Algarotti, his works, iii. 162.
Gray's opinion of his Saggio sopra
l'opera in musica, iii. 162.
account of his Il Congresso di Citera,
iii. 162.

Gray sees no objection to T. Howe
publishing his works; gives advice
as to the preparation, iii. 165.
Gray cannot advise an English trans-
lation of, iii. 298-299.
thinks of visiting England, iii. 166.
his works, in 8 vols., swarm with
errors of the press, iii. 298.

his works printed at Leghorn, iii. 307.
Gray's opinion of his merit, iii. 299.
his verse above mediocrity, iii. 300.
employed by King of Poland to buy
pictures, iii. 307.

purchases a famous Holbein, "The
consul Meyer and his family," iii.
307.

Allegory, Gray no friend of, iii. 166.
Allen, Ralph, of Prior Park, recom-
mends Mr. Hurd for a sinecure, iii.
139.

Allin, Sir A., reference to his death,
iii. 386.

Allin, Miss, inclined to part with the
estates, iii. 388.

Alloa, triumphs and illuminations of,
iii. 383.

Alps, description of a journey across
the, ii. 40-42, 45.

near Lanslebourg, ii. 41.

Alren, Dr., iii. 62.

Anecdotes of Painting, Walpole's, iii.

125.

Anglesey, Marquis, his disputed peer-
age, iii. 374.

Anguish, Mr., interested in Smart, iii.
163.

Ansel, Mr., Fellow of Trinity, his re-
cent death, iii. 254, 255.
Anstey, Christopher, translated Gray's
Elegy into Latin, i. 72, 227.
his New Bath Guide, ii. 240.
Anthologia Græca, Gray's paraphrases
from, i. 195-198.
Anti-gallican, Gray an, ii. 226.
"Antiquities, Houses, etc., in England
and Wales," catalogued by Gray
and printed posthumously by
Mason, ii. 360.

Gray pursues the study of, ii. 359-
360.

Antrobus, Robert, Gray's maternal
uncle, ii. 9.

Antrobus, Mrs. Mary, Gray's aunt,
death of, i. 72; ii. 208.
Antrobus, Miss Dorothy, Gray's cousin,
postmistress of Cambridge, iii. 130,
184, 283, 319.

Gray informs her of his appointment
as Professor of Modern History, iii.
318.

Apothecary's, Gray calls a country,
shop a terrible thing, iii. 265.
Archimage, Mr., visits Gray, iii. 191.
Archimedes, his speculum discovered
by Buffon, ii. 230.

of, ii. 63, 84.

Altieri, Cardinals, ii. 63.

Alvis, Andrew, Fellow of St. John's,
note on, candidate for the Master-
ship of St. John's, iii. 190.
Amatory Lines. Paraphrase of an epi-
gram of "Ad Carolum," i. 137.
editorial note, i. 137.

Amherst, General, speech in commend-
ation of, iii. 18.

Amusemens sur le langage des Bêtes, by
Bougeant, reference to, ii. 27.
Ancaster, Duke of, at the trial of Lord
Ferrers, iii. 35.

Ancient authors, Gray's Catalogue of,
ii. 148-154.

chronological table of their works
compiling at Cambridge, ii. 156.
Ancients, Gray's reading from the, ii.
112-113.

Ancram, Lord, to take part in a secret
military expedition, ii. 320.
Andrews, Dr., gives an opinion on the
Cambridge statutes, ii. 138.

according to Wren, the Saxon), i.
294-302.

better suited for military than for
domestic purposes, i. 294.

its distinctive character (1) semi-
circular arches, examples at Ely
and Peterborough, i. 296.

(2) massy piers or pillars, i. 297.
examples at Durham, Peterborough,
and Ely, and in views of Old St.
Paul's, i. 298.

(3) variety of the capitals of the piers,
i. 298.

examples at Ely and Peterborough,
i. 299.

(4) wider ceilings, of timber only,
examples at Ely and Peterborough,
i. 299.

(5) its ornaments, i. 299-300.
examples at Hereford, Peterborough,
and views of Old St. Paul's, i. 300.
reference to ancient statues on Crow-
land Bridge, Worcester, and Glou-
cester, i. 300.

Architecture, remarks on the Essay,

by Mr. Basil Champneys, i. 301.
Gray's opinion of the source of
Gothic, ii. 255.

reason of the beauty of Gothic, iii.
110.

beauty of Gothic, began to appear in
reign of Henry III., iii. 146.
rise of Gothic, iii. 146.
Gothic perfection, i. 317.
nothing finer than the nave of York,
i. 317.

Lady chapel (Trinity Church, Ely),
i. 317.

chapel of Bishop West at Ely, i. 317.
had introduced itself in the reign of
Charles I., iii. 158.

criticisms on JamesBentham's Essay,
iii. 228-231.

the Saxon, had no niches or canopies,
and escutcheons of arms are hardly
ever seen, iii. 229.
billeted-moulding, examples of, iii.

229.

nail-head, examples of, iii. 230.
nebule, examples of, iii. 230.

rise of the pointed arch, example
of, iii. 230.

spirit of Gray's time little less de-
structive than the civil wars, iii.
231.

Aristophanes, notes on, iv.
Aristotle, Gray's opinion of his writ-
ings, ii. 147.

Arlington Street, residence of Walpole,
ii. 139.

Armstrong, Dr. John, his poem on
Health, ii. 121.

his pseudonym of Lancelot Temple,
ii. 372.

Arthur, King, popular superstition in
Lydgate's time concerning, i. 389.
Asheton, Thomas, friend of Gray and
West, ii. 71.

publishes a book against Dr. Middle-
ton, ii. 210.

Horace Walpole's Epistle to, ii. 221,
225.

reference to, ii. 227.

Ashton, Dr., an Epistle by Horace
Walpole to, ii. 90.

his prospect of marriage, ii. 144.
his marriage, iii. 87.

visits Gray at Stoke, ii. 148.

reference to, ii. 147.

preacher of Lincoln's Inn, iii. 87.
reference to, and Eton, iii. 86, 107, 111.
Askew, Dr., ii. 117.

Aston, Rev. Dr. Delap's portrait in
Mason's dining-room at, ii. 309.

BACH, Carlo, his lessons for the piano-
forte, iii. 164.

Gray thinks them charming, though
others disagree, iii. 164.
Baiardi, Ottavo Antonio, Parmesan
antiquary, ii. 277.

Gray's criticism of his work on Her-
culaneum, ii. 277-278.

Baif, French poet, reference to, ii. 341.
Balbi, Constantino, Doge of Genoa, ii.
48.

Balguy, Dr. Thomas, of St. John's.

Gray accompanies him to town,
ii. 291.

Gray sends him a copy of The Odes,
ii. 320.

takes his doctor's degree and
preaches the commencement ser-
mon, ii. 368, 371.

returns to his prebendary of Win-
chester, ii. 371.

friend of Rev. Mr. Ludham, iii. 144.
Gray visits him at Winchester, iii.
178.

his action at Winchester, iii. 178.
says Mrs. Mason is very handsome,
iii. 224.

Balmerino, Lord, his trial for rebellion,
ii. 141.

his last action on the scaffold, ii. 146.
Balmerino, Lady Margaret, ii. 142.
Barbarossa, A play by Dr. Brown, ii. 261.
Bard, The, i. 39-50.

editorial note, i. 40.

portion submitted to Dr. Wharton,
ii. 267.

fragment of, as sent to Dr. Wharton,
ii. 268-271.

no further progress of, ii. 273, 294.
no further progress of (old Caradoc),
ii. 276.

further fragment sent to Mason, ii.
312.

the Moses of Parmegiano and Rap-
hael's figure of God in the vision
of Ezekiel furnished models for,
ii. 313.

Gray comments on Mason's critic-
ism, ii. 314-315.

Gray does not like notes, yet will
give one or two, ii. 319.
Gray comments to H. Walpole on, ii.

318-319.

criticised by Mr. J. Butler anony-

mously, ii. 344-346.

references to, ii. 284-286.
Barnard, Dr., his quarrel at the Com-
mons, iii. 63.

Barnard, Lord, reference to, ii. 238.
Barnwell, Dr., of Trompington, his

daughter marries Dr. Chapman, ii.
193.

Barrett, Mr., of Lee Priory, offers Rev.
N. Nicholls £100 a year as travel-
ling companion, iii. 324.
Barrington, Lord, Secretary for War,
ii. 292.

Barrington, Daines (one of the Welsh
judges), Gray wishes a copy of his
poems to be sent to, ii. 344.
Bartholomew Fair, reference to, iii.
77.

Baskerville, beauty of his type, iii. 165.
Bath, Lord, death of, iii. 172.

conduct of his lady during a riot, iii.
339.

Bathurst, Mr., reference to, iii. 69.
Battey-Langley manner of architecture,
ii. 253.

Battle of the Summer Islands, quotation

from Waller's, ii. 49.

Beadon, Richard, Bishop of Gloucester,
executor of Dr. Newcome, iii. 189.
Beattie, Dr. James, note on, iii. 219.
invites Gray to Aberdeen, iii. 219.
Gray would be glad to see him at
Glamis, iii. 220.

visits Glamis, iii. 221.

sends Gray two books on popular
superstition, iii. 222.

Gray criticises his poetry, iii. 279.
Gray thanks him for his many
friendly offers, iii. 285.

receives permission to issue a Scotch
edition of Gray's poems, and to
entrust its publication to Foulis
of Glasgow, iii. 285-286.
criticism of his Ode on Lord Hay's
birthday, iii. 287.

to his Pindaric Odes, iii. 290.
thanked for the edition of Gray's
poems, iii. 325; its success, iii.
346.

informed of the appointment of Gray
to the Chair of Modern History,
and its value, iii. 326.

sends Gray in MS. the first book of
the Minstrel; Gray's criticism, iii.
376.

his Essay on Truth, iii. 377.

Gray's criticism of the Minstrel, with
Beattie's comments, iii. 395-400.
obliged to Gray for his freedom of
criticism, iii. 400.

Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick, their
monuments, ii. 257.

Beauclerk, Lady Harry, receives a
pension of £400 a year, iii. 78.
Beauvau, Marshall, Prince, son of
Prince Craon, ii. 85.

Beckford, Alderman, reference to his
manner whilst delivering a speech,
iii. 18.

at the coronation banquet, iii. 116.
Bedford, Duke of, brings his son

Francis to Trinity College, ii. 309.
and Duchess likely to be of the new
Ministry, iii. 153.

Bedford, Mr., Fellow of Pembroke, ii.
288.

Mr. Buller of Cornwall his patron,
ii. 289.

Bedingfield, Mr., makes the acquaint-
ance of, ii. 276.

The Death of Achilles, a poem by, ii.
338.

relates opinions expressed respecting
Gray's Odes, ii. 340.

Mason's attitude towards, iii. 163.
references, ii. 338; iii. 329.
Bedlam, tragedy by Nat. Lee, ii. 106.
Beedon, Mr., reference to, iii. 97.
Bell, Mr., his taste for Gothic, iii. 29.
Belleisle, news of its surrender daily
expected, iii. 105.

Sir William Williams killed at, iii.
109.

Bellers visits Maltham and engraves a
view of Gordale, i. 278.
Bellingham, extinct family of, i. 269.
Benedict XIV., his election as Pope, i.

93.

Bentham, James, Prebendary of Ely,
Gray returns his Essay on Gothic
Architecture with criticisms, iii.
228-231.

Bentinck, Lady Anne, and Sir Conyers
d'Arcy, i. 367.

editorial note to Stanzas, i. 121.
the Stanzas first published in 1775,
i. 100.

assists in preparing the Chronologi-

cal table of ancient authors, ii. 158.
his designs for Gray's Elegy, ii. 234;
their publication, ii. 237; a second
edition, i. 227.

sale at London in 1882 of his draw-
ings for the six poems, ii. 237.
reference to, ii. 218.
Berger, a disciple of Linnæus, iii. 88.
Bernardi, Francesco, reference to, ii. 65.
Bevis, Earl of Southampton, The Re-
portes of, i. 338.

his residence at Duncton, i. 338.

his sword one of the relics at Arun-
del Castle, i. 338.

Bibliographical statement of Gray's
writings, i. ix-xiii.

Bickham, James, Fellow of Emmanuel,
ii. 320.

Gray sends him a copy of The Odes,
ii. 320.

laments Mason's indolence, ii. 394.
reference to, iii. 98.

Bickham, Rev. Jeremy, obtains a liv-
ing, iii. 108.

Biographia, Dr. Nicholls wrote the
latter articles of, ii. 244.
Birch, Dr. Thomas, his State Papers, ii.
194.

his State Papers of Sir T. Edmondes,
ii. 281.

Birds, Couplet about, i. 139.
editorial note on, i. 139.
Birds in Norfolk, table of their noises
being first heard during 1755, iii.
95-96.

Birkett, Rev. George, asked by Gray
to pay his Italian master, ii. 3.
Blacowe, Rev. Mr., Canon of Windsor,
his death, iii. 40, 63.
Blue-Coat or Man-in-Blew, an attend-

ant on the Vice-Chancellor of
Cambridge University, ii. 117.
Boaden's Life of Kemble, extract rela-
tive to Mason, ii. 242.
Boadicea, Glover's play of, ii. 134.
Boar, the silver, badge of Richard III.,
i. 47.

Boccaccio, introduced the Ottava Rima
measure, i. 347.

his de Cassibus Illustrium Virorum,
i. 391.

Bolby, Mr., reference to, ii. 187.

Ripton, ii. 378.

his marriage and family, ii. 379.
visits Gray at Cambridge, ii. 320.
his belief that everything turns out
for the best, ii. 321.
dines with Gray, iii. 21.
Bonfoy, Mrs. Elizabeth, references to,
ii. 378; iii. 32.

who taught Gray to pray, is dead,
iii. 152.

her fortitude, iii. 152.

Bonfoy, Mr. and Mrs., Gray sends them
a copy of The Odes, ii. 320.
Bonstetten, Charles von, Baillie of
Nion, Switzerland, letter to Norton
Nicholls, with footnote of Gray's
opinion of the writer, iii. 355-356.
proceeds to London with Gray, iii.
357.
returned to France, iii. 358.

note on, iii. 360.

Gray laments the loss of his pres-
ence, iii. 360-362, 369.
Gray's expression of warm regard,
warns him against vice, iii. 371.
sends Gray views of Switzerland, iii.
389.

is disordered in his intellect, or has
exasperated his friends, iii. 401.
Borneil, Girard de, his invention of the
Canzone, i. 352.

Boscawen, Admiral, his victory over
the French, iii. 14.

Boswell, James, tells Mitford that
Gray received forty guineas for
The Odes, ii. 330.

his Account of Corsica and Memoir of
Paoli, iii. 310.

Gray's light estimate of his abilities,

iii. 310-311.

Botanical Calendar for 1755, iii. 92-94.
Bougeant, Guillaume Hyacinthe, ii. 27.
his Langage des Bêtes, ii. 27, 96.
Epistle to, by Gresset, ii. 184.
Bourbon, Duke of, Governor of Bur-
gundy, ii. 31.

Bourne, Mr., a friend of Mason's, ii.
349.

Bower, Archibald, his career and pro-
posals for a History of the Pope, ii.
180.

Bowes, George, of Streatham Castle,
his daughter married to the ninth
Earl of Strathmore, ii. 369; iii.
276.

Boycot, Mr., may be of assistance to
Rev. N. Nicholls, iii. 342.

Stuart, iii. 34.

of Grafton, ii. 241.

inain or "policy," iii. 216.
Bramston, Rev. James, reference to

his poetry, ii. 220.

Brandenburg, Frederick the Great's
Memoirs of the House of, ii. 229.
reviewed in the Mercure Historique,
ii. 229.

Brawn, collars of, stuck with rosemary,
ii. 118.

Brian, King of Dublin, death of, i. 54.
Bridgewater, Duke of, accompanied by
P. Wood through Italy, ii. 328.
Bristol Cathedral, elegiac verses to
Mrs. Mason in, i. 141.

Bristol, Lord, Ambassador to Spain,
iii. 116.

Britannicus, tragedy by Racine, ii. 167.
performed in Paris, ii. 27.

British Museum, a treasure, ii. 396.

its excess of expenditure over in-
come, ii. 396; iii. 2.

Gray expects to see the collection
offered for sale, iii. 4.

very crowded, ii. 396.

Gray's chief amusement, iii. 1.
persons attending the reading-room,
iii. 2.

dissension of its officers, iii. 6.
Gray's researches in the Ledger-Book

of the Signet preserved in, iii. 11.
Gray's further researches, iii. 29.
Gray's MSS. in, i. xiv. 73, 113, 140.
Brivio, Signor, singing instructor, ii.
284.
Brockett,

Lawrence, Professor of
Modern History, iii. 136, 140.
tutor to Sir James Lowther, iii. 137.
agent for Earl of Sandwich at Cam-
bridge, iii. 168.

his death, and Gray's succession to
his Chair, iii. 318.
manner of his death, iii. 322.
Bromwick, dealer in wall-papers, iii.
83, 118, 120.

Brook, Dr. Zachary, of St. John's,
note on, iii. 189.

elected Margaret Professor, iii. 189.
candidate for the Mastership of St.
John's, iii. 190.
reference to, iii. 168.
Broschi, Carlos, sopranist, ii. 22, 57;
iii. 80.

Brown, Sir Anthony, supposed por-
trait in St. John's College, i. 311.
Brown, Mr. (one of the six clerks in
Chancery), his house on banks of
Eden, i. 250.

Brown, H., a contributor to Dodley's
Miscellaneous Poems, ii. 220.

College, note on, ii. 138.

his fortitude, ii. 138.

supports the case of Tuthill, ii. 161,
188.

interests himself on behalf of C.

Smart, ii. 178.

successful in his endeavour to elect

Tuthill and others Fellows of Pem-
broke, ii. 188.

presented to the living of Tilney, ii.
189.
contributes to Dodsley's Miscellane-

ous Poems, ii. 221.

visits Gray at Stoke, ii. 259.

Gray canvasses on his behalf for an
office in the University, ii. 287-
289.

asked to distribute copies of Gray's
Odes, ii. 320.

Gray enquires if the parcel of Odes
have reached him, and asks that
he will send any criticisms he may
hear, ii. 322.

if he has paid any of Gray's Cam-
bridge bills, Gray wishes to be
informed, ii. 384.

laments Mason's indolence, ii. 394.
invited to Gray's lodgings in South-
ampton Row, iii. 6.

requested to prepare Gray's Cam-
bridge apartments, iii. 61, 63.

his opinion requested of young Pon-
sonby, iii. 67.

favourable opinion of young Pon-
sonby, iii. 77.

his pictures of Ware Park, near Hert-
ford, iii. 69.

inclined to suffer from sciatica, iii.86.
proposition that he should visit Lady
Strathmore, iii. 86.

not at all well, iii. 125.

his evening prayer to the congrega-
tion, iii. 152.

called familiarly by Gray "Petit
Bon," iii. 164.

preparing some grafts for Dr.
Wharton, iii. 169.

invincibly attach'd to his duties, iii.
200.

deep in Quintilian and Livy, iii. 205.
visits his brother near Margate, iii.
245.

Gray has been nursing him, iii. 259,262.
will he accompany Gray to Mason's?
iii. 267-268.

visits Mason, iii. 272.

visits Lord Strathmore at Gibside,
and accompanies him to Scotland,
iii. 282.