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Illustrations of Chaucer, No. VI.

385

Dutch Folk-lore

387

Minor Notes:—Verses in Pope: "Bug" or "Bee"—Rub-a-dub—Quotations—Minnis—Brighton—Voltaire's Henriade

387

Queries:—

The Blake Family, by Hepworth Dixon

389

Minor Queries:—John Holywood the Mathematician—Essay on the Irony of Sophocles—Meaning of Mosaic —Stanedge Pole—Names of the Ferret—Colfabias—School of the Heart—Milton and the Calves-head Club—David Rizzio's Signature—Lambert Simnel: Was this his real Name?—Honor of Clare, Norfolk—Sponge—Babington's Conspiracy—Family of Sir John Banks—Meaning of Sewell—Abel represented with Horns

389

Minor Queries Answered:—The Fifteen O's—Meaning of Pightle—Inscription on a Guinea of George III. —Meaning of Crambo

391

Replies:—

John Tradescant probably an Englishman, and his Voyage to Russia in 1618, by S. W. Singer

391

The Family of the Tradescants, by W. Pinkerton

393

Pope Joan

395

Replies to Minor Queries:—Robert Burton's Birthplace—Barlaam and Josaphat—Witte van Haemstede—The Dutch Church in Norwich—Fest Sittings—Quaker's Attempt to convert the Pope—The Anti-Jacobin—Mistletoe—Verbum GrÆcum—"AprÈs moi le DÉluge"—Eisell—"To-day we purpose"—Modern Paper—St. Pancras—Joseph Nicolson's Family—Demosthenes and New Testament—Crossing Rivers on Skins—Curious Facts in Natural History—Prideaux

395

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.

398

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

399

Notices to Correspondents

399

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