Perkin Warbeck, his interview with Lady Catherine Gordon, 152, n. 5.
Pernicion, 123; meaning of the word, 123, n. 1.
Perreaud, tricks of the devil in his house, 217 and n. 1.
Perry, Ned, an hostler, 60, n. 1.
Petard, conjugal, 295, n. 1.
Peter the Great, tax imposed by, 142, n. 3.
Peters, Hugh, character of, 434.
Petronel, 72 and n. 6.
Pharos, a celebrated light-house, 32.
Pharsalian Plain, 44.
Philip and Mary, shillings of, 292 and n. 2.
Philip, Sir Richard, drawn through a window by the ears, 308 and n. 3.
Philistines, 378 and n. 4.
Philosopher's Stone, 280, n. 2.
Philter-love, 440 and n. 3.
Physician, his prescription literally taken, 28, n. 4.
Picqueer, 345 and n. 4.
Pie-powder, 185 and n. 2.
Pigeons of Aleppo, 137, n. 6.
Pigs, squeaking of, 6; sucking ones chowsed, 214 and n. 6; said to see the wind, 372 and n. 1.
Pigsney, 156; a term of endearment, 156, n. 4.
Pilgrims' kisses, 367 and n. 1.
Pinder, the, of Wakefield, 193, n. 4.
Pique, or Pica, 360 and n. 1.
Plague-sore, 312 and n. 3.
Planets, aspects of the, 251, n. 3.
Plants, with signatures, 280 and n. 4; 297 and n. 2.
Plato, his fondness for geometry, 247 and n. 4; his belief in regard to the planets, 248 and n. 4; the symposium of, 296, n. 3; his year, 364 and n. 1.
Plot, Dr, his History of Worcester, 217 and n. 4.
Pocock, Dr, his acquittal, 123, n. 3.
Poetry, a necessary aid in good government, 58, n. 4.
Poets and Enthusiasts, 24, n. 3.
Poets succeed best in fiction, 159, n. 3.
Poisons, expelled by themselves, 331 and n. 1.
Pokes and Fobs, 273 and n. 3.
Pomerium, ceremony of enlarging the, 196 and n. 4.
Pope of Rome, 95 and n. 3; his bull baited, 122 and n. 3; his chair, 128, n. 2; alluded to, 249 and n. 4; his power, 355 and n. 1.
Pope, Mr, quoted 299, n. 3.
Postulate illation, 164, n. 1.
Potosi, 280 and n. 2.
Poundage, paying of, 338 and n. 3.
Powder, the famous sympathetic, 51, n. 3, 6; alluded to, 306 and n. 1.
Powdering-tubs, 366 and n. 4; 402 and n. 1.
Preach, fight, pray, and murder, 331 and n. 4.
Preachers, described by Echard, 204 and n. 2; Itinerant, 330 and n. 4.
Preaching, encouragement of, 59, n. 5.
Presbyterians, jargon and cant words of the, 3, n. 3; effect of their preaching, 3, n. 5; custom of the, 4, n. 3; great fatalists, 38, n. 1; profane familiarity of their prayers, 65, n. 4; historical tendency of their discourses, 66, n. 1; reformation desired by the, 67, n. 5; their plea for success, 79, n. 3; persecutions of the, 122, n. 1; their doctrines, 125, n. 1; 133, n. 2; complaint of the, 145, n. 4; their selfishness, 273, n. 3; their differences with the Independents, 324, n. 2; 348 and n. 3; plea of the, 326, n. 1; their plots to restore the king, 359 and n. 1, 2; intentions of the, 369, n. 1; their practices, 369, n. 3, 4, and 5.
Prester, John, 445 and n. 1.
Pricking at the garter, 343, n. 4.
