Pope, project of the, for placing a cardinal on the throne of England, ii. 505; favoured by Henry IV., ib.

Popes, their early humility and subsequent arrogance, ii. 83; Celestine kicks off the crown of the Emperor Henry the Sixth, ib.; their infallibility first asserted, ib.; protest of the University of Vienna against, 84; their excommunications, ib.

Porta, John Baptiste and John Vincent, found the academy “Degli Oziosi,” ii. 488; Baptiste’s mechanical genius, iii. 290.

Portraits, of authors, of celebrated men, i. 42-47; of the Fugger family, 6; commonly prefixed to ancient manuscripts, 42; collections of, amongst the ancients, 43; query upon the mode of their transmission and their correctness, ib.; use of, ib.; anecdotes relative to the effect of, 45; objections of ingenious men to sit for, reprobated, 46; Granger’s illustrations of, 45; Perrault’s “Eloges” confined to French, ib.; collection by Paulus Jovius, ib.; doubts as to authenticity of several, ib.; literary, of himself, by St. Evremond, 102; in minute writing, 275.

Port Royal Society, the, i. 94; their Logic, or The Art of Thinking, an admirable work, ib.; account of its rise and progress, 95; many families of rank erected houses there, ib.; persecuted and destroyed by the Jesuits, 96; their writings fixed the French language, ib.

Posies on rings, iii. 39, note.

Poverty, abridgment of history of, by Morin, i. 198; regulations regarding, among the Jews, ib.; among the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, 199; uncommon among the ancients, 201; introduction of hospitals for the relief of, ib.

Prayer-books, gross illustrations of, i. 366.

Preachers, jocular, i. 251-258.

Prediction, political and moral, determined by certain prognostics, iii. 260; of the Reformation by Cardinal Julian, Sir Thomas More, and Erasmus, 262; by Sir Walter Rawleigh, 263; of Tacitus, ib.; of Solon, 264; of Charlemagne, ib.; Cicero’s art of, ib.; faculty of, possessed by Du Vair, 265; principles of, revealed by Aristotle, 266; by Mr. Coleridge, 268; of the French Revolution, 269, 270; frequently false, 272; anecdotes, 273; of the end of the world, ib., note; of the destruction of London in 1750, ib., note; of American independence, 274; sometimes condemned as false when really verified, 275; caution to be observed in, 276; instances of, by Knox, 277; of the death of Henry IV., ib.; reflections on, 278, 279.

Prefaces, frequently superior to the work, i. 71; a volume of, always kept ready by Cicero, ib.; ought to be dated, 72; anecdote of Du Clos’ to a fairy tale, ii. 340.

Preferment, anecdotes of, ii. 12.

Presbyterians, their conduct under Charles II., iii. 240; their intolerance, 254.

Press-money, proposition that those who refused it should be tried by martial law, iii. 462, and note.

Price, Robert, a Welsh lawyer, incidents in his life, iii. 422.

Primero, a game at cards described, ii. 166, note.

Prince Henry, son of James I., resembled Henry V. in his features, ii. 186; Dr. Birch’s life of, 187; anecdotes concerning, 187-194; his diary, 207.

Printing, art of, possessed by the Romans without being aware of it, i. 43, and note; probably originated in China, ib., and note; general account of early, 73-78.

Printers, mention of early, i. 75.

Prints, satiric, iii. 160.

Proclamations, against long swords and deep ruffs, i. 222; royal, against buildings in London, iii. 365; to enforce a country residence, 367; never possessed the force of laws, 366; of Henry VIII., 372; of Mary, 373; of Edward VI., 374; of Elizabeth, 375; of James I., 376; of Charles I., 377; of Charles II. against vicious, debauched, and profane persons, ib.; others by Charles II., 379.

Profession, the choice of one and its influence on the mind, with some illustrative anecdotes, ii. 461-463.

Proper names, orthography of, the uncertainty of, ii. 237; anecdotes and instances of, 237-243.

Protestantism, once existed in Spain, ii. 434.

Proverbs, use of, derided by Lord Chesterfield, iii. 33; records of the populace, 34; existed before books, ib.; abound in the most ancient writers, ib.; “the dark sayings of the wise,” 35; introduced into the Greek drama, 36; definition of, 38; influence of, over a whole people, ib.; collection of, by Franklin, ib.; inscribed on furniture, ib.; English, collected by Heywood, 39; a speech of, 40; an era of, amongst the English, 41; long favourites in France, ib.; comedy of, ib.; family, 42; ancient examples of the use of, 43; some, connected with the characters of eminent men, 44; use of, by poets, ib.; Eastern origin of many, 45; collection of, by Polydore Vergil and Erasmus, of Spanish by Fernandez Nunes, of Italian and French, English and Scotch, 46, 47; study of, 48; illustrative of national character, 48-56; anecdotes of the origin of certain, 56-61; historical, 61; remarks on the arrangement of collections of, 63.

Prynne, his method of composition, ii. 534; his extraordinary perseverance, ib.; title of the catalogue of his writings, 535; copy of his works bequeathed to Sion College, ib.; the pretended retractation of his Histriomastix, iii. 315, note.

Psalm-singing, remarks on, ii. 472; first introduction of, ib.; T. Warton’s criticism of, 473; history of, 473-478; practised at lord mayor’s feasts, 479.

Psalmanazar, his extraordinary literary forgery, i. 137, note; iii. 311; some account of, 312-314.

Puck, the Commentator.—See Steevens.

Pulteney, Earl of Bath, MS. Memoirs of, suppressed, ii. 447.

Punch, his ancient origin, ii. 122, and note; origin of his name, ib., note.

Punchinello.—See Punch.

Punning, in a dictionary, i. 305.

Puns, Cicero’s, i. 69.

Puppet-shows in England, iii. 238.

Purgatory, Cardinal Bellarmin’s treatise on, i. 204.

Puritans, turn bacchanalian songs into spiritual ones, ii. 148.

Puritans and Precisians, party nicknames at the Reformation, iii. 84, 85.

Pyrotechnics.—See Fireworks.

Quadrio, his Universal History of Poetry, iii. 233; his ignorance of English poetry, 234-236; his opinion of English comedy, 236; praises our puppet-shows, 238.

Queen Mary the First, her marriage with Philip of Spain, i. 469; her letter of instructions, ib.

Queen Elizabeth, letter of, to her brother, Edward VI., i. 461; her exhibition of youthfulness to the ambassador of the Scottish king, 463; remarkable period in her annals, ii. 179; her maiden state, ib.; real cause of her repugnance to change it, ib., and note; her artifices to conceal her resolution, 180; debates of the Commons on the succession to, 181; address to, by the Duke of Norfolk, and her answer, ib.; despatch of the French ambassador on this occasion, 181-186; her judicious conduct, ib.; her conduct towards printers and authors, 221, 222; her dislike to the appointment of a successor, iii. 331; account of her death-bed, 331, 332.

Queen Anne Bullen, anecdote relative to her execution, i. 462.

Querno, made laureat for the joke’s sake, i. 455.

Quevedo, his love for Don Quixote, iii. 339.

Quince, origin of, ii. 157, note.

Quodlibets, or Scholastic Disquisitions, i. 60.

Quotation, remarks on the use of, ii. 416; Selden’s precept for, violated by himself, 417; Bayle’s remarks on the use of, 418; when used by an eminent author often appropriated by an inferior, 419; value of the proper application of, 420.

Rabbinical Stories, specimens of, i. 120-126; scripture quoted to support, 126.

Rantzau, founder of the great library at Copenhagen, stanzas by, i. 5.

Ranz des Vaches, effect of, i. 274.

Rawleigh, Sir Walter, composed his History of the World in prison, i. 36; assisted in that work by several eminent persons, ib.; variations in orthography of his name, iii. 111, note; author’s account of his character, 112; Gibbon’s and Hume’s observations on, 113; cunning practised by, ib.; anecdotes of, 114; account of his return from Guiana, 115, 116; his attempt to escape, 118; betrayed by Sir Lewis Stucley, 119; narrative of his last hours, 124-129; his History of the World, the labour of several persons, 131; note on Mr. Tytler’s remarks on the author’s account of, 135, note; his extravagance in dress, 407; notice of Oldys’s life of, 499.

Raynaud, Theophilus, his works fill twenty folios, and ruined his bookseller, 542; notice of, 543; his curious treatises, ib.

Realists, a sect of Scholars, i. 312.

Reformation, origin of, iii. 142.

Refutation, a Catholic’s, i. 349.

Regeneration of material bodies, iii. 286, 287.

Relics of Saints, bought, sold, and stolen, i, 239; treatise on, by Gilbert de Nogent, ib.; of St. Lewin, ib.; of St. Indalece, 240; of St. Majean, ib.; of St. Augustin’s arm, ib.; flogging of, ib.; miracles performed by, ib.; miraculously multiplied, 241; anecdote of a box of, presented by the Pope to Prince Radzivil, ib.; Frederick the Wise, a great collector of, 242; phial of the blood of Christ sent to Henry III., ib.; fall in price of, ib.; deceptive, 243.

Religion, state of, during the Civil Wars, iii. 433; illustrative anecdotes of, 434-436; contest between Owen and Baxter on, 437; confusion of, ib.; a colt baptised in St. Paul’s Cathedral, 439, and note; anecdotes, 439-441; noticed by George Wither the Poet, 442; ordinance of the Parliament to rectify the disorders in, 443.

Religionism distinguished from religion, iii. 239.

Religious Nouvellettes, a class of very singular works, i. 363; account of one, 364; notice of one discussing three thousand questions concerning the Virgin Mary, 365; Life of the Virgin, 367; Jesuits usual authors of, 368; one describing what passes in Paradise, ib.; the Spiritual Kalendar, ib.

Representation, right of, not fixed in the 10th century, i. 162.

Residences of literary men, notices of several, iii. 394-399.

Reviews.—See Literary Journals.

Revolutions, maxim on, iii. 278.

Rhymes inscribed on knives, and alluded to by Shakespeare, iii. 38, note; on fruit trenchers, ib.; on rings, 39, note.

Riccoboni, a celebrated actor, his remarks on the Italian extempore comedy, ii. 134; anecdote of, 137; his inscription on the curtain of his theatre, ib.

Rich, a celebrated harlequin, ii. 130, and note.

Richardson, the author of Sir Charles Grandison, remarks on him and his works, ii. 62-65.

Richelieu, Cardinal de, his general character, ii. 349; his death-bed, ib.; anecdotes of the sinister means practised by, 350; his confessor, Father Joseph, 351-353; projects of assassination of, 354, and note; drives Father Caussin, the king’s confessor, into exile, 355.

Rive, Abbé de, librarian of the Duke de la Vallière, iii. 341; his style of criticism, 342; his collections for works never begun, ib.; his observations on the cause of the errors of literary history, 344.

Robinson Crusoe, remarks on, ii. 274; history of, traced, 275; written by Defoe, after illness, and in comparative solitude, 276; not published till seven years after Selkirk’s adventures, 277.

Roc, the, of Arabian tales, a creature of Rabbinical fancy, i. 124.

Rochefoucault De la, remarks on him and his maxims, i. 110.

Rochelle, expedition to, ii. 367; preparations for, ib.; frustrated by the death of Buckingham, 369.

Romances, the offspring of fiction and love, i. 442; early, ib.; that of Heliodorus denounced in the synod, 443; forbidden in the Koran, ib.; of the Troubadours, 444; modern poets indebted to, ib.; Le Roman de Perceforest, 445; of chivalry, examples of, 446; Italian, 448; use made of by poets, 449; French, ib.; went out of fashion with square cocked hats, 450; modern novels, ib.; histories of, 451; D’Urfé’s Astræa, ib.

Romney the painter, his belief in alchymy, i. 282, and note.

Ronsard, the French bard, and his Bacchanalia, ii. 41.

Rosy-Cross, the President of, proffers his advice to Charles I., iii. 464.

Rousseau, his prediction of the French Revolution, iii. 271, 272, and note; his favourite authors, iii. 340.

Royal Autographs, iii. 165.

Royal Promotions, ii. 10.

Royal Society, origin of, ii. 410-413.

Royal Society of Literature, ii. 406, note.

Rubens, his house at Antwerp, iii. 398; his love for collections of art, 399, and note.

Ruffs, extravagances in, i. 222-227.

Rump, the origin of the term, iii. 482, 483; three stages in its political progress, 484; songs upon, 485; debate of the, whether to massacre all the king’s party, 487; parallel between their course of conduct and that of the leaders in the French Revolution, 489-493.

Sainte Ampoule, ii. 434, note.

Salmasius, his controversy with and abuse of Milton, i. 152-154.

Salvator Rosa, fond of acting in extemporal comedy, ii. 133.

Sandricourt, the Sieur de, ruined himself by one fête, iii. 402-405.

Sans Culottes, iii. 83.

St. Ambrose, writes a treatise on Virgins, i. 412; and another on the Perpetual Virginity of the Mother of God, ib.; his chastisement of an erring nun, ib.

St. Bartholomew, apology for the massacre of, iii. 255-260.

St. Evremond, literary portrait of, by himself, i. 102.

St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins all created out of a blunder, i. 324.

St. Viar, created by an error, i, 323.

Satirical medals, iii. 156-160.

Satirists may dread the cane of the satirised, i. 442.

Saturnalia, institution of among the Romans, derived by Macrobius from the Grecians, ii. 256; dedicated to Saturn, ib.; latterly prolonged for a week, 257; description of, ib.; crept into the Christian Church, 258, and note; practised in the middle ages, 259; Feast of Asses, ib.; “December liberties,” 260; the boy-bishop, 261; Lord of Misrule, ib.; Abbot of Unreason, 262; description of a grand Christmas held at the Inns of Courts, 263-265, and note; the last memorable, of the Lords of Misrule of the Inns of Court, 266; anecdote of a Lord of Misrule, 267; the Mayor of Garratt, 269; regiment de la Calotte, ib., and note, 270; Republic of Baboonery, ib.; medals used for money in, iii. 150, 151.

Sauntering, i. 175.

Savages, various usages of at meals, i. 171-173.

Scaliger, Julius, his singular manner of composition, ii. 86.

Scaramouches.—See Pantomime. Punch and Zany, prints of, ii. 125; character of, invented by Tiberio Fiurilli, 126; power of a celebrated, ib.

Scaron, account of his life and works, i. 421-428.

Scenery of the old English stage, iii. 4, and note.

Scenarie, the plots of extemporal comedies, ii. 130; description of, note; some discovered at Dulwich College, 139, 140, and note.

Scribleraid, the, a poetical jest on pseudo-science, by R. O. Cambridge, i. 295, and note.

Scripture story treated like mediæval romance, i. 163, and note.

Scudery, Mademoiselle, composed ninety romances, i. 106; panegyrics on, ib.; her “Great Cyrus and Map of Tenderness,” 107.

Scudery, George, famous for composing romances, i. 107; a votary of vanity, ib.; author of sixteen plays, 108.

Secret History, of authors who have ruined their booksellers, ii. 532-546; of an elective monarchy, iii. 346-363; the supplement of history itself, iii. 380; reply to an attack on the writers of, 382; two species of, positive and relative, ib.; the true sources of to be found in MS collections, 383; neglect of by historians, 384; its utility, 385; of the Restoration, 386; of Mary, the Queen of William III., 389-393.

Sedan chairs, introduced into England by the Duke of Buckingham, ii. 36.

Segni, Bernardo, his History of Florence, iii. 182.

Sentimental biography, iii. 414-424.

Serassi, writes the life of Tasso, ii. 444; finds Galileo’s MS. annotations, copies them, and suppresses the original, ib.

Sermons, printed, Bayle’s saying on, i. 345.

Seymour, William, his family and character, ii. 508; enters into a treaty of marriage with the Lady Arabella Stuart, ib.; summoned before the Privy Council, ib.; his marriage, 509; imprisoned in the Tower, ib.; his wife’s letter to him, 510; his escape, 515; is permitted to return, 519.

Shakespeare, Fuller’s character of, i. 380; orthography of his name, ii. 238, and note; introduces a masque in his “Tempest,” and burlesques the characters in court masques, iii. 5, and note; bequest to his wife, 302.

Shenstone, the object of his poem of the Schoolmistress misunderstood, ii. 496; his ludicrous index to, 499; his character, his life, and his works, iii. 90-102.

Shoeing-horns, ii. 297, note.

Silhouette, a term not to be found in any dictionary, iii. 84; originated in a political nickname, ib.

Silk stockings, pair of, presented to Queen Elizabeth, i. 226.

Silli, ancient parodies, ii. 455.

Skelton, his satire on Wolsey, iii. 187.

Sneezing, the custom of saluting after, i. 126; attributed to St. Gregory, ib.; Rabbinical account of, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 127.

Snuff-boxes, the rage, in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 229; the Jesuits’, reported to be poisoned, ii. 442.

Solitude, treatise on, by Sir George Mackenzie, ii. 50; necessary for the pursuits of genius, 52; discomforts of 53, 54.

Solomon, accounted an adept in necromancy, i. 122; story of him and the Queen of Sheba, 202.

Songs among the Grecians, ii. 142; sayings of Fletcher of Saltoun, and Dr. Clerk on, ib.; Greek songs of the trades, 143; of the weavers among the English, ib.; harvest and oar-songs in the Highlands, ib.; of the gondoliers, ib.; Dibdin’s, 144; old English, 145; Swiss, 146; Italian, composed at Florence, under the Medici, ib.; French “Chansons de’ Vendange,” 147; parodied, by Puritans, 148; slang or flash, known to the Greeks, and specimens from Athenæus, 149; ancient practices in, connected with old English customs, 150; political, iii. 179, 180.

Sonnah, the, i. 113.

Sotades travestied the Iliad, ii. 455.

Sotties, more farcical than farce, i. 358; specimen of one, 359-360.

Sovereignty of the seas, ii. 79-81.

Spanish Etiquette, instances of its absurdity, i. 194.

Spanish Poetry, i. 100; remarks on and illustrative quotations of, 101; translation of a madrigal found in a newspaper, 102.

Speed, the historian, suspicions of his originality, ii. 445.

Spenser, Fuller’s character of, i. 379.

Spiders, influence of music on, i. 272; admired as food, ii. 355, note.

Stanzas to Laura, i. 230.

Starching, origin of, i. 227.

Steevens, George, the Puck of commentators, iii. 296; account of his literary forgeries, 297, 298; the story of Milton and the Italian lady attributed to, 299; his motives for omitting the Poems from his edition of Shakespeare, 301; his trick on the antiquary Gough, 303, 304.

Stephens, Robert, the printer, his family and their works, i. 76, note; divided the Bible into chapter and verse, iii. 433.

Sternhold and Hopkins, their version of the Psalms, ii. 472.

Stones, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244, 245.

Stosch, Baron, his dishonest collecting, iii. 318.

Streets of London, origin of many of their names, ii. 239-243.

Stuart, Arabella, mistakes of historians regarding, ii. 502; her history, 503-519.

Stucley, Sir Lewis, Vice-Admiral of Devon, accepted a surveillance over his kinsman, Sir Walter Rawleigh, iii. 116; his base treachery, 119; universally shunned in consequence, 120; convicted of clipping gold, ib.; his miserable death, 121.

Student in the metropolis, the, description of, by Gibbon, Rogers, and Descartes, i. 112.

Study, plans of historical, ii. 90-92.

Stukeley, Dr., his Imaginary History of the Empress Oriuna, i. 324, note.

Style, remarks on, in the composition of works of science, i. 89; strictures on the, of theological writers, ii. 21, 22; on that of Lancelot Addison, 23.

Sugar-Loaf-Court, origin of the name, ii. 10.

Suppression of MSS.—See Manuscripts.

Sydenham, F., his melancholy death occasions the foundation of the Literary Fund, i. 34, and note.

Tablets, and Table-books, ii. 26.

Talmud, many copies of, burnt, i. 48; a collection of Jewish traditions orally preserved, 114; comprises Mishna, which is the text of the Gemara, its commentary, ib.; general account of, ib.; believed apocryphal, even by a few among the Jews, ib.; time of the first appearance of its traditions uncertain, ib.; compiled by Jewish doctors to oppose the Christians, ib.; analysis of, by W. Wotton, 115; two Talmuds, ib.; committed to writing, and arranged by R. Juda, prince of the Rabbins, forming the Mishna, ib.; disputes and opinions of the Rabbins on the form of the Mishna, ib.; God’s study of, ib.; curious, from its antiquity, 116; specimens of, from the Mishnic titles, 116-118; and from the Gemara, 119.

Tasso, various opinions on the respective merits of him and Ariosto, i. 386; Boileau’s criticism on, 388; his errors national, ib.; his verses sung by the gondoliers, ib.

Taxation, remarks on the popular feeling on, in ancient and modern times, iii. 193; associated with the idea of tyranny, ib.; illustrative anecdotes, 194; efficacy of using a mitigated term for, 195; gifts, tribute, benevolences, and loans, 195-198; Burleigh’s advice on, 199.

Taylor, Thomas, a modern professor of Platonism, i. 215.

Tea, opposition to the introduction of, ii. 317; present of, declined by the Russian ambassador, 318; Dutch bargain for, 319; introduction into Europe, ib.; shop-bill of the first vendor of, 320.

Tenures, curious ancient, i. 187, note.

Thomas Aquinas, some account of the works of, i. 63-65.

Timon of Philius, his parodies of Homer, ii. 455.

Tichbourne, Chidiock, concerned in Babington’s conspiracy, ii. 171; his address to the populace at his execution, 176; his letter to his wife, 177; verses composed by him the night before his execution, 178.

Titles, origins of, and anecdotes concerning, i. 155; book of, published in Spain, ib.; Selden’s Titles of Honour, ib.; of books, 288-292.

Toleration, practised by the Romans, and inculcated by Mahomet, iii. 245; caution used in publishing works on, ib.; early English advocates of, 246, and note; in Holland, ib.; facts illustrative of the history of, 247, 248; condemned by all parties, 249-253; opinions of an English clergyman on, 252.

Tom o’ Bedlams, account of, ii. 311-314, and notes; songs of, 315-317.

Torture, Felton threatened with, ii. 376; its frequent use in England, ib.

Torquemada, first Spanish inquisitor, in fourteen years persecuted 80,000 individuals, i. 166.

Townley, Zouch, his poem on Felton, ii. 378; collection of antique marbles formed by his descendant Charles Townley, purchased for the British Museum, ib., note.

Traitors, barbarous mode of execution of, in Queen Elizabeth’s time, ii. 175, and note.

Treasures in hills, iii. 295, note.

Trevoux.—See Dictionary.

Troubadors, their poems and their loves, i. 444.

Trusler, Doctor, first vendor of printed sermons imitating manuscript, i. 400.

Turner, Doctor, a violent opposition leader in the second Parliament of Charles I., iii. 451; an agent of the opposition in Parliament against the measures of Charles I., 466; a disappointed courtier, 467, note.

Turkish Spy, the, i. 377; John Paul Marana, the author of, 378.

Urban the Eighth, instances of his poetic sensibility, i. 456.

Usurers of the 17th century, notice of the practices of, ii. 158-170.

Usury, contrary opinions on, ii. 174, 175.

Utopia, Sir Thomas More’s, missionaries proposed to be sent to, i. 320.

Vaccination, strange dread of, ii. 317.

Vallancey’s Collectanea, curious error in, i. 326, note.

Vanbrugh, the architect of Blenheim, got a power from Lord Godolphin to contract in the Duke of Marlborough’s name, iii. 104; produces the power, 106; his depositions, ib.; attempt of the Duchess of Marlborough to charge the debts of Blenheim on, 108; conduct of the Duchess towards, 109; discovery of his origin, 110, 111.

Varchi, Benedetto, his “Storie Florentine,” iii. 183; remarks of Mr. Merivale on, ib., note.

Varillas, his fictitious work on the Reformation, i. 132, note.

Vasari’s History of Artists, not entirely written by himself, iii. 131.

Vatican, library of, i. 4.

Vaucanson, his mechanical figures, iii. 284, note.

Vaudevilles, origin of the name, ii. 148.

Verses, follies in the fantastical forms of, i. 295-300; reciprocal, ib.

Vicar of Bray, story of the, i. 196; Dr. Kitchen, Bishop of Llandaff, acted the same part, 197; type of, ii. 37.

Vida, Jerome, from the humblest obscurity attained to the episcopacy, i. 105.

Vision of Alberico, ii. 422; of Charles the Bald, 423.

Virgin Mary, images of, frequently portraits of mistresses and queens, i. 366; miraculous letter of, 367; Louis II. conveys Boulogne to, ib.; Life of, by Maria Agreda, ib.; worship paid to, in Spain, 368; system of, in seven folio vols., 369.

Virginity, St. Ambrose’s treatise on, i. 412.

Walker, his account of the clergy of the Church of England who were sequestered, &c., iii. 243.

Walpole, Sir Robert, his magnificent building at Houghton, iii. 191.

Walsingham, Sir Francis, died in debt, iii. 192.

Walworth, Sir William, his private motive for killing Wat Tyler, iii. 470, note.

Warburton, J., by neglect causes the destruction of old manuscript plays, i. 54, note.

Wat Tyler, anecdote of, iii. 470, note.

Westminster elections always turbulent from the days of Charles the First, iii. 461, note.

Whig and Tory, origin of the terms, iii. 88.

Whistlecraft’s Poem on King Arthur, ii. 496, note; imitated by Byron in his Beppo, ib.

Whitelocke, his Memorials, ii. 212; his remembrances, a work addressed to his family, lost or concealed, ib.; preface to the Remembrances preserved, ib.; omissions in first edition of his Memorials, ii. 448.

Wife, Literary, i. 327; of Budæus, 328; of Evelyn, who designed the frontispiece to his translation of Lucretius, ib.; of Baron Haller, ib.; Calphurnia, wife of Pliny, ib.; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, 329; extract from her epistle to her husband, ib.; notices of the wives of various celebrated men, 332-337.

Wigs, custom of using, i. 217-220; Steele’s, 229.

Wilkins, Bishop, his museum, iii. 291.

Winkelmann, the plan on which he composed his works, ii. 89.

Wolsey, Cardinal, his magnificent houses, iii. 187.

Women, actors, first introduced on the Italian stage, ii. 140; on the English, 284; Kynaston a favourite actor of female characters, 285, note.

Woodcuts, ancient, in the British Museum, i. 74, note.

Words, introduction of new.—See Neology.

Wood, Anthony, when dying, caused his papers to be destroyed, ii. 243; some, however, preserved, ib.; secret history of the Earl of Oxford drawn from, ib.; compelled to disavow the translation of his book, 453; Gibbon’s opinion of his dulness opposed, 538, note.

Writing, minute, i. 275; ancient modes of, ii. 20-26; materials used for, 27-30.

Writing-Masters, iii. 167; Massey’s lives of, 169; anecdote of Tomkins, 171; Peter Bales, a celebrated, 173; account of his contest with David Johnson, 173-177.

Xenocrates, pupil of Plato, attacked Aristotle, i. 142.

Yvery, notice of the History of the House of, iii. 420, and note.

Zany, etymology of the word, ii. 123; and notes.