‘Painful pre-eminence,’ iii. 82, n. 2.
Rollin’s Ancient History, iv. 311. 
ROLT, Richard,
  Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, i. 358; ii. 344;
  Universal Visitor, wrote for the, ii. 345;
  vanity and impudence, his, i. 359. 
ROMAN CATHOLICISM and Roman Catholics,
  attacked by Wesley, v. 35, n. 3;
  clergy accused of lazy devotion, v. 170, n. 1;
  Communion in one kind, ii. 105; iv. 289;
  convicts should be attended by a Popish priest, iv. 329;
  converts part with nothing, ii. 105;
    not interrogated strictly, iv. 289;
  doctrines and practice, ii. 105;
  England and Ireland, in, ii. 255, n. 3;
  Gordon Riots, iii. 428-431;
  good timorous men, suited to, iv. 289; and women, ib.;
  gross corruptions, iii. 17;
  James II’s attempt to bring England over to it, ii. 341;
  Johnson attacks it, iii. 407;
    calls their chapel a mass-house, iii. 429, n. 2;
    defends it, i. 465, 476; iv. 289;
    prefers it to Presbyterianism, ii. 103;
    respects it, ii. 105;
  laity and the Bible, ii. 27;
  ‘old religion, the,’ ii. 105;
  penal laws relaxed, iii. 427-8;
    still in force, iii. 427, n. 1;
  Popish books burnt in 1784, ib.;
  Popery understood by the nation, v. 276, n. 4;
  Presbyterianism, differs chiefly in form from, ii. 150;
  priests and people deceived, iii. 17;
  transubstantiation, v. 71.
Roman Gazetteers, i. 147, n. 4. 
ROMANCES, fit for youth, iv. 16, n. 3;
  historically valuable, iv. 17;
  Johnson loved the old ones, i. 49; iii. 2. 
ROME and the Romans, ancient, barbarians mostly, ii. 170;
  Bolingbroke’s references to them, iii. 206, n. 1;
  cant in their praise, i. 311; iii. 206, n. 1;
  Carthaginian, no feeling for a, iv. 196;
  empire, iii. 36;
  fountain of elegance, iii. 333;
  ‘Happy to come, happy to depart,’ v. 82;
  known of them, very little, ii. 153;
  secession to Mons Sacer, v. 142, n. 2;
  Senate, iii. 206;
  temples built by Saurus and Batrachus, iv. 446;
  Tiber, its duration compared with that of the, iii. 251. 
ROME, modern,
  Johnson eager to see it, iii. 19;
    expected there, iv. 326, n. 3;
  licensed stews, iii. 17;
  London,
    mentioned in, i. 119;
  pilgrimages to it, iii. 446;
  mentioned, iii. 217; v. 153, n. 1. 
ROMILLY, Sir Samuel,
  capital punishments, iv. 328, n. 1;
  Hume and the French atheists, ii. 8, n. 4;
  Parr, letter from, iv. 15, n. 5;
  Robinhood Societies, iv. 92, n. 5;
  Windham’s opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4. 
ROMNEY, George,
  Cumberland’s Odes dedicated to him, iii. 43, n. 4. 
ROPE DANCING, ii. 440. 
RORIE MORE.  See SIR RODERICK MACLEOD.
Rosamond, v. 376, n. 3.
Roscommon, Life of, i. 192. 
ROSE, Dr., i. 46, n. 1; iv. 168, n. 1.
Rosicrucian Infallible Axiomata, iv. 402, n.