B. on burial-place of Spinosa, 192.
---- Ravenshaw and his works, 286.
B. (A.) on quotations wanted, 40.
---- SS. Adulph and Botulph, 84.
Baal festival, 281.
B. A. Oxon. on Parvise, 624.
Babington (C.C.) on general pardon, 15.
Bacon (Lord), a saying quoted, 305.
---- Advancement of Learning, quotations in, 493. 554.
---- Essays, notes on, 6. 80. 448.
---- hint from, to our correspondents, 36.
B. (A. E.) on Aristotle's checks, 496.
---- King Lear, Act IV., 592.
---- parallel passage in Shakspeare, 403.
---- Shakspeare's Hamlet, 449.
---- Shakspeare's Henry VIII., 111.
---- Shakspearian unanswered queries, 178.
---- St. Mathias' day, 115.
B. (A. F.) on John Pierrepont, 65.
---- Smith family, 13.
Bailey (Geo.) on Fuseli's painting, 513.
Ball at Brussels, historical parallel, 303.
Ballard (E. G.) on British Museum MSS., 570.
---- Bowyer Bible, 607.
---- curious marriages, 525.
---- Hogarth's pictures, 412.
---- Hollis (Gervase), his manuscripts, 546.
---- seal of William D'Albini, 552.
---- Trussell's manuscripts, 616.
Balliolensis on "The Birch," a poem, 159.
---- bottle department, 135.
---- burrow, its etymology, 205.
---- charade attributed to Sheridan, 379.
---- commencement of the year, 161.
---- coninger, 368.
---- epigrams, 174.
---- epitaph at Mickleton, 379.
---- inscriptions in books, 127.
---- "Mala malæ malo," &c, 180.
---- Parr's dedications, 156.
---- Pompey the Little, 191.
---- reprint of Hearne's works, 379.
---- Robert Weston, 404.
---- sonnet by J. Blanco White, 404.
Banbury cakes and zeal, 106. 222. 310. 512.
Bandalore and Tommy Moore, 153.
Bankruptcy records, 478.
Baptism: can a man baptize himself? 27.
---- children crying at, 96.
Baptismal custom connected with festivals, 128.
Barnes (W.) on the meaning of fleshed, 166.
---- Pitt of Pimperne, 135.
Barton (Catherine) noticed, 144.
Batemanne (William) noticed, 126.
Bates (Wm.) on catcalls, 167.
---- Christian names, 626.
---- Cowper and tobacco smoking, 229.
---- muffs worn by gentlemen, 392.
---- mummies of ecclesiastics, 308.
---- Robert Heron, 167.
---- selling a wife, 602.
---- "will" and "shall," 553.
Bather (Arthur H.) on quotations wanted, 117.
Battier (A. H.) on compass flower, 477.
Battle Bridge, Roman inscription found there, 409.
B. (B. E.) on Burke's marriage, 382.
B. C. L. degree, how obtained, 38. 167. 222.
B. (C. W.) on Chatham's language, 220.
---- "Elementa sex," &c., 630.
---- petition formula, 596.
---- sun's rays putting out the fire, 285.
B. (D.) on Murray, titular Bishop of Dunbar, 192.
Beads for counting prayers, 360.
Bealby (H. M.) on Shelton oak, 297.
"Beaten to a mummy," origin of the expression, 206.
Beaver (Peter), noticed, 501.
B. (E. D.) on De Burgh family, 381.
Bede (Cuthbert) on amusive, 333.
---- blackguard, 487.
---- curiosities of advertising literature, 4.
---- Easter-day sun, 333.
---- high spirits a presage of evil, 339.
---- Irish rhymes, 312.
---- Mary Stuart's chair, 197.
---- pancake bell, 232.
---- perspective view of twelve postage stamps, 35.
---- poetical epithets of the nightingale, 397.
---- riddles for the post-office, 258.
---- screw, a broken-down horse, 260.
---- stars and flowers, 513.
---- "steaming," in Thomson, 367.
Bee (Tee) on devil's marks on swine, 281.
---- Hamilton queries, 285.
---- notes on newspapers, 232.
---- wandering Jews, 261.
Beech-trees struck by lightning, 25.
Bees and the Sphynx atropos, 499.
B. (E. G.) on fercett, 318.
---- mediæval parchment, 317.
---- Mint in Southwark, 303.
---- Tanner's MSS., 260.
---- white roses, 329.
B. (E. L.) on door-head inscriptions, 314.
---- Sidney as a Christian name, 319.
Belatucadrus, his statue, 205. 319.
Belfry towers, separate from the church, 333. 416. 465. 512. 586.
Belgium, ecclesiastical antiquities of, 65.
Bell (Dr. Wm.) on the word Dreng, 298.
---- "Stabit quocunque jeceris," 239.
---- Yankee, its origin and meaning, 103.
Bell (Geo. Wm.) on Bp. Patrick's parable, 156.
Bell inscriptions, 454. 633.
Bells and storms, 144. 343.
Bells at funerals, 297.
---- of the convent of Santa Theresa, 429.
---- subterranean, 128. 200. 328. 391. 413. 512.
Beltane in Devonshire, 353.
B. (E. M.) on Latin-Latiner, 622.
Bend on family of Joan D'Arc, 206.
Benson (C.) on rhymes upon places, 24.
Bentivoglio's Description of England, 155.
Bentley's examination, 181.
Bequest, a whimsical one, 105.
Berefellarii, its meaning, 207.
Berkeley (Bishop), his portrait, 428.
Bernard (St.) _versus_ Fulke Greville, 62.
"Beware the cat," 487.
B. (F. C.) on Grindle, 384.
---- Irish convocation, 345.
---- Lamech killing Cain, 362.
---- Shakspeare, reprint of 1808, 47.
B. (F. S.) on Sir W. Hamilton, 334.
B. (F. T. J.) on Cupid crying, 368.
B. (G.) on Turner's exhibitions, 118.
B. (H.) on Corvizer, 503.
---- willow pattern, 631.
B. (H. A.) on Banbury cakes, 512.
---- poisons used for bouquets, 262.
---- Dr. Timothy Bright, 407.
---- epigram from Belgium, 379.
---- Schonbornerus, 478.
---- spontaneous combustion, 286.
B. (H. B.) on paper positive, 141.
B. (H. F.) on the word Canker, 585.
Bibles, complete lists of, 454.
Bibliothec. Chetham. on quotation from Bacon, 270.
Bill (Dr.), his descendants, 286.
Bingham (C. W.) on Crowe's Latin poem, 144.
Birch, a poem, 159.
Bird, a fabulous one noticed by Fuller, 180.
Bishop of St. John in Ellis's Letters, 550.
Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth, 260. 344. 509.
---- Irish, as English suffragans, 569.
---- lawn sleeves, 437.
---- the consecrators of the later English, 132. 220. 306.
---- vacating their sees, 50.
B. (J.) on blow-shoppes, 409.
---- Christian names, 627.
---- contested elections, 316.
---- Daubuz, 145.
---- David Hartley, 282.
---- detached belfry towers, 586.
---- Mordaunt family, 50.
---- Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, 14.
---- "Qui facit per alium," &c., 629.
---- Rigby correspondence, 264.
---- tub-woman, 133.
B. (J. C.) on the sign of the cross in the Greek Church, 380.
B. (J. M.) on the butler and his man William, 408.
---- Chaucer, 440. 517.
---- Coleridge's Christabel, 292.
---- Coleridge's Life, 282.
---- detached belfry towers, 465.
---- Devonianisms, 544.
---- Edmund Spenser, 362.
---- English and American booksellers, 404.
---- folk-lore, 81.
---- Latin-Latiner, 424.
---- lines on Tipperary, 43.
---- odd mistake, 405.
---- parochial libraries, 463.
---- passage in Coleridge, 330.
B. (J. S.) on books wanted, 305.
---- Cromlin's grant, 305.
B. (J. W.) on Shoreditch cross, 38.
Blackguard, origin of the term, 77. 273. 487.
Blackiston (R.) on epigrams, 369.
---- lines in a snuff-box, 181.
Bland family noticed, 234.
Bloomfleld (Robert), his cottage, 34.
Blor (Dr. A.) on photography applied to catalogues, 507.
Blount (Martha), her portrait, 38. 117.
Blow-shoppes, what? 409.
B. (N.) on Chatterton, 15. 189.
---- "Plurima, pauca, nihil," 167.
Bobart (H. T.) on Jacob Bobart and his dragon, 429.
Bobart (Jacob) and his dragon, 428. 578.
Bodley (Sir Josias) noticed, 357. 561.
Boeoticus on Ecclus. xlvi. 20., why omitted? 205.
---- Hall's Meditations, 14.
---- left hand, its etymology, 306.
Boerhaave, a passage in, 453.
Bognie's carriage, its meaning, 108.
Boleyn (Anne), the axe which beheaded her, 332. 417.
Bonnell (Thomas) noticed, 305. 561.
Booker (John) on exercise day, 344.
---- weather rules, 599.
Book-plates, foreign, 26.
Books, autographs in, 255.
---- inscriptions in, see _Inscriptions_.
Books, notices of new--
Akerman's Remains of Pagan Saxondom, 370.
Architectural Societies, 514.
Ayerst's Ghost of Junius, 224.
Bowdler's Family Shakspeare, 98. 346. 442.
Bruce's Letters and Papers of the Verney family, 441.
Byron's Poems, 97.
Chester Archæological Journal, 168.
Camden Society, new works, 168.
Churchman's Magazine, 224.
Collier's Notes and Emendations of Shakspeare, 53. 120. 537.
Cranborne's (Viscount) History of France, 168.
Darling's Cyclopædia, 370. 490.
English Bible chronologically arranged, 513.
English Forests and Forest Trees, 537.
Forster's Road-book for Tourists, 561.
Gatty's Vicar and his Duties, 465.
Gibbing's Records of Roman Inquisition, 537.
Henry of Huntingdon, 465.
Holloway's Month in Norway, 561.
Hoveden's Annals, 346.
Hughes's Vale Royal of England, 442.
Johnson's Tangible Typography, 224.
Journal of Sacred Literature, 370.
Lares and Penates, 249.
Latham's Ethnology of the British Islands, 120.
Layard's Nineveh and Babylon, 273.
Mahon's (Lord) History of England, 120. 346. 537.
Men of the Time, 394.
Murray's Railway Readings, 465.
Museum of Classical Antiquities, 513.
National Miscellany, 490.
Pauli's Life of Alfred, 562.
Price's Norway and its Scenery, 561.
Pulleyn's Etymological Compendium, 465.
Reynard the Fox, 273. 369 465.
Scott's Thomas à Becket, 346.
Shakspeare Repository, 537.
Sharp's Gazetteer, 224.
Singer's Text of Shakspeare Vindicated, 537.
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, 369.
Snelling's Art of Photography, 562.
Surtees Society, their new works, 120.
Temple Bar, the City Golgotha, 394.
Traveller's Library, 465.
Trench on Lessons in Proverbs, 120.
Turner's Domestic Architecture, 345.
Ulster Journal of Archæology, 248. 513.
Wellington, his Character, &c., 394.
Wilson's Sacra Privata, 97.
Young's Night Thoughts, 490.
Books wanted, 305. 561.
---- worthy to be reprinted, 153. 203. 379.
Booksellers, English and American, 404.
Bookselling in Calcutta, 199.
---- in Glasgow in 1735, 10.
Bookworm on St. Dominic, 356.
Boom, its meaning, 620.
Booth family, 478.
Booty's case, 634.
Borderer on "Plurima, pauca, nihil," 96.
Boston queries, 258.
Boswell (James), letter to Garrick, 328.
Bottle department of the beer trade, 135.
Bottom, its signification, 51.
Botulph (St.), his life, 84. 192.
Bouillon Bible, 296. 536.
Bourbons, origin of the family, 16.
Bowyer Bible, 617.
Boyer's Great Theatre of Honour, 358.
Boyle (Dean), his pedigree, 430.
Boyle Lectures, 456.
Braemar on Rev. J. Marsden, 181.
Brasses on the Continent, 501.
---- since 1688, 272.
Braybrooke (Lord) on Hamilton queries, 333.
---- Latin poems in connexion with Waterloo, 6.
---- Major-General Lambert, 269.
---- old shoe-throwing at weddings, 182.
---- Pepys's Morena, 508.
"Brazen Head," a serial, 39.
B. (R. D.) on Sidney, a female name, 39.
Breen (Henry H.) on Bonaparte and Napoleon, 129.
---- Canada, its derivation, 380.
---- Dutensiana, 390.
---- Dutch reducing the English to slavery, 49.
---- ennui, 478.
---- Eustache de Saint Pierre, 329.
---- Irish rhymes, 312.
---- judicial oaths, 453.
---- literary frauds of modern times, 86.
---- Milton in prose, 27.
---- Miss E. St. Leger, a mason, 598.
---- molasses, its etymology, 36.
---- More queries, 85.
---- Napoleon a poet, 301.
---- Napoleon dynasty, 145.
---- pic-nic, 387.
---- Rococo, its use in St. Lucia, 627.
---- Rowley's Poems, 544.
---- slave whipped to death, 503.
---- South _versus_ Goldsmith. &c., 311.
---- straw bail, 464.
---- true blue, 391.
---- "Very like a whale," 86.
---- Wellington (Duke of), a maréchal de France, 283.
Brett (F. H.) on smock marriages, 191.
Brick on town plough, 339.
---- parochial libraries, 438.
---- rhymes on places, 537.
Bride's seat in church, 145.
Bridget (St.), Officium Birgittinum Anglice, 157.
Bright (Dr. Timothy) noticed, 407.
British Museum, scarce MSS. in the library, 570.
Broad arrow, 360.
Broctuna on Croxton or Crostin, 316.
---- Lady Catherine Grey, 68.
---- London queries, 223.
---- Lord Coke's Charge to the Jury, 433.
---- Orkney Islands in pawn, 183.
---- subterranean bells, 391.
---- Wake family, 164.
---- worth, its original meaning, 584.
Brown's tragedy, "Polidus," 499.
Brown (W.) on Mr. Archer's services to photography, 218.
---- originator of collodion process, 116.
Browne (Sir G.), his descendants, 528. 608.
Bruce (John) on God's marks, 134.
---- proclamations, their utility, 3.
Bruce (King Robert), his arms, 356. 416. 559.
Brutoniensis on straw bail, 342.
Brydone the tourist, his birthplace, 108. 163.
B. (S. S.) jun., on photographic lens, 485.
B. (T.) on magnetic intensity, 71.
Bt. (J.) on "pais," its correct translation, 52.
---- riddle circa Henry VIII., 282.
B. (T. N.) on chantry chapels, 185.
Bucks, ancient society of, 286.
Buckton (T. J.) on Alison's Europe, 594.
---- Croker's Johnson, quotations in, 618.
---- enough, 560.
---- heuristic, 320.
---- Khond fable, 584.
---- legend of Lamech, 432.
---- passage in St. James, 623.
---- sign of the cross in Greek Church, 461.
---- Syriac scriptures, 583.
Budget, its derivation, 73.
Bullinger's Sermons, 407.
Bunyan's expression, "To lie at the catch," 132.
Buonaparte, origin of the name, 129.
Burial of unclaimed corpse, 262. 340. 435.
Burial service said by heart, 13. 94. 320.
Buriensis on Richard Candishe, M.P., 596.
Burke (Edmund), his marriage, 382.
---- passage in, 51.
Burke (Walter) noticed, 192.
Burnet (Bishop), his character, 59.
Burrow, its etymology, 205. 320.
Burton (J.) on Martha Blount, 117.
---- Richardson or Murphy's portrait, 107.
Burtt (Joseph) on proclamation of Henry VIII., 421.
---- surnames, 278.
Butler and his man William, 408.
Butler (Bishop), inquiries respecting, 528. 572.
Buxton (Sir Thomas Fowell) noticed, 452.
Bury (Dr. Arthur) noticed, 473. 502.
Byron (Lord), immoral work by him, 66.