Absam, Thomas--Adams--Addison, William--Aireton, Edmund; an excellent copyist of Amati--Aldred--Askey, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Baines--Baker--Ballantine--BANKS, BENJAMIN; the foremost English maker, and termed "The English Amati;" high character of his work and varnish--Banks, Benjamin (2)--Banks, James and Henry--Barnes, Robert--Barrett, John; follower of Stainer; good quality of work--Barton, George--Betts, John; pupil of Richard Duke--BETTS, EDWARD; pupil of Duke, and an excellent copyist; high finish; Amati model--Bolles--Booth, William--Booth--Boucher--Brown, James--Brown, James (2)--Browne, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293-299 Cahusac--Carter, John--Challoner, Thomas--Cole, Thomas--Cole, James--Collier, Samuel--Collier, Thomas--Collingwood, Joseph--Conway, William--Corsby, George--Cramond, Charles--Crask, George--Cross, Nathaniel--Crowther, John--Cuthbert; good quality of work . . 299-300 Davidson, Hay--Davis, Richard--Davis, William--Dearlove, Mark--Delany, John; his peculiar label--Dennis, Jesse--Devereux, John--Dickinson, Edward--Dickeson, John; excellent copyist of Amati--Ditton--DODD, THOMAS; not a maker, but an employer of makers of highest class, and especially famous for the high character of his varnish--Dodd, Thomas (2)--Dorant, William--DUKE, RICHARD; his name a "household word" with English Violinists; high character of his real work, but frequently and badly counterfeited; his models both Amatese and Stainer--Duke, Richard (2)--Duncan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300-305 Eglington--Evans, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 FENDT, BERNARD; a born Fiddle-maker; a fellow workman with John F. Lott; his instruments copies of Amati, bearing the labels of Thomas Dodd or John Betts, and highly valued--FENDT, BERNARD SIMON; good work, but sometimes artificially "matured;" his Violins, Tenors, Violoncellos, and Double-Basses; follower of the Guarneri and Gasparo da Salo models; his quartett of instruments in the London Exhibition of 1851--Fendt, Martin--Fendt, Jacob; his work finely finished; skilful copies of Stradivari, but artificially and cleverly "aged"--Fendt, Francis--Fendt, William--Ferguson, Donald--Firth--Forster, W.--Forster, William (i.); spinning-wheel and Violin-maker--FORSTER, WILLIAM (ii.); also a maker of spinning-wheels and Violins, and amateur Fiddler; an excellent copyist of Stainer and of the Amati models; high character of his work and varnish; his Double-Basses for the Band of George the Third; his instruments highly valued by Robert Lindley--FORSTER, WILLIAM (iii.); excellent work--Forster, William (iv.)--Forster, Simon Andrew--Frankland--Furber, John--Furber, Henry John . . . . . 305-313 Gibbs, James--GILKES, SAMUEL; a thorough artist, and pupil of William Forster--Gilkes, William--Gough, Walter . . . . . . . . . . . 313-314