the death of the other; or in once marrying a widow. Such were esteemed incapable of holy orders. The Council of Lyons in 1274 denied priests so married all clerical privileges. This Canon was adopted and explained in England by the statute 4 Edw. I. st. 3. (commonly called the Stat. de Bigamis), c. 5; and bigamy thereupon became no uncommon counterplea to the claim of the benefit of Clergy. But by 1 Edw. VI. c. 12, sec. 16, bigamy was declared to be no longer an impediment to the claim of Clergy (Dyer, 201, and 1 Inst. 806, note 1). By the 1st Jac. I. c. 11, bigamy is made felony, but within the benefit of Clergy.

XCV.

24 Henry VIII. c. 11, an Act for paving the street-way between Charing-cross and Strondcross, at the charge of the owners of land adjacent; and the paving being made, it shall be maintained by such adjoining land-owners, upon pain of forfeiture to the King of vid. for every yard square not paved or repaired.

25 Henry VIII. c. 8, Act for paving Holborn.

XCVI.

Noon comes from Nona. But how then comes it to mean meridies, or mid-day, when nona means the ninth hour, that is, three o'clock ? See the Glossary of Matthew Paris, in v. Nona; and the Glossary to Wickliff.

XCVII.

Earnest-money, very old; 4 d. is received 1513 or 1514 (“Old Book of Wye"); and 34 Henry VIII. the Churchwarden charges 4 d. for a Bargayn-peny; and 37 Henry VIII. Ernest-peny, 4d. including expences. "A Bargyn-peny, 4d." 4 Edw. VI.

XCVIII.

It is called text-hand and text-letter because the text was ever wrote in a large hand and the comment in a small. As text-hand is both square and round, it means little more than a large hand of each sort: the books of J. Bad. Ascensius, and of the other Black-Letter Printers, give one a perfect notion of the reason of this name.

XCIX.

Bell, book, and candle. "Accensis candelis publicè eum excommunicatum nostra auctoritate denuncietis." Alexander Papa apud Thorn. col. 1818. Of this book, see Thorn, col. 2048. Johnson's Canons, vol. II. ubique.

C.

Falstaff's character in Shakspeare, so well known to every body, was given at first to Sir John Oldcastle; but was afterwards changed to Sir John Fastolf, a reputable Gentleman and

Knight of the Garter; which gives great offence
to Mr. Anstis, Garter (see his Register of the
Garter, p. 133). Now it seems there was a notion
of Fastolf's flying in a battle, and that the Duke of
Bedford degraded him for it, by taking from him
the George and the Garter (Ibid. p. 138). This
incident the Poet laid hold of, as Mr. Anstis there
acknowledges; and it appears to be in a great
measure sufficient to exculpate the Poet; though
Fastolf, we find, was afterwards restored to his
dignity; and, in truth, was a most worthy and
valiant Gentleman. (The Life of him in " Bio-
graphia Britannica" was written by Mr. Gough.)

INDEX.

INDEX..

*The Numerals denote the Centuries,

and the Figures the Numbers.

A.

, formerly pronounced very open, as the French, x. 22.

Abbats, their names before Knights in old deeds, vi. 39. Soure pri-
vileged to wear mitres, ix. 28.

Abel, his name supposed, by Perizonius, to have been given him after
his death, vi. 61,

Abracadabra, occurs in many authors, vi. 85. Orthography wrong, ih
Abuijeda's description of Arabia translated into Latin by two different
persons, iv. 60.

decents, use of the Greek, antient, ix. 41. Of little use in dend
languages, ibid. Of particular use in the Chinese, ibid. In common
discourse, we rise and fall about four notes, ibid.

Adder, or English Viper, the venom of it not so deleterious as the
Italian, iv. 34.

Adrian VI. an Hollander, vi. 21.

Advowsons, formerly esteemed of small value, x. 10; reason of this, h
Egyptus, was the name of the Nile; and the country denominated
from it, viii. 3.

Elfred, his being styled Saint in a note upon Higden accounted
for, iii. 96. His version of Orosius in Saxon, vi. 15.

Elfric, Abp. a volume of his Saxon Homilies intended by Mrs. El
stob, vi. 18.

Enigma adduced by Tollius in his edition of Ausonius explained, ix. 55.
Ethiopia, Small Pox originated there, according to Dr. Mead, iv. 17.
Doubted, ibid.

Aga, Radulphus, qu. no such author? viii. 8.

ai, used by the Romans for ae, i. 43.

Ajax, the name irregularly formed, i. 43.

Aislabie, Mr. alluded to in “ Count Fathom," vii. 21.

Alban's, St. number of monks maintained in the abbey of, iv. 10.

Albina, daughter of Dioclesian, iii. 95.

Alcuin, character of, by Malmesbury, v. 97. Gained much honour
by his piece De Adoratione Imaginum, v. 98.

Aldrich, Dr. never had any great regard for Ragg Smith, x. 47.
Ale, 12 quarts drank in 12 successive hours by one person, without
inconvenience, vii. 83.

Alexander the Great conferred on Lysippus the exclusive privilege of
representing him in brass, ix. 14. His death natural, ix. 1; said
by some antient authors to be caused by drinking a corrosive
water, ibid,

Alexandri, Plutarch de fortuná vel vitá, illustrated, ix. 16.

Alfred, see Elfred.

Algrim, for Arithmetic, iii. 6.

Alienora, the wife of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, vii. 29.

All manner, as all manner small birds, an adjective, or substantive
with of understood, v. 75. 88.

Almanacks, the oldest in the world, i. 97.

Alone, the French à l'un, i. 14.

Alured. Beverlacensis, remarks of Mr. Hearne on some passages in
unnecessary, vii. 44. 45. 46. Doubts entertained whether Mr.
Hearne's publication be the genuine work of Alured, vii. 56.
America, reason of its being so called, vii. 69. Called Columbina by
Fuller, ibid.

Americus Vespucius, reason of America being called from his name
rather than that of Columbus, vii. 69.

Ames, Mr. illustration of a passage in his Typographical Antiqui-
ties, iii. 19. In his account of Caxton, gives, from a French book,
a specimen of the types used in printing his first English book,
"The Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy," v. 94. Corrects Mr.
Hearne, vi. 12. His marble with a Cuphic inscription now in the
Antiquarian Society's Museum, vi. 37. Compiled an index to the
Earl of Pembroke's coins, ix. 90.

Ana, Germans first produced the books in, i. 31. The nature of books
so called described, iv. 24.

Ancien, in French, signifies feu, or late; its signification sometimes
mistaken by Authors, iii. 59. ix. 31.

Ancography, a pamphlet so called, i. 61.

Angelo, Cardinal, report spread that he should succeed Pope Cle-
ment VII. i. 22.

Angel, whence it may be derived, vi. 77.

Angels, Guardian, the notion of, too uncertain to be used in our ad-
dresses to God, iv. 31.

(the coin) not called so from the similitude of the words An-
gelus and Anglus, i. 51. The device of them borrowed from the
French, ibid.

Anger, on slight occasions, reprobated, iii. 75.

Angle, (the verb), its derivation, vi. 77.

Anglesey, Earl of, contents of his "Memoirs," iii. 41.

Anglesey estate and title, account of the claimant of, 43.

Anglo-Saxons, in attesting charters, prefixed to their names a cross,
iii. 42. Those who could not write made that mark, and the scribe
wrote their names, ibid.

Animals several miles long, a notion entertained by a collegian, iii. 14.
Few of them devour their own species; but there are instances
of it, vi. 26. See Cattle.

Anna, the name of a Saxon King, vi. 67.

Annesley, James, alluded to in Peregrine Pickle, vii. 21. Account of
the family of the claimant of the Anglesey estate and title, ix. 43.
Anselm, Abp. his birth-place, v. 93.

Anstis, Mr. verses erroneously quoted by him, i. 75. His account of
the collar of SS commented on, viii. 48. His Register of the
Order of the Garter corrected, viii. 50.

Antients rode their horses without bridles, v. 68. Considered grapes
as unwholesome, viii. 24.

Antiquaries, unjustly charged with hoarding rust-eaten and illegible
coins, vi. 40.

Antiquary, character of, ii. 8.

Antiquary and Antiquarian distinguished, vi. 50.

Antoninus, comment on the A Blato Bulgio of, v. 45.