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SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, July 29, 1916.
Earth, " red earth," as foundations for houses, 19
Easling (J. C.), engraver, c. 1810, 227
East Sheen, picture of Temple Grove, c. 1700, 349,
476
Easter custom, pace-egging, 488 Easter, Old-Style, table to find, 1738, 70 Ecclesiastical devolution of property and Canon
Law, 209, 278 Ecclesiastical folk-lore, 10
Edwards (Edwin), etcher, his biography, 389, 455 Eggs, St. Swithin and, 16, 58 ; pace-egging, 488 Elder tree, folk-lore of, 37, 94 Election, Parliamentary, for Queensferry, 1754,
507
Eliot (George), notes on ' Romola,' 310, 374, 415 Eliot (Grace Dalrymple) and Madame St. Alban,
c. 1785, 233, 286
Elizabeth (Queen), her letter of warrant per- mitting torture, 407 ; and the Marian burnings,
429
Emerald, alleged love of chastity, 125, 197, 291 English Prayer Book printed at Verdun, 1810, 176 English prisoners in France in 1811, 176, 434 English pronunciation of Latin, order for, 248, 353 " Englishman's house is his castle," legal truth of
the saying, 509
Engravings, small mezzotint, c. 1829, 126 Enlistment as a birthday celebration, 449 Ensigns in the Royal Navy, date of introduction,
14
Ensor (H.), artist, 227 " Entire," brewers' use of the word, 447, 519
Epigram:
Haud temere antiquas mutat Vasconia voces, 67, 130, 193, 454
Epitaphs :
Admiral Christ, 280, 320 Here lies Sir John Guise, 138 Over the river, faces I see, 387 Epitaphs: for Baron Westbury, 10, 18,95; of
Finmore and Willis at North Hinksey, 26, 298 ;
in Mylor churchyard, 347 ; in Brigstock church- yard, Northants, 387 Erasmus, his ' Moriae Encomium,' 241 Erzerum, first syllable of the place-name, 287, 417,
476
Estavayer, water tournaments at, 345 Eton, rebellion of the boys at, 1815, 90, 176 Etruscan surgical instruments, 15 European travel of the 17th century, 61, 101, 141,
153, 181, 216, 221, 261, 275, 301, 328, 339, 470 Evelyn (Elizabeth) and the Evelyn family, 288,
356, 435, 473
Evelyn family, 288, 356, 435, 473 Evening paper, forerunner of a morning paper,
341, 363, 381, 414, 454 Executions, military, modus operandi, 285 Eye, human, figure of Buddha in, 245
' Fables in French and English, Amusing and
Instructive,' 1747, 449
Fairfax (Major J.), his commission, 1769, 266 Falconer (J.), d. 1699, burial entry of, 57 Farmer, tenant farmer, the status of, 207 Farm-names of Pembrokeshire, 466
Farnham, Dorset, inscription on church bell, 389,.
420, 436
Fazakerley, meaning of the surname, 489 Fazakerley family and the Radcliffe family of
Leigh, 288, 395, 489
Fellows (W. M.), engraver, his death, 48 Female novelists, 1785-1815, 111, 150, 155, 215,.
280
Ferrers family, the arms of, 9 Ferrers and Allen families, 84, 125, 156, 416 Ferrers and Alleyne families, 125, 160 Fiddlers of Dorset, the last, 1913, 367 Fielding (Henry), and ' Shamela,' c. 1740, 24 r
his " Parson Adams," 224 ; at Boswell Court,
c. 1745, 264 : corrections in his ' Covent Garden
Journal,' 284 ; corrections in his ' Voyage to
Lisbon,' 284 ; Tom Jones and his sword, 506 Fieldingiana : Miss H and, 483; "One of the
merriest gentlemen in England," 484 Finlay, White, and Rixon families, 370 Finmore family, epitaphs of, at North Hinksey,,
26, 298
Fires at Alresford, Hants, c. 1620, 209, 294 Fishes, stories of the swarming and ascension of,.
404
Fishing, Dr. Johnson on, 18, 98, 157, 218 fitzGerald (Richard), autograph letter of, 1680, 48- Flagstaff, tallest one-piece, 59 Flags, emblem on, for Irish Flag Day, 1916, 346 Flanders (Counts of), their Flemish motto, 469 Fleet, Portland, attempt to drain, 1635, 347 Flemish motto of the Counts of Flanders, 469 Florio (John) and Francis Meres, 54, 117 Flowers of Australia, their smell, 90 " Fly "= vehicle, origin of the word, 150, 254,.
398, 494 Folkard (H. C.), " Marksman," author of ' The
Dead Shot,' 208, 315
Folk-lore:
Adam's apple, 245
Buddha, figure of, in the human eye and neck, 245
Cats, reasons for some habits of, 15, 251
Chime-hours, effect of being " born in," 329.. 417
Church bells and rheumatism, 509
Crossing, the dangers of, 238
Cuckoo in folk-lore, 338
Elder- wood for cradles, 37, 94
Funeral, the body to pass through the church,.. oO
Geese and rain, 227
Goats and cattle, 16
Mass, superstitions connected with the, 10
Rabbit, superstitions relating to, 154, 235,. 317, 394, 438
St. Swithin and broken eggs, 16, 58
Sea folk-lore, 66, 154
Sleeper, methods of waking, 158
Smokers' superstition, 208, 276
Stone-lore, emerald and chastity, 125, 197, 291
Tigers, use of their whiskers in magic rites, 37,, 118, 234, 355
Touching a sailor for luck, 430, 491
" Wasting " in infants, remedy for, 346 Football, a form of, played in 1594, 165, 276 Footpath, use of the word " parapet " for, 190, 319 " For one's sins," early use of the phrase, 427 Ford, Chobham, history of the house, 369 Fort (Mrs. S.), her portrait by Copley, 348, 418 Fort Jerome, St. Domingo, and H.M.S. Argo- and Sparrow, drawing of, 328
