meaning of the word, vii. 228, 294, 395
Addresses, loyal, offered for sale, ii. 266, 378
Addy (S. O.) on Norman "motte" theory, v. 482 "Vossioner," ix. 495
Adelaide, widow of Hermann IV., c. 1077, iii. 428
Adelphi. "completed by means of a lottery," ix. 345, 477, 516
Adjectives from French place-names, ix. 21, 94, 171, 358; xi. 116
Adling Street, Barnard's Castle, localitv, ii. 148, 197
Admission registers of schools, viii. 89
Admonition, as female name, ix. 27
Adolphus (Sir Jacob), Hospital Mate, 1795, x. 16
Inspector of Army Hospitals, c. 1770, ix. 268, 397
Adoxography, meaning of the word, i. 117
Adrian IV. (Pope), his ring and the Emerald Isle, ii. 208, 250, 396
Adventurers in Holland, merchant, c. 1600, vii. 108
Advertisements apologies after fifty years, iii. 106 coffee and chocolates, 1622-52, vi. 96, 172, 1657, v. 406 early from ' London Gazette,' ii. 203 on official documents, xii. 240 by Sweden-borgians, 1783, vi. 148
Advowe," use of the word. vi. 288
'Ædes Walpolianae,' its contents, i. 34, 214
Aerial post, earliest mention of, 1783, viii. 347 Indian, iii. 265
Aerial ship, advertised in ' Athenaeum ' in 1835, iii. 65
"Aeroplane" and "airplane," use of the words, vi. 127, 175
Aeroplanes, first parade of, vii. 446
Æschylus on Homer, vii. 387, 478
Æsculapius and dreams, classical references to, vi. 309, 435
Affinities, table of, xii. 360,- 406
Affirmations by Jews, "Jehovah" in, ii. 346, 433
Affleck (Gilbert), Westminster scholar, 1774, iv. 149
Africa, South, bibliography of, iii. 5 Slang in, ii. 63, 138, 372
African analogue to Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale,' iv. 82
Afternooning, term in sermon, 1718, iii. 206
"Agasonic," meaning of the word, iv. 23, 96
Agnes: To play Agnes, i. 290, 495
'Agnes,' a novel, xi. 208, 287
Agnes, daughter of Louis VII., her marriages, xii. 29, 72, 105
Agnes on Bathurst (Sir Francis), iii. 88
Agnew (D. C. A.) on the Huguenots, i. 448, 515
"Agenda," vegetable food of West Africa, viii. 147
Ague-ring, c. 1547, i. 288, 378
"Aguillanneuf," etymology of the word, vi. 506
Aidie (Andrew), of Danzig and Aberdeen, 1610, iii. 246 '
"Ainay," derivation of the word, vii. 170, 251
Ainsworth (H.), his reference to finger-prints, vi. 210
Ainsworth (Harrison), Lord Macaulay on, vii. 269
Ainsworth (Robert), lexicographer, his birthplace, iii. 406, 476
Airboat, legendary, connected with St. Columba', x. 428
"Aircraft," omitted in 'Concise Oxford Dictionary,' vi. 45, 118, 127
"Airley Beacon," from Kingsley's poem, its locality, vii. 349
Airman, first vise of the word, ii. 265, 338
Airmen, deaths of pioneer, ii. 385, 437
"Airplane" and "aeroplane," use of the words, vi. 127, 175
Aishe and Gorges families, iv. 169
Aislabie (William), Westminster scholar, ii. 429, 473
Aislabie family, iii. 108
Aitcho on alphabetical nonsense, x. 468 Ancient terms, v. 51 -Barring-out, xi. 199 'Big Ben' and Phil May, iii. 237 Bristol board, iv. 8 " Bucca-boo," vii. 437 Burial at midnight, vi. 414 Emblem on a ring, vi. 230 Gibbons (Grinling), iv. 89 Henrietta Maria's (Queen) Almoner, xi. 93 Hudson (Jeffrey) and Crofts duel, vi. 475 Konigsmark (Count) in ' Odds-fish,' x. 487; Morland's (George) inn sign, iv. 498 H.M.S. Pactolus, iii. 275 " Pomander," vi. 214 Rooke (Birgit), ninth Abbess of Syon, xi. 497 Saluting the quarter-deck, xi. 63 Stewart (James Pattison), vi. 158 Teapoy : cellarette : gardeirn, iii. 272 Victory : early ships of the name, iii. 68
Aitken (Cora Kennedy), writer of verse, vi. 70
