TENTH SERIES.
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Prideaux (W. R. B.) on " Bird in the breast," v.
133. Blackstone's ' Commentaries,' xii. 385.
Book auctions, ix. 127. Carew (George), his
books, vi. 205. Cicero's busts, iii. 205. Colville
(David), Scotch scholar, iv. 149. Cranmer's
library, iii. 24. Darcye (Col. C.), his regiment,
ix. 178. Day (Nancy), Lady Fenhoulet, xi. 438.
Dee (John), his library, i. 241. Docwra (Sir
Henry), ix. 76. Dorchester : Birrell's engrav-
ing, xii. 136. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, iii.
451. Gibbets, iv. 315. Holme Pierrepont
parish library, ii. 149, 350. ' Hueste Antigua,"
vii. 387. Leaden figures, xii. 198. Letters of
Junius, ix. 430. Lucca, plans of, iv. 457.
Names terrible to children, xi. 53. Napoleon's
funeral, v. 166. Pictures at Teddington, vii.
194. Salford : Saltersford, x. 297. Sarpi
(Father Paul) in English literature, iii. 232 ;
v. 407. Scottish form of oath, vi. 487. Shells,
fossil, xi. 33. Sindbad the Sailor, vi. 312.
Tasso and Milton, i. 314. Vaccination and
inoculation, ii. 456. Vossius (Isaac), his
library, ii. 361 ; xii. 487. Yeoman service,
viii. 151
Priest (William), Birmingham attorney, and Andrew Johnson, viii. 383
Priest's bonnet, knocking off, anecdote, x. 247
Priests, Catholic, buried in London, vi. 149, 218, 237
Priests ejected in 1553, list of, i. 9
Primaudaye (De la) and Robert Greene, literary parallels, v. 203, 343, 424, 442, 463, 484, 504
Prime Minister, his official precedence, ix. 425 ; xii. 18 ; French equivalent, x. 287
Prime Ministers who do not read newspapers, iv. 146
Primero, obsolete English game, vii. 402
Primrose, its connexion with Lord Beaconsfield, x. 486 ; xi. 37
Primrose = prime, of age, use of the word, 1657, viii. 129
Primrose (Mary ) = Rev. George Monro, c. 1625, xii. 249
Primrose Hill, and Lamb and Dyer, viii. 301 ' Prince ' Boothby, his biography, vii. 405 ; viii. 14 ; ix. 187
Princely titles in Germany, vi. 150, 255, 410
Princes Street, London, 1794, " The Two Friends ' in, v. 90, 153
Princess Royal, title of her daughters, v. 190, 236 ; earliest use of the title, vii. 469 ; viii. 35
Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street, its history, iv. 50 ; vi. 364
Print : in print, applied to clothes, and other things, ix. 447 ; xi. 176
Printer, first Dublin, x. 106
Printers, King's, and printers of the Crown, xi.
Printers and booksellers. See Booksellers.
Printers' errors, iv. 93
Printers' proofs, their history, xii. 490
Printing, in the Channel Isles, i. 349, 436 ; and Jews, ii. 184 ; its introduction into Birming- ham, ix. 13 ; Watson's ' History,' xii. 428, 511
Printing, music, earliest specimen, viii. 369, 475
Printing, oil, process invented by George Baxter, i. 427, 490
Prints, Juvenile Theatre, v. 25 ; Gulston (Joseph), collection, x. 6 ; ' Sweet Nan of Hampton Green,' 49 ; Frost Fair, 1739-1740, 350, 433
Prints and engravings, book on, wanted, i. 268, 377
Prior = senior, use of the word, ix. 147
Prior (B. J.) on humorous stories, ii. 188
Prior (Francis ) = Annabella Beaumont, v. 8, 78
Prior (George), watchmaker, c. 1765-1810, xi. 28,
135
Prior (George), watchmaker, c. 1809-22, xi. 135 Prior (Matthew) and his Chloe, x. 7, 77, 134 Prior (W. R.) on Albert Borgard, vii. 308. Copen- hagen expedition, 1807, viii. 469. Fairfax as a dog's name, ix. 209. Haggard : Ogarde, xi. 148. Hesse-Danish alliance, xi. 252. Treaty of Tilsit, ix. 32
Prior John at Brighton, 1514, ix. 387, 477, 497 Prior to=before, i. 114, 175, 295 Priors, mitred, xi. 16, 117 Priories and abbeys confused, v. 266, 327, 378 ,
417, 457 ; vi. 73, 137, 259 Priscian : " to break Priscian's head," ix. 268, 375,
414
Prison, Fleet, in fourteenth and fifteenth cen- turies, x. 110, 258, 478 Prison, " Joe Gurr " or " choker," slang term for,
i. 386, 457
Prison farce in Monaco, ix. 507 Prisoner suckled by his daughter, iv. 307, 353 r
432 ; v. 31, 132, 453 ; vi. 172 Prisoners, their clothes as perquisites, 1678, iii.
369, 472 ; iv. 96
Prisoner's base, obsolete English game, vii. 512 Prisoners of war in English literature, ii. 407 Prisons, chained books in, ix. 187 Prisons in Paris during the Revolution, iv. 349,
394
Pritchett (H. D.) on Percival Gunston, v. 469 Private : private member and private view, ix.
268, 336 ' Private History of the Court of England,' by
Mrs. S. Green, key to, iii. 321 Privateering, Scotch, 1672, ix. 30 Privateers, and " Lima " on coins of 1745, ix. 290- Privet, etymology of the word, ix. 148, 197 Privett (H.) on Casino House, Herne Hill, vi. 353 Privilege and sacrilege, use of the words, iii. 268- Privy Councillors in the time of James I., i. 131 Prize, history of the word, ix. 87, 137, 178, 233 Prize money in the eighteenth century, ix. 329 Probates, index of, iv. 188, 277 " Probleme de St. Petersbourg " and Bernoulli, vi.
428, 474
Procession door of church at Sandwich, i. 468 Processions, Rogation and other, ix. 401, 456 Proclamation at Quarter Sessions against im- morality, x. 209 Pro-Consulo on ' Me"moires de St. Petersbourg,' v.
188 Prodromus (Theodoras), John Barclay, and
Robert Burton, xi. 101 Profanity, legislation against, viii. 269 Program : programme, the spelling, ii. 450 ' Progress of Madness,' poem, its author, viii. 490 Progressive, as a party term, iii. 67 Promethean, a lighting device, x. 10, 54, 76 ' Promptorium Parvulorum,' reprint, x. 488 ; xi.
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" Prone on the back," misuse of the term, vi. 305 Pronty (Rev. Dr.), celat. 103, and Bronte family,
xii. 210
Pronunciation, local, and etymology, i. 52, 91, 190, 228, 278, 292, 316, 371, 471 ; of Irish surnames, 125 ; Northern and Southern, i. 508 ; ii. 256, 317, 393, 538 ; influence of railways on, 36 ; nouns and verbs, iv. 64 ; Latin, in England, vii. 108, 170, 294 ; " wound," vii. 328, 390 ; viii. 74, 115 ; " war," vii. 514 ; of