The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

GENERAL INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 799
Ormsby, Nun: monastery at (1544), 64; had Poll-tax, a graduated, levied (1381), 58.
property in Boston (1600), 206. Ponds or Pits, the Coye-Pit (1564), 222; Buttery
Ostrich public-house, near the church-yard, Pit, Furth-End Lane (1564), 256, 257; Horse
Boston, 166, 217. Pit in Furth-End Lane (1594), filled up (1767),
Our Lady's Chapel; St. Botolph's Church; pe- 257; Horse Pit in Bargate (1554 and 1657),
culiar privileges which it enjoyed, and descrip- 206; PilIory Pit, 219, and pit "at Mr.
tion of, note, 183. Kyme's" door (1578), 110.
Oxen and cows, Lincolnshire, in 1616, 674. Pond Garth (1564), 255, 779.
Oxford, St. Mary Magdalen's College at (1539), Poor, the, treated with great rigour (circa 1580),
63. 73; benefactors to the, 280, 281.
-, corn purchased for the, by the Corporation
Pacey family: the house they formerly occupied (1573, 1579, and 1615), 304.
in the church-yard, 216; monuments of, in.- house, or workhouse, 242; new one erected
Boston Church, 195, 196. (1726), 244; taken down (1837). See Union
Packhouse Quay, formerly' Parker's Staythe," Workhouse and Workhouse.
note, 228, 232, and note. Population of Boston in 1377, 56; (1767), 98;
Palatinate, a benevolence granted by Boston for (1778, 1781, 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841,
its defence (1627), 79. 1847, and 1851), 104.
Pardon, charters of (1339), 53; patent grant of Port of Boston in a bad state (1554), 66, 72;
pardon for disturbances (1348), 54. (1750), 97.
Parishes or townships, new, in the Fens, account Porters, Corporation, elected (1594), 308.
of, extent and population, 640, 641, 642. Post-office at Boston, 229.
Parliament and King, contest between (1641, Pottery, coarse, manufactory of, at Boston (1597),
&c.), 80-93. 342.
—, Members of, for Boston, 1337 to 1856; Pound for stray cattle in Bargate (1741), 206;
biographical notices and election returns, &c., in Pinfold Lane, 254; in Furth-End Lane
449-453. (1658), 257.
Parliamentary Reform Bill, first election under it Presbyterians in Boston in 1709 and 1778, 263
(Dec. 1832), 101. congregation, chapel, and succession of minisParson's Green, west side of the river, 271. ters from 1746; chapel taken down about 1825,
Paving of the town, a grant for (1389), 54; pay- 263. See Independents, who were classed with
ing and cleaning the streets (1792), 98; an Presbyterians in 1709, 1771, note 205; early
amended Act for this purpose (1806), 99. history of Presbyterians in Boston, 780.
Peace: self-constituted keepers of it (1312), 48. Presents to public men, 77; to the Earl of ManPeacock Inn, Boston, 91, 225; Little Peacock, chester (1645 and 1646), 90; Sir Henry Vane
213. (1652), 90, 91, and note; Sir Anthony Irby
Pedder's Cross (1285), note, 43, 200; Pedder's and others (1653), 92; various curious ones
Bridge, 200, 206. (1586 to 1820), 308, 309; Lord Burleigh
Pen Yard, Bargate, 204. (1578), 341; Earl of Lindsey and Sir Robert
Pest-houses in St. John's Row, 240. Carre, 343.
Peter's, St., and St. Paul's Guild (1554), 66; Priory of St. Mary at Boston, 113.
foundation, site, history, &c., 147, 148; in- Prognostics, supposed, in the air (1467), 60.
come, expenditure, and seal, 149; property at Provident Dispensary, 295.
the Dissolution, 152, 567. Provincial dialect, &c., 696-736; mode of selecPetticoat Lane, 219. tion, 696; a great proportion of the words colPewter, Corporation (1569 and 1698), 305, and lected of Scandinavian and Teutonic origin,
note. 697; slang and cant defined; number of EngPig-Market fixed in Bargate (1799), 206. lish Provincialisms, 697; an alphabetical list of
Pilgrim Fathers of New England: account of 1260 words and phrases, in great measure pecutheir emigration and arrival in America in 1620; liar to the district, 698-731; proverbs, phrases,
none of them known to be connected with comparisons, omens, superstitions, &c., 731Boston or its immediate neighbourhood, 426; 736.
difficulties attending their previous voyage from Public schools, Shod Friars' Lane, 231, 293.
Boston to Holland, 426, 427; emigrants from Pulvertoft Lane, Place, and family (1640, &c.),
Boston, and subsequently. See Bellingham, 259, 260.
Cotton, Leverett, Hough, Quincy, Whiting, &c. Pump Square, 222; pumps and pits, 222.
Pilgrimage of Grace (circa 1540), 62.
Pillory and Pillory Pit (1564, &c.), 219. Quakers or Friends first mentioned (1656), 92,
Pilotage, rates of, regulated (1796), 365. 93; meeting-house, 255; burying-ground, note,
Pirates on the coast of Lincolnshire, 1575; cor- 255; Quakers in Boston (1709 and 1778),
respondence respecting, 71, 72. 104.
Plague in Boston (1585 to 1588), 74; (1625), Quarantine, vessels ordered to perform, within
78; (1637), 80; (1656, 1667), and visitations the jurisdiction of the port (1770), 98.
of plague or other violent epidemic in many Quarter Sessions in Boston (1622), 78; (1656),
later years, 107. 93; ceased to be held in Boston, as a separate
Plants, rare, in the neighbourhood, described by court (1836), 247.
Dr. Blair, 683, 684. Quays, or wharves, or staythes, 232, 257.
—, indigenous, in the district, alphabetical list Quincy, Edmund, emigrated to New England
of 236 varieties, 684, &c. (1633); brief memoir, descendants, &c., 431.
Plate, the Church, stolen (1775), 166. Quinzeme levied upon Boston (1205), 324, and
-, Corporation, sold in 1837, 305. note.