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GENERAL INDEX.
Porter (Helen Violet) on Jane and Bobert Porter
v. 130
Porter (Jane) and ' Sir Edward Seaward's Narra- tive,' ii. 8, 96 ; her * Diary,' v. 130, 353 ; statement in her ' Scottish Chiefs,' x. 469 Porter (Sir B. Ker), his pedigree, v. 130, 353 Porterfield (Boyd), 19th Foot, 1744, vi. 49, 135 Portland cement, its inventor, i. 328, 377 Porto (Luigi da), his ' Boma et Prosa,' 1539, ix.
83, 233
Portrait, meaning of inscription on, vi. 251 Portrait found in an Indian bazaar, iv. 505 Portrait of a lady at Hampton Court, her name,
iv. 505 Portrait signed B., 1738, identification of, vii.
289 Portraits, family, mentioned in wills, x. 427 ; at
Easton Maud it, xi. 63
Portraits of an actress in different roles, vii. 227 Portraits of Broadbent families, 1650-1800, iv.
630
Portygne, gold coin, c. 1571, ii. 83, 138 Poseidon and Athene, variations of the myth,
xi. 377
Positivism, Prof. Huxley on, vii. 288 ; viii. 18 Possessive case, ambiguous use of, viii. 25, 91, 135, 153, 174, 314 ; Ben Jonson and the, x. 204 Possessor of a Nelson Memorial Bing on Nelson
memorial rings, xii. 402 Posset-bowl, farmers' Christmas custom, c. 1840,
xii. 499 Post, aerial, in India, 1911, iii. 265 ; earliest
mention of, 1783, viii. 347
Post Office, season posts for popular resorts, 1679, vi. 287 ; plan for a penny post, c. 1682, xi. 414 Post Office Savings Bank, its jubilee, iv. 423 Postage and ' The Illustrated London News,' x.
250 ; penny, in France, the date of, xii. 279 Postage stamps, inventions for perforating,
iii. 183, 251 ; iv. 197, 298 Postally, use of the word, i. 326, 395 Postboy, oldest, his death, i. 286 " Posteriors," 1605, use of the word, ix. 227 Postgate (Dr. J. P.) on employment of wild beasts
in warfare, xii. 140
Postiers, French slang term, i. 447, 494 Postlothwaite (T. N.) on pre-Beformation Urs-
wick vicars, iii. 387
' Postman, The,' and Jonathan Swift, i. 8 Postmaster, oldest, his death, i. 106 Postmen : " twopenny " postmen, ii. 169 Posts and chains in the City, 1648, x. 149 Pot oo os, racehorse, spelling of the name,'v. 29
97 Potassium on portrait of Wellington by William
Salter, x. 131 Potatoes : ware potatoes, term explained, iii
109, 179 " Pot-boiler," early use of the word, vi. 128, 216 :
vii. 94
Pothinus and Blandina, their imprisonment, i. 9 Potinius (Jo.) and Duncan Liddel, i. 447 ii 12 Pott (Percival), F.B.S., d. 1788, vii. 366 Potter (A. G.) on Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam, vii. 437 Omar Khayyam bibliography, iv. 328, 358, 497 ; v. 295, 464 Polyglot Bu- baiyat,' ix. 15 Shelley (p. B.), death of, vi. 76 Potter (Abraham and Humphrey), steam-engines
erected by, c. 1725, x. 450 ; xi. 15 Potter (Charles), 1634-63, his biography, ii. 230
Potter (G.) on alphabet of stray notes, xi. 459
Bell inscription, x. 328 London directories of
the 18th century, iv. 275 ' Married Men's
Feast' ; or, the Banquet of Barnet, 1671,' v.
132 Milton Bibles, iii. 70 Bey, xi. 378
St. Pancras, ix. 235 Thread-papers, iii. 90
Potter (J. F. Gill) on Col. Vincent Potter, i. 147
Potter ( J. S.) on Lord Grimthorpe's list of churches, vi. 449
Potter (Col. Vincent), regicide, his biography, i. 147, 214 ; vi. 290
Pottinger (Capt.) on Porringer, c. 1689, ii. 248, 315
Pottinger (I.), his ' Methodist,' comedy, 1760, ii. 526 ; iii. 125
Potts (B. A.) on authors wanted, i. 317, 354 ; iv. 58, 414, 496 ; vii. 434 ; viii. 396, 450 ; ix. 156 ; x. 432 ; xi. 280, 347 ; xii. 346' Bel- gravia,' a poem, iii. 337 Belshazzar's Feast, vi. 495 Bewickiana, vii. 115 Bolton's (Prior) window, vii. 95 " Cruel of heart were they," iii. 129 Dods (Meg) and ' Cook and Housewife's Manual,' iii. 257 Hucks (I.), B.A., vi. 397 ' Intelligencer,' iv. 473 ' John Gilpin ' in Latin elegiacs, ix. 477 Markland, vii. 278 " Notch," vii. 98 Parthenon Club, xii. 149 Poulter's mare, old, iii. 228 ' Beverberations ': Wm. Davies, ii. 134 Boberts (William), Esq., xi. 215 Shrove Monday : Collop Monday, i. 352 Smith (Charlotte), " poem ' St. Monica,' iii. 228 Solomon's advice to his son, xi. 217 " Wastrel "= waste land, xi. 154 Waterloo, model of, viii. 393 Winterton, Lines : epitaph at, xii. 270 Woman throwing her children to wolves, ii. 228
Pouchbelt (Peregrine), artist, Quebec, 1839, viii. 268
Poultney : Pulteney : Pountney, change of name, ii. 329
Poulyne (Mile. Elizabeth) and Napoleon, 1809, iii. 148
Pouncy (B. T.), artist, d. 1799, i. 487
" Pound " for prisoners, use of the word, xi. 471 ;
xii. 32
Pound sterling, " ," stroke through, xii. 201 Fourquoi Pas on Charles I. : ' Biblia Aureau,' iv. 70 Johnson and tobacco, iv. 175 Noble families in Shakespeare, iv. 248 Shakespea- riana, iv. 84
'Poverty Corner," Hyde Park, origin of the
name, xii. 379 Povey (Col. T.), of Massachusetts, 1702, viii. 427
Powell (A. C.) on Follies, ii. 273
Powell (C. L.) on more evidence from Willoby's
' Avisa,' xii. 46 Shakespeare note, xii. 438 Powell (Col.), Westminster School steward, 1845, vii. 251
Powell (Bev. G. Gervas), d. 1811, v. 270, 355 Powell (H. E.) on Scott's ' Woodstock ' : the Bota Club, viii. 58
D owell (Thomas), Westminster scholar, vii. 309
D ower (A. D.) on Tweezer's Alley, viii. 310
3 ower (D'Arcy) on the Frere Caromez, i. 9 Power (Dr. Garret), c. 1771, his biography, viii.
oO
Power (J.), ensign 1752, and Black Hole of
Calcutta, iii. 74, 111, 192, 272, 432 Power (Pierce), J.P., Ireland = Teresa Coppinger,
ower family, x. 108
Powick, tradition of the bells of, vii. 49, 115 Powlert," origin of the word, viii. 148
