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SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Feb., 1918.
Pictures :
By Bach, Martineau, Carter, Weatherhead,
Polsnerd, and Pellegrino, 70, 153, 476 Covent Garden green-room in 1853, 507 Jesus Christ, painted in profile on wooden
panel, 332, 401 Millais's ' Christ in the Carpenter's Shop,'
250, 307
Oil painting of a man's head, c. 1601, 504 ' Shooting Party, Banton Abbey," 385 Swiss picture, Benedictine saint, 1670, 331,
392
' Venus and Bacchus,' the artist, 504. Water-colour drawings, the whereabouts of,
476
' Woodman,' oil painting, 98 Zoffany (Johann), his ' Porter and Hare,' 477
Pidgeon (H. C.), antiquary and archaeologist,
1807-80, 211, 307 Pigeon-eating for a wager, 75 Pitt (William), his last speech, 1805, 241, 382;
his saying about the English peasant, 274 Place (Francis), social reformer, 109, 200
Plaoe-Names :
Balleny Island, 149, 253 Copthorne, 126 Crewkerne, 16, 99, 158 Devizes, 524 Low Ford, 479, 519 Quaker's Yard, 211, 282
Place-names, London suburban, of 18th century,
476
Place-names of Surrey, curious fact about, 208 Plate-marks, the date of, 15 Play, c. 1811-27, identified, 386, 458 Plays, Elizabethan and Jacobean, emendations,
441
Plymouth Brethren, two pamphlets, 1882, 231 Poe (Edgar Allan), Alexander Smith on, 230, ,339 Poetical enigma, " We rule the world, we letters
5," 249
Poetry, Welsh, Christ's " Seven Eyes " in, 462 Pole (Cardinal), saying attributed to, 70, 192 Pole (Sir William de la), c. 1329% s descendants, 9 Police custom at Dunbar, the origin of, 506 " Politicanting," " politicanter," use of the words,
444
Pollaky. See Paddington.
Polsnerd, his picture ' Dutch Merry-Making,' 70 ' Polydoron,' 1631, Dean John Donne the author
of, 443 Poole family, their descent from Sir William de la
Pole, c. 1329, 9
Portraits : of the deceased, on headstones, 14 ; in stained glass, 15, 36, 76, 95, 159, 198, 218, 286, 344, 430 ; theatrical, with tinsel ornaments, 18 ; old family, in carved wood, 51 ; of certain authors, the "whereabouts of, 210, 313; of Governor Gawler and others, the whereabouts of, 230, 314 ; by John Phillip, R.A., 272, 391, 457 ; by James Lonsdale, 285 Portsmouth dockyard in 1756, diary of an in- spection of, 221, 406 Posset pot rime, 1805, 66 Pounds in villages, their construction, 340 Prelates, English, at the Council of Bale, 153 Prescot (Kenrick), D.D., of Cambridge, c. 1700-
1779, 449, 488
Preston parish church, its chantry priests, chaplains, and curates, 505
Price, Uvedale, and Cary families, 91, 180, 371,
490
Priesthood, the ordination of women, 449 Prints : of Eglinton Tournament, 1839, 211, 285,
367 ; of the play ' The Dog of Monturgis,'
. 1814, 386. 458
" Profiteer," use of the word, 383 Proteus (Sir Gilbert), c. 1720, his biography, 445
Proverbs and Phrases :
All round the Wrekin, 417, 455
Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
330
And the child's name's Anthony, 478 Blood is thicker than water, 356
Call of the 69, 216
Chatter about Harriet, 450
Corruptio optimi pessima, 503
Derby Bam, 70, 1 54, 309
Donkey's years, 39, 74
Englishman's house is his castle, 274
Gray's Inn pieces, 57
Leicester plover, 357
Life isn't all beer and skittles, 230, 282
Mad as a March hare, 297, 522
Men of Kent, 477
Nosey Parker = inquisitive person, 170
Tartar's bow, 12
Tattering a kip, 170, 235
There has been dirty work at the cross-roads,
509
Touch (a person) for money, 26 Weep Irish, 31
Prudde (John), " King's glazier," 1440, 419 Publishers, their method of describing themselves,
the " House " of, 331, 402
' Punch,' an artist's signature, his identity, 15 Purple in heraldry, families entitled to, 211, 278
Quakers, their London Yearly Meeting, 504
Quaker's Yard, Glamorganshire place-name, origin of, 211, 282
Quartermain (Roger), his ' Conquest of Canterbury Court,' 366
Quartermaine (Anna) and Anthony Sorel, charac- ters in fiction, 445
Quincey (Thomas de), his stay in Eifionydd, 26
Quotations :
A lie travels round the world while Truth is
putting on her boots, 38 Again she spoke : " Where is my lord the
king ? " 360
Austria, the China of Europe, 520 Battle-fields are strange, 169 Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest
arose, 130 Birthless and deathless and changeless re-
maineth the Spirit for ever, 450 " Books," says Bacon, " can never teach the
use of books," 108
Bat when they came to Easter Gate, 148 Charms and a man I sing, to wit a most
superior person, 36 Chatter about Harriet, 450 Christ came to establish a kingdom not a
church, 274 De tenente tota nox est perviglanda canticis,
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