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Bayne (T.) on sedan chairs in Scotland, 165

Swallow, its song, 143

Syntax of a preface, 105, 331
"Tour, aerial," 423

Welking, its meaning, 517

Wilkie (W.), his 'Epigoniad,' 121, 350

Bayswater, its etymology, 18

Beards shaved as mark of servitude, 74, 198

Beattie (James), "aerial tour" in his 'Minstrel,' 423
Becket (Thomas à), village feast on 7 July, 31; church
built by, 347

Bedell family and arms, 268

Bedford (W. K. R.) on Rev. Lockhart Gordon, 16
Beetle and Wedge, tavern sign, 506

Bekesbourne, Kent, ruined chapel at, 368, 493
Belben (E. P.) on Banausic," 168

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"Chalk on the door," 38

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Dewy-feathered," 117

Haileybury College, 533
Pāejama and pyjama, 98

Belfast book-plates, early, 464

Bell, ancient copper, 50

Bell punch poem, 485

Bellars or Bellowes family, 327

Bellezza (P.) on Sir Walter Scott, 408

Bellringers, their articles, 55

Bells, Irish, 482; tolled for payment of church rents,
507

Belperopis, ghost-word, 406

Bench mark, Ordnance Survey, 328, 413

Benham (W.) on Erkenwald, Bishop of London, 318
Bentham (Jeremy), his unfulfilled prophecy, 165
Bertolini's Hotel, St. Martin's Street, its history,
106, 158

Bible: "

Mess of pottage," 17; marginal references
omitted, 54, 94; "Go about," 64; lexicon to the
Septuagint, 68, 133; Coverdale's, 1535, 127;
rendering of yévnraι in New Testament, 188, 431;
misquotation of Psalm xxii. 2, 205, 312, 454;
Esdras, Book II. al. IV., 205; cieling or ceiling,
284; doubtful grammar in A. V., 305, 431;
Vinegar Bible and its illustrators, 468; "Saving
health," 486; "World without end," 525
Bibliographical terms. See Book terms.
Bibliographies, American, 509

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Bibliography :-

Grimm (J. and W.), 33, 93, 172

Heraldry of Wales, 527

'Histoire de Sable,' 528

'Hue and Cry and Police Gazette,' 267, 335
'Kilmarnock Mirror and Literary Gleaner,' 68
Norton (Mrs.), 108

Psalter, Latin, 1457, 283

Rastell (John), 'Pastyme of People,' 266
Romance Book of the Gospels, 268

Rye House Plot, 34, 175

Shakspearian, 25, 85, 211, 506, 523

Smith's (B. E.) Cyclopædia of Names, 102, 178,
237

Swimming, 397

Thackeray (W. M.), 145, 195

Thorpe (Benjamin), 98

Volney (Count de), his 'Ruins,' 269
Bicycles in thunderstorms, 152
Biggleswade, its etymology, 427
Bike, the abbreviation, 218
Bills of exchange and the Jews, 466
Birch family of Marylebone, 108
Birch (J. B.) on Birch family, 108
Bird family of Barton, co. Warwick, 448
Bird (T.) on Avery Cornburgh, 534

Minister of the Word of God, 35
'Birds of Cirencester,' 66, 249, 369, 478
Birth, consulting stars at, 385

Births, registers of British colonial, 108
Black (W. G.) on verifying references, 324
Blacking for boots and shoes, 514

Blackmore (J. F.) on "Paying through the nose," 48
Blair (D.) on Australian nomenclature, 124

Bentham (Jeremy), 165

Blair (Sir O. H.) on angels and their representation, 16
Becket (Thomas à), 32
Gordon family, 235

Honourable, the title, 292
"In Dominicis Augusti," 337
Nationality, its constitution, 216
Wellington (Duke of) and Ney, 257
Blake (John), of Langport, Somerset, 288
Blenkinsopp (E. C. Leaton), his death, 180
Blotting paper, black, 506, 537

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Blue Gentian on portraits by W. Ward, 389
Blue Lamp Hotel police station, 145
Blunden (Trevor Lloyd), his biography, 309
Bob-baw don't touch, 226, 354, 491

Boddington (R. S.) on Rev. E. Ashburner, 316
Bowles (Mary), 413

Hotham (Sir Richard), 176, 313
Master family, 178

Stonard: Vincent: Newcombe, 507

Boddle, Scotch coin, 348, 529

Bodvoc, its etymon, 284

Boethius, his De Consolatione Philosophiæ,' 462, 517

Boger (C. G.) on Christian names, 74

Bogie, railway carriage and engine, 92

Bohn (John), his death, 400

Boleyn (Queen Anne), her execution, 468

Bolsterstone Dannikins or Custard Feast, 250

Bolt Court, Fleet Street, Johnson's residence in, 71,

132

Bolton House, Russell Square, its bistory, 225
Bonaparte (Napoleon), Byron on, 186

Bonar (J.) on child's hymn, 67

Boni Homines, orders of friars, 93

Book borrowers, rhyming warnings to, 115, 376

Book borrowing, how to register, 66, 119, 231, 28
Book plates, early Belfast, 464

Book terms, 322, 521

Book title wanted, 327, 375
Bookbinding question, 417
Bookbinding with wire, 125
Books. See Bibliography.

Books recently published :-

Aitken's (G. A.), Spectator, 139; Tatler, 460
Among my Books, 520

Andrews's (W.) Bygone Hertfordshire, 19;
Literary Byways, 180

Ashbourne's (Lord) Pitt, 438

Baddeley's (J. J.) Guide to the Guildhall, 60
Baring-Gould's (S.) Lives of the Saints, 59, 159
Biagi's (D. G.) Last Days of Shelley, 539
Bible, with Marginal References, 340
Blakeborough's (R.) Customs of North Riding of
Yorkshire, 398

Book of Sundry Draughtes, 359
Book-Prices Current, 319

Brewer's (E. C.) Reader's Handbook, 359
Burton's (Sir R.) Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah,

259

Butler's (S.) Iliad of Homer, 419

Calendar of Letters and State Papers, 1580-6,
138

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series,
1668-9, 259

Clegg's (J.) International Directory of Booksellers,

520

Clodd's (E.) Tom Tit Tot, 519

Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, 19
Collinson's History of Somerset, Index to, 79
Colyer-Fergusson's (T.) Marriage Registers of
St. Dunstan's, Stepney, 279, 335

Cowper's (J. M.) Canterbury Marriage Licences,
460

Cunningham's (W.) Essay on Western Civiliza-
tion, 99

Dalbiac's (P. H.) Dictionary of Quotations, 65
Daniell's (F. H. B.) Calendar of State Papers,

199

Dasent's (J. R.) Acts of the Privy Council, 179
Dearmer's (P.) Cathedral Church of Wells, 259
Dictionary of National Biography, 38, 298
Dimock's (A.) Cathedral Church of Southwell, 359
Dublin-Printed Books, Catalogue of Early, 159
Ellice's (E. C.) Place-Names in Glengarry, 239
English Catalogue of Books, Vol. V., 258
Evans's (S.) In Quest of the Holy Graal, 498
Ex-Libris Society's Journal, 80
Fowke's (F. R.) Bayeux Tapestry, 539
Fowler's (T.) Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 359
Foxcroft's (H. C.) Life of Sir George Savile,
Marquis of Halifax, 339

Friend's (H.) Bygone Devonshire, 19
Friswell's (L. H.) James Hain Friswell, 440
Furneaux's (H.) Agricola of Tacitus, 119
Gairdner's (J.) History of Richard III., 178
Gee's (H.) Elizabethan Clergy, 500
Gell's (Mrs. L.) More Excellent Way, 540

Books recently published :-

Gomme's (A. B.) Traditional Games, Vol. II., 519
Groome's (F. H.) Gypsy Folk-Tales, 439

Gross's (C.) Bibliography of British Municipal
History, 119

Hamilton's (Sir E. W.) Mr. Gladstone, 440
Harrison's (H.) Place-Names of Liverpool Dis-
trict, 120

Hennessy's (G.) Novum Repertorium Eccle-
siasticum Parochiale Londinense, 58

Heraud's (E.) Memoirs of John A. Heraud, 398
Hewins's (W. A. S.) Whitefoord Fapers, 418
Historical Dictionary of the English Language,
78, 338

Holmes's (T.) Sir Benjamin Brodie, 120
Huish's (M. B.) Old Stuart Genealogy, 60
Hynam's (F. E.) Secrets of the Night, 539
Inderwick's (F. A.) Calendar of Inner Temple
Records, 378

Jensen's (W.) Runic Rocks, trans. by M. E.
Suckling, 540

Johnson's (T.) Imperial Britain, 380

Kendrick's (A. F.) Cathedral Church of Lincoln,

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O'Connor's (J. F. X.) Facts about Bookworms, 99
Old Chelsea Bun-Shop, 360

Oxford English Dictionary. See Historical Dic-
tionary.

Peacock's (M.) Lincolnshire Tales, 239
Pembrokeshire Antiquities, 139

Phillimore's (C. M.) Dante at Ravenna, 59

Piper's (E.) Church Towers of Somersetshire,
199, 499

Rait's (R. S.) Kingis Quair, 180

Ramsay's (Sir J. H.) Foundations of England, 478
Record Office Catalogue, Vol. II., 100
Routledge's (C. F.) Church of St. Martin, Canter-
bury, 18

Roxburghe Ballads, edited by J. W. Ebsworth,
318

Rye's (W.) Church and Parish of Cawston, 79
Scott's Novels, Border Edition, reissue, 60, 100,
160, 239, 280, 379, 500

Slater's (J. H.) Romance of Book Collecting, 459
Somerset, Weaver and Bates's Index to Collin-
son's History, 79

Stillman's (W. J.) Union of Italy, 360
Stokes's (Sir W.) William Stokes, 39

Swift's Prose Works, edited by Temple Scott, 479
Sydney's (W. C.) Early Days of the Nineteenth
Century, 379

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Holt, the word, 378

Horse marine, 355

Horses, wild, 103

"Key of the street," 234

Moniplies (R.) and R. W. Elliston, 285
Moon through coloured glass, 13
Patches, ladies' fashion, 273
Rose Castle, Cumberland, 265
Scott (Sir W.), 142, 347, 508
Seals, eating of, 313

Shakspeare (W.) and the sea, 189
Shepherd's chess, 8
Spenser (Edmund), 167

Tennyson (Lord) and Mistral, 487
Wordsworth (William), 489

Boulanger, and French rolls, 186

Bounder, its derivation, 388

Bowles (Mary), Edmonton landowner, 348, 413
Boys (H. S.) on Vinegar Bible, 468

Brothers with same Christian name, 51

Bradock (John), his biography, 407

'Bradshaw's Railway Guide,' its originator, 164, 213
Bramfield (John), his biography, 208
Bramfield (William), his biography, 507
Brampton family of Northamptonshire, 427
Brasses at Roydon Church, Essex, 125
Brazen-soft, its meaning, 86
Brentford, its two kings, 148
Breslar (M. L.) on African names, 310
Clapton Manor House, 255
Emerson (R. W.), quotation by, 27
Jewish rites, 525

Jews and bills of exchange, 466
Misquotation, curious, 205, 454
Rome, S. Andrea delle Fratte, 355
Wanstead House, 489

Bressau, its brazen Virgin, 167, 414
Brierley (H.) on Rochdale parish registers, 80
Brimpsfield, monastery at, 47, 216

British Museum Library, note on Catalogue, 17
Brontë (Anne), memorial tablets and her age, 151
Brooke (Robert, Lord), his biography, 165
Brooks (F.) on felicitous misprint, 145

Brothers bearing same Christian name, 51, 217, 276,
535

Brown (G. M.) on bookbinding question, 417
Browne (W. K.) on Paolo Rolli, 226

Browning (Robert), reference in 'Pacchiarotto,' 428
Bruggencate (K. ten) on Goethe's ' Mason-Lodge,' 37
Brummell family, 94, 312

Brushfield (T. N.) on Emperor of China and plough-
ing, 156

Hair powder, 147

Brutus on Penny-Farthing Street, 128
Buchanan (J. P.) on Carter-Brecknock, 388
McGruther (Alexander), 348

Upper Grosvenor Street, No. 22, 448
Building customs, 131

Bull running as a continental sport, 529
Bulloch (J. M.) on Gordon family, 174
Gordon ("Lord" William), 248
Gordon (Sir William), 168

Bulls, wild forest, 108, 171, 215
Bundling custom, 11

Bunyan (John) and the authorship of the Pilgrim's
Progress,' 107, 214

'Buondelmonti's Bride,' a picture, 48, 318

Buoy described, 447, 515

"Buried for truth," register entry, 77
Burne-Jones (Sir E.), his Welsh descent, 529
Burning bush and Church of Scotland, 153
Burningham (R.) on Sir Nicholas Stukeley, 96
Burns (Robert), and Coleridge, 35, 97; Comin' thro
the Rye' or "rye," 66, 197, 270, 434; “Will ye go
and marry, Katie?" 366, 518; his prophecy, 526
Burton (Robert), his acquaintance with English
writers, 1, 131, 295, 351; on tobacco, 221, 454
and Shakspeare, 501

Bury Head, South Devon, forts on, 347, 450
Butler (J. D.) on Pope's bull against comet, 477
"Dewy-feathered," 7

Patches and patching, 454
Rome, Ghetto in, 463
"Two is company," 136

B--y (W. H-n) on short a v. Italian a, 218

Heron, its etymology, 254

Todmorden, its etymology, 173

Byard's Leap, Lincolnshire legend, 329, 438

Carmichael family of Mauldslay, 54

Byron (George Gordon, sixth Lord), site of his birth- Carnwath (second Earl of), his marriage, 447, 515
place, 90; on Bonaparte, 186

C. on John Loudoun, 116

C. (A.) on two kings of Brentford, 148

Carnwath (Earl of), 515

C. (C. H.) on Rev. Edward Ashburner, 228
Chelsea, its derivation, 156
Cowslip, its local names, 517
Kendrick family, 429
Luther family, 94

Register, oldest parish, 35, 278, 396, 490
St. Mary Matfelon, 154
Warton (Rev. Edward), 475

C. (D.) on William Prynn, 288
C. (E. A.) on "Crow to pluck," 155

Shroud, sable, 357

C. (E. F. D.) on Duke of Wellington and Ney, 128

C. (F. F.) on Walker family, 130, 253

C. (G. E.) on Bridget Cheynell, 155, 476

C. (H.) on hackney carriages, 409

C. (H. R. P.) on entrance into churchyards, 177

C. (J.) on pattens and clogs, 535

C. (J. C.) on Greene's' Friar Bacon,' 287

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Carols. See Christmas carols.

Caron House, South Lambeth, its history, 509
Carter Brecknock, 388

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Carter (Rev. Robert), rector of Stourmouth, 149
Carter (Rev. Walter), rector of Stourmouth, 148
Cary (H. F.), notes on his translation of Dante, 4
Cashin (F.), artist, 327

Cataloguing, its curiosities, 206, 531
Catholic. See Roman Catholic.
Cattle, new varieties for parks, 50
'Causidicade,' satirical poem, 8, 112

Cavendish (Stephen de), Mayor of London, 1362-3,
326

Caxon=wig, 26, 132

Cecil, its pronunciation, 168, 238, 275, 512

Cedar trees first grown in England, 187, 214, 290, 333
Ceiling or cieling, 284

Celer et Audax on African names, 152

Epitaph, 146

Celtic on FitzStephen family, 270
Celtic personal names, 329

Celtic words in use in Anglo-Saxon parts, 387
Centenarianism, 209, 296

C. (J. W.) on Woodward's illustrations of Seven Chalk on the door, old saying, 37
Ages of Parsons,' 309

C. (T. W.) on Farnham, 488

Parret, the river, 329

C. (W. H.) on Charles Doris, 528

C. (W. S.) on Scctch coins, 530
Cadoux family, 8

Caitisned, ghost-word, 485

Calder (A.) on Duke of Albany, 489

Gord on family, 128, 412

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Camelr ycamel corps, 245, 313, 412
Campbell (G. W.) on sable shroud, 535
Campbell (N. D.) on Thomas à Becket, 31
Campus college grounds, 77
Canaletto in England, 11, 471
Candy (F. J.) on Low Latin, 156

Marbles, "alley-taw" and other, 315
Cann Office, origin of the name, 89
Canonicals, "signing full," 425

Canons Hall and William Hallet, 248, 331
Canterbury, masters of King's School, 346
Cape Town in 1844, 489

Caps: "Brace of caps," 188

Cardew (A. G.) on Dalbiac's 'Dictionary of Quota-
tions,' 65

Cardinal, French, at eighteen years of age, 48, 157,

255

Card-sharper, noble, 109, 173
Carew naval officers, 1720-50, 7
Carkeet family of Cornwall, 508
Carlton Club in 1829, 489

Carlyle (Thomas) his essay on Fichte, 10

Chamberlaine (William), his biography, 348

Chancellor of England, his precedence when not a

peer, 137

Chancery, Six Clerks in, 69, 233

Charing Cross, derivation of the name, 405

Charles I., George worn by, 263, 354; memorial

rings, 448; genuine relics, 513

Charles II. of Spain at Petworth, 74

Charlotte (Queen), her portraits, 91, 310
Charme, its meaning, 173

Chaucer (Geoffrey) and Henry Scogan, 423

Chauncy MSS., their sale by auction, 407, 477
Chaussey, Channel islet group, 467, 534
Chelsea, its etymology, 156, 350

Cheltenham, its etymology, 90, 210, 349
Cherry-cob, its meaning, 206, 513

Chesham, its etymology, 90, 210

"Chestnut " among Irish bulls, 325
Chevron on Tintern Abbey, 297

Cheynell (Bridget), her biography, 87, 155, 433, 476,

512

Chian, its meaning, 148

Chiasmus. See Choriasmus.

Chi-ike, its etymology, 53, 152

Child-bed pew churching pew, 5, 255

China (Emperor of), annual ploughing by, 108, 156, 23
Chinese punishments, 27, 214, 513

Chintz gowns prohibited, 89, 150
Chiswick, its etymology, 90, 210, 349
Choirs, modern instrumental, 513
Choriasmus, error for chiasmus, 74

Christ Church, Newgate Street, its registers, 343
Christian names, brothers bearing same, 51, 217, 276,
535; Erica, 57, 152, 197; Atleanadiolagra, 57;
in old charters and grants, 74, 195; laws con-
cerning, 107; Dolor, 136; sisters bearing the same,
145; Hamish, 153; Cecil, 168, 238, 275, 512;
Algernon, 248, 293, 389, 454, 517; George as a
feminine name, 307, 473; Clarinda, 338; Alured
or Averay, 423, 534

Christie (R. C.) on Mr. Gladstone as verse-writer, 72
Christmas bibliography, 505

Christmas carols, Habakkuk and Nativity in, 107, 449,

512

Christmas tup, its meaning, 348, 511
Chronology, monkish, 29, 292, 473

Church, old, wooden pillars in, 285, 414

Church of Scotland, Commissioners of General
Assembly, 149, 276, 392; and the burning bush, 153
Church rents, bells tolled for their payment, 507
Church tradition, 58, 150, 173, 256, 296, 393, 474
Churches, deflection of chancels in, 58, 150, 173, 256,
296, 393, 474; dedicated to St. Paul before
A.D. 600, 155; without fonts, 268, 393
Churching pew. See Child-bed pew.

Churchyards, entrances to, 126, 177, 234, 296
Chuza, Mexican game, 328

Cicero on the Dreyfus case, 345

Cieling or ceiling, 284

Cirage, its meaning, 514

Cirencester: Birds of Cirencester,' 66, 249, 369, 478

Civic honours, old-style, 244

Clapton, Manor House at, 7, 173, 255

Claret and vin-de-grave, 156, 433

Clarinda, the name, 338

Clark (C. E.) on Washington family, 472

Clark (R.) on British town in Glamorganshire, 345

Greek Church, Soho, 2

Hanging in chains, 304

Holborn, improvements in, 182, 334

Clarke (C.) on Cecil, 275

Hampstead, Church Row at, 5
Inscription, puzzling, 347

Keats (John) and Hampstead, 167

Perspective, historic, 90

Clattworthy family of Manchester, 88

Claypole (Lady), her portrait, 448

Clayton (E. G.) on old-time punishments, 174

Register, oldest parish, 176

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Coleman (E. H.) on Causidicade,' its author, 112
Caxon wig, 132

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Chancery, Six Clerks in, 233

Chauncy MSS., 477

Coronation plate, 49

Erkenwald, Bishop of London, 318

Faggots to burn heretics, 378
Grub Street, 58

Habakkuk in Christmas carol, 513
Horse marine, 356
'Horse sense," 32

Husbands, two, following wife to grave, 266
Kitty-witches, 134

Liverpool newspapers, 498

London Lord Mayor, first, 438
Mabon's Day, 488

Perform'd, its meaning, 237

Proverbs, dictionary of English, 117

Register, oldest parish, 416

Registers dating from feast of St. John, 478
Rounds or rungs, 531

Royal Exchange, 65

St. Margaret's, Westminster, 194
Samplers, modern, 314

Sheepfold in church chancel, 289
Sheridan (Mrs.) as St. Cecilia, 455
Standish (Miles), 78

Taylor (Thomas), clock maker, 291
'Te Deum,' metrical version, 537
Telegraph,' newspaper title, 192
Theatre tickets and passes, 416
Thorpe (Benjamin), 98
Wall (Col. J.), 129

Ward (Dr.), of Soham, 397
Wesley (John), 54

Coleridge (S. T.) and Burns, 35, 97

Colin Tampon, Swiss nickname, 28, 130
Colket (C. H.) on John Oxenbridge, 467
Collectors of prints, their marks, 327, 432

Clergy, London and Essex, in sixteenth century, 208, Collier (Margaret), her biography, 528

297, 534

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Clerke (Anthony), stationer, 1540-61, 145, 375

Clerkenwell, engraving of Priory Church of St. John,
346

Cleveland (Miss) on Brimpsfield: Syde, 47

Clink Prison, its history, 260

Clio on autographs, 35

Clogs and pattens, 95, 235, 334, 432, 494, 535
Clulow (G.) on Dr. Johnson and tea-drinking, 413
Clyne-Monk on Scotch bodyguards, 87
Cogan peerage, 448

Coins, antique silver, 47; spade guinea, 1796, 67, 132;
Irish farthings of Charles I., 110; pollard money,
168; Spanish "pillar dollar," 347, 435; Scotch
plack and boddle, 348, 529

Coleman (E. H.) on Alton Towers sale, 53
Barrow (William), 497

Blotting paper, black, 506

Books published at beginning of century, 31
Boots and sandals, 314

Canons Hall 331

Colonial Bank, Bishopsgate, its garden, 266
Columbaria, early, 348

Columbus (Christopher) and the standing egg, 53, 132
Colvill (R. F. S.) on facsimile signature, 293
Comet, Pope's bull against, 477, 517

Common Prayer Book of Church of England,
doubtful grammar in, 305, 431; "World without
end," 525

Commons House of Parliament,

Cromwell's, 128

engraving of

Consumption, cure for, 466, 515
Contrast between 1344 and 1898, 525
Cook (J. E.) on silhouettes of children, 436
Cooke family of Essex, 88, 254, 314
Cooke (Sir Thomas), his burial-place, 187
Coombe (C. A.) on Grindleford Bridge, 88
Cooper (Gilbert), his biography, 147, 218
Cope and mitre, their use, 34, 98
Cordwainer, its meaning, 5, 97, 230
Corn mill, earliest water, 268, 412

Cornburgh (Alured or Averay), his biography, 423,
534

Cornub. on Robert Burton, 131
Cornwall or England? 35
Coronation plate a perquisite, 49
Coronial, Australian word, 469

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