27. 
PORSON, Richard,
  Bentley not a Scotchman, ii. 363, n. 4;
  described by Dr. Parr, iv. 385, n. 2;
  Hawkins, Sir J., ridicules, i. 224, n. 1; ii. 57, n. 5; iv. 370, n. 5;
  natural abilities, ii. 437, n. 2. 
PORT, family of, iii. 187. 
PORT, liquor for men, iii. 381; iv. 79. 
PORT ELIOT, iv. 334. 
PORTER, Endymion, v. 137, n. 4. 
PORTER, Henry (Mrs. Johnson’s first husband),
  Birmingham mercer, i. 86;
  family registry of births, &c., i. 94, n. 3;
  insolvency, i. 95, n. 3;
  mentioned, iv. 77. 
PORTER, Captain (Henry Porter’s son), i. 94, n. 3; ii. 462. 
PORTER, ——­ (Henry Porter’s son), ii. 388; iv. 89;
  death, iv. 256. 
PORTER, Sir James, iii. 402. 
PORTER, Mrs. (afterwards Mrs. Johnson).  See under JOHNSON, Mrs.
PORTER, Mrs., the actress, i. 369, 382; iv. 243; ib., n. 6. 
PORTER, Miss Lucy (Henry Porter’s daughter and Johnson’s stepdaughter),
  birth, i. 94, n. 3;
  Boswell calls on her, ii. 462; iii. 412, 414;
  Dodd’s Convicts Address, reads, iii. 141, n. 2;
  fortune, her, and house, ii. 462;
  Johnson’s account of her, i. 370;
    earlier letters to her, ii. 387, n. 3
    (for his letters, See under JOHNSON, letters);
    feelings towards her, i. 515; ii. 462, n. 1;
    her feelings towards, ii. 462, 469;
    memory, i. 40;
    personal appearance, i. 94;
    present to her of a box, ii. 387;
    prologue to Kelly’s comedy, disowns, iii. 114, n. 1;
    will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2;
  mother’s wedding-ring, does not value her, i. 237;
  residence in Lichfield, i. 110, 346, n. 1, 347, 515;
  verses said to be addressed to her, i. 92, n. 2;
  mentioned, i. 103, 340, n. 1, 512; ii. 468; iii. 132, 417; iv. 374, 394. 
PORTER, A STREET-, Johnson drives a load off his back, iv. 71. 
PORTER, Johnson sends a present of, ii. 272, 275. 
PORTEUS, Beilby, Bishop of Chester (afterwards of London),
  Boswell, attentive to, iii. 413, 415;
  Jenyns’s, Soame, conversion, i. 316, n. 2;
  Life of Secker, iv. 29;
  reverend fops, iv. 76;
  Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3;
  mentioned, iii. 124, 279, 280. 
PORTLAND, third Duke of, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 174, n. 3. 
  See COALITION MINISTRY. 
PORTLAND, Dowager Duchess of, iii. 425. 
PORTMORE, Lord, Johnson’s letter to him, iv. 268, n. 1. 
PORTRAITS,
  their chief excellence, v. 219;
  portrait-painting, improper for women, ii. 362;
  of Johnson:  See under JOHNSON, portraits. 
PORTUGAL, iii. 23, 445. 
PORTUGAL PIECES, iv. 104. 
PORTUGUESE, discovery of the Indies, i. 455; n. 3; ii. 479;
iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 12, n. 2. 
POSSIBILITIES, v. 46. 
POST,
  Brighton, to, iii. 92, n. 3;
  double letters, i. 283, n. 1;
  franking letters, iii. 364; iv. 361, n. 3;
  penny-post, i. 121, 151;
  postage from Lisbon, iii. 23;
    to Oxford, i. 283, n. 1.