Abbott, Mr. Frank, 54
Abdul Gopher, 381
Aberystwyth, 429
Abingdon, Lord, 256
Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans, 169
Ackermann, 572
Adams, Jane, 215
Adams, Mr., 663
Addison, Joseph, 245, 246, 247
Admirable Crichton. See James Wyatt
Aix, 419
Albemarle, Duke of, 242
Aldgate Workhouse, 367
Alphington, 17
—— strange appearance of, 16, 18, 20
—— excuses of the impecunious, 18
Altarnun, 302
Amery, Mr. J. S., 456
—— are shot down, 646
—— report on massacre, 674
Anderson, Lord, 104
Andrews, Charles, 634, 637, 641, 646, 647, 650, 697, 698
Andrews, William, 64
Annals of the East India Company, 381
Annapolis, 787
Anne, Queen, 48, 233, 243, 415
Annual Register, 67, 68, 368, 400, 524 note
Antongil Bay, 386
Apparitions, 725
Apples, 14
—— at a Church Congress, 2
—— in church, 50
Arber, Mr., 94
Architectural Antiquities, 571
Architecture, Gothic, 574, 614
Architecture, painter of. See Samuel Prout
Architecture, Works on, 575
Argyll, Duke of, 417
Arlington, 772
Arms of Lord Ashburton, 632
—— Bidlake family, 217
—— Blundell family, 619
—— Gould family, 619
—— Harris family, 619
—— Kelloway family, 1
—— Prowse family, 565
—— Raleigh family, 281
—— Stafford family, 1
—— Young family, 619
Arnold, Andrew, 716
Arnold, John, 680
Arnold, Richard, 675, 677, 678
Arnull, Mrs., 563
Arscott, 47
—— his characteristic kindness, 49
—— his conduct in church, 50
Arscott, John, his jester, 53
Arscott, “the wicked,” 49
Ashburton, first Lord, 630
Ashburton, 279, 370, 436, 437, 440, 442, 445, 447, 452, 478, 604, 619, 622–624, 628, 633
Ashburtonian, 456
Ashprington, 371
Ashton, John, 277
Ashwater, 371
Aspect, reason for north, 223
Assassination of Henry III, attempted, 226
As You Like It, 514
Audley End, 196
Aurungzebe, 381
Austen, Rudolphus, 13
Austin, Alfred, 329
Avelyn, Lieutenant, 656 note, 660, 670, 695
Averie, Elizabeth, 251
—— autocracy in Madagascar, 376, 386, 388
—— as pirate, 381
—— captures Great Mogul’s daughter, 381
Baba Hasan, 159
Babbage, Jack, 553, 554, 556, 557, 562
Babley, 414
Badger, John, 65
Baggator, 702
Bagnal, Sir Nicholas, 268
Bailey, Mr., 708
Baker, Archdeacon, 372
Baker, Bessie, 73
Baker, Mary. See Caraboo
Baker, Sir Richard, 183
Baker’s Chronicle, 183
Ballads and Songs, 328
Ballads, A Century of, 277
Ballad of Cyder, 15
—— of Dick Simmins, 524
—— of Lady Howard, 210
—— of “Lusty” Stucley, 273
—— of the Bideford Witches, 277
—— of Wrestling, 515
“The Bay of Biscay,” 354
“The Death of the Smuggler,” 354
“The Death of Parker,” 364–368
“Dear Catholic Brother,” 243
“The Fish on the Coast,” 253
“The Hunting of Arscott, of Tetcott,” 54, 243
“Joy to Great Cæsar,” 245
“Just Like Love,” 353
“The Lamentation of Strangwidge,” 103
“The Little Girl down the Lane,” 445
“May We Never Want a Friend,” 354
“Mrs. Page’s Lament,” 102
“Nice Young Maidens,” 423
“One Long Whitsun Holiday,” 245
“The Scotch Yoke,” 5
Ballard, Joseph, 415
Baller, Anthony, 422
Bampfylde, Mr., 613
Bancroft, Mr. and Mrs., 33
Banks, Sir Joseph, 750
Banterer, 775
Barclay, 133
Baring, Charles, 616
Barker, Hon. Charles, 257
Barnes, Grace, 276
—— taverner to highwayman, 321
—— executed, 324
Barnstaple, 102–104, 224, 230–234, 326, 414, 417, 422, 543, 561, 772, 774, 782
Barnstaple, Literary History of, 103
Baron, John, 222
Barré, Colonel Isaac, 628, 629
Barry, Mr., 472
Barum ware, 234
Baskerville, Mary, 458
Bastard, Colonel, 482, 483, 704
Bateman, Mary, 394
Bath Chronicle, 40
Bath, Earl of, 231
Bathurst, Lord, 418
Battle of Alcazar, 272, 273, 734
Battyn, 47
Batworthy, 755
Bawden the Mole-catcher, 520
Bayard, 238
Bay of Biscay, 86
Beaford, 541
Bear, John, 744
Beare, Dr., 274
Beasley, Reuben G., 635, 639, 673
Beaumont, Robert de, 773
Beauties of England and Wales, 568, 571
Bebb, Mr., 27
Becket, Thomas à, 549
Bedford, Earl of, 204, 209, 754
—— complete success of, 419
Belgrave, Lord, 448
Bell, Mr., 241
Bell, James, 698
Belle’s Stratagem, The, 31
Bell-ringing, contests in, 370
Belmont, 716
Belstone, 709
Beltrees, 241
Bennett, John, 694
Bennett’s Cross, 700
Benson, Thomas, 233
—— donor of bowl and ladle, 234
—— M.P. for Barnstaple, 234
Bent, Dr., 256
Berkeley, Earl of, 24
Bermondsey, 393
Bernasconi, Miss, 563
Berry, 251
Berry, Sarah, 603
Bertie, Dr., 256
Bevan, 602
Bewick, 578
Beyeck, Joseph, 698
Bible, value of the, 341
Bickford, William, 47
Bickleigh, 188, 189, 426, 435, 568
Bicton, 591
Bideford, 233, 234, 274, 276, 327, 329, 330, 384, 385, 389, 414, 417, 436, 775, 785
Bidlake, Dr., 459, 566, 567, 568
Bidlake family, the, 212–223, 737
—— fights for Royalists, 220
Bidlake, Henry, hides in a clock, 220
Bidlake, John, 219
Bilbao, 152
Binus, 469
Bird of the Oxenhams, the, 249–261
—— appears to foretell death, 249, 254, 256, 258–261
—— probable origin of legend, 254, 255
Birds of the Crozet Islands, 342
Birdwood, Miss, 133
Bisett, Margaret, 227
Bishops, bad character of, in 16th century, 214
Bishop, John, 597
Bishop, Robert, 597
Bishops of Exeter, 48, 124, 125, 214, 217, 218, 249, 529, 531, 532, 538, 556, 557, 558, 583, 590, 747
Bishop of Limoges, 239
Bishop of Saint Flores, 239
Bishopstawton, 104
“Black Assize, The,” 103
Blackabrook, 186
Blackhall, 711
Black Horse, Captain of the, 207
“Black Horse Tavern,” 320, 321, 323
Blackmail, 383
Blackmore, Robert D., 528, 549, 556, 561
Blake, William, 699
Blisland, 56
Bliss, Mr. Joe, 502
Bloomers introduced by the Alphington Ponies, 20
Blore, Mr., 564
Bloudie Booke, The, 193
Board of Trade, 776
Boconnoc, 605
Bodleian Library, 324
Bodmin Moors, 302
Boggs, John, 685
Boleyn, Mary, 263
Bolton, Duke of, 418
Bombay, 381
Boogoos, the, 38
Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy, 95
Boringdon, 713
Boscastle, 302
Boscawen, Mrs., 743
Bötcher, 604
Boughthayes, 187
Boulogne, siege of, 263
Boundye, Thomas, 597
Bovey, 535
Bovey Heathfield, 482
Bowring, Benjamin, 510
Boyce, John, 533
Boyle, Robert, 489
Brabant, 205
Braddons, The, 18
Bradford, 68
Bradiford stream, 773
Bradmore, 524
Bratton Clovelly, 97
Braunton, 329
Bray, Rev. E. A., 95
Brazen Mask, The, 353
Breeches fit the man, 703
Brest, 206
Brice, Andrew, 389, 480, 502–513
—— reprimanded by Parliament, 504
—— publishes Weekly Journal, 504
—— publishes The Grand Gazetteer, 509
Bridewell, 393
Bridport, 308