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On Portraits of Distinguished Men, by Lord Braybrooke

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Story of a Relic

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Illustration of Chaucer, No. II: Complaint of Mars and Venus

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Charles the First and Bartolomeo della Nave's Collection of Pictures, by Sir F. Madden

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Minor Notes:—Nonsuch Palace—Ferrar and Benlowes—Traditions from remote Periods through few Links—Longevity—Emendation of a Passage in Virgil—Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir K. Digby—Matter-of-Fact Epitaph

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Queries:—

Ancient Danish Itinerary: Prol in Angliam, by R.J. King

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Chiming, Tolling, and Peal-ringing of Bells, by Rev. A. Gatty

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Mazer Wood: Gutta Percha, by W. Pinkerton

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Minor Queries:—Paul Pitcher Night—Disinterment for Heresy—"Just Notions," &c.—Pursuits of Literature—Satirical Medal—Matthew's Mediterranean Passage—Inscription on an Oak Board—Expressions in Milton—Saints' Days—Chepstow Castle—The Wilkes MSS. and "North Briton"—"O wearisome Condition of Humanity!"—Epitaph in Hall's "Discovery"

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Minor Queries Answered:—Canon and Prebendary—What Amount of Property constitutes an Esquire?—Cromwell Family—Daughters of the Sixth Earl of Lennox—Wife of Joseph Nicholson—Six Abeiles—Southey—Epigram against Burke—Knight's Hospitallers

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Mesmerism, by Dr. Maitland

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Lord Howard of Effingham

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Iovanni Volpe, by William Hughes

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Replies to Minor Queries:—Sir Andrew Chadwick—Manuscript of Bede—Closing of Rooms on account of Death—Enigmatical Epitaph on Rev. J. Mawer—Haybands in Seals—Notes on Newspapers—Duncan Campbell—Christmas-day—MS. Sermons by Jeremy Taylor—Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel—Rev. W. Adams—Duchess of Buckingham—"Go the whole Hog"—Lord Bexley's Descent from Cromwell—Morse and Ireton Families—The Countess of Desmond—Aristophanes on the Modern Stage—Denarius Philosophorum—On a Passage in the Tempest—Meaning of Waste-book—Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs—Meaning of "Harrisers" &c.

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Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.

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Books and Odd Volumes wanted

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Notices to Correspondents

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