Postal rates, inequality of, x. 29

Price (Sir Henry, ? Herbert), ix. 32, 75

106, 170

Pottery, luck or ill-luck attending breaking of,
xi. 208, 257

Poughnill, Ludlow, the location of, ii. 147
Poulett (Élizabeth)=Sir Edward Hoby, c. 1600,
i. 310, 418

"Poultice wallahs," term for R.A.M.C., v. 79
Pounds in villages, their construction, i. 29, 79,
117, 193, 275, 416, 474; ii. 14, 77, 197, 319, 457,
498; iii. 340

Powell (David), priest, at Brussels, c. 1575, his
identity, v. 295

Powell (George), dramatist, handwriting of, v.
11

Powell (George E. J.), b. 1842, ix. 529;
x. 53
Powell (Thomas), author of the Passionate
Poet,' xi. 30

Power (J. O'Connor), M.P., b. 1846, xi. 331
Powys (Hon. Thomas Atherton), memorial at
Thorpe-Achurch, iv. 321

Pragell family, origin of name, v. 42, 139
Pratt (Sir John), m. circa 1710, his ancestry,
ix. 310, 358

Pratt family, ix. 310, 358

Prayer, sixteenth-century, used at Armistice
Day service, 1921, ix. 431

Prayer Book: English, printed at Verdun, 1810,
i. 176; copy used at royal weddings from 1761
to 1893, ix. 188; 1828, faulty edition, vi. 87;
1829, xii. 510; three Primers preceding first
Prayer Book of Edward VI, viii. 49, 97, 157
Preachers, early women, vi. 336

Preaux (Sires de), their descent, xii. 291, 372,
415, 454, 499

Prefix Honourable," its use, vi. 274
Prehistoric finds, xi. 110

Prelates, English, at the Council of Bâle, ii. 28,
74, 111; iii. 153

Premier, use of the word, vii. 150, 194
Prentis (Edward), artist, d. 1854, i. 248, 355
Pre-Raphaelite stained glass, lists of exemples,
iv. 217, 337; v. 74, 105
Pre-Raphaelite tapestries, examples, iv. 74, 110
'Presburg,' hymn-tune, origin of the name, i.
409, 513

Prescot (Kenrick), D.D., of Cambridge, c. 1700-
1779, iii. 449, 488

Present Parish Church: ancient chair restored
to, xi. 449

Prest (Thomas Peskett), dramatist, x. 458
"Prester John," translation of letters by, xii.
473

Preston family, glass-painters of York, viii.
485

Preston Guild Rolls, minors in, xii. 37
Preston parish church, its chantry priests,
chaplains, and curates, iii. 505

Pretender, Young. See Stuart (Prince Charles
Edward).

Pretore,' stipendiary magistrate of Italy,
xii. 353, 417

Price (Capt.), Parliamentarian, killed 1864, vii.
6

Price (Sir Charles), Lord Mayor of London,
1803, ii. 191

Price (Cromwell), cornet, 1728, his history, v.
292, 331; vi. 46

Price (John), of Deptford, watchmaker, v. 237,
305

Price (John), b. c. 1600, Welsh, his parentage,.
i. 110

Price (John), rector of Priston, vii. 109
Price (Miss), portrait of, engraved by Barto--
lozzi, vi. 208

Price (Richard), author of Observations on
Importance of French Revolution,' b. 1723, xi.
12, 58, 96

Price (Sir Robert), Bart., d. 1773, his family,.
ii. 270

Price (Theodore), ix. 170

Price (William), xi. 147, 197, 314
Price family, xi. 251

Price family, arms and crest of, ii. 349, 477
Price family of Bath, ix. 51

Price family of Croydon, Surrey, vi. 295
Price, Cleypole and Cromwell families, ii. 508
Price, Uvedale, and Cary families, iii. 91, 180,.
371, 490

Prices: in the 17th century, iv. 5, 36, 86, 99, 104,
291; foodstuffs and furniture in 1795, 298; in
the early nineteenth century, viii. 129
Priesthood, the ordination of women, iii. 449
Priestley (Dr. Joseph), whereabouts of portrait
by J. Sharples, iv. 185, 226

pre-

Priests: executed, Cornish and Devonian, 1548,.
v. 96, 131, 183, 243, 332; vi. 56, 171;
Reformation, and marriage, ix. 290, 335, 453,
476; Welsh, educated abroad, lists of, i. 269
Prime Minister," earliest use of title, ix. 446;.
x. 117, 155, 377, 433

Printed errors, the perpetuation of, ii. 87, 177,
239, 418, 536

Printers, Huntingdonshire, list of, iv. 125, 153
Printing, "anastatic," Edgar Allen Poe and, i.
13, 32

Printing House Square Papers: I, Queen
Victoria and Delane, vi. 241; II, Queen
Victoria at the Prince of Wales's wedding,
265; III (i.), 285; III (ii.), 305; III (iii.),
Delane's Journal of his visit to America, 325;:
IV, Ministerial appointments in 1863, vii. 1;
V, Two of Delane's writers; Rev. Charles
P. Chretien and Dr. Henry A. Woodham, 24;
VI, Disraeli, Delane, and Lord Derby's
Ministry of 1858, 41

Printing House Square, the “Lamb and Lark
tavern, x. 429

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Prints: Baddeley cake at Drury Lane, 1827, i.
1, 21, 146; Dutch, women fighting, c. 1560, 49,
98, 218; of Newland Church, Gloucestershire,
ii. 90, 138; of monument in Eastbourne
Church, 1784, 107, 153; of Eglinton Tourna-
ment, 1839, iii. 211, 285, 367; of the play The

Dog of Montargis,' c. 1814, 386, 458; illustrat-
ing Irish history, 1579-80, vi. 208; 19th
century, artist's name, xii. 1

Prior (Matthew), ambassador to Paris, 1712,
Jacob Tonson as spy on, ix. 482

Prisoners: English, in France in 1811, i. 176,
434; refusing pardon, vii. 370, 478; who have
survived hanging, vii. 68, 94, 114, 115, 134, 173,
216, 438; viii. 73; ix. 18;
x. 472
Pristillock, xi. 271

Priuli family, the arms of, i. 188, 298
Private Acts. See Acts.

Privilege of Templars and Hospitallers, ix. 12,
55

Privy Council in 1672 and word "cabal," ix.
291

Privy Councillor, rights and duties of, viii. 347
Prize at Trinity Collge, Dublin, 1789, ii. 389,
440, 477

Prize Competitions at School, origin of custom
connected with, v. 70

Proclamation stones, their origin and signifi-
cance, v. 178, 221, 275

Proctor family of Dublin, v. 98

Prodhome (William), of Warwickshire, x. 288;
xi. 15

Professor, Oxford, the first to ride a bicycle, i.
227

"Profiteer," use of the word, iii. 383
Prohibition: "Pussyfoot," vii. 116
Pronunciation: Cockney, viii. 489; ix. 17, 54,
77 (see also Accent); of ea," ii. 530; mis-
takes in, vii. 312; regularity in miscon-
duct,". i. 15; English, of Latin, order for, i.
248, 353

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Property, ecclesiastical devolution of, and Canon
Law, i. 209, 278

Prophecies of Reform, ix. 47

Proposal," earliest use of the word, ix. 196
Prose and poetry: Newman and Milton, iv.
181

Prosopopoeia Tredegar,' by Percy Enderby,
vii. 289

Prosser (Richard) of Birmingham, his parent-
age, v. 319

Proteus (Sir Gilbert), c. 1720, his biography, iii.
445

Proverbial sayings, ix. 90, 177, 211

Proverbs wanted, xi. 289; xii. 17

Proverbs and Phrases:-

A book of clothes, vii. 351

"A few kind of," xii. 71, 113, 158

A la Caroline, i. 349, 415

A little more than kin, iv. 41

A miss is as good as a man (M. Emile Bout-
roux), viii. 90

A tailor is only the ninth part of a man, x.
72

Ab agendo, iv. 224, 257

Acid test, ix. 94

All round the Wrekin, iii. 417, 455

All's fair in love and war, i. 13, 58

Among the blind the one-eyed man is king,
iii. 330

And the child's name's Anthony, iii. 478
Anglo-Saxon contagion, v. 38

Antes muerto que mutado. x. 450
Any stick to beat a dog, xi. 131

Arenae funis effici non potest, x. 309

Proverbs and Phrases:-

As dead as a door-nail, v. 266, 303; vi. 134
As dead as Queen Anne, i. 289, 357; ii. 57
As jolly as sandboys, v. 180, 279
As throng as Throp's wife, xii. 70
Au pied de la lettre, vii. 132, 152
Beauty is but skin deep, vi. 12
Belle Dame sans. merci, xi. 148
Between the Devil and the deep sea, ix. 371
Blood is thicker than water, iii, 356
Blue pencil, ii. 126, 174, 299
Born out of a tole-dish, ix. 354
Box Harry, i. 453

Box the compass, i. 226
Box the fox, i. 307, 453

Bray them in a mortar, iv. 176
Brilliant second, ii. 148

Burnt his boats, viii. 210; ix. 177; x. 79,

115

Butter is mad twice a year, ix. 330, 375, 415
By hook or by crook, xii. 473

By the clock of my belly 'tis the dinner
hour, ix. 130, 178, 218

By the skin of his teeth, i. 167, 291
Cake: Why don't they eat cake? iv. 272;
v. 53, 162

Call of the

iii. 69, 216

Cannot away with, x. 470, 497; xi. 35
Carolina: What the Governor of South

Carolina said, &c., iv. 225

Caroline. See A la.

Chatter about Harriet, iii. 450
Cheshire, iv. 344

Coals to Newcastle, ii. 250, 299

Cold hands and a warm heart, i. 79
Common or Garden, viii. 392, 459
Comparisons are odious, x. 487
Corruptio optimi pessima, iii. 503
Coventry, to send to, x. 251

Crutches for lame ducks, vii. 209, 254
Curry favour, ix. 77, 92
Dans la politique

gique, vi. 69

Dead season, ii. 147

Dead secret, ii. 107

pendre rien ou tra-

D-d littery fellers, history of the phrase,
iv. 154

Derby Ram, iii. 70, 154, 309

Donkey's years, ii. 506; 111. 39, 74

Don't be longer than you can help, ii. 227.

359

Drink by word of mouth, v. 98, 136, 330

Drink is the shortest way out of Man-
chester, ix. 90, 177

Drug in the market, ix. 529
Ducks and Drakes, vii. 229

East or West, hame's best, x. 34

Englishman's house is his castle, i. 509; ii.

17, 59, 218, 277; iii. 274

Epater le bourgeois, vi. 11, 75

Every bullet has its billet, vii. 109, 138

Every Englishman is an island, ii. 11, 58,
78

Every schoolboy knows, iv. 64

Ex arena funiculum nectis, x. 309

Facing and bracing, explained, iv. 218
Fare thou well, ii. 288

Fat, fair and forty, i. 10, 53, 97, 355
Fire out, v. 121

Flashing the tin, ix. 469

Proverbs and Phrases :-

Floreat Etona, ix. 111. 153, 234, 277, 313
Fool's paradises are wise men's purgatories,
xii. 14
For fun, xi. 86

For one's sins, i. 427

Get the needle, v. 151, 194

Give the mitten giving his congé, ii. 351,
454

Glad eye, early example, iv. 218

Gone west, history of the phrase, iv. 218,
280, 337

Good old, viii. 468, 516

Government for the people, of the people,
by the people, i. 127, 197; ii. 14
Gray's Inn pieces, ii. 509; iii. 57
Grey Mare is the better Horse, viii. 430
Growing moon sucks out the marrow of
oxen, ii. 289

Hampshire hogs, x. 468, 497; xi. 37

Haven under the Hill, viií. 228, 275, 314,
336, 355, 395

He who would Old England win, iv. 78, 197
He will never set the sieve on fire, viii. 331,
378, 416
"Heads
as the pieman says, ix. 449, 494,
536; x. 53
Heightem, tightem, and scrub, vii. 248, 295,
356; viii. 78

Hell for leather, iv. 186; v. 25

Hell, Hull and Halifax, ix. 292

History, read by flashes of lightning, xi. 149
Hog's Norton where pigs play on the organ,
xii. 34, 136

Homme sensuel moyen, ii. 148, 295

Honest Injun, i. 389, 458, 517; ii. 157
House of husbandry, x. 189

How not to do it, i. 508; ii. 17
Howlers, ix. 56

Human document, xii. 392, 436, 458
Humanity the sphere, ix. 130, 179
I don't think, 1862, ii. 487

I guess, vii. 107

Il colpo di stato di Domineddio, xii. 32

In eadem es navi, viii. 432, 476

In love with love, vii. 508

It's a long time between drinks, ix. 292, 333,

438; xi. 153

Jew's eye full of buttermilk, ix. 169

Jigg of the jeast, xi. 168

Joke with difficulty, xi. 328

Lambendo effingere, v. 69, 129

Leicester plover, iii. 357

Let George do it, xii. 492

Let the weakest go to the wall, v. 177, 222
Letter A, No. 1, in Coningsby,' iv. 91
Lick into shape, v. 69, 129

Life isn't all beer and skittles, iii. 230, 282
Lightly come, lightly go, viii. 488
Lights of London, vii. 229

Like a Dutchman's anchor, at home, i. 396

Little Englander, viii. 431, 474

Living Library, x. 53

Lucus a non lucendo, iv. 260, 269

Mad as a March hare, iii. 297, 522
Made in Germany, vi. 129

Make them eat beans, ix. 91

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"Man proposes, God disposes,' v. 232
Mantle maker's twist, iv. 272, 334

Proverbs and Phrases :-

Medal-and-Cup men, xi. 330
Meddle and Muddle, i. 75
Men of Kent, iii. 477

Mohammed and the mountain, its history,
iv. 325

Mumbo Jumbo, ii, 47, 114

Ne scit sanus quid sentiat aeger aut plenus
quid patiatur jejunus, x. 150, 255
Neither rime nor reason, iv. 105, 229
Never prophesy unless you know, v. 315
Nine Tailors make but one man, xii. 318
Nor did fly for it, vii. 6, 59, 178, 235
Nose of wax, ii. 150

Nosey Parker inquisitive person, iii. 170
Not lost, but gone before, ix. 529
Nothing but their eyes to weep with, viii.
228, 316, 435, 456

Now then! v. 295; viii. 17, 38, 76

Oil on troubled waters, ii. 87, 159

Old China," vi. 294, 319

Old Grouse in the gun room, xi. 452
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, v.
On the fly, ii. 69

238, 302

One's place in the sun, ii. 170, 218, 319; xi.

153

Os turturis ad axillas retorquebat, vi. 253
Outrun the constable, viii. 29, 58, 97, 117,
157

Parler within the Manor Place, x. 168
Parted brass-rags, i. 268, 317, 396
Patella dignum operculum, ii. 7, 58
Pay the Piper, xi. 287

Peach and be D-d., xi. 431
Perfide Albion, viii. 171, 216

Perversity of inanimate objects, v. 126

Pigs can see wind, ii. 289, 358, 435
Pin one's faith, vii. 268

Pisan assistance, aid that comes too late,
iv. 49

Poor Cat i' th' Adage, viii. 431, 475, 497, 515
Pop goes the weasel, i. 400
Praise from Sir Hugh, i. 480

Pro pelle cutem, v. 93, 132

Probability is the guide to life, x. 329, 377
Proving a negative, v. 38

Puffs nagg, xii. 131, 176

Quarrelling with one's bread and butter,
vii. 189

Quasi Olivero currente, x. 272

Querelle d'Allemand, v. 9

Quite all right, ii. 207, 298
Race-course jargon, xi. 206

Rain cats and dogs, its origin, iv. 328; V.
108, 166, 326

Raising Cain, meaning of the phrase, iv.
77, 146

Red rag to a bull, vi. 230; vii. 95

Religion of all sensible men, ix. 52, 94, 299
Rex illiteratus est asinus coronatus, viii.
68, 437

Robin Hood wind, x. 378, 411

Rope of sand, x. 309, 353, 417
Rua Nova, iv. 215, 256, 283, 310
Sapiens dominabitur astris, ix. 509
Satan reproving sin, x. 130. 174
Saturday to Monday, vii. 410
Scripture est comune Ley, xi. 511
Scum of democracy, v. 210

Proverbs and Phrases:

Set the assize weekly, vii. 409, 450
Shakespeare!... he must be an outsider,
xi. 472

She braids St. Catherine's tresses, i. 447,
498; ii. 18

Sheer hulk, v. 65

Shoemaker, stick to your last, xii. 293, 338
Shot at a Pigeon and killed a Crow, xi.
232, 299, 358

Sick as a landrail, ii, 11

Similes habent labra lactucas, ii. 7, 58
Smell a rat, iv. 187

Sons of Ichwe, iv. 216

Spanish main, v. 65

Speaking through one's hat, ix. 449

Sphere of humanity, ix. 130

Spur proverbs, examples, iv. 104, 250
Stricken field, i. 178

Such as make no musick (Jeremy Collier),

viii. 131, 176

Those sort of, xii. 71, 113, 158
Three-a-penny colonels, i. 510; ii. 18

Throw a marking-stone i. 308

Throwing in the towel, vii. 130

Till May be out cast not a clout, i. 440

To a degree, xi. 187

To burke, ii. 100

To cry roast meat, xii. 131, 176

To curry favour, viii. 512

To get the wind up, xii. 334

To go the way of all flesh, xii. 34

To have been in the sun, ii. 170, 218, 319;
xi. 153

To war to grow worse and worse, ii. 328
To weep Irish, ii. 328, 456; iii. 31
Torture, "humorous and lingering," vi.
231

Tottenham shall turn French, iv. 269
Touch (a person) for money, iii. 26
Tour d'ivoire, x. 251, 315

Twopenny dam, its use by Welington, iv.
238

Up to," x. 169

Vicious circle, i. 90

Violet of a legend, i. 327

Walking Dictionary, ix. 527;
Warwick, to go to, ix. 71

Wash an Aethiop, v. 193

x. 53

Proverbs and Phrases :-.

We live as Jacob Dawson's wife died, iv.
214

We're in the same boat, viii. 432; ix. 298.
West, to go, xi. 168, 413

Wetting a horse's head, xii. 63, 152
"What" phrases, ix. 271

When you die of old age I shall quake for
fear, v. 235, 278, 325

Who's Griffiths? ii. 269

Wild-cat schemes, ix. 11, 133

With child to see any strange thing, ii. 171
Written in sunbeams, ii. 170

You bet your bottom dollar, vii. 211, 318,
399

Yours is not a family, it is only a collec-
tion of spare parts, ix. 270

Yours to a cinder, iv. 189, 228, 257
Youth will be served, xi. 252

Proving a negative,' Matthew Arnold on, v..
38, 83

Prsvry," &c., exercise on the letter e, i. 96;
ix. 358

Prudde (John), "King's glazier," 1440, ii. 430,
517; iii. 419

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Prudentius, 1625, and other editions, iv. 190,
258, 338; Psychomachia," English trans-
lations, v. 14, 75

Prusom's Island Hilliard's Court, x. 378

Prussia, opinions on, x. 470; xi. 39

Pryce (Shadrach), Dean of St. Asaph, his
Prys (Archdeacon E.), hymn-tunes in his Sal-
burial-place, ix. 211

mau, i. 428

Pryse (Carbery) = Hester Whitelock, b. 1642, vi.

169

Pselgio," cultivated variety of rose, xi. 372
Pseudonyms: list of, identity of writers, v. 293,
329; Burton (Richard), 95; Robertson (John),
49;
vi. 99; Fani Parkas Fanny Parks,
Parkes, or Perkes, her Wanderings of a
Pilgrim, 1850, 190, 218; female, used by men,
viii. 48

Psychomachia' of Prudentius, translations of,
v. 14, 75

Ptolemyas, surname, x. 15

Public-houses, names connected with the War,
iv. 46, 88, 225

"Public houses" in London and Westminster,
1701, ii. 449

Punch and Judy,' ix. 170; in
232
Punchard (Isaac), barber, his
xii. 214

Punch-bowl, glass, arms cut on, ii. 263, 374
Punch-ladles, silver, vi. 64, 218
Punchinello; or, Sharps, Flats, and Naturals,'
published 1832, viii. 465
Punishments: for offenders in the Russian
Court, xii. 170, 255; in the U.K.; broken at
the wheel, x. 208, 256; of death by burning,
xi. 86, 132 (corrigendum 160), 152, 175, 196, 477
Punning catalogue of painting and sculpture
made by Rev. Chas. Boutell, v. 173
Punt, land of, origin of the name, v. 149
Puppet show in Panton Street, its history,
303; and Goldsmith, v. 83
Purbeck Society, x. 135

Purcell (Edward H.), organist, 1764, i. 408
Purcell family, ii. 249

Quarterly Review' and Keat's death, x. 221
Quartermain (Roger), his Conquest of Canter-
bury Court,' iii. 366

Quartermaine (Anna) and Anthony Sorel,
characters in fiction, iii. 445

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Quatrain by Horace Smith," 1840, xii. 149,
180

Queen Hoo Hall. See under Hertfordshire.
Queen's Street, the, at West Farleigh, vi. 149
Queensberry (Charles, 3rd Duke of), memorial
column at Dumfries, iv. 208

Queensferry, Parliamentary election for, 1754,
i. 507

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Purdy (Thomas), Baptist minister, biography,
iv. 77, 173

Purefoy (George) of Wadley, Bucks, his
daughters, viii. 210

Puritan divine on 'ye Victory at Naseby,'
vi. 222, 280

Puritan hanging his cat, rime about, v. 232
Pudple in heraldry, families entitled to, iii. 211,
278

Purple window-panes, xi. 87, 133, 174

Pushkin and Dante, viii. 411, 496

Pussyfoot," origin of the term, vii. 90, 116
Puttick, origin of the surname, vi. 160; vii.
330, 376

Pye (Charles), book-plate designer, viii. 10, 77
Pye (Thomas), Turkey marchant, c. 1630, vi.
209

Quentin Durward," points to be solved, v.
268, 306

Querelle d'Allemand," meaning and origin of
phrase, v. 9

Quiet neighbour," Gloucestershire name for
valerian, ix. 29

Quietism temp. Louis XIV, the controversy
on, vi. 166

Quilt, the third yellow, whereabouts of, i. 248;
ii. 435

Quincey (Thomas de), his stay in Eifionydd,
iii. 26

Quincy or De Quincey family of Lincolnshire,
vi. 150

A bold peasantry, their country's pride,
ix. 189, 238

A brighter dwelling place is here for thee,
xii. 372

A Countess discounted, in mercy not cursed,
xii. 152

A day of lesser horrors, yet divine, xii. 253
A fiery ettercap, a fractious chiel, ii. 489
A fire mist and a planet, vi. 336

A friend of mine was married to a scold,
i. 10, 136, 218, 292

A Gentleman, a Scholar, and a Christian,
viii. 328

A good fire, a clean hearth, and a merry
lass, ii. 266, 398

A governess wanted-well fitted to fill,
i. 467, 515

A heart at leisure from itself, x. 10
A hearty welcome gives genial zest, &c., xi.

491