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SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan., 1920.
Panton Street Puppet Show and Goldsmith, 83
Parish Registers, entries of foundlings in, 40, 71
Parish registers of Philleigh missing information
wanted, 292
Parishes, a 1705 return of English, 122 Parker (T.), etchings by, 1838, 183, 241 Parkinson family, information wanted, 97 Parry (Lieut.), referred to by Borrow, 96, 333 Peace : London celebrations, literature, &c., 175,
213, 315; Thames pageant, 1919, 197; 1856
rejoicing, 234 Peer (William), alleged actor of that name.
263, 331 Pegs of wood in furniture displaced by screws,
date wanted, 236
" Penniles Bench," meaning of, 126, 163, 194 Penrhyn Devil in form of a knocker, 10 Percy (J.), artist, information wanted, 150 " Perksilver " in fifteenth century, 313 " Peterloo," earliest use of word wanted, 291 Philadelphia, link with London, 168, 188 Phillips (Sir Richard), his tour through the United
Kingdom, 232 Philleigh, Cornwall, query about its missing parish
register, 292
Piano legs in trousers, 261, 301 Pidgeon (H. C.), supposed author of " Memorials
of Shrewsbury," 130 " Pipchinesque," use of word, 11 Pipes, source of some old tobacco, 210, 303 Pirkheimer (Wilibald), Diirer's joke about him,
4 Piso's Conspiracy,' and ' The Tragedy of Nero,'
254, 299, 323 Pitt (William) and Dundas, drinking at New Cross,
151, 195 Place (Francis), political economist, 233
Place-Names :
Earth, 238, 279
Birth, 238, 279
Elsinore, 8
Gavelacre, 295, 332
Goldsworthy, 39, 79
" gram," meaning of, 26C
Grim or Grime, 95, 137, 160, 245, 328
Gunnersbury, 231
Havering, 229
lona, 40
Marazion, 292, 328
Romeland, 294
Ruislip, 231
Seven Kings, 210, 249, 272
Plane trees in London, 205, 272
Pleasure Fairs on Good Friday, facts about,
Pope (Alexander), supposed ancestor of Whistler.
70
Pope, the crosier of the, 24 Popes, statements about two popes discussed,
Portraits on gravestones, 250, 306, 330 " Poultice wallahs," term for R.A.M.C., 79 Powell (David), priest, at Brussels, c. 1575, his
identity wanted, 295
Powell (George), dramatist, handwriting of, 11 Pragell family, origin of name, 42, 139 Pre-Raphaelite stained glass examples, 74, 105 Price (Cromwell), cornet, 1728, his history.
292, 331 Price (John) of Deptford, watchmaker, 237, 305
Priests executed, Cornish and Devonian, 154i
96, 131, 183, 243, 332 Prize Compositions at School, origin of custoi
connected with, 70 Proclamation stones, their origin and significant
178, 221, 275
Proctor family of Dublin, 98 Prosser (Richard) of Birmingham, informatio
about his parentage wanted, 319
Proverbs and Phrases:
Anglo-Saxon contagion, 38
As dead as a door-nail, 266, 303'
As jolly as sandboys, 180, 279
Cake : Why don't they eat cake ? 53, 162
Dans la politique .... prendre rien au tr<
gique, 69
rink
Drink by word of mouth, 98, 136, 330
Fire out, 121
Get the needle, 151, 194
Hell for leather, 25
Lambendo effingere, 69, 129
Let the weakest go to the wall, 177, 222
Lick into shape, 69, 129
" Man proposes, God disposes," 232
Never prophesy unless you know, 315
Now then ! 295
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, 238, 302 Perversity of inanimate objects, 126 Pro pelle cutem, 93, 132 Querelle d'Allemand, 9 Rain cats and dogs, 108, 166, 326 Scum of democracy, 210 Sheer hulk, 65 Spanish main, 65 Wash an Aethiop, 193
When you die of old age I shall quake f( fear, 235, 278, 325
4 Proving a negative,' Matthew Arnold on, 3
83 Parks (or Perks) family, information wantei
317
Parliamentary papers, preservation of, 41 Parry (Lieut.) mentioned in George Borrow, 95 Paschollen, lake near Thusis, its position, 1!
51
Paten, use and example of, 13, 50, 134 Patristic writings, translations wanted, 295 Patrons and incumbents of Bredwardine an
Brobury, 200 Peace celebrations in London, their literature an
iconography, 175, 213, 315 Peace pageant on the Thames, 1919, 197 Peace rejoicing, official, 234 Peat (Rev. Sir Robert), his history and identity
23
Peer (William), alleged to be an actor, 173, 263 Prudentius, " Psychomachia,' English translation
14, 75 Pseudonyms list of, identity of writers, 293, 328
Burton (Richard), 95 ; Robertson (John), 49 4 Psychomachia ' of Prudentius, translations o
14, 75
Puleston family of Gresford and Hants, 124 Punning catalogue of painting and sculpture mad
by Rev. Chas. Boutell, 173 Punt, land of, origin of the name, 149 Puppet Show in Panton Street, and Goldsmit]
83
Puritan hanging his cat, rime about, 232 Pyrgo Park, near Romford, Essex, 229