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Greenhead, place-name, its locality, xii. 512 Greenhouses, origin of, ix. 149, 213, 256 Greenhurst "his booke of Armes," 1623,

i. 387 Greenwell (Thomas), editor, c. 1880, v. 294 Greenwell (Canon William), bequest to British Museum, iv. 129

Greenwich: Palace of Placentia, ix. 430, 475 Greenwood (James), dates of birth and death ix. 371; "The Amateur Casual,' X. 219 Greenwood family, vii. 98

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Gregor " of the Mosquito Coast, x. 190, 233 Gregorian calendar in Ireland, ix. 12 Gregory, writer, c. 1816, his full name, xii. 151 Gregory (Edmund) and Edward IV's expedition to France, xi. 309

Gregory (Francis), master of Woodstock Grammar School, d. 1707, ii. 171; rector of Hambledon. d. 1707, xi. 350

Gregory, Titular Bishop of Down, Provost of Killalo, xi. 21

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Gremial," meaning of the word, xii. 512 Gressom and grave," derivation of words, x. 246, 311

Gretton (Rev. F. E), b. 1803, and Stilton cheese, ix. 455

Grevill (Dame Margaret), d. 1574, vii. 370, 415
Grevill family of Warwickshire, vii. 415
Greville (Mrs.), her 'Prayer of Indifference,'
x 108, 176

Greville vault, Warwick Castle, xi. 468
Grey (Mrs. Elizabeth Caroline), x. 373
Grey (Hon. John), M.P. co. Stafford, 1689-98,
iii. 90

Grey (Lady Mary), alias Keys, and Christopher
Chewte, Chowt, or Chute, c. 1574, iii. 448, 484
Grey in sense of Brown, viii. 68, 116, 154

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Greyened," use of word, viii. 347 Greyfriars at Dumfries, John Duns Scotus and,. xii. 68 Greystoke family, pedigree of, iii. 384, 424, 454 Griffin (Gerald), d. 1840, his sonnets and lyrics,. i. 190, 298

Griffin (Hugh), Provost of Cambria, c. 1596, vi.. 86

Griffin family in the 17th century, iv. 220 Griffith (Mrs. E.), author of Morality of Shakespeare's Dramas,' ii. 209, 293

Griffith (John Delane), Westminster scholar, xi. 312

Griffith (Philip, Robert, and John), West-
minster scholars, 1820, viii. 371
Griffith (Moses), b. 1749, copperplate engraver,
i. 287, 417; x. 16

Griffiths (Major Arthur), d. 1908, xi. 470, 519
Griffith family of Guilsfield, xii. 272
Griffiths (C. H.) & Sons, safemakers, and
Who's Griffiths?" ii. 269

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Griffiths (John), of Chiswick, c. 1754, his marriage, vi. 66

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Griffiths (Dr. Ralph) and Monthly Review,' iii. 334; Griffiths (Richard), paladin in Carew tourna v. 236, 279, 307 Griffiths, music-hall performers, ix. 292, 336 ment, v. 152 Grim or Grime in place-names, its etymology, Grillion (M.), artist, c. 1841, i. 209

v. 95, 137, 160, 245, 328

Grimald (Nicholas), his parentage, ix. 409, 498;
X. 56
Grin (Henry Louis) = Louis de Rougemont, viii.

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Grindrod (Dr.) and Tennyson's 'Becket,' iii.. Grinders," origin of word, vii. 232 149, 253

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Grolier Society, the founding and the prese Grip," Yorkshire field-name, xi. 9 issues of, iii. 449, 491

Grooms, royal, information wanted, v. 294 Groombridge Place, Kent, painting of, x. 490

Gros (Jean de), Roger Vander Weyden's portrait of, xi. 129, 212, 494

Grose (Francis), his service in the 19th Foot, ix 489

Grose (Sir Nash), Puisne Justice of the King's Bench, his birth, c. 1740, ii. 409

Grossmith (W. R.), b. 1818, juvenile actor, vi..

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Guardians called 'duityoners," Elizabethan word, ii. 509

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Guards Third Troop of Guards, 1727, vi. 111, 156, 193

Guelph party, a meeting of, in Hanover, 1917, iii. 476

Guénégaud (Henri de), Marquis de Plancy, his arms, ix. 236 Guernsey:

St. Michael's Church, x. 130, 197 Gugitz (Gustav), his criticism of Casanova's Mémoires, x. 47

Guglielmo d'Inghilterra and St. Catherine of Siena, xii. 189, 359

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Guibert (Philip), Westminster scholar, xi. 331 Guiccioli's (Countess) Recollections of Lord Byron,' x. 229, 297, 436

Guide-books, collection of; xi. 245, 292; to Naples and the vicinity, c. 1700, iii. 85 Guidott family, i. 134

Guild (Principal William), his publications, vi. 498

Guildford (Lady), x. 109

Guinea Company's flag, x. 278

Guinness (Mr.), member of the Royal Society of Musicians, 1845, x. 491

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Guinness and La Touche families, Memoirs of,' c. 1870, iii. 250

Guise (François, Duc de), date when wounded, 1545 or 1558, ii. 507; iii. 33

Guise (General John), 1683-1764, his father, i. 45, 138

Guise (Rev. Samuel), M.A., matriculated 1697, i. 45

Guise family, i. 45

Gulliver and Lilliput, origin of the names, iv. 73, 140, 199; v. 156 Gulston (Josepha), Talbot Gwynne," author, c. 1830, iii. 272, 364

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Gumbleton (George), poet, b. 1844, xi. 331, 417
Gun, naval, dated 1638, its whereabouts, ii. 487
Gun-cases "trousers, derivation of, i. 348
Gunfire, its effect on the weather, i. 10, 56, 96,
170, 337; ii. 38, 74, 113
Gun-flints, xi. 210, 258

Gunn, clan, arms and crest of, xii. 451 Gunner master gunner, the status of, vi. 22, 158, 197, 253

Gunners' Handbooks published c. 1872, iii. 90, 153, 218

Gunnersbury, etymology of the place-name, v. 231

Gunpowder, percussion cap, its history, ii. 27 Gunpowder Plot, conspirators at Fremland, Essex, v. 295; route through Worcestershire, viii. 152, 199

Gun Powder Plot of 1615, x. 208, 256

Gun-room, on ship of war, its position, iv. 109 Gunston or Gonson (Sir David), executed 1541, his history, iv. 189

Gunton, Norfolk, vii. 108, 136
Guor Anegon of Ancaster, x. 443

Gussage St. Andrew, epitaph of centenarian, 1725, ii. 47

Gutch (Rev. John), antiquary and divine, his biography, vi. 170, 213, 232, 258

Guthrie (Charles William), Westminster scholar, xi. 350

Guthrie (Rev. John) and St. Pancras Congregational Church, xi. 167

Guy (Rev. Henry), Chaplain to King Charles II., particulars of, v. 124.

Gwydion ad Don, his magic horses and greyhounds, iv. 113

Gwyllym (Roger and Richard Lloyd), ix. 330 Gwyn (David), author, c. 1588, xii. 414, 477 Gwynn (Edward), marine artist, c. 1780, iii. 475 Gwynne (Nell) and the Royal Chelsea Hospital, ii. 210, 276

"Gwynne (Talbot)," pseudonym of Josepha Gulston, author, c. 1830, iii. 272, 364 Gyles family, glass-painters of York, ix. 204, 245, 268

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Gypos, war slang, its meaning, v. 79 Gypsies and "diddykites," vi. 149, 193, 216, 261, 320

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H," aspiration of the letter, vii. 332, 455, 518; xi. 490; pronunciation of in the 18th century, xii. 214. See also Humble.

"H," Celtic, Latin, and German influences, I. 32, 116, 172, 338; xi. 58 "H.B's.' Road to Ruin,' xi. 490

H.B.B. Club, 1876, its Fugitive Pieces, iv. 327 H. (I.), Hampshire bell-founder, vii. 372 "H.K.," member for Maldon, viii. 169, 217, 335 H.Z.H., water-colours signed by, viii. 294 "Hab" as a nickname for Edward, iii. 476, 519 "Habakkuk est capable de tout," saying attri buted to Voltaire, ix. 309

Habeas Corpus Act, third reading in House of Lords, viii. 311, 353

"Habit of living," parallel in Sir T. Browne and Dickens, iv. 72

Hacket (Sir James), Lieutenant-Colonel, Dum-
barton's Regiment, 1684, ix. 189
Hacket (William), a false Christ, c. 1591, ii. 107
Hackett family, i. 69

Hackman (Rev. James), xi. 373
Hackney, origin of place-name, viii. 470, 513
Hackney," origin and meaning of the word,
i. 150, 254, 494

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"Hackney-carriage," definition of the word, i. 150, 254, 398, 494; ii, 32

Hackney Mermaid and the old Freemasons, x. 388

Haddock (Admiral Nicholas), 1686-1746, M.P. for Rochester, 1731, i. 309, 354, 415, 454; his marriage, 488; ii. 12

Haffey (Elizabeh), her portrait before marriage,

ix. 230

Hafod Press, ix. 211, 256

Hagar (Rev. George), his ancestry, vii. 110
Hagar family of Cambridgeshire, vii. 110
Hagemoor coals, ix. 454
Hagen family, x. 410

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Haggard (William Debonnaire), F.S.A., his sons, xii. 172, 218, 237

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Haggatt (John), information wanted, v. 68
Haggatt family, ii. 109
Hagiography of Cyprus, i. 13, 134
Haigh (Samuel), author of Sketches of Buenos
Aires and Chile,' iv. 246
Hailstones that fell at Remiremont, 1907, ii. 27,
178

Haines (Joe), secretary of Sir Joseph Williamson at the Court of Louis XIV., viii. 401

Haines (Capt. Stafford Bettesworth), officer of
Indian navy, x. 349, 393; xi. 196
Hainrich (S. T.), Hungarian artist, c. 1734, i.

389 Hainsselin (H.), artist, vii. 392, 453 Hair-brushes, first use of, viii. 489. ix. 17 Hair: cut off to prevent headache or stomachache, iii. 250, 307, 434; iv. 32; v. 138; of Jewesses, the end concealed, iii. 446, 484; long, as an hereditary trait, v. 177, 247; red, the prejudice against, ii. 128, 196, 239, 379 Hair-cutting, bats and, vi. 280; folk-lore, xi. 14; moon folk-lore, x. 93, 238 Hales (James), killed in Italy, 1735, x. 32 Hales family, Sir John Barnard and the, c. 1657, iii. 356

Hales, Stevens, and Kenrick families, i. 509 Halfhead as surname, ix. 208

Halfmoon Street, Bishopsgate, archway at entrance of, i. 389

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Half-sovereign": early use of term, viii. 267 Halhed family, vi. 152

Haliburton (Judge), creator of "Sam Slick," d. 1865, iii. 504

Hall (Chester Moor), 1704-71, and the achromatic lens, iii. 334

Hall (Edmund Hyde), his 'Notes upon narvonshire," viii. 367

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Hamond (Sir Charles Fred), bust of, Newcastleon-Tyne, iv. 207

Hampshire church bells, their founders, iv. 188,. 341; v. 44, 109, 304; vi. 137; I. H., bell-founder,. vii. 372

Hampshire field-names, list of, v. 208, 328 Hampshire folk-lore, x. 350, 398 Car-" Hampshire hogs," meaning of phrase, x. 468,. 497; xi. 37

Hall (Bishop J.), his reference to St. Madron's Well, ii. 9, 58, 396; on doing nothing, iv. 300, 335

Hall (Richard), his MS.

General account of

Barbados,' 1755, xii. 212 Hall (Dr. Richard), c. 1576, Gery's," i. 225

canon of St.

Hall (William), (Barnaby O'Neyle), and James Sidee, 1580, xii. 147

Hall of Commerce, demolition of, xii. 149, 195 Hallam family of Leicester, xii. 292, 514 Halley (Dr. Edmond), relations with John Flamsteed, v. 64

Halley (Edmond), astronomer, his appearance,

xi. 149, 296

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Hampstead: fair held at, 1816, ii, 170; Graysberry or Graybourg," house, vii. 270; Keats's house at, ix. 468

Hampstead sand, its use, c. 1760, i. 46 Hampton Court: abbreviated inscriptions explained, iii. 383, 426; tapestries, their history, xii. 511

Hampton (Hantone), place-name, xi. 346
Hancock (John), member of the Society of
Friends, ix. 289
Hand of Glory,'
271, 312

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a burglar superstition, xii.

Hand and Pen," users of the sign, x. 168, Handasyde (Roger), M.P. for Huntingdon, 1721, 216, 293, 380 iii. 28, 76, 112

Handel (G. F.), first performance of The Messiah' in Dublin, iii. 30

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Handkerchiefs: London topographical, c. 1844, ii. 207; Victory handkerchiefs," 1709, 207 Handley Cross, place-name in fiction, i. 228, 275, 397

Handling of sources, viii. 73

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Hands (John), his travels in India, viii. 211
Hands, wringing of, viii. 470, 512
Handshaking, viii. 451, 495;. ix. 19, 178
Handwriting as a surname, v. 93
Hanging in effigy : Warwickshire folk-lore, ix. 47
Hangleton Church, near Brighton, inscription
PRSVRY, &c., i. 96

Hangman: Edward Turlis, 1752-71, i. 486
Hangman's stones. See Folk-lore.
Hankey (Sir Frederick) of the 51st and 19th
Regiments, viii. 51

Hanmer (John, Lord), motto used by Browning, iii. 506; iv. 24

Hanmer (Rev. Meredith), D.D., his parentage, ii. 171, 259

Hannafore, Cornish place-name, the origin of,. ii. 449

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Hanshall (John Hickson), b. 1789, Chester historian, xii. 433

Hanska (Countess), whereabouts of her letters to Balzac, iv. 327; her letter to Balzac, ix. 313 Hans-Town, demolition of buildings near, iii. 70, 155, 236, 314

Hanway (Jonas), 1712-86: first man to use an umbrella in London, iii. 129, 238, 426; and chimney-sweeps' boys, 347, 462

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Har Post," meaning of, xi. 393, 459 Hara-kiri, Japanese method of suicide, iv. 92 Harbenger," meaning of the word, vii. 92 Harboard (William), b. 1682, his ancestry, x. 94 Harborne or Harbron family, viii. 167 Harcourt (George Simon), and the signing of Magna Charta, iv. 56

Harcourt (Philip de), Bishop of Bayeux, x. 126 Harcourt (Simon), Clerk of the Peace, Middlesex, 1693, x. 271

Harcourt (Simon), minor-poet, x. 91

Harcourt family of Birmingham, x. 409, 476
Harcourt family, royal descents of, xii. 474
Harcourt House of, ix. 409, 453, 495, 514; x. 15,
37, 77, 98

Harcourt pedigree, xi. 32, 97, 156, 219
Harcourt town in Normandy, x. 78
"Hard cheese," xi. 412, 496

Hardgrave (Charles), glass-painter, d. 1920, x. 45 Harding (James Duffield), artist, 1798-1863, x. 9, 57

Harding family of Somerset, before 1780, ii. 350, 434

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Hard-lying money," first official use of term, x. 408 "Hardness of heart and Mosaic permission of divorce, vi. 252 Hardres (Thoresby), Westminster scholar, x. 32 Hardwick, crest of family of, v. 13, 100 Hardwicke (Lord Chancellors), and Newcome's School, Hackney, i. 148, 217, 313, 458 Hardy (Thomas), his 'The Three Strangers,' ii. 427

Hare and Lefevre families, ii. 128, 195, 397, 457 Hare, "mad as a March hare,' saying used

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1801, iii. 297, 522 Harenc (Benjamin) of Foots Cray Place, x. 191, 258; High Sheriff of Kent in 1777, xi. 394, 440 Hareway, road in Berks, viii. 331, 378 "Hari (Mata) ". See Mata Hari. Harl. MS., The Order of a Camp,' 1518, the number of, ii. 110, 215

Harland (Henry), novelist, d. 1905, his burialplace, iii, 299

Harlech, origin of March of the Men of Harlech,' ii. 49, 113

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Harlequin,' use of the word, viii. 490; pro

nunciation, xi. 328

Harley (Robert), Earl of Oxford, his descendants, xi. 330

Harlington, Middlesex, local events of the 18th century, i. 410, 457, 510

Harlow (G. H.), portrait of Mr. Howard, iv. 18 Harlow (George Henry), artist, b. 1787, x. 49 Harlwyn (Sir John) and Edward IV's expedition to France, xi. 270

Harman (Vesey), Whitmore and Weld families, xii. 272

Harness, brass ornaments on, x. 410, 459, 478

Harp or Harper (W.), Winchester scholar, 1496, iii. 334 football, referred to in 1594,

Harpastum

i. 165, 276

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Harper (Arthur, Henry, Robert and Samuel), Westminster scholars, xi. 432 Harper (Henry Andrew), landscape painter, x. 9, 57 Harper (William), Winchester scholar, his biography, vi. 72

Harper family, xii. 293

Harpsfield (Nicholas), Fellow of New College,
Oxford, xi. 312, 357
Harpur (Sir William), statue at Bedford, iv.

295

Harrel (Sir David), "the ideal Under-Secre tary," x. 410

Harrington (Sir James) and Edward IV's expedition to France, xi. 270

Harrington (Lady), portrait wanted, x. 227, 318 Harris (George), civilian, b. 1722, his mother, ii. 190

Harris (Rev. George), father of first Lord Harris, xi. 371, 435

Harris (Rev. J.), his marriage with Ann Duckett, xi. 233

Harris (Jacob), his murder of Richard Miles and wife, 1734, xi. 31, 76

Harris (Dr. John), D.D., d. 1719, his marriage, xii. 473

Harris (John), "Sirrahnio," his biography, xii. 92, 138

Harris (Lieut.-Col.) in the Civil War, xi. 528 Harris (Rev. R.), Spanish Jesuit, b. 1741, vi.

227, 303; his Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave Trade,3 256

Harris family, xi. 393; xii. 219; of Essex, vi. 39; their arms, iv. 217

Harrison (Miss Ann), her portrait in the New Gallery, x. 328

Harrison (Edmund) of the Broderers' Company d. 1666, xii. 11

Harrison (John) and the Million Bank, xi. 193 Harrison (Dr. Thomas) of Bath, relatives enquired for, v. 125

Harrison (William), 1685-1713, verses by, ix. 53
Harrow School, arms of, ii. 88; gravestone of
its founder, iv. 155
Harry Groat, vii. 348

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Hart (Mrs. Fanny), author of poem Harry,

X. 39

Hart (Richard) of Wheatley, c. 1754, xi. 149 Hart (Samuel), vicar of Crediton, 1759-1793, ix. 470

Hart (W. Nevill), M.P. Stafford, 1770-74, iii. 90, 176

Harte (Ananias). See Hexte (Amias).

Hartington (Lord), first ministerial appointment, vii. 1

Hartlepool, De Brus tomb at, vi. 229; ix. 30, 78, 178, 214, 255 Hartlepool canal, ix. 71

Hartlib (Samuel), 1600-1662, his residence in England and burial-place, x. 110, 157 Hartwell (Abraham), c. 1570, his library, xii. 414

Harvard College, English benefactors of, a 1740, xii. 31

Harvard University,

founder of, v. 179 Harvest Home Songs of Sussex, xii. 64, 454 Harvey of Broadland (Alexander), his marriage, 1789, viii. 188

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Thomas Shepard, a Hawker (Mary E.), authoress, d. 1908, xi. 331,
Hawker (Robert S.), 1803-1875, and
Hawkes (George), statue at Gateshead, iv. 208
Trelawny song, xii. 35
Hawkes (Major Walter), Bengal Native
Infantry, drowned 1808, his marriage, ii. 449;
vii. 470

Harvey de Leon, ancestry and descendants of, vii. 270, 316

Harvey (Francis) of Natal, pamphlets by, v. 68 Harvey (George), American author, d. c. 1909, iii. 333

Harvey (Sir John), c. 1778, his parentage, xii.

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Hathaway (Ann), portraits of, ix. 72 Hathaway family of Shottery, viii. 223

Hawkesbury, Baronets of, the Jenkinson family, i. 208, 373

Hawkeslowe (William) and Edward VI's expedition to France, xi. 309

Hawkhurst gang, smugglers of Sussex and Kent, 1744-47, vi. 67, 153, 191 Hawkins (Capt.), duel with Viscount Malden, 1851, xi. 109, 151 Hawkins (Dr. William) Anne Walton, 1676, v. 319; vi. 198

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Hawks, kind of fish-trap, v. 67
Hawkshaw (Sir John), his burial-place, ix. 250,
Hawkshead Church, reference in Wordsworth's
'Prelude' to, vi. 150, 195, 235

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Haworth family of Mirfield, iv. 300
Hawthorn Hive or Hythe, co. Durham, i. 189
Hay (Col. John), 1838-1905, his early life, xii.
Hay' (Thomas), Abbot of Glenluce, 1560, xii.

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Hay silver," meaning of term, x. 409, 454, 494 Haycock or Heycock family, i. 57.

Hayde (de la) and insanity, vii. 169 Hayes (Charles and Richard), Westminster scholars, xi. 393

"Hat trick," origin of the term in cricket, ii. Hayes (Edward), Dublin, sitters for his portrait

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studies, c. 1848, ii. 350, 413, 476

Haygarth (John), 1740-1827, vii. 82

Hayler (Henry), sculptor, c. 1870, i. 169; ii. 36 Hayley (William), biographer of Cowper and Romney, ix. 167

Hatton (Edward), his A New View of London, Haymarket, site of the Tennis Court, c. 1867,

1708,' vi. 168, 213

Hatton (John), d. 1793, x. 350, 395

Hatton (Joshua), his death, viii. 106

Hauck's pistols, 1705, vii. 29

Hauser (Kaspar), legend, vii. 47, 77

Hauterive, Switzerland, Archbishop of Canterbury buried at, iii. 149, 312

Havard or Haward (Thomas), LL.B., ix. 467 Have," early colloquial use of, i. 409, 477; ii: 33

"Haven under the Hill," The. See under Proverbs and Phrases. Havenc. See Harenc.

Havering, etymology of the word, vi. 19 Haverstock Hill, Florence Nightingale and, vi.

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Hayward (Sir J.), his Life and Raigne of King Henry IV.,' ix. 111

Hayward's Survey of Walden,' v. 94 Haywood (Frances) and George III., viii. 28 Hazebrouck, historical notes, viii, 121, 143, 197, 214; Charles Dickens at, 207

Hazlitt (William) as a portrait painter, x. 430; list of his paintings; his wife, xi. 70 "He will never set he sieve on fire," use of the expression, viii. 331, 378, 416 Heacock family, iii. 331 Heacock or Hilcock family of Wiltshire, vii. 312, 418

Headaches, hair cut to prevent, iii. 250, 307, 484; iv. 32

Headbourne Worthy and the Kent family, 187, 274

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"Heads' as the pieman says," ix. 449, 494, 536 Headstones with portraits of the deceased, ii. 210, 277, 377, 459; iii. 14

Heale (Giles), chirurgion, d. 1653, his biography, xii. 312

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