NOTES:— Ben Jonson's Verses on the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset Junius and the Quarterly Review Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer, by Wm. Durrant Cooper Folk Lore:—Suffolk Legend—Theodoric, Legend of Names of Places; Provincial Dialects Minor Notes:—The Banking Company in Aberdeen, and the Bank of England—Which are the Shadows?—Antiquity of County Boundaries—Zachary Pearce not a Pupil of Busby—The Poet Gay and his Relatives QUERIES:— Thomas Bastard, and Song against Sheep-farming Inundations and their Phenomena, by Sydney Smirke A Bibliographical Query New Arrangement of the Old Testament Minor Queries:—Pasquinades—Sir John Fenner's Bequest of Bibles—Friday at Sea—Meaning of "Knarres"—Sir John Cheke—Arms of Yarmouth—"Litera Scripta Manet"—Bull the Barrel—Nuremberg Token—Weber on the Material Media of Musical Art—Clement's Inn—Was Queen Elizabeth dark or fair—The "Black Book of Paisley"—"The Trial of the Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline"—Frith the Martyr, and Dean Comber—BÉocherie, alias Parva Hibernia; BÉocera Gent MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Augmentation Office—"Smectymnus" REPLIES:— Liber Conformitatum Traditions of Remote Periods; George III.'s Garter Many Children at a Birth; Large Families Pedigree of Richard Earl of Chepstow Isabel, Queen of the Isle of Man, by John Gough Nichols Replies to Minor Queries:—Bastides—BrunÉhaut—Job—Parish Registers—Ornamental Hermits—Collars of SS—Herschel Anticipated—Monastic Establishments in Scotland—Kissing under the Mistletoe—The Ring Finger—Sanctus Bell—Slang Dictionaries—Modern Greek Names of Places—Baskerville the Printer—Story of Genevra—Gospel Oaks—"Asters with Trains of Fire," &c.—Wiggan, or Utiggan, an Oxford Student—Hieroglyphics of Vagabonds—"The bright lamp that shone in Kildare's holy fane"—Hyrne—Stops, when first introduced—Heraldical MSS. of Sir H. St. George Garter—Kingswei, Kings-way, or Kinsey—FouchÉ's Memoirs—The Pelican as a Symbol of our Saviour—Bow-bell—Cou-bache—White-livered—"Experto crede Roberto"—"Oh! Leoline," &c.—The Word "Blaen"—Stoke—A Baron's Hearse—The Bed of Ware—Symbolism of Death—General Wolfe—Proverb MISCELLANEOUS:— Notes on Books, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements |