Henry Wheatley - How to Make an Index

All these words are fairly common; but there is another which was used only occasionally in the sixteenth century. This is "pye," supposed to be derived from the Greek πίναξ, among the meanings of which, as given in Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, is, "A register, or list." The late Sir T. Duffus Hardy, in some observations on the derivation of the word "Pye-Book," remarks that the earliest use he had noted of pye in this sense is dated 1547: "A Pye of all the names of such Balives as been to accompte pro anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti primo."— Appendix to the "35th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records," p. 195.

There is a note to the table which shows that the book grew in size during the printing—"p. signifying the page, f. the folioes from pag. 513 to 545 (which exceeded the Printer's computation), m. the marginall notes: if you finde f. before any pages from 545 to 568, then looke the folioes which are overcast; if p. then the page following."

See Cobbett's State Trials , vol. 3, coll. 561-586.

Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, edited by G. Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L. Oxford, 1888.

Paget's Life , p. 350.

To the original edition of the Indicator ; the reprint (2 vols. 8vo, 1834) has no index.

Rosicrucians and Free-Masons (De Quincey's Works , vol. 13, p. 388).

Memorial Chronology (De Quincey's Works , vol. 14, p. 309).

Memoirs of Bishop Atterbury , compiled by Folkestone Williams, vol. i. (1869), p. 42.