* Bingham (Sir John) noticed, 450.

* Birds, marvellous combat of, 303.

Birm-bank, its derivation, 12.

Bishops' kennel of hounds, 247. 432.

—— tombs, 146.

* Black cap of the judges, 399.

Blackguard, its original meaning, 15. 153. 503.

Blase (St.), his festival at Norwich, 353.

* Blechenden family, 422.

Blessington (Countess of), her letter to Sir Wm. Drummond, 268.

B. L. M., Italian subscription, explained, 43.

Bloater or herring, explained, 347.

Bloet (Robert) noticed, 105. 181.

Blue Bell and Blue Anchor, sign, 86.

Blue Bells of Scotland, 209. 600.

* Board of Trade in seventeenth century, 562.

* Bohemia (Queen of) and a foreign order, 10.

Böhme (Jacob), 151.

Bolle (Sir John) of Thorpe Hall, 305.

Books burnt by the hangman, 78. 226. 425.

Books in parts not completed, 147. 258.

Books, Notices of New:—

Ackerman's Remains of Pagan Saxondom, 313.

Ada's Thoughts, or the Poetry of Youth, 21.

Addison's Works, by Bishop Hurd, 90. 313. 458.

Arundel Society publications, 289.

Autograph Miscellany, 90.

Banfield's Statistical Companion, 458.

Beauties of Byron, 21.

Bell's edition of the British Poets, 138. 554.

Bray's Peep at the Pixies, 21.

Bristol, Curiosities of, 210.

Brook's Russians of the South, 90.

Condé's Arabs in Spain, 410.

Conversations on Geography, 289.

Croker's Correspondence with Lord John Russell, 210.

Custine (M. de) upon Russia, 289.

D'Arblay's Diary and Letters, 289. 410. 433. 505.

Darling's Cyclopædia Bibliographica, 66. 234. 313. 339. 458. 554.

Dod's Peerage for 1854, 46.

Dryden's Works, by R. Bell, 66. 458.

Durriew's Present State of Morocco, 433.

Essays from The Times, 410.

Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, 21.

Foster's Elements of Jurisprudence, 210.

Gibbon's Rome (Bohn's), 163. 387.

Gibbon's Rome (Murray's), 234. 338.

Giffard's Deeds of Naval Daring, 433.

Göthe's Novels and Tales, 66.

Goldsmith's Works, by Peter Cunningham, 45. 138. 458. 554.

Harley (Lady Brilliana), her letters, 210.

Hunt's Manual of Photography, 458.

Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, 289.

Journal of Sacred Literature, 66. 339.

Keightley's Mythology of Ancient Greece, 288.

Lanman's Adventures in North America, 234.

Lardner's Museum of Science and Art, 162.

Lloyd on the Shield of Achilles, 338.

Locke's Works, 505.

Lower's Contributions to Literature, 162.

Lushington's Points of War, 505.

Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, 234. 339. 433. 554.

Macaulay's Speeches on Parliamentary Reform, 21.

MacCabe's Catholic History of England, 504.

Mantell's Geological Excursions, 162.

Marley's Life of Girolamo Cardano, 313.

Munch's Scandinavian History, 410.

Museum of Science and Art, 66.

Netherclift's Autograph Miscellany, 289.

Pepys's Diary and Correspondence, 234.

Petit's Architectural Studies in France, 313.

Pryce's Memorials of the Canynges, 138.

Pulman's Book of the Axe, 387.

Retrospective Review, 162. 458.

Reumont's Carafas of Maddaloni, 210.

Roll of the Household Expenses of Richard de Swinfield, 458.

St. George's Visitation of Northumberland, 21.

Scott's Poet's Children, 505.

Smee on the Eye, 338.

Smith (Sydney), his writings, 554.

Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, 66.

Southey's Works and Correspondence of Cowper, 313. 339.

Stratford Shakspeare, by C. Knight, 90.

Strickland's Lives of the Queens, 162. 313. 339. 458. 554.

Tieck's Midsummer Night, 289.

Timbs's Curiosities of London, 21.

Trollope's Illustrations of Ancient Art, 162.

Ure's Dictionary of Arts, &c., 288.

Waagen's Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 433.

Waddington on John Penry the martyr, 410.

Wiffen's Tasso's Jerusalem, 387.

Zeitschrift für Deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde, 505.

Books, on mutilating, 585.

—— varnish for old, 423.

Booty's case, 137.

Bosvill (Ralph) of Bradbourn, Kent, 467.

Botanic names, their derivation, 537.

Bothy system, 305. 432. 527.

Botiller (Theobald le), 336.

Bourbons, the fusion of the, 323. 431.

Bowly (Devreux), horologist, 173. 285.

* Boyle family, 494.

* Braddock (Gen.) noticed, 11. 562.

Bradford (John) the martyr, his writings, 449. 552.

* Bragge (Dr.) noticed, 126.

Braithwait (Richard), 163.

Branks, or gossips' bridles, 149. 336. 578.

Brass in All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 273.

Brasses, monumental, on their destruction, 268. 326.

Breeches Bible, an imperfect one, 273.

* Brerewood (Edward), his portrait, 173.

Bribery, the first instance, 447.

* Brighton old church, hand in chancel, 148.

Brill near old St. Pancras Church, 288.

* Bristol compliment, 541.

* Britons, works on the early, 399.

Brooks (Rev. Joshua) noticed, 64.

Broom at the mast-head, 518.

Brothers of the same christian name, 43. 185.

Brown (Robert) the separatist, 494. 572.

Brown (Sir Adam and Sir Ambrose), 564.

Browne (Francis) noticed, 41.

Browne (Sir T.) and Bishop Ken, 220.

Bruce, Robert I., his acts and life, 452.

Brydone the tourist, his birth-place, 138. 255. 305. 432. 496.

Buckle, its meaning, 576.

* Bunn's Old England and New England, 451.

Bunyan (John), his manuscripts, 104. 125.

—— descendants, 223.

Buonaparte's abdication, 51. 183.

Burial in erect posture, 88. 279. 407.

Burial service tradition, 451. 550.

Burke (Edmund), his domestic letters, 9. 207.

Burnet (Bishop), his character, 448.

noticed, 175.

Burton family, 19. 183.

Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 191. 333.

* Butler (Colonel) noticed, 422.

Butler's Lives of the Saints, various editions, 360.

* Button Cap, his legend, 272.

"-by," as a termination, 136. 522.

Byron and Rochefoucauld, 347. 553.

Byron's Childe Harold, 481.

Byron, the fifth Lord, noticed, 18. 232.