frightened by Popery, v. 57. 
PRESCIENCE, of the Deity, iii. 290. 
PRESCRIPTION OF MURDER.  See MURDER.
Present State of England, iv. 311. 
PRESENT TIME, never happy, ii. 350. 
PRESENT TIMES, Johnson never inveighed against them, iii. 3. 
PRESS,
  awed by parliament as regards report of debates, i. 115; iii. 459-60;
iv. 140, n. 1;
  complete freedom obtained, i. 116;
  Johnson attacks its liberty, ii. 60;
    vindicates it, ib., n. 3;
    discusses it with Dr. Parr, iv. 15, n. 5;
  Mansfield tries to stifle it, i. 116, n. 1;
  law of libel, iii. 16, n. 1;
  licentiousness, its, i. 116;
    debate on it, iv. 318, n. 3;
  prosecutions in 1764, ii. 60, n. 3;
  superfoetation, its, iii. 332. 
PRESS-GANGS, iii. 460. 
PRESTBURY, v. 432, n. 2. 
PRESTICK, ii. 271, n. 4. 
PRESTON, iii. 135, n. 1. 
PRESTON, Sir Charles, iv. 154. 
PRETENDER, the Young,
  account of his escape, v. 187-205, 264;
    dresses in women’s clothes, v. 188;
    at Kingsburgh, v. 185, 189;
    shoes, ib.;
    in Rasay, v. 174, n. 1, 190-4;
    fears assassination, v. 194;
    speaks of Culloden, ib.;
    returns to Sky, v. 195;
    pretends to be a servant, v. 195, 196-7;
    his odd face, v. 196;
    goes to Mackinnon’s country, v. 197;
    to Knoidart, v. 199;
    reward offered for him, v. 186, 199, n. 1;
  agitating a rebellion in 1752, i. 146, n. 2;
  base character, his, v. 200, n. 1;
  Charles III, ii. 253;
  Derby, march to, iii. 162;
  designation proper for him, v. 185, n. 4;
  Johnson sleeps in his bed, v. 185;
  London, in, i. 279, n. 5; v. 196, n. 2, 201;
  Voltaire’s reflections on him, v. 199. 
PRICE, Archdeacon, v. 454. 
PRICE, Dr. Richard
  account of him, iv. 434;
  Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5;
  Johnson would not meet him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434;
  London-born children, iv. 210. 
PRICE, ——­, a vain Welsh scholar, v. 438.
Prideauxs Connection, iv. 311. 
PRIESTLEY, Dr. Joseph,
  Boswell attacks him, iv. 238, n. 1, 433;
    Parr defends him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434;
  discoveries in chemistry, iv. 237, n. 6, 238;
  Elwall’s trial, account of, ii. 164, n. 5;
  Franklin praises his moderation, iv. 434;
  Gibbon and Horsley attack him, iv. 437;
  Heberden, Dr., a benefactor to him, iv. 228, n. 2;
  house burnt by rioters, iv. 238, n. 1;
  ‘index-scholar,’ iv. 407, n. 4;
  Johnson’s estimate of his writings, iv. 407, n. 4;
    interview with, iv. 434;
    on the pronunciation of Latin, ii. 404, n. 1;
  Mackintosh’s character of him, iv. 443;
  Philosophical necessity, iii. 291, n. 2; iv. 433-4;
  Shelburne, Lord, lives with, iv. 191, n. 4;
  theological works, ii. 124. 
PRIESTS, enemies to liberty, v. 255, n. 5. 
PRIME MINISTER, name and office, ii. 355; n. 2;
  not in Johnson’s Dictionary,