Packington (Lady), supposed author of the Whole Duty of Man, 564.
Paget (Arthur) on Lisle family, 423.
---- Milton's widow, 452.
---- Synge family, 423.
---- teaching a dog French, 581.
Paget family, 12. 134. 200. 375. 452.
Pagoda, 401. 523.
Paint, how taken off of old oak, 45. 58.
Palæologus (Theodore), his inscription, 408. 526.
* Pale, its meaning, 78.
Paley's plagiarism, 589.
Palindromes, 520.
Panama, the Isthmus of, 144.
Paper, how split, 413. 604.
Parallel passages, 30. 195. 372. 465. 560.
* Parchment deeds, on cleansing soiled, 270.
Pardon churchyard, 63.
Parish clerk, a female, 338. 474.
Parish clerks and politics, 56. 230. 575.
---- clerks' company, 341. 452.
---- registers, lines prefixed to, 30.
* Park, the antiquary, 8.
* Parker (Abp.), his correspondence, 149.
* Parliament, a member of, electing himself, 586.
Parochial libraries, 62. 274. 327. 369. 527. 595.
Parr (Dr.), his letter on Milton, 433.
Party, its earliest use, 137.
Party names in the seventeenth century, 117.
Party-similes of the seventeenth century, 485.
Parvise explained, 161.
Pascal, a saying of his, 44.
Pater-noster, the white, 614.
* Patriarchs of the Western Church, 317.
Patrick (Bp. Simon) noticed, 103. 205.
* Patrick (St.), or Maune and Man, 291.
Patrick's purgatory, 178. 327.
Patten (Margaret), her picture, 442.
* "Pay the Piper," its origin, 198.
P. (C. J.) on fishermen's custom at Wardhouse, 78.
Peacock (Edw.) on ecclesiastical censure, 466.
---- Francis Moore, 271.
---- hour-glass in pulpits, 83. 279.
---- North Lincolnshire folk lore, 382.
---- Sir William Hewet, 652.
---- weather rules, 50.
Peasantry, popular stories of the English, 94.
"Peccavi! I have Scinde," 490. 574.
Pedigree indices, 317. 453.
* Pedigree to the time of Alfred, 586.
"Peg" or "nail," for an argument, 561.
* Pelasgi, a sorrowful race, 516.
Pembrokiensis on tomb of Henry I., 411.
Pennycomequick, its derivation, 8. 113. 184. 255.
Pepys (Samuel) and East London Topography, 263.
---- his grammar, 466. 502.
* ---- his queries, 341.
Percy (Lady), wife of Hotspur, 104. 184. 251.
* Perfect tense, its rationale, 410.
Perseverant, its early use, 44.
Persius Flaccus (Aulus), his birth-place, 389.
Personage, a mysterious one, 34. 113.
Perthensis on Alexander Clark, 18.
---- aliases and initials of authors, 124.
Peterborough Cathedral, inscription in, 215. 303.
* Peter the Great, his will, 539.
Petheram (John) on Sir Thomas Button's Voyages, 385.
* Petrarch's Laura, 562.
P. (Francis) on heraldic query, 220.
P. (G.) on the meaning of trash, 135.
P. (H.) on crosses on stoles, 411.
---- French Prayer Books, 478.
---- love charm from a foal's forehead, 292.
[Phi]. on ampers and, 254.
---- yew-trees in churchyards, 346.
[Phi]. (2) on stereoscopic angles, 16.
[Hebrew: Pe]. on chronicles of kings of Israel, 561.
---- non-recurring diseases, 516.
Ph. on oaths of pregnant women, 503.
---- pagoda, 401.
[Phi]. [Phi]. on standard of weights and measures, 340.
Phantom bells, 576.
Pharaoh's ring, 416. 521.
Philadelphia Directories, 168.
Philadelphia, the early delights of, 537.
Philharmonicus on Weber's Cecilia, 589.
Philip III. of Spain, his death, 583.
Philo-Handel on Handel's Dettingen Te Deum, 388.
Philo-Pho. on ammonio-nitrate of silver, 204.
[phi]. ([omega].) on book inscriptions, 64.
[Greek: Phôtographos] on Dr. Diamond's calotype process, 572.
PHOTOGRAPHY:--
aceto-nitrate of silver, 649.
albumenised paper, 395. 501. 548. 572.
albumenised process, 549.
ammonio-nitrate, is it dangerous? 134. 158. 204. 276.
baths for collodion process, 42.
calotype process, 548. 572. 596.
camera obscura, 41.
cameras, their lining, 157.
cement for glass baths, 397.
clouds in photographs, 451. 477. 501.
collodion negatives, 629.
collodion pictures, 181.
collodion process, 41. 42. 46.
cyanuret of potassium, 157.
developing mixture, 549.
Dr. Diamond's collodion process, 41. 133.
---- lecture on the calotype process, 596.
engraving, 628.
gallo-nitrate of silver, 17.
glass chambers, 133.
iodizing paper, 46.
Ingleby's Essay on the Stereoscope, 401. 451.
lenses, 133. 476.
Lyte's three new processes, 252. 373.
---- treatment of positives, 15.
manuscripts copied, 456. 501.
minuteness of detail on paper, 157.
Muller's process, 203. 253. 275. 451.
multiplication of photographs, 85. 157.
negative paper, 203.
photographic exhibition, 476.
photographs by artificial light, 228.
photographs in natural colours, 228.
Pollock's process, 17.
positives, 15. 17. 397. 451.
precision in photographic processes, 301.
protonitrate of iron, 228.
printing on albumenised paper, 324.
Pumphrey's process for black tints, 349.
restoration of old collodion, 650.
Sisson's developing solution, 157. 181. 253. 301. 373.
stereoscopic angles, 16. 109. 157. 181. 227. 275. 348. 419. 451. 476.
501.
Stewart's new photographic process, 60.
---- pantograph, 301.
tent for collodion, 301.
yellow bottles for chemicals, 86. 110.
* Phrases, Dictionary of English, 292.
Piccadilly, a collar, 467.
Piccalyly, its origin, 8. 110.
Pictor on epitaph in Wingfield Church, 98.
Picts' houses in Aberdeenshire, 264. 392. 551.
Pierrepont (John), his descendants, 303.
Pigs said to see the wind, 100.
Pilgrim's Progress, Part III., 222.
Pimlico on "Tub to a whale," 220.
Pinkerton (W.) on Cambridge and Ireland, 350.
---- fishermen's custom at Wardhouse, 281.
---- Land of Green Ginger, 606.
---- Megatherium Americanum, 109.
---- mysterious personage, 34.
---- nightingale epithets, 475.
---- "Pinece with a stink," 496.
---- poem attributed to Shelley, 183.
Pistol (fire-arms), its earliest use, 7. 137.
P. (J.) on marriage of cousins, 387.
P. (J.) jun. on Lord Audley's attendants, 573.
P. (J. R.) on arrow-mark, 440.
---- daughter pronounced dafter, 504.
Planets, the discovery of, 601.
Plantin Bibles in 1600, 537.
Plants, wild, and their names, 35. 136. 207.
Plat (Sir Hugh) noticed, 495.
Players, an interpolation of the, 147.
Plum, origin of the word, 65. 654.
Ply on lens for negatives, 158.
Poema del Cid, with glossary and notes, 367. 574.
* Poems and songs in MS., 587.
Polarised light, 409. 552.
Politian, his epitaph at Florence, 537.
* Politics, their influence on fashion, 515.
* Poll tax in 1641, 340.
Polonius on Ireland a bastinadoed elephant, 523.
Pope and Cowper, 383.
* Pope's Elegy on an unfortunate lady, 539.
Popes, St. Malachy's prophecies on, 390.
* Popham (Sir John) and Littlecott, 218.
Porcpisee or porpoise, 208.
Porridge, the Book of Common Prayer, so called, 486.
Porter family, 364. 526. 576.
Porter (liquor), early use of the word, 9.
* Post-office about 1770, 8.
---- riddles for, 185.
Potenger's unpublished letter, 53.
Pots used by members of the Temple, 171. 256. 574.
Pottery, Dutch, 183.
* Poyntz (Gabriel), his arms, 440.
P. (P.) on books chained in churches, 453.
---- ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 329. 652.
---- point of etiquette, 527.
---- slow-worm superstition, 328.
P. (P. P.) on consecrated roses, 38.
Prayer Book, French translation, 343. 478.
Prayer Books, early editions, 318.
---- pictorial editions, 446.
---- prior to 1662, 504.
Prayer, occasional forms of, 535.
* Presbyterian titles, 126.
Pretenders, their births and deaths, 565.
Price (R.) on Latin riddle in Aulus Gellius, 243.
---- proverbial expressions, 624.
Prideaux (J.) on Wm. Cookworthy, 585.
Prie dieu, ancient furniture, 101. 183.
Printers' grammars, &c., 62.
Proclamations, collection of, 528.
* Property, the right of redeeming, 516.
Prophet--Thomas Newans, 381.
Proverbial expressions, change of meaning in, 464. 624.
PROVERBS, definition of one, 243. 304. 523.
---- pictorial, 20.
---- quoted by Suetonius, 86.
---- weather, 218.
* ---- wedding, 150.
---- _Miscellaneous_:--
As good as a play, 363.
Dover Court; all speakers and no hearers, 9.
Hauling over the coals, 125. 280. 524.
Put a spoke in his wheel, 269. 351. 522. 576.
Putting your foot into it, 77. 159.
* Raining cats and dogs, 565.
* The full moon brings fine weather, 79.
* Vaut mieux avoir affaire, &c., 220.
Tread on a worm and it will turn, 464. 624.
When the maggot bites, 244. 304. 353. 526.
Psalm cxxvii. 2., translation of, 387. 519. 641.
P. (S. C.) on high and low Dutch, 413.
P. (T.) on Staffordshire knot, 220.
Pues or pews, its correct spelling, 127.
Pugillus on Andrew Johnson, 589.
Pullen (Rev. Josiah) noticed, 489.
Pulpits of stone, 562.
Pulteney (Sir John de) noticed, 263.
Pumphrey (Wm.) on procuring black tints, 349.
Pun, a pictorial one, 385.
Punning devices, 270. 376.
* ---- divine, 586.
Pure, a peculiar use of the word, 125. 230. 352.
P. ( W.) on "A mockery, a delusion, and a snare," 244.
---- Willingham boy, 305.
P. (W. H.) on church temporalities, 412.
---- humming ale, 245.
---- Major André, 277.