NOTES:— The Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield Lord Strafford and Archbishop Ussher Poetical Coincidences, by T. C. Smith Folk Lore:—Medical Use of Pigeons—Michaelmas Goose; St. Martin's Cock—Surrey Folk Lore The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney Minor Notes:—"They that touch pitch"—Pasquinade—Two Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final QUERIES:— Can Bishops vacate their Sees? Sanderson and Taylor Minor Queries:—"Vox verÈ Anglorum"—"Sacro Sancta Regum Majestas"—Translator of Horrebow's "Iceland"—"Kings have their Conquests"—Dryden; Illustrations by T. Holt White—Pauper's Badge, Meaning of—The Landing of William Prince of Orange in Torbay, painted by J. Northcote, R.A.—The Lowy of Tunbridge—Bones of Birds—"Malvina, a Tragedy"—Rinuccini Gallery MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Meaning of Aneroid—Fox's Cunning REPLIES:— Archbishop of Spalatro, by Rev. J. Sansom, &c. Anagrams Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned, by Rev. A. Gatty, &c. Marriage of Ecclesiastics Replies to Minor Queries:—Robert Douglas—The Leman Baronetcy—Cachecope Bell—"Dieu et mon Droit"—Defoe's House at Stoke Newington—Study of Geometry in Lancashire—Coke, how pronounced—Quistourne—Seneca's Medea—The Editor of Jewel's Works in Folio—Poetaster—Post Pascha—Linteamina and Surplices—Climate—Ancient Language of Egypt—Welwood's Memoirs MISCELLANEOUS:— Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements |