Lancashire dialect, 119, 120
Latin words in dialects, 87
Layamon’s Brut, 49
Leyden Riddle, 18
Liber Vit{ae}, 20
Lincolnshire dialect, 118, 119
  words, 100, 101
Locrine, 50
London dialect, 74-78
Lorica Prayer, 68, 69
Lydgate, 38
Lyndesay, Sir David, 34, 35

Madam, ’m, 3
Malory, Sir Thomas, 40
Manning, Robert, 78, 79
Mercian dialect, 10, 11, 36, 37, 65-81
  glosses, 70-72
  spellings, 71-72
Michel, Dan, 59, 60
Midland dialect, 65-81
  rise of, 37, 42
  Psalter, 80
  East, 65-79
  West, 79-81
Minot’s Poems, 29
Moral Ode, 49
Morris, Dr, Blickling Homilies, 8
  Old English Miscellany, 49, 58
  Old English Homilies, 49
  Specimens of Early English, 58
Morris, Dr, on dialects, 81
Morris and Skeat, Specimens, etc., 27-29, 59, 60
Murray, Dr, on the Dialect of Scotland, 28, 32-5
Mueller, Prof.  Max, Lectures, 3

New English Dictionary, 85
Norfolk dialect, 125-127
Northern dialect, great extent of, 32-35
Northumbrian, 10, 11, 12, 14-46
  glosses, 22-24
  riddle, 18
Nut-brown Maid, 38

Old English Homilies, 49 Ormulum, The, 73, 74 Owl and Nightingale, 49

Peacock’s (Lincolnshire) Glossary, 44
Pearl, The, 80
Phonetic decay, 3
Plays, early, 41
Plurals, Southern, 61
Prick of Conscience, 28
Proverbs of Alfred, 49
Psalter, by Hampole, 32
  Prose Treatises, by the same, 32
Psalter, Northumbrian, 25-27
  West Midland, 80

Ramsay, Allan, 45
Ray, John, collection of dialectal words, 101
Rimy, 8, 9
  rind, 9
Robert of Gloucester, 50
Rolle, of Hampole, 28, 32, 35
Romances, dialect of, 44
  list of, 38-40
Ross, Alexander, 45
Rushworth MS., 22, 23, 70-72
Ruthwell Cross, 18, 19, 20

Scandinavian words in dialects, 88-93
  list of, 90-93
Scots, Middle, 44, 45
Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 45
Scottish and English, 43, 44
Scottish Laws, early, 32
Shakespeare, 5, 6, 50
  use of dialect, 100
Sheffield dialect, 121, 122
Shoreham, Wm. of, 58
  quoted, 59
Shropshire dialect, 127-128
Skeat, Chaucer Canon, 73
  Etymological Dictionary, 84-85
  Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, 71
  Index to Icelandic Dictionary, 89
  Primer of English Etymology, 84
  Principles of English Etymology, 70, 87, 89
Skinner, S., Etymologicon, 100
Smith, G. Gregory, Specimens of Middle Scots, 44, 45
South English Legendary, 51
Southern dialect, 47-55
Southey, R., his use of dialect, 111
Specimens of Early English
  Part I., 49, 50
  Part II., 51, 79.
  See Morris
Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar, 99