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The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 265

John Tradescant the Younger, an Englishman 266

Cowley and his Monument, by Henry Campkin 267

Count KÖnigsmark and the Duchess of Somerset, by D. Jardine 269

Folk Lore, by C. D. Lamont 270

London Street Characters, by Alfred Gatty 270

Minor Notes:—Dean Swift on Herbert's Travels—Joe Miller—Hints to Book-buyers—Birmingham Antiquities—Buchanan and Voltaire—Indignities on the Bodies of Suicides 271

QUERIES:—

"God's Love," &c., and other Poems 272

Praying to the Devil 273

Minor Queries:—John Ap Rice's Register—Prideaux's Doctrine of Conscience—John Adair, Geographer for Scotland (alive in 1715)—Clergymen first styled Reverend—Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes—Meaning of the word "Elvan"—Wiclif—Showing the White Feather—Gray and Locke—Horses and Sheep, Remains of in Churches—ArchÆologia Cambrensis, Vol. I., Reprint—Presbyterian Oath—"A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Box"—Cromwell's Skull—Guy, Thomas, Founder of Guy's Hospital, and M.P. for the Borough for Tamworth, d. s. p. 1724—Episcopal Mitre—John Lord Berkeley, Bishop of Ely—Palace of Lucifer—Ecclesiastical Geography—History of Commerce—Merchant Adventurers to Spain—King's College Chapel Windows—The King's Standard—James Wilson, M.D. 273

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Prestwich's Respublica—Instance of Longevity—Solidus Gallicus, &c.—Sept—Essay towards Catholic Communion—Bigot 276

REPLIES:—

Age of Trees; Tilford Oak 277

St. Paul's Quotation of Heathen Writers; St. Paul and Plato 278

Sir Alexander Cumming 278

General Wolfe 279

Replies to Minor Queries:—Song of "Miss Bailey"—Fern Storms—The Last of the Paleologi—"Whipping Graves"—Rev. John Paget—Old Scots March, &c.—Sir R. Howard's "Conquest of China"—Mary Howe—Dutch Chronicle of the World—Thistle of Scotland—Bull the Barrel—Bishop Kidder's Autobiography—Which are the Shadows?—Welsh Names "Blaen"—The Verb "to commit"—BeÓcera-gent—New Zealand Legend—Twenty-seven Children—Reeve and Muggleton—Black Book of Paisley—Pasquinades—Elegy on Coleman—Liber Conformitatum, &c.—Grimesdyke; Grimes Graves—Junius and the Quarterly Review again—Ink—Maps of Africa—Learned Men of the Name of Bacon—Paring the Nails—Mottoes on Dials—Mispronounced Names of Places—"There's ne'er a villain," &c. 280

MISCELLANEOUS:—

Notes on Books, &c. 285

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 286

Notices to Correspondents 286

Advertisements 287

List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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