Knight (Samuel), his 'Life of Colet,' 1718, iii.
148, 282, 398

Knight, the ceremony of degrading a, 1621,

ii. 68

Knights of the Hanoverian Order, ix. 529; x.
36, 75

Knight's tour in chess, v. 92, 136, 325; vi. 91
Knightsbridge: local magazine, vii. 4

Knill (John), 1782, memorial at St. Ives, Corn-
wall, iv. 295

Kniveton (W.), engraved of Irish landscapes,
iv. 158

Knock Hundred Row, Midhurst, its origin, vi.
37

Knocker of the door in form of bat, explanation
of, v. 149

Knollys (Lieut. Henry), his From Sedan to
Saarbruck, 1870,' vi. 99

Knotty, a game, c. 1799, xii. 110, 156
Knowles (J. Sheridan), album lines by, i. 147,
216

La Cour (Dr. Poul) on windmill power in
Denmark, iv. 331; v. 103

"La Marseillaise,' house in which first sung,
xi. 230

La Roche (Emily), her biography, i. 272, 334
"La Santa Parentela,' miniature painted on
ivory, x. 107, 157, 233, 296

La Touche. See Touche.

Labat (Valentine Knightley Chetwood) of Port-
arlington, iv. 188

Labbut, explanation of name, x. 330
Labels, old Sheffield plate, vi. 40. 97, 174;
"White wine," 1770-80, 209, 234, 279

origin of, v. 123, 193

Labrador, curious beliefs in, viii. 266
Lacaux (Michael), and (Peter), Westminster
scholars, 1728, vi. 170

Lace, industry, Downton, Wiltshire, xii. 352;
patterns, pin-pricked on parchment, i. 468;
ii. 13
"Lacenaire "=Pierre Francois Gaillard, vii.
489
Lackland, surname, x. 130, 272

Lacticinia," milk products meant by, ix. 150,

337

Lacy (Capt.), author of The Modern Shooter,'
vii. 190, 277

Lacy (John), clockmaker of Portsmouth, ix. 510
Lacy (Lieut.-Col. W.), vii. 277
Lacy family of Dublin, vii. 223
Lade (Sir John), c. 1750, his parents, i. 367;
his marriage, x. 327

Ladies' portraits in Royal Academy, viii. 510;
ix. 36

Ladle, silver punch, its history, vi. 64, 218
Ladles," military use of the word, vii. 92
'Lady Day in Harvest," a name for the Feast
of the Assumption, v. 236

Lady in distress (1814), xi. 6

Lady's Magazine,' published by Wheble, iii.
359, 453

Laessoe, Norway, longevity in, vii. 331
Lafarelle (Alexander), Westminster scholar,
ix. 389

Lahee (Henry), b. 1826, organist, xii. 312, 398
Laing (William), memorial at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, v. 145

Lait (Edward), water-colour painter, c. 1869,
iii. 475

Laly (Colonel), his regiment, c. 1745, xii. 32, 79
Lamartine (Alphonse de), Deputé of Bergues,

vi. 128

Lamb (Charles), his folio 'Beaumont and
Fletcher,' i. 267, 376; his one H-," 400;
and John Locke, 429; his Mrs. Battle's
Opinions on Whist,' 1797, ii. 266, 398; and
Richard and Andrew Bloxam, 435; Thomas
Westwood, and Stackhouse's History of the
Bible,' iii. 269, 368; on "All round the
Wrekin," 417, 455; his East India Company
employers, v. 287; vi. 26; and Van Balen,
artist, 167, 212; his pedigree, vii. 209, 318;
and Russell-street, Covent Garden, viii. 109,
156; political verses attributed to, 306, 395;
his patron, Samuel Salt, xi. 27; quotations in
'Eliana,' xii. 253, 297; and Prince Dorus,'
1811, 412

Lamb (Rev. G.) of Hethe, Oxon, 1769-1801, iii.

387

Lamb (Very Rev. John), D.D., Dean of Ely,
ix. 449

Lamb and veal, composition for, and connexion
with illness, 1624, iii. 508

Lambart family of Skipton, xii. 130
Lambe (Brewster), Westminster scholar, 1715,
vi. 230

Lambe (George), Westminster scholar, 1729,
vi. 230

Lambe family, iii. 331

Lambert (John), c. 1579, vii. 38

Lambert (John), Parliamentary Major-General,
d. 1684, xi. 271

Lambert (Ralph), Bishop of Meath, 1726-31,
his family, i. 150; x. 182, 318

Lambert (Richard), glass-painter of York, x. 45
Lambert (Messrs.), silversmiths, of Coventry
Street, 1908, iii. 473

Lambert family, x. 182, 318

Lambeth, inscriptions in St. Mary's Church-
yard (corrigendum, i. 60); Knaves Acre, x.
190, 256, 356

"Lame Demon," tale of the, vi. 110, 173
Lamplugh (Edward and William), Westminster
scholars, ix. 491, 533; x. 39, 76

Lamplugh (Mary), c. 1710, her biography, vi.

230

Lampposts," neglect of the hyphen, i. 47
Lancashire Glossary,' a third part, c. 1883,
iii. 416

Lancashire, Napoleon III. in, vi. 63; Saxton's
map of, its date, iv. 218, 253
Lancashire pedigrees, book of, its whereabouts,
ii. 29

Lancashire settlers in America, viii. 227, 375,
418, 436; ix. 517

Lancaster (Joseph), his adaptation of slates
for teaching purposes, 1803, vi. 137
Lancaster family, the arms of, iii. 332, 430, 462
Land measurement terms, x. 48, 96, 156, 198, 236
Land perambulations, pre-Conquest, ix. 446
Land tax, charitable institutions exempt from,
iv. 272

Land tenure : "Auster," meaning of term,
viii. 109, 192, 233, 516; leases for lives, ii. 263;
"the foreign defence of a virgate of land,"
vii. 449

Landed gentry temp. George III., work on, iv.
18, 60

Landells (Robert Thomas), artist, 1833-1877, x.
9, 57, 58

Landmarks of London, removal of, i. 34, 52;
ii. 248, 295; iii. 473; vi. 35, 62, 83, 220, 264
Landrieux's (Jean), Memoirs,' vii. 468, 515
Landsdowne-passage, behind Devonshire House,
site of a river bed, v. 288

Lang (Andrew), dates of birth and death, ix.

431

Langham (William), d. 1838, viii. 191
Langhelt, surname, xi. 312, 358, 378
Langley (Bishop), arms of, xii. 252, 296
Langran (James), organist, his parentage, xii.
312, 398

Language question in various countries, vii. 448
Languages Latin as an international, vi. 202,
234, 261, 282, 300, 321; vii. 17, 112; foreign,
influence on style, 89; of Eastern Europe,
books on, x. 431

Lankshear, derivation of the surname, xii. 215,

255

Larckin, origin of the Christian name, i. 268

Larkham (Thomas), portrait wanted, vii. 28
Larwood (Jacob), pseudonym of J. Van Sche-
vichaven, vii. 441; viii. 508

66

Lascar," meaning and derivation of the word,
iv. 240

Last Chronicle of Barset,' an inconsistency in.
i. 507

Latch on doors, called "Norfolk' and
"Suffolk," xii. 109, 195

Latham (Robert Gordon), 1812-88, philologist,

xii. 451

Lathrop (Ann) of Westminster, viii. 132, 237
Lathrop family, viii. 132

Latin as an international language, vi. 202,
234, 261, 282, 300, 321; vii. 17, 112, 358
Latin contractions in parish accounts, 1627, i..
468; ii. 19, 57, 134

Latin elegiac renderings of a committee notice,.
iv. 73, 167, 220

Latin, English dictionary of words in mediæval
documents, i. 489; ii. 12

Latin, gender of dish in, vi. 177, 216
Latin hexameters on field sports, xi. 192, 256
Latin: "Oh, dear! What can the matter be?”
Latin version, iv. 245

Latin, order for the English pronunciation of..
i. 248, 353; viii. 26, 78, 214, 275
Latin saying, source of, x. 188
Latton family, i. 79, 378
Laud (Archbishop), a bibliography of. iii. 298;
his New Chapel at Westminster, xi. 369, 459
Laugharne family of Pembrokeshire, entries
from registers of St. Mary's, Haverfordwest,.
iv. 184
Laughton (George), 1736-1794, his biography, vi.

252

Launay (Marquis de), his descendants, iii. 167
Launceston, last use of stocks at, 1859, ii. 347
Laurel; I wearing the laurel," xi. 451; xii. 157
"Laus Deo," heading for ledger folio, i. 409,
474; ii. 14, 253

Lausanne, Rue de Bourg, its privilege, vi. 274,.
317; vii. 51, 152

Lavater (J. C.), translations in French before.
1800, iv. 102

Lavender, production of, ix. 126, 177
"Lavinia : pseudonym, vii. 410
Law, ancient Roman and Welsh, ii. 187; best
books on, vi. 130; bibliography of inter--
national, vi. 228, 299; case of eleventh century
unfinished, v. 293; vi. 20

Law Courts, Strand: battle of the sites, vii.
447, 497

Lawless (Emily), author of With Wild Geese,"
viii. 451, 499

Lawrence (Capt.), commander of the Chesa--
peake, x. 465

Lawrence (P. S.), artist and sailor, c. 1794, ii.
209, 259

Lawrence (Sir Thomas), his portrait of Miss
Cooper,' ix. 90, 157, 216, 235
Lawrence and Gedding families, i. 167
Lawson (Dorothy), wife of Alexander Colling-
wood, 1691, her parentage, v. 320; vi. 137
Lawyers employed by Winchester College, 15th
century, i. 361, 383

وو

Lay and lie,' use of words, ix. 270, 312.
335, 393

"Laycock," meaning of the word, iv. 162
Laycock street, Islington, xi. 467 (corrigenda 520>

Lazenki Palace. See Warsaw.

Le Blanc (Sir Simon), d. 1816, viii. 171
Le Brun. See Brun.

Le Cateau, or Cateau Cambrésis, its history,
iv. 269; mentioned in 1577, v. 26

Le Coq (Philip), Westminster scholar, ix. 449
Le Despenser. See Dispenser.

Le Fanu (J. Sheridan), his works, c. 1896, ii.
450; iii. 15, 59

Le Hardy (F.) of London, miniature painter,
his relatives, v. 207

Le Neve (Peter), 1661-1729, Norroy King-at-
Arms, vii. 189, 234, 235

Le Neve (William), herald, 1600 (?)-1661, vii.

189

Le Tir Anglais, place-name, vii. 108
Lead tank, 1716, lettering on, ii. 390, 458
Lead-mining in Derbyshire, old law of, x. 468
Leake (John), M.D., b. 1729, his mother, iii. 50
Leake family, xi. 224, 263

Leaman (W.), member of the Long Parlia-
ment, his death, iii. 299

Leamington,' school magazine, ix. 238
Leamingtonian,' school magazine, ix. 276
Leander club: early records sought, viii. 212
Leap year: fine for refusing lady's offer of
marriage, iv. 245; v. 24

Leases: long, examples, iii. 413; origin of 99
and 999 year leases, vii. 8, 59, 371, 418
Leather money, xi. 471, 515

Leaving them only their eyes to weep with,"
xi. 430

Ledbury, Hereford, manorial owners prior to
1480, x. 272, 337

Lee () of Christchurch, Surrey, his pedigree,

iii. 210

Lee Boo (Prince), tomb in Rotherhithe Church-
yard, ix. 207, 256, 477

Lee (Henry) and Gilbert Imlay, x. 128
Lee (Lieut.-Col. Henry) of Virginia, 1756-1818,
ix. 488

Lee (Sir Henry Austin), death, iv. 316
Lee (John), prisoner: survives hanging, vii.
68, 135

6

Lee (Joseph), enamel painter, 1809-53, vi. 189
Lee (Nathaniel), dramatist, statement by Lord
Rochester, i. 35; his Tragedy of Nero,
Emperour of Rome,' v. 254, 299, 323
Lee family, x. 71

Lee Jortin family, history of, iv. 77
Lee (Holme). See Holme.

Leech (John), the Punch artist, his birthplace,
xii. 290, 339 (corrigendum 360)

Leedes family of North Milford, Tadcaster, x.
110; and horse racing, xi. 48, 97

Leeds, the arms of, ix. 507; x. 56, 72, 115, 156;
Dukedom of, xi. 175, 213

Leeman (George), statue at York, iv. 208
Lefevre and Hare families, ii. 128, 195, 397, 457
Leg of Mutton Clubs, viii. 250, 299

Legal costume in the seventeenth century, ix.
407, 453

Legal marcaronics or law French, ii. 335, 398
Legard (Sir Charles), M.P. 1874 to 1880, speech
by. xii. 474

author, xii. 14

Legends Irish, of the two isles, ii. 27; on

66

love tokens,' ii. 507; iii. 341; of Yorkshire
Ford, xii. 489

Legh (Margaret, Lady), of Lyme, Cheshire,
her history, iv. 48, 82, 141; v. 53
Legitimist Kalendar, The,' vii. 471; viii. 14
Legs, the indelicacy of piano and other, v. 261.
301; swollen, new milk a cure for, iii. 273,
431

Leicester plover," origin of the expression,
iii. 357

Leicester Square, Nos. 10, 11, 12 Coventry
Street, iii. 473

Leiden University, data of a charter of, iii. 505
Leigh (Chandos),
his verses on extinct

monsters, 1835, vi. 32

Leith (George), 7th Laird of Barnes, his wife,
vi. 312

Leitner family, i. 48, 133, 336, 453

Lely (Sir Peter) and portraits of Barbara
Lely (Richard), minor-poet, x. 91, 137
Villiers, x. 251

Lemaistre (J. G.), novelist, d. 1840, i. 14, 54, 159
Lemaistre (Stephen Cæsar), Puisne Judge of the
Supreme Court of Bengal, ix. 529

Leman (Sir Tanfield), d. 1762, ix. 353
Lemman or Leman (William), member of Long
Lemon (Mark), Thackeray's letter to, xii. 472;
Parliament, his history, iv. 22
undated letter to, from Thomas Hood, 509
Lennox (Col. Charles), 1764-1819, 4th Duke of
Richmond, ii. 28, 89, 138

Lennox (Col. Charles), his commissions, iv. 284
Lens (Jean de) and the University of Louvain,

x. 486

Lens, achromatic, Chester Moor Hall and the,

iii. 334

Lenthall family of Besselsleigh, Bucks, before

1400, xii. 272, 313

Lethargy," meaning of, in 17th century, i.
489; ii. 35

Lethbridge (Lieut.-Col. T. Arscott), Royal Regi-
ment of Artillery, d. 1856, ii. 334
Letheuillier (W.), Westminster scholar, c. 1721,
i. 95

Letter from the King to his People," author-
ship of, vi. 68, 172

Letter-Books of the city of Chester, i. 33

ig 341, 362, 385, 451

147

Letters, mode of concluding, viii. 55
Letters, Virginian, c. 1730, names referred to
in, i. 309, 354, 415, 454
Letts (Louis R.), death, iv. 344
"Leuiciana," origin and meaning of the word,
i. 266

Levard as Christian name, vii. 30

Leventhorpe monument, arms on the, ix. 244,
295

Levett (John), M.P. Lichfield, 1701-2, iii, 90,
156

Levi (Lyon), 1810, suicide of, viii. 392, 434
Levinstone (Thomas de) and the See of Dunkeld,

xi. 21

Lewin family in Ireland, vi. 311

Lewis (David), attribution of Songs to Win-
freda to, x. 91

Lewis (John), Dean of Ossory, c. 1756, his
marriages, i. 399; his biography, iv. 190, 253
Lewis (Lewis W.) "Lew Llwyfo," his MS.
translation of David Copperfield,' ix. 445
Lewis (Dr. Owen), Bishop of Cassano, d. 1595,
i. 366

Lewis (Samuel), his History of Islington,' xi.

529

Lewis family epitaphs at Llanerchaeron, ii. 307
Lewknor family, its history, v. 201; vi. 44, 118
Ley (Thomas), Vicar of Crediton, ix. 470
Leylayers, their official duties, xii. 371, 418, 458
Lherondell (Francis), incumbent of St. Hilda's,
South Shields, 1748-1750, vii. 289, 337, 358
Liberty "furlough, use of the word, iii. 211
Libraries of chained books, xii. 369, 418, 458,
493; early circulating, 1661, i. 27; ii. 158;
Irish, incunabula in, ii. 247, 288; representa-
tive county, viii. 8, 34, 54, 76, 111, 155, 198,
272; Welsh, ultimate fate of, 1879, xii. 214, 276
Lichfield, cross potent in episcopal arms, iv. 302
Liddle and Scott's Greek Lexicon': revised
edition to be published, viii. 119, 158; dates
of earlier editions, 338

Lie and lay.' See "

Lay."

Liège abbess and Corpus Christi, a legend, iii.
507

Liège, British consul in, in August, 1914, iv.
260

Lies, Derbyshire saying about, i. 266

Life of Henry Maitland.' novel by Morley
Roberts, key to, v. 151, 269

Light Division's march to Talavera, 1809, iv.
181, 228

Light Horse Harry." See Lee (Lieut.-Col.
Henry).

Light Invisible, The,' source of book-title, v.

Lightfoot (Col. John), d. 1707, vii. 109

-

Likenesses, accidental, in natural scenery,. i.
348, 438, 496; ii. 15; in a family, the per-
sistence of, ii. 10

Lillard (R. W.), America's Reply,' particulars
wanted, v. 317

Lilley (Manor of), Hertfordshire, viii. 469
Lilliput and Gulliver, origin of the names, iv.
73, 140, 199; v. 156

Limehouse, old buildings on the riverside,
demolition of, iii. 473

'Limmig, Earl of Chester: Lymage,
Hants, viii. 149

co.

a

Lincoln (Abraham), b. c. 1670, vii. 147
Lincoln (Abraham), article in Tyneside Obser-
ver on, vi. 229; article on, by W. T. Stead
in The Tyneside Observer, ix. 150;
memoir of, c. 1861, xii. 190, 376
Lincoln, Devil overlooking, iv. 34
Lincoln's Inn, Court of Chancery, xii. 489
Lincoln's Inn Hall, the date c. 1840, ii. 210, 273
Lincolnshire dialect words, meaning of, xii. 270,
315

Lincolnshire Escheators prior to 1400, iv. 133
Lincolnshire regiments, xi. 68, 116 (corrigendum
140)
Lindis River, Lincolnshire, its various names,
iv. 45, 85

Lindsay (Alexander), murdered c. 1660, iv. 326
Lindsay (Hon. Edwin), prisoner at Papa Stour,
his death, xii. 252

139

Lindsey-coast, place-name, xi. 309
Lindum Colonia and its neighbours, ix. 524
Line, crossing the, origin of ceremonies, iv. 77,
Linen, "buried in linen," explanation of, xii.
512
Linguists, remarkable, list of, xii. 233, 276, 297,
313, 355, 398, 418, 455
Links with the past, xi. 146
Linlithgow="Dreamthorp," ix. 150, 197
Linnæus and the blossoming gorse, reference
to, iii. 333, 400; and the Mile End Nursery,
x 250, 313

Linskill (Mary), " Stephen Yorke," her bio-
graphy, xii. 92, 138

Linstock," meaning of the word, vii. 92
Lions, age of, viii. 338, 378; in the Tower of
London, 338; belief that pain is not felt
when mauled by, ii. 27; carved red, Islington,
origin of the sign, xii. 292; rampant of Scot-
land, ii. 71, 138, 175; as a royal badge, xii.
32, 74, 139

Lisbon: British Catholic College, ix. 491; xi.

Lives of the English Saints,' by the Rev. J.
H. Newman, ix. 231, 276

Living library," use of the phrase, x. 53
Livingston (Robert), early settler in America,
ix. 463

Livingstone (Dr. David), his heart buried
separately, i. 73, 133

Livy, translated by G. G. Baker, iv. 78
Llangollen church, arms in stained-glass

window of, x. 410, 474
Llangollen Vale, meeting of ways of com-
munication at, vii. 156
Lleun-y-Brain. See Rice.

Llivia (? or Goust), small "republic," records
of, i. 42, 129, 258, 456

Lloyd (Mr.), Founder of London Exchange,"
his identity, iv. 101, 167

1 Lloyd (Elizabeth), b. c. 1788, at Hereford, xii.
414

Lloyd (Helicon) of Merionethshire, information
wanted, v. 68

Lloyd (General Henry), his Jacobite Political
and Military Rhapsody,' xi. 12, 58
Lloyd (John), of Stockport, vii. 489

Lloyd (Plumstead), c. 1790, his family, ii. 310,

398

Lloyd (Tom), R.W.S., b. 1849, xi. 69

Lloyd family, British settlers in America, x. 368
"Llwyfo (Llew). See Lewis.

Llysfaen Parish Church, communion paten,
vii. 331, 376

"Loafner," derivation of the word, iii. 479,
520

Loca (Joanna la), her burial-place, i. 128, 255
Local London Magazines, vii. 93, 237
Loch Long, legends of, xi. 511

Lockey (Thomas), b. 1602, librarian of the
Bodleian, xii. 312

Lockhart (J. G.), unpublished letter of, i. 446;
ii. 18, 57, 114; his Life of Scott,' passage
in (the divorced Lady), viii. 50
Lockyer (Nicholas), his marriage, ii. 70
Locomotives, the naming of, iii. 23, 76, 173
Loe (Rev. William), rector of Kirbymasham,
Yorkshire, viii. 191

Loftus family, x. 289, 356, 398

Log houses in British Isles, v. 320; vi. 48
Logan (Rev. John), d. 1788, viii. 266

66

Loke, meaning of, in street-names, i. 510;
ii. 18, 56; viii. 299

Lombard Street: a forty years' contrast, ix. 229
Lombe (Sir John), information wanted, v. 42
London (George), market-gardener, d. 1717, ix.
52, 96, 136

London (Jack), periodicals containing stories
by, iii. 274
London:-

American bluejackets in, iii. 502

Bevis Marks, street-name, iii. 91, 197
Bibliography, vii. 388, 437, 475

Billingsgate, the bosse of, x. 452; xi.
16, 58, 75, 496

Books on, the earliest, viii. 329
Cateaton Street, ix. 71, 155
Cheapside, with of, x. 290, 335

City Churches, proposed removal of, vi.
220, 264

Clockmakers of, x. 431, 478, 495; xi. 36, 47
Cloth fair, viii. 310, 353, 435, 477, 516
Clubs bibliography, ix. 41, 89, 174
Coaching and Carriers Inns in 1732, viii.
61, 84, 102, 116, 159; ix. 29
Coffee-houses, taverns and inns in the
eighteenth century, vi. 29, 59, 84, 105, 125,
143, 162, 213, 258; viii. 196; ix. 85, 105,
143, 186, 226, 286, 306, 385, 426, 435, 474,
499, 504, 517, 525; x. 13, 26, 66, 102, 164,
202, 314; xii. 516

Coffee-houses," East London, x. 107, 238
Commercial schools in the eighteenth
century, x. 451

Coroner and treasure-trove, i. 483; ii. 51,
91, 157

Curiosities, statue with spectacles, xii. 433,
498

Denmark Court, its situation, ii. 50, 119
Earl's Court, a suburb, 1712, ii. 389, 459
Eighteenth-century habits and customs,
x. 207

Epitaphs in old graveyards, ii. 308, 377, 456
Etchings by Jane Smith, viii. 228
Etymology of the name, iv. 204

Fifties and sixties, in the, vii. 431, 475;
viii. 14