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  • A - AUTHOR NAMES
    • A Proverb
    • AProverb (template)
    • Abbot >
      • Brief Description of the Whole World
      • Abbot (no work cited)
    • Accidence
    • Addison [Joseph]
    • Addison, Dr. [Lancelot]
    • AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher]
    • Ainsworth [Robert]
    • [Allestree, Richard]
    • Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]
    • Amhurst [Nicholas]
    • Anon.
    • Apostles Creed
    • Arbuthnot, C. [Charles]
    • Arbuthnot [John]
    • Arbuthnot and Pope
    • Aristotle
    • Ascham [Roger]
    • Atterbury [Francis]
    • Ayliffe [John]
  • B - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Bacon [Francis]
    • Bailey [Nathan]
    • Baker [Thomas]
    • Barker; Mrs. Barker
    • Bathurst [Ralph]
    • Baxter [William]
    • Baynard [Edward]
    • Beattie [James]
    • Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
    • Beaumont [Joseph]
    • Bentley [Richard]
    • Berkley [George Berkeley]
    • Betterton [Thomas]
    • Bible
    • Blackmore [Richard]
    • Blount [Edward] to Pope
    • Blount [Thomas]
    • Bluteau [Raphael]
    • Bochart, Samuel
    • Boerhaave [Herman]
    • Boileau [-Despreaux, Nicholas]
    • Bolingbroke [Henry St. John]
    • Bourd [Boorde, Andrew]
    • Bourne [Vincent]
    • Boyle [Robert]
    • Boyse, Sa. [Samuel]
    • Bracton [Henry de]
    • Bramhall [John]
    • Brampston [James Bramston]
    • Brerewood [Edward]
    • Brooke [Henry]
    • Brooks
    • Broome [William]
    • Brown[e] [Edward]
    • Brown[e] [Thomas]
    • Brown[e] [William]
    • Bruno [de Segni]
    • Buckingham [John Sheffield]
    • Buckhurst [see Dorset]
    • Budaeus [Guillaume Budé]
    • Builder’s Dict.
    • Bull [George]
    • Burnet [Thomas]
    • Burton [Robert]
    • [Butler, Samuel] Hudibras
  • C - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Caius [John Kays]
    • Calamy [Edmund]
    • [Callimachus]
    • Calmet [Antoine Augustin]
    • Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus]
    • Camden [William]
    • Carew [Richard]; Car.
    • Carew [Thomas]
    • Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
    • Carter, Mrs. [Elizabeth]
    • Casaubin [Meric Casaubon]
    • Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
    • Cave, Edward
    • Chambers [Ephraim]
    • Chapman [George]
    • Chaucer [Geoffrey]
    • Cheselden [William]
    • Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
    • Chevy Chase
    • Cheyne [George]
    • Child [Josiah]
    • Children in the Wood
    • Chillingworth [William]
    • Church Catechism
    • Cicero [Marcus Tullius]
    • Clarendon [Edward Hyde]
    • Clarke [John]
    • Clarke [Samuel]
    • Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
    • Cockburn [John]
    • Cock[er]; Cocker [Edward]
    • Coke [Edward]
    • [Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting
    • Collier [Jeremy]; Collyer
    • Collins [William]
    • Colson [John]
    • Common Prayer
    • Concanen [Matthew]
    • Congreve [William]
    • Corbet, J.
    • Corbet; Corbet , Bp. [Corbett, Richard]
    • Cotton [Charles]
    • Cowel [John]
    • Cowley [Abraham]
    • Crashaw [Richard]
    • Creech [Thomas]
    • Cromwell [Henry]
    • Cromwel[l] [Thomas] to King Henry
    • Croxal [Samuel]
    • Cudworth [Ralph]
    • Cujas [Jacques]
  • D - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Daniel; Daniel’s Civil War [Samuel]
    • Daniel (Dr. Daniel in 4th) [Richard]
    • Davenant [Charles]
    • D'avenant [William]
    • Davies [John (Sir)]
    • Davies [John]
    • Decay of Piety; Decay [Allestree, Richard]?
    • [Defoe, Daniel] Robinson Crusoe
    • Delany [Patrick]
    • Denham [John]
    • Dennis [John]
    • Derham [William]
    • Destruction of Troy [Caxton, tr.]
    • D'Herbelot [Barthelemy]
    • Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
    • Dier [Samuel Dyer]
    • Digby [Kenelm]
    • Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
    • Digby [George] (Lord Digby to Sir Kenelm Digby)
    • Dodderidge [Philip Doddridge]
    • Dodsley’s Miscellany; Dodsley; Dodsley’s Agriculture [Robert Dodsley]
    • Donne [John]; Don.
    • Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
    • Douglas [Gavin]
    • Drayton [Michael]
    • Drummond [William]
    • Dryden [John]; Poem to Roscommon; Oedipus
    • Dryden, J. jun [John]
    • Du Cange [Charles Du Fresne Du Cange]
    • Duke [Richard]
    • Duncomb’s Life of Hughes [William Duncomb]
    • Duppa [Brian]
    • Dyer [John], Dier
  • E - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Eachard [John]
    • Eachard [Laurence Echard]
    • Ellis’s Voyage [Henry]
    • Epitaph on Vanbrugh [Evans, Abel]
    • Escape of King Charles
    • Evelyn [John]
    • Expedition to Carthagena [Charles Knowles]
  • F - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Fairfax [Edward]
    • Fanshaw [Richard]
    • Farquhar [George]
    • Farrier’s Dict.
    • Felibien [Andre]
    • Fell [John]
    • Felton [Henry]
    • Fenton [Elijah]
    • Ferne [Henry] Bishop
    • Fiddes [Richard]
    • Fielding [Henry]
    • Fisher [John]
    • Fitzgerald [Thomas]
    • Flatman [Thomas]
    • Fleetwood [William]
    • Fletcher [John}
    • Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]
    • Floyer [John]
    • Forbes [Duncan]
    • Fortunatus; Vent. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
    • Fox [John Foxe]
    • Francis [I] of France
    • Freeholder - see Addison
    • Freind [John]; (Friend in Abstr.)
    • Fryer, John
  • G - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Garlick [Thomas
    • Garretson [John]
    • Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
    • Garth [Samuel]
    • Gay [John]
    • Geddes [Michael]
    • Gerard [John]
    • Gibson [Edmond]; Gibson’s Camden
    • Giffard [Gifford, Richard]
    • Glanville [Glanvill, Joseph]
    • Glover, Richard
    • Goldsmith, Oliver
    • Goodman [John]
    • Gouldman [Francis]
    • Government of the Tongue
    • Gower, [John]
    • Grainger [James]
    • Granville [George]
    • Graunt [John]
    • Gray [Stephen]
    • Gray [Thomas]
    • [Greek] Anthology
    • Grew [Nehemiah]
    • Grosthead, Bishop [Robert Grosseteste or Grossetete]
    • Guardian [Richard Steele, Addison]
  • H - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Hacket [John]
    • Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
    • Hale [Matthew]
    • Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales]
    • Halifax [Charles Montague]
    • Hall [Joseph]
    • Hammond [Henry]; Ham.
    • Hanmer [Thomas]
    • Harrington [John]
    • Harris [John]
    • Harte [Walter]
    • Harvey [Gideon]
    • Hawkesworth [John]
    • Hayward [John]
    • Hearne [Thomas]
    • Heigh [R.]
    • Henshaw [Thomas]
    • Herbert [George]
    • Herring [Thomas]
    • Hesychius [of Alexandria]
    • Heylin [Heylyn, Peter]
    • Hickes [George]
    • Hill, Aaron
    • Hill [John]
    • Holder [William]
    • Holinsh. [Raphael Holinshed]
    • Holyday [Barten]
    • Homer
    • Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
    • Hooker [Richard]; Hook.
    • Horace
    • Hough [John]
    • Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden]
    • Howel [Howell, James]; How.
    • Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
  • I - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Introduction to Grammar [Garretson, John]
  • J - AUTHOR NAMES
    • James’s Voyage [Thomas]
    • Jervas [Charles]
    • Jewel [John]
    • [Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
    • [Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
    • Junius [Francis]
  • K - AUTHOR NAMES
    • [Kane] Cane
    • Keil [Keill, John]
    • Ken [Thomas]
    • Kennet [White Kennett]
    • Kettlewell [John]; Kettleworth
    • King [William]; King’s Cookery
    • King Charles [Charles I]
    • King James [I]
    • King James [James II; James VII of Scotland]; K. James's Declaration
    • Knolles [Richard]
  • L - AUTHOR NAMES
    • L’Acad. [Dictionnnaire l’Academie francaise]
    • Latimer [Hugh]
    • Lauderdale [John Maitland]
    • Law [William]
    • Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas]
    • Layer's Trial
    • Lee [Nathaniel]
    • [Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote; Shakespeare Illustrated
    • Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
    • L’Estrange [Roger]
    • Lewis [David] ; Lewis’s Miscel.
    • Lib. Londiniensis
    • Lily [William]
    • Littleton [Thomas] (also Lyttleton, de Littleton)
    • Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward]
    • Lloyd [William]
    • Locke [John]
    • Logie
    • London Dispensatory
    • Lye [Edward]
    • [Lyttelton, George] Littleton on the Conversion of St. Paul
  • M - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Macbean [Alexander]; Macbean’s Remonstrance
    • Mackenzie [George]
    • Madden [Samuel]
    • Maine; Maine, Dr. Jasper [Mayne]
    • Malcolm [Alexander]
    • Mandeslo [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]
    • Mandeville; Maundeville [John]
    • Manger's French Grammar
    • Manwood [John]
    • Mareschal [Thomas Marshall]
    • Markham [Gervase]
    • Martial
    • Martin [Benjamin]
    • Mart. Scribl. [Martinus Scriblerus]
    • Marvel[l] [Andrew]
    • May [Thomas]
    • Mead [Richard]
    • Melmouth [William Melmoth]
    • Menage [Giles]
    • Middleton [Thomas, and Decker, Thomas]
    • Military Dict.
    • Miller [Philip]
    • Milton [John]; Par. Regained; Par. Lost
    • [Minsheu] Minshew [John]
    • Molineux [William Molyneaux]
    • Moore [Edward]; Moore’s Fables; Moore’s Foundling
    • More’s Life of Sir Thomas More [Christopher Cresacre]
    • More [Henry]
    • More [Thomas]
    • Moreton [Anne]
    • Mortimer [John]
    • Motteux [Peter Anthony]
    • Moxon [Joseph]
    • Mulso, Mrs. [Hester Chapone]
    • Murphy [Arthur]
    • Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek, Pieter van]
  • N - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Nelson [Robert]
    • Newcastle [Margaret], Dutchess [Duchess] of
    • Newton [Isaac[
    • Newton [Thomas]
    • Nicene Creed
    • Nigel de Wetekre
    • Nichols
    • Norris [John]
  • O - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Ogle [George]
    • Old Comedy
    • Old Song
    • Oldham [John]
    • Oldham’s Life [Robert Shiels/Theophilis Cibber]
    • Orrery [Charles Boyle, 4th Earl]
    • Orrery [John Boyle, 5th earl]
    • Orrery [Roger Boyle, 1st Earl]
    • Otway [Thomas]
    • Oxford Reasons Against the Covenant
    • Ozenam [Ozanam, Jacques]
  • P - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Parnel [Parnell, Thomas]
    • Pasquier [Etienne]
    • Pattison [William]
    • Peacham [Henry]
    • Pearce [Zachary]
    • Pearson [John]
    • Pemberton [Henry]
    • Perkins [William]
    • Pezron [Paul-Yves]
    • Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
    • Phillips; [Philips, John]
    • Phillips, Edward
    • Phil. Trans.
    • Pierce [Thomas]; Pierce’s Lett.
    • Pineda [Pedro]
    • Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype >
      • Imitations of Horace
    • Pope, Dr. [Walter]
    • Prideaux [Humphrey]
    • Prior [Matthew]
  • Q - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Quarles [Francis]
    • Quincy [John]
  • R - AUTHOR NAMES
    • S - AUTHOR NAMES >
      • Salernum, School of
      • Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
      • Salmon’s Survey; Salmon [Nathanael]
      • [Sanderson, Robert] Saunderson; Sanderson
      • Sandys [George]; San.
      • Sappho
      • Savage [Richard]
      • Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon and Louis-Philemon Savary]
      • Scaliger [Joseph Justinian]
      • Scotch Proverb
      • Sea Dict. [Capt. John Smith]
      • [Sedley, Charles] Sidley
      • Seed’s Sermons [Jeremiah]
      • Selden [John]
      • Sewel [George Sewell]
      • Shadwell [Thomas]
      • Shakespeare [William]
      • Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
      • Shaw [Peter]
      • Shaw; Shaw’s Gramm. [Samuel]
      • Shelvock [Shelvocke, George]
      • Sherburne [Edward]
      • Sherlock [Thomas]
      • Sidney [Philip]
      • Skelton [Philip]
      • Skinner [Stephen]
      • Smalridge [George]; Smallridge
      • Smart [Christopher]
      • Smith [Edmund]
      • Smith [John]
      • Somerville [William]
      • Somner [William]
      • Song
      • Song of the King and the Miller
      • South [Robert]
      • Southern[e]; Southerne [Thomas]
      • Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony]
      • Spectator [Addison and Steele]
      • Spelman [Henry]
      • Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
      • Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]
      • Steele [Richard] to Pope
      • W - AUTHOR NAMES >
        • W____n [Waldren]
        • Wafer [Lionel]
        • Wake [William]
        • Walker [William]
        • Waller [Edmund]
        • Waller’s Life
        • Wallis [John]
        • Walsh [William]
        • Walton [Izaak]
        • Wandering Pr.[Prince] of Troy
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        • Ward [Seth]
        • Warton’s Spencer [Thomas Warton; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis; Progress of Discontent
        • Wase [Christopher]
        • Waterland [Daniel]
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        • Welsted [Leonard]
        • Wesley [Samuel]
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        • Whole Duty of Man; Duty of Man [Allestree?]
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        • X - AUTHOR NAMES
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      • Sylvester [Joshua]
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  • Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph
  • T - AUTHOR NAMES
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      • Taylor [Jeremy]
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  • V - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Vanbrugh [John]
    • Virgil
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  • Y - AUTHOR NAMES
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    • Yalden [Thomas]
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  • Henley [John]
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Authority Cited: Hale
Author name and dates: Matthew Hale (1609-1676)

BKG Bio-tweet: Influential jurist; involved in restoring Charles II; condemned witches; legal and theological writer; SJ quotes both

Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 310 Hale cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 250 Hale cites in Dict. vol. 2.  Seven Hale cites were identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict., four of these under the letter "A." Headwords for which cites were added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated below in bold italic.   No added Hale cites were identified in Dict. vol. 2.  A substantial number of Hale cites are to "Hale" only, without a work cited.  All such cites sampled that were traced to Hale works were found in one of the two titles below.  The words verified as being from one of the titles are included in the list of headwords for the title within squared brackets [ ].  Item 216 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, ed. Fleeman, is 4. Hale's placitorumcoronae, 2 v. 1736 ....  Per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (p.204), The Primitive Origin of Mankind (1677), marked by SJ, is in the Bodleian (Dep. c.25).]

  • The history of the common law of England. Divided into Twelve Chapters, By Sir Matthew Hale, Kt., late Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, The Second Edition, Corrected. 1716, London: Printed for John Walthoe in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters, and John Walthoe Junr. against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill; [accord (added in 1773 Dict.)]; ​afforestation; alien; amerce; ancestrel; antiquate; appendix; assistant; ... [avoidable (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as nonage)];  barbarousness; baronage; bequest; bind; bolt; bundle; [capitulation]; challenge; charter-party; coalition; coercion; collector; commorance; compulsion; consession; consonance; conterminous; ... [debase]; dedition; [defloration]; deletion; descendible; desume; devolution; doubtless; [encounter]; enfeoff; establish; examiner; [feudal];[generalty]; heritable; [illeviable]; incommunicating; infuedation; instate; interlard; juridical; legal; legislature; manual; [memorial (inexact quote, perhaps from memory, or a conflation of two quotes)]; [munition]; [nonage]; [one]; orally; [ordeal]; [over-forwardness]; panel; [parliamentary]; prefix; process; purview; [recess]; repurchase; residence; resort; [seizin]; similar; [title]; [venter]; [verbatim]; underpin. 
  • The primitive origination of mankind, considered and examined according to the light of nature. Written by the Honorable Sir Matthew Hale, Knight: late Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench. 1677, London: Printed by W. Godbid, for W. Shrowsbery at the sign of the Bible in Duke-Lane; abjure; abrade; absolve; absume; acceleration; accessible; accommodation; accustomable; ... [analogal (added in 1773 Dict., new headword)]; ... [appetition (added in 1773 Dict.)]; ... assimilate; ... bailiwick (incorrect cite, should be History of the Common Law of England; inexact quote, perhaps from memory: reads counties rather than bailiwicks in the both the 1716 and the 1713 edition, p.14,); balsamical; bear; before; beneficent; beneficialness; beside/besides; [bottom]; brain; break; brute; burgage; carcass; carnify; carp; carry (2); castigation; cataclysm; cease; characterize; ... [collectively]; [competible (added in 1773 Dict.)]; [comportment (added in 1773 Dict.)]; ... dead; decursion; defectibility; [delectable]; ​deputy; derivation; derivative; destination; determination; ... [either]; ​efficient; egestion; elicite; else; emanant; [emetical/emetick]; empyrosis; enfranchise; engraver; enunciation; equal; estimative; evacuation; evilness; evincible; evolve (2); [exaggerate (added in 1773 Dict.)]; ​exaggeration; excogitate (2); exodus; exornation; explicable; explicate; extendedlessness; fabrication; [fair]; fall; famine; fancifulness; felt; ferine; filiation; for; fracture; fusee; get; [give]; ​go; guild; habitude; harness; heptarchy; hierophant; hither; [hithermost]; ​identical; [idiotism]; impendence; imperate; improvable; inaccessible; inchohation; incompossibility; inconceptible; inconcoct; ... just; [kersey (same quote as felt)]; land; lapse; level; [link (2)]; lisne; [make]; mancipate; mannerliness; manurable; marsh; meander; [midland]; ministration; misemployment; nature; necessitate; necessitude; [nobleness]; [obduce]; objective; objectiveness; obliterate; obliteration; observance; observator; opinator; [origination (same quote as excogitate)]; overstore; [parity]; peaceable; perceptible (2); perception; percolate; placable; plant; posited ... raciotinative; [ramification]; [reason]; recompense; rector; reductive; reminiscence; repeople; ... salvatory; seminification; [sempiternal]; severity; sharp-visaged; sinewy; sinuation; ... [tactile]; topical; torpidness; traduction; [transmission]; trigon; variety; [venerator]; [vermiculation]; unconfused; unintermitted; unseasonableness; vocally; waterfowl; waterish; [weariness (same quote as waterfowl]; [weather]; [yea]. 
  • Hale  (no work cited); at; compulsion; concentre; concludency; concurrent; ... defectible (incorrect cite: should be Norris, A Discourse Concerning Perseverance in Holiness in A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters); derogate; desicate; destroy; desuetude; desume; disciplinableness; ... emigration; executive; existence; fall; ferineness; for; foul; higgle (incorrect cite: should be Joseph Hall, Contemplations vpon the historie of the the New Testament); hold; immemorial; impendent; imperceptible; imperceptibleness; impertransibility; improvidence; inclusively; incompatibility; incompatible; increase; ... lingeringly (incorrect cite: should be Joseph Hall,​ No Peace with Rome); meridian; moment; moor; moorish; ... omnipresence; opinion; oust; partake; participant; permanence; pike; ploughland; ... range; ravenousness; reasonableness; recentness; reduction; ... said; sanguify; scantlet; scrutiny; self; ... take (3); tale; temperament; tench; term; ... vainglorious; variation; ventricle; ... wager; watch;

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    • Barker; Mrs. Barker
    • Bathurst [Ralph]
    • Baxter [William]
    • Baynard [Edward]
    • Beattie [James]
    • Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
    • Beaumont [Joseph]
    • Bentley [Richard]
    • Berkley [George Berkeley]
    • Betterton [Thomas]
    • Bible
    • Blackmore [Richard]
    • Blount [Edward] to Pope
    • Blount [Thomas]
    • Bluteau [Raphael]
    • Bochart, Samuel
    • Boerhaave [Herman]
    • Boileau [-Despreaux, Nicholas]
    • Bolingbroke [Henry St. John]
    • Bourd [Boorde, Andrew]
    • Bourne [Vincent]
    • Boyle [Robert]
    • Boyse, Sa. [Samuel]
    • Bracton [Henry de]
    • Bramhall [John]
    • Brampston [James Bramston]
    • Brerewood [Edward]
    • Brooke [Henry]
    • Brooks
    • Broome [William]
    • Brown[e] [Edward]
    • Brown[e] [Thomas]
    • Brown[e] [William]
    • Bruno [de Segni]
    • Buckingham [John Sheffield]
    • Buckhurst [see Dorset]
    • Budaeus [Guillaume Budé]
    • Builder’s Dict.
    • Bull [George]
    • Burnet [Thomas]
    • Burton [Robert]
    • [Butler, Samuel] Hudibras
  • C - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Caius [John Kays]
    • Calamy [Edmund]
    • [Callimachus]
    • Calmet [Antoine Augustin]
    • Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus]
    • Camden [William]
    • Carew [Richard]; Car.
    • Carew [Thomas]
    • Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
    • Carter, Mrs. [Elizabeth]
    • Casaubin [Meric Casaubon]
    • Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
    • Cave, Edward
    • Chambers [Ephraim]
    • Chapman [George]
    • Chaucer [Geoffrey]
    • Cheselden [William]
    • Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
    • Chevy Chase
    • Cheyne [George]
    • Child [Josiah]
    • Children in the Wood
    • Chillingworth [William]
    • Church Catechism
    • Cicero [Marcus Tullius]
    • Clarendon [Edward Hyde]
    • Clarke [John]
    • Clarke [Samuel]
    • Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
    • Cockburn [John]
    • Cock[er]; Cocker [Edward]
    • Coke [Edward]
    • [Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting
    • Collier [Jeremy]; Collyer
    • Collins [William]
    • Colson [John]
    • Common Prayer
    • Concanen [Matthew]
    • Congreve [William]
    • Corbet, J.
    • Corbet; Corbet , Bp. [Corbett, Richard]
    • Cotton [Charles]
    • Cowel [John]
    • Cowley [Abraham]
    • Crashaw [Richard]
    • Creech [Thomas]
    • Cromwell [Henry]
    • Cromwel[l] [Thomas] to King Henry
    • Croxal [Samuel]
    • Cudworth [Ralph]
    • Cujas [Jacques]
  • D - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Daniel; Daniel’s Civil War [Samuel]
    • Daniel (Dr. Daniel in 4th) [Richard]
    • Davenant [Charles]
    • D'avenant [William]
    • Davies [John (Sir)]
    • Davies [John]
    • Decay of Piety; Decay [Allestree, Richard]?
    • [Defoe, Daniel] Robinson Crusoe
    • Delany [Patrick]
    • Denham [John]
    • Dennis [John]
    • Derham [William]
    • Destruction of Troy [Caxton, tr.]
    • D'Herbelot [Barthelemy]
    • Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
    • Dier [Samuel Dyer]
    • Digby [Kenelm]
    • Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
    • Digby [George] (Lord Digby to Sir Kenelm Digby)
    • Dodderidge [Philip Doddridge]
    • Dodsley’s Miscellany; Dodsley; Dodsley’s Agriculture [Robert Dodsley]
    • Donne [John]; Don.
    • Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
    • Douglas [Gavin]
    • Drayton [Michael]
    • Drummond [William]
    • Dryden [John]; Poem to Roscommon; Oedipus
    • Dryden, J. jun [John]
    • Du Cange [Charles Du Fresne Du Cange]
    • Duke [Richard]
    • Duncomb’s Life of Hughes [William Duncomb]
    • Duppa [Brian]
    • Dyer [John], Dier
  • E - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Eachard [John]
    • Eachard [Laurence Echard]
    • Ellis’s Voyage [Henry]
    • Epitaph on Vanbrugh [Evans, Abel]
    • Escape of King Charles
    • Evelyn [John]
    • Expedition to Carthagena [Charles Knowles]
  • F - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Fairfax [Edward]
    • Fanshaw [Richard]
    • Farquhar [George]
    • Farrier’s Dict.
    • Felibien [Andre]
    • Fell [John]
    • Felton [Henry]
    • Fenton [Elijah]
    • Ferne [Henry] Bishop
    • Fiddes [Richard]
    • Fielding [Henry]
    • Fisher [John]
    • Fitzgerald [Thomas]
    • Flatman [Thomas]
    • Fleetwood [William]
    • Fletcher [John}
    • Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]
    • Floyer [John]
    • Forbes [Duncan]
    • Fortunatus; Vent. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
    • Fox [John Foxe]
    • Francis [I] of France
    • Freeholder - see Addison
    • Freind [John]; (Friend in Abstr.)
    • Fryer, John
  • G - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Garlick [Thomas
    • Garretson [John]
    • Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
    • Garth [Samuel]
    • Gay [John]
    • Geddes [Michael]
    • Gerard [John]
    • Gibson [Edmond]; Gibson’s Camden
    • Giffard [Gifford, Richard]
    • Glanville [Glanvill, Joseph]
    • Glover, Richard
    • Goldsmith, Oliver
    • Goodman [John]
    • Gouldman [Francis]
    • Government of the Tongue
    • Gower, [John]
    • Grainger [James]
    • Granville [George]
    • Graunt [John]
    • Gray [Stephen]
    • Gray [Thomas]
    • [Greek] Anthology
    • Grew [Nehemiah]
    • Grosthead, Bishop [Robert Grosseteste or Grossetete]
    • Guardian [Richard Steele, Addison]
  • H - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Hacket [John]
    • Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
    • Hale [Matthew]
    • Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales]
    • Halifax [Charles Montague]
    • Hall [Joseph]
    • Hammond [Henry]; Ham.
    • Hanmer [Thomas]
    • Harrington [John]
    • Harris [John]
    • Harte [Walter]
    • Harvey [Gideon]
    • Hawkesworth [John]
    • Hayward [John]
    • Hearne [Thomas]
    • Heigh [R.]
    • Henshaw [Thomas]
    • Herbert [George]
    • Herring [Thomas]
    • Hesychius [of Alexandria]
    • Heylin [Heylyn, Peter]
    • Hickes [George]
    • Hill, Aaron
    • Hill [John]
    • Holder [William]
    • Holinsh. [Raphael Holinshed]
    • Holyday [Barten]
    • Homer
    • Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
    • Hooker [Richard]; Hook.
    • Horace
    • Hough [John]
    • Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden]
    • Howel [Howell, James]; How.
    • Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
  • I - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Introduction to Grammar [Garretson, John]
  • J - AUTHOR NAMES
    • James’s Voyage [Thomas]
    • Jervas [Charles]
    • Jewel [John]
    • [Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
    • [Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
    • Junius [Francis]
  • K - AUTHOR NAMES
    • [Kane] Cane
    • Keil [Keill, John]
    • Ken [Thomas]
    • Kennet [White Kennett]
    • Kettlewell [John]; Kettleworth
    • King [William]; King’s Cookery
    • King Charles [Charles I]
    • King James [I]
    • King James [James II; James VII of Scotland]; K. James's Declaration
    • Knolles [Richard]
  • L - AUTHOR NAMES
    • L’Acad. [Dictionnnaire l’Academie francaise]
    • Latimer [Hugh]
    • Lauderdale [John Maitland]
    • Law [William]
    • Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas]
    • Layer's Trial
    • Lee [Nathaniel]
    • [Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote; Shakespeare Illustrated
    • Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
    • L’Estrange [Roger]
    • Lewis [David] ; Lewis’s Miscel.
    • Lib. Londiniensis
    • Lily [William]
    • Littleton [Thomas] (also Lyttleton, de Littleton)
    • Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward]
    • Lloyd [William]
    • Locke [John]
    • Logie
    • London Dispensatory
    • Lye [Edward]
    • [Lyttelton, George] Littleton on the Conversion of St. Paul
  • M - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Macbean [Alexander]; Macbean’s Remonstrance
    • Mackenzie [George]
    • Madden [Samuel]
    • Maine; Maine, Dr. Jasper [Mayne]
    • Malcolm [Alexander]
    • Mandeslo [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]
    • Mandeville; Maundeville [John]
    • Manger's French Grammar
    • Manwood [John]
    • Mareschal [Thomas Marshall]
    • Markham [Gervase]
    • Martial
    • Martin [Benjamin]
    • Mart. Scribl. [Martinus Scriblerus]
    • Marvel[l] [Andrew]
    • May [Thomas]
    • Mead [Richard]
    • Melmouth [William Melmoth]
    • Menage [Giles]
    • Middleton [Thomas, and Decker, Thomas]
    • Military Dict.
    • Miller [Philip]
    • Milton [John]; Par. Regained; Par. Lost
    • [Minsheu] Minshew [John]
    • Molineux [William Molyneaux]
    • Moore [Edward]; Moore’s Fables; Moore’s Foundling
    • More’s Life of Sir Thomas More [Christopher Cresacre]
    • More [Henry]
    • More [Thomas]
    • Moreton [Anne]
    • Mortimer [John]
    • Motteux [Peter Anthony]
    • Moxon [Joseph]
    • Mulso, Mrs. [Hester Chapone]
    • Murphy [Arthur]
    • Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek, Pieter van]
  • N - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Nelson [Robert]
    • Newcastle [Margaret], Dutchess [Duchess] of
    • Newton [Isaac[
    • Newton [Thomas]
    • Nicene Creed
    • Nigel de Wetekre
    • Nichols
    • Norris [John]
  • O - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Ogle [George]
    • Old Comedy
    • Old Song
    • Oldham [John]
    • Oldham’s Life [Robert Shiels/Theophilis Cibber]
    • Orrery [Charles Boyle, 4th Earl]
    • Orrery [John Boyle, 5th earl]
    • Orrery [Roger Boyle, 1st Earl]
    • Otway [Thomas]
    • Oxford Reasons Against the Covenant
    • Ozenam [Ozanam, Jacques]
  • P - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Parnel [Parnell, Thomas]
    • Pasquier [Etienne]
    • Pattison [William]
    • Peacham [Henry]
    • Pearce [Zachary]
    • Pearson [John]
    • Pemberton [Henry]
    • Perkins [William]
    • Pezron [Paul-Yves]
    • Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
    • Phillips; [Philips, John]
    • Phillips, Edward
    • Phil. Trans.
    • Pierce [Thomas]; Pierce’s Lett.
    • Pineda [Pedro]
    • Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype >
      • Imitations of Horace
    • Pope, Dr. [Walter]
    • Prideaux [Humphrey]
    • Prior [Matthew]
  • Q - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Quarles [Francis]
    • Quincy [John]
  • R - AUTHOR NAMES
    • S - AUTHOR NAMES >
      • Salernum, School of
      • Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
      • Salmon’s Survey; Salmon [Nathanael]
      • [Sanderson, Robert] Saunderson; Sanderson
      • Sandys [George]; San.
      • Sappho
      • Savage [Richard]
      • Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon and Louis-Philemon Savary]
      • Scaliger [Joseph Justinian]
      • Scotch Proverb
      • Sea Dict. [Capt. John Smith]
      • [Sedley, Charles] Sidley
      • Seed’s Sermons [Jeremiah]
      • Selden [John]
      • Sewel [George Sewell]
      • Shadwell [Thomas]
      • Shakespeare [William]
      • Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
      • Shaw [Peter]
      • Shaw; Shaw’s Gramm. [Samuel]
      • Shelvock [Shelvocke, George]
      • Sherburne [Edward]
      • Sherlock [Thomas]
      • Sidney [Philip]
      • Skelton [Philip]
      • Skinner [Stephen]
      • Smalridge [George]; Smallridge
      • Smart [Christopher]
      • Smith [Edmund]
      • Smith [John]
      • Somerville [William]
      • Somner [William]
      • Song
      • Song of the King and the Miller
      • South [Robert]
      • Southern[e]; Southerne [Thomas]
      • Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony]
      • Spectator [Addison and Steele]
      • Spelman [Henry]
      • Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
      • Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]
      • Steele [Richard] to Pope
      • W - AUTHOR NAMES >
        • W____n [Waldren]
        • Wafer [Lionel]
        • Wake [William]
        • Walker [William]
        • Waller [Edmund]
        • Waller’s Life
        • Wallis [John]
        • Walsh [William]
        • Walton [Izaak]
        • Wandering Pr.[Prince] of Troy
        • Warburton [William]
        • Ward [Seth]
        • Warton’s Spencer [Thomas Warton; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis; Progress of Discontent
        • Wase [Christopher]
        • Waterland [Daniel]
        • Watts [Isaac]; Wat.
        • Welsted [Leonard]
        • Wesley [Samuel]
        • West [Gilbert]
        • Westmonasteriensis, Matt. [Matthew Paris]
        • White [Francis]
        • Whitgift [John]; Whitgifte
        • Whole Duty of Man; Duty of Man [Allestree?]
        • Widow and Cat
        • Wilkins [John]
        • William of Wykeham
        • Wise [Francis]
        • Wiseman [Richard]
        • Wollaston [William]
        • Wood [Anthony]
        • Woodward [John]; Woodw.
        • Wotton [Henry]
        • Wycherley [William]
        • X - AUTHOR NAMES
      • Steevens [George]
      • Stephens [William]; Stephen’s Sermons
      • Stepney [George]
      • Sternhold [Thomas]
      • Steuart
      • Stillingfleet [Edward]
      • Stone [Edmund]
      • [Strype] Memoir in Strype [John]
      • Suckling [John]
      • Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver
      • Sylvester [Joshua]
    • Raleigh [Walter]
    • Ralph [James]
    • Ray [John]
    • Reynolds [Joshua]
    • Richards [Nathanael]; N. Richards
    • [Richardson, Samuel] Clarissa; Pamela; Richardson’s Pamela
    • Robert of Gloucester
    • [Rochester, Wilmot, 2nd Earl of]
    • Rogers [John]
    • Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon]
    • Rowe [Nicholas]
    • Rowe’s Life [?James Welwood]
    • Rowland[s] [Henry]
    • [Rudyerd, Benjamin] Rudgerd
    • Rymer [Thomas]
  • Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph
  • T - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Taliessyn [Taliesen]
    • Taylor [John] the Water-poet
    • Tate [Nahum]
    • Tatler
    • Temple [William] >
      • Taylor [Jeremy]
    • Theobald [Lewis]
    • Thomson [James]
    • Topsell [Edward] Book of Animals
    • Tickel [Thomas]; Tickle
    • Trapp [Joseph]
    • Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
    • Tillotson [John]
    • [Trumbull, William] Trumball;Trumbull
    • Turberville [George]
    • Turnebus [Adrien Turnebe]
    • Tusser [Thomas]
  • Unattributed phrase or definition
  • Unknown correspondent (a)
  • U - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Unknown correspondent (b)
  • V - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Vanbrugh [John]
    • Virgil
    • Verses on Cleaveland
    • Verstegan (Rowlands, Richard)
  • Y - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Young [Edward]
    • Yalden [Thomas]
  • Z - AUTHOR NAMES
  • Brown[e] [Isaac Hawkins]
  • Henley [John]
  • [Trevisa] John de Trevisa
  • Knighton [Henry]
  • New Page
  • Baxter [Richard]
  • Authorities added in the 1773 Dictionary
  • Gentleman Instructed
  • John Brown
  • Upton, [John]