  Our Fourth Volume 1 NOTES:— The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books, by Sir F. Madden 1 Folk Lore:—Stanton Drew and its Tradition, by David Stevens 3 Minor Notes:—The Hon. Spencer Perceval—An Adventurer in 1632—Almanacs 4 QUERIES:— Ghost Stories, by the Rev. Dr. Maitland 5 A Book of Enzinas, or Dryander, wanted, by Benjamin B. Wiffen 5 Salting the Bodies of the Dead, by W. B. MacCabe 6 Minor Queries:—The Star in the East—Meaning of Sinage: Distord: Slander—Miss—Jacques Mabiotte—Registry of British Subjects abroad—Shawls—Figures of Saints—Conceyted Letters, who wrote?—Acta Sanctorum—Pope's "honest Factor"—Meaning of "Nervous"—Doomsday Book of Scotland 6 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Dr. Sacheverell—Princess Wilbrahama—Early Visitations 8 REPLIES:— Written Sermons, by J. Bruce, &c. 8 Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 9 Dr. Elrington's Edition of Ussher's Works, by the Rev. Dr. Todd 10 Replies to Minor Queries:—Mind your P's and Q's— Serius Seriadesque—Catharine Barton—Alterius Orbis Papa—Charles Dodd—"Prenzie"—"In Print" —Introduction of Reptiles into Ireland—Ancient Wood Engraving of the Picture of Cebes—"The Groves of Blarney"—Tennyson's Lord of Burleigh —BicÊtre—On a Passage in Dryden—Derivation of Yankee—Ferrante Pallavicino 11 MISCELLANEOUS:— Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 13 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 14 Notices to Correspondents 14 Advertisements 15 OUR FOURTH VOLUME.We cannot permit the present Number, which commences the Fourth Volume of "NOTES AND QUERIES," to come into the hands of our Readers without some few words of acknowledgment and thanks to those Friends, Readers, and Correspondents, whose kind encouragement and assistance have raised our paper to its present high position;— "and thanks to men Of noble mind, is honorable meed." To those thanks we will add our promise, that no effort shall be wanting to carry on this paper in the same spirit in which it was commenced, and to add, if possible, to its utility and interest. And by way of setting an example to our correspondents— "every word to spare That wants of force, or light, or weight or care"— we will, with these thanks and this promise, bid our friends fall to on the Banquet of Pleasant Inventions spread out for them in the following pages. |
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