Notes:—

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Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by William Winthrop

557

Penny Sights and Exhibitions in the Reign of James I., by A. Grayan

558

The Impossibilities of our Forefathers

559

Parallel Passages, by the Rev. John Booker

560

Astrology in America

561

Minor Notes:—"Hierosolyma est perdita"—Quaint Inscription in a Belfry—The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and Judah—The Using a Circumstance as a "Peg," or "Nail," to hang an Argument on, &c.—Turkish and Russian Grammars—Chronograms in Sicily—Stone Pulpits—Advertisements and Prospectuses

561

Queries:—

English Refugees at Ypenstein

562

Minor Queries:—Petrarch's Laura—"Epitaphium LucretiÆ"—M‘Dowall Family—Arms of Geneva—Webb of Monckton Farleigh—Translation Wanted—Latin Translation from Sheridan, &c.—Gale of Rent—Arms of Sir Richard de Loges—Gentile Names of the Jews—Henry, Earl of Wotton—Kicker-eating—Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancashire—George, first Viscount Lanesborough, and Sir Charles Cotterell—"Firm was their faith," &c.—The Mother of William the Conqueror—Pedigree of Sir Francis Bryan

562

Minor Queries with Answers—"The Whole Duty of Man"—"It rained cats and dogs and little pitchforks:" Helter-skelter—Father Traves—Precise Dates of Births and Deaths of the Pretenders—Clarence

564

Replies:—

Mackey's "Theory of the Earth"

565

Sincere, Simple, Singular

567

Poetical Tavern Signs

568

Homo Unius Libri

569

The Forlorn Hope, by W. R. Wilde

569

Tieck's "Comoedia Divina"

570

Liveries worn by Gentlemen

571

Photographic Correspondence.—Queries on Dr. Diamond's Calotype Process—Albumenized Paper

572

Replies To Minor Queries:—Marcarnes—X on Brewers' Casks—No Sparrows at Lindham—Theobald le Botiller—Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire—Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers—Portraits at Brickwall House—The Words "Mob" and "Cash"—English Clergyman in Spain—The Cid—Exterior Stoups—Green Jugs used by the Templars—"Peccavi," I have Scinde—Raffaele's "Sposalizio"—Early Use of Tin: Derivation of the Name of Britain—Unpublished Epigram by Sir Walter Scott—Derivation of the Word "Humbug"—Bees—Topsy Turvy—Parish Clerks and Politics, &c.

572

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, &c.

577

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

578

Notices to Correspondents

578

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578