Notes:—

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Latin Drinking Song by Richard Braithwait, by S.W. Singer

297

Strange Appearances in the Sky, by Rev. A. Gatty

298

"After me the Deluge," by Douglas Jerrold

299

Bishop Thornborough's Monument

299

Minor Notes:—King Richard III.—Shakspeare a thorough Sailor—"A fellow-feeling." &c.—Early Instances of the Word "News"—Under the Rose

300

Queries:—

Portraits of Spenser

301

The Vendace

301

Minor Queries:—Ex Pede Herculem—"To-day we purpose"—"God takes those soonest whom He loves the best"—Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope —Whychcote of St. John's—Meaning of Rechibus—Family of Queen Katherine Parr—Skort—Religious Teaching in the German Universities—Epigram by Dunbar—Endymion Porter—Sathaniel—The Scoute Generall—Anthony Pomeroy, Dean of Cork

302

Minor Queries Answered:—Civil War Tract—Trisection of the Circle—Wolsey's Son—Cardinals and Abbots in the English Church

303

Replies:—

Sir Balthazar Gerbier, by J. Crossley

304

The Travels of Baron Munchausen

305

Replies to Minor Queries:—Tobacco in the East—Captain John Stevens—MS. Catalogue of Norman Nobility—Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III.—Comets—Pope Joan—Abbot Euctacius—The Vellum-bound Junius—Meaning of Waste-book—Cowdray—Solemnisation of Matrimony—Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke—Scandal against Queen Elizabeth—The Tanthony—The Hippopotamus —Tu autem—Places called purgatory—Swearing by Swans, &c.—Edmund Prideaux and the Post-office —Small Words and "Low" Words—Lord Howard of Effingham—Obeahism, &c.

306

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.

310

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

311

Notices to Correspondents

311

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