NOTES:— Historical Coincidences: Barclay and Perkins Remains of King James II. Shetland Folk Lore:—The Wresting Thread—Ringworm—Burn—Elfshot Minor Notes:—Names of Places in Normandy and Orkney 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 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Thorns of Dauphine—Inscription at Lyons—Turnpikes REPLIES:— General James Wolfe "Flemish Account" Pope and Flatman, by Henry H. Breen Derivation of "London," by Francis Crossley, &c. 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 MISCELLANEOUS:— Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements |