Play-bills, when introduced, 234. Plough, the town, 129. 339. Plum-pudding at Paignton fair, 66. ---- receipt for making, 319. P. (M. T.) on Holles family, 132. P. (O.) on inscriptions in books, 337. Poem, an early satirical, 568. Poems, inedited, 424. Poisons used for bouquets, &c., 262. Polka, its antiquity, 152. Pollock (H.) on positive photographs, 581. Pope (Alex.) and the Marquis Maffei, 64. ---- his corrections from the Dunces, 541. ---- and Buchanan, 570. ---- inedited poem by, 57. 113. Popham (Lord Chief Justice) noticed, 259. 305. Pork-pisee, its meaning, 96. Port (Justice) noticed, 572. Portrait, a clerical one, 407. Portrait painters at Bath and Derby, 180. 294. 319. 393. Portraits at Brickwall House, 406. ----, national, a catalogue suggested, 258. Postage stamps, perspective view of twelve, 35. Posts of conveyance, notices of, 3. Potguns, 190. 319. Powell (Sir John), 262. 359. P. (P.) on picture of our Lord's trial, 235. ---- subterranean bells, 200. P. (R.) on "lying by the walls," 332. ---- Welsh legend of the redbreast, 328. Pratt (Dean) noticed, 408. Prayer-book, editions prior to 1662, 18. 91. 321. Prester John, 502. Prestoniensis on Chapel Sunday, 527. ---- Segantiorum Portus, 180. Price (R.) on drawing an inference, 303. Prigging tooth, or pugging tooth, 257. Primrosen in East Anglia, 201. Princes' whipping-boys, 268. Printers' grammars, 597. Prisoners, form of prayer for, 410. 483. P. (R. L.) on order of St. John of Jerusalem, 407. Proclamation of Henry VIII. against religious books, 421. ----, their value as historical evidences, 3. Proctor (Wm.) on brasses since 1688, 272. ---- collar of SS., 297. Prospero, the island of, 524. Proverbs:--As poor as Job's turkey, 180. ---- Catching a Tartar, 73. ---- God tempers the wind, 193. ---- Nine tailors make a man, 165. 557. ---- Qui facit per alium, facit per se, 382. 488. 629. ---- To lie at the catch, 132, ---- To talk like a Dutch uncle, 65. ---- Very like a whale, 86. ---- Weather, 200. ---- When our Lord falls in our Lady's lap, 157. ---- Winter thunder and summer flood, 81. ---- You change Norman for a worse horse, 156. Psalmanazar, his history, 206. 305. 435. 479. 551. P. (S. R.) on raven superstition, 496. ---- Valentines in America, 281. Pt. (A.) on Roman Catholic registers, 500. Pumphrey (Wm.) on stereoscopic pictures, 48. Purlieu, its etymology, 477. 633. Pursglove, suffragan bishop of Hull, 65. 135. P. (W.) on the "Boy of Heaven," 429. ---- Johnsoniana, 328. ---- key to Dibdin's Bibliomania, 151. ---- Spenser's birth-place, 303. ---- talc for collodion pictures, 338. P. (W. H.) on heraldic queries, 203. P. (W. M.) on passage in Thomson, 67. Pylades and Corinna, 305. 551. Q.