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An Epitaph in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, possibly by Milton, by Thomas H. Gill 361

Liability to Error, by Bolton Corney 362

Baxter's Pulpit, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 363

Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, No. I. By T. Sternberg 363

Folk Lore:—Body and Soul—Giving Cheese at a Birth—Sneezing—Marlborough 5th November Custom—Spectral Coach and Horses 364

Antiquaries of the Time of Queen Elizabeth 365

The Tredescants and Elias Ashmole, by S. W. Singer 367

Minor Notes:—Bothwell's Burial-place—Handel's Organ at the Foundling Hospital—Correction to the "Oxford Manual of Monumental Brasses"—Milton's Rib-bone 368

QUERIES:—

The Danes in England, by J. J. A. Worsaae 369

Minor Queries:—Taylor Family—Analysis—Old Playing Cards—Canongate Marriages—Devil, Proper Name—Hendurucus du Booys; Helena Leonora de Sieveri—Can a Clergyman marry himself? &c. 370

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Jacobite Toast—Rev. Barnabas Oley—Sweet-singers—"Philip Quarll"—Dedication of Middleton Church—Lunatic Asylum benefited by Dean Swift 372

REPLIES:—

St. Christopher 372

"Rehetour" and "Moke," two obscure Words used by Wycklyffe, A.D. 1384, by N. L. Benmohel, A.M. 373

Plague Stones 374

Rhymes on Places 374

Archaic and Provincial Words 375

London Street Characters 376

Stone Pillar Worship 377

On a Passage in Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 4. 377

"The Man in the Almanack," by S. W. Singer 378

Epigram on Dr. Fell 379

Replies to Minor Queries:—Verses in Prose—Stops, when first introduced—Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes, &c. 379

MISCELLANEOUS:—

Notes on Books, &c. 382

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 383

Notices to Correspondents 383

Advertisements 383

List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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