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NOTES:—

Historical Coincidences: Barclay and Perkins 497

Remains of King James II. 498

Shetland Folk Lore:—The Wresting Thread—Ringworm—Burn—Elfshot 500

Minor Notes:—Names of Places in Normandy and Orkney 501

QUERIES:—

Minor Queries:—Meaning of Ploydes—Green-eyed Monster—Perpetual Lamp—Family of Butts—Greek Names of Fishes—Drimmnitavichillichatan—Chalk-back Day—Moravian Hymns—Rural and Urban Deans—Ducks and Drakes—Vincent Kidder—House at Welling—Shropshire, Price of Land—Legal Time 501

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Thorns of Dauphine—Inscription at Lyons—Turnpikes 502

REPLIES:—

General James Wolfe 503

"Flemish Account" 504

Pope and Flatman, by Henry H. Breen 505

Derivation of "London," by Francis Crossley, &c. 505

Replies to Minor Queries:—Legend of the Robin Redbreast—Monk and Cromwell—Souling—Clekit House—Peter Talbot—Races in which Children, &c.—Bacon a Poet—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Share of Presbyters in Ordination—Weever's Funeral Monument—Dial Motto at Karlsbad—Cabal—Rectitudines Singularum Personarum—Stanzas in Childe Harold—The Island and Temple of Ægina—Herschel anticipated—Wyle Cop—Macfarlane Manuscripts 506

MISCELLANEOUS:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 509

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 510

Notices to Correspondents 510

Advertisements 510

List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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