ABBREVIATIONS, WORDS,  &c.,

USED   IN  THIS  FIFTH  VOLUME.
 

Where diflferent copies of the same Work bear the names of different Publishers,
each of whom took a portion of the Edition ; that is shown thus, as in the case of No.
376 on page 19 :

(1) Oawood, (2) Waley, (a) TotteU,
but when all the copies have the same Publishers' names, then the setting is thus, as at
No. 525 on page 30 :

Seres & Marsh.

Abp.               Archbishop.

against            usually means over against, but may sometimes mean adjoining to.

Ags.                Written against, or in reply to.

Aim.                Almanack.

Archd.             Archdeacon.

B.                   Ballad.

beneath           does not mean, when applied to Churches, underneath; but, like under,

beneath the shadow of,
Berks.             Berkshire.

Bp.                 Bishop.

Bucks.             Buckinghamshire.

0.                   A Comedy.

Card.              Cardinal.

Co,                  In the County of

D.                  The book is written in the form of a Dialogue.

Ded.               The Dedication of the book is written by.

Ed.                 An Edition, as 2 Ed., 5 Ed.

Edited, or Annotated, or Revised, or Completed, by.
Eng.               English.

Ep.                 The Epistle of the book is written by.

Fr.                 French.

F. S.               A Funeral Sermon.

Ouilielmus.      It is a false Shiboleth of Bibliographers to omit the first i in this word,

and to spell it Gulielmus.    At first we fell in with this custom, but

presently rejected the error: in which we have the approval of Dr J. H.

Murray, Editor of the great Oxford English Dictionary.    Dr Murray

V. 3LV.