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"That Swinney"

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Monumental Inscription in Peterborough Cathedral, by Thos. Wake

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Folk Lore:—Superstition of the Cornish Miners—Northamptonshire Folk Lore

215

Shakspeare Correspondence

216

Minor Notes:—Lemon-juice administered in Gout and Rheumatism—Weather Proverbs—Dog Latin—Thomas Wright of Durham—A Funeral Custom

217

Queries:—

Littlecott—Sir John Popham, by Edward Foss

218

Early Edition of the New Testament, by A. Boardman

219

Minor Queries:—Ravilliac—Emblem on a Chimney-piece—"To know ourselves diseased," &c.—"PÆtus and Arria"—Heraldic Query—Lord Chancellor Steele—"A Tub to the Whale"—Legitimation (Scotland)—"Vaut mieux," &c.—Shakspeare First Folio—The Staffordshire Knot—Sir Thomas Elyot—"Celsior exsurgens pluviis," &c.—The Bargain Cup—School-Libraries.—Queen Elizabeth and her "true" Looking-glass—Bishop Thomas Wilson—Bishop Wilson's Works—Hobbes, Portrait of

219

Minor Queries with Answers:—Brasenose, Oxford—G. Downing—Unkid—Pilgrim's Progress—John Frewen—Histories of Literature—"Mrs. Shaw's Tombstone"

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Replies:—

Cranmer and Calvin, by the Rev. H. Walter

222

Barnacles, by Sir J. E. Tennent and T. J. Buckton

223

Dial Inscriptions, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A.

224

The "Saltpeter Maker"

225

Tsar, by T. J. Buckton, &c.

226

"Land of Green Ginger," by John Richardson and T. J. Buckton

227

Photographic Correspondence:—Stereoscopic Angles—Protonitrate of Iron—Photographs in natural Colours—Photographs by artificial Lights

227

Replies to Minor Queries:—Vandyke in America—Title wanted: Choirochorographia—Second Growth of Grass—Snail-eating—Sotades—The Letter "h" in "humble"—Lord North—Singing Psalms and Politics—Dimidiation by Impalement—"Inter cuncta micans," &c.—Marriage Service—Widowed Wife—Pure—Mrs. Tighe—Satirical Medal—"They shot him dead at the Nine-Stone Rig"—Hendericus du Booys: Helena Leonore de SievÉri—House-marks, &c.—"Qui facit per alium, facit per se"—Engin-À-verge—Campvere, Privileges of—Humbug: Ambages—"Going to Old Weston"—Reynolds's Nephew—The Laird of Brodie—Mulciber—Voiding Knife—Sir John Vanbrugh—Portrait of Charles I.—Burial in an erect Posture—Strut-Stowers and Yeathers or Yadders—Arms of the See of York—Leman Family—Position of Font

228

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, &c.

234

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

234

Notices to Correspondents

234

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