  NOTES:— Sterne at Sutton on the Forest, by the Rev. A. Gatty Readings in Shakspeare, No. IV. Presentiment Curious Bill of Fare, and Storm, in 1739, by Edward Hawkins Peculiar Attributes of the Seventh Son Folk Lore:—Game-feathers protracting the Agony of Death—Charm for Ague—Old Shoes thrown for Luck—Folk Lore of the Kacouss People Burials in Woollen, by the Rev. E. S. Taylor Minor Notes:—Unacknowledged Quotations from the Scriptures—Latin Hexameters on the Bible—Epigram on La BruyÈre—Cock And Bull Story—Mary Queen of Scots; her Monument and Head QUERIES:— The Book of Jasher Minor Queries:—Old China—Pagoda, Joss House, Fetiche—"And Eva stood and wept alone"—Hearne's Confirmation; Baxter's Heavy Shove; Old Ballad—Gunpowder Mills—Macfarlane of that Ilk—Armorial Bearings—Scologlandis and Scologi—Ednowain ap Bradwen—Mummy Wheat—The Trusty Servant at Winchester—Anecdote—St. Augustine—Ghost, Evidence of one not received—Roman and Saxon Cambridge—Queries on the Mistletoe—Portrait of Mesmer MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Saint Richard—"Coming Events cast their Shadows before"—St. Christopher—Cuddy, the Ass—Toady—Mother Shipton REPLIES:— Ralph Winterton Meaning and Origin of "Era," by S. W. Singer Lady Arabella Stuart, by A. Grayan Newton, Cicero, and Gravitation Deferred Executions, by Ambrose Florence, &c. Duchess of Lancaster Surnames Replies to Minor Queries:—Dyson's Collection of Proclamations—"Up, Guards, and at them!"—Bawderich, and Bells—Algernon Sydney—"History is Philosophy teaching by Examples"—On a Passage in Pope—Plague Stones—"ArchÆologia Cambrensis, Vol. I., 2nd Edit."—Town-halls—Emaciated Monumental Elegies—Coleridge's "Friend"—Enigma on the Letter "I"—Mother Carey's Chickens—Burnomania—Cagots—Chantrey's Sleeping Children—Topography of Ashbourne—Arkwright—Pilgrimages to the Holy Land—"Merchant Adventurers" MISCELLANEOUS:— Notes on Books, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements |
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