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Kennington Common, by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson

295

Life and Death

296

Battle of Trafalgar and Death of Nelson

297

Heraldic Anomaly

298

Folk Lore:—Three Maids—Mother Russel's Post—Shrove Tuesday Custom

299

Stornello

299

Minor Notes:—Perspective—"That"—Corporation Enactments—Jacobite Club—Dean Nowell's first Wife—"Oxoniana"—An Epigram falsely ascribed to George Herbert—Ingulph: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library"

300

Queries:—

Quotations wanted

301

Sir Edmund Plowden, by S. F. Streeter

301

Ancient Clock, and Odevaere's History of it, by Octavius Morgan

302

Minor Queries:—Spielberg, when built?—"Ded. Pavli"—Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantleboard: Mantell and Brace—Passage in Job—Provincial Glossaries—Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancaster—A marvellous Combat of Birds—Battle of the Gnats—Sandford of Thorpe Salvine, co. York—"Outlines of the History of Theology"—"Mawkin"—"Plain Dealer"—Hymn attributed to Handel—Degrees in Arts—"Goloshes:" "Kutchin-kutchu"—Cornwalls of London—Flasks for Wine-bottles—Froxhalmi, Prolectricus, Phytacus, Tuleus, Candos, Gracianus, and Tounu or Tonnu

302

Minor Queries with Answers:—Postmaster at Merton College—"Lyra Apostolica"—East Dereham Manor—Quakers executed in North America—Inscription in Fulham Church—Hero of the "Spanish Lady's Love"—"Bothy"—"Children in the Wood"

304

Replies:—

Brydone the Tourist, by John Macray

305

"The Red Cow"—Cromwell's Carriages, &c.

306

Fox-hunting, by F. M. Middleton

307

Weather Rules, by E. MacCulloch, &c.

307

Bingham's Antiquities

308

Ancient Tenure of Lands

309

Photographic Correspondence:—Spots on Collodion Pictures, &c.—The Double Iodide Solution—Mounting Photographs

310

Replies to Minor Queries:—Books on Bells—Medal in Honour of Chevalier St. George—Dean Swift's Suspension—"Vanitatem observare"—Ballina Castle, Mayo—Dorset—Judicial Rank hereditary—Tolling the Bell on leaving Church—Archpriest in the Diocese of Exeter—Dogs in Monumental Brasses—The Last of the PalÆologi—Long Names, &c.

310

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, &c.

313

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

314

Notices to Correspondents

314


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