WALFORD’S ANTIQUARIAN MAGAZINE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.
Reading edition
Edited by G. W. Redway, F.R.Hist.S.
The following are the Contents of the first Four Numbers published this year. Articles:—Domesday Book.—Frostiana.—Some Kentish Proverbs.—The Literature of Almanacks.—“Madcap Harry” and Sir John Popham.—Tom Coryate and his Crudities.—Notes on John Wilkes and Boswell’s Life of Johnson.—Rarities in the Locker-Lampson Collection.—A Day with the late Mr. Edward Solly.—The Defence of England in the 16th Century.—The Ordinary from Mr. Thomas Jenyns’ Booke of Armes.—A Forgotten Cromwellian Tomb.—Visitation of the Monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII.—The Rosicrucians.—The Seillière Library.—A Lost Work.—Sir Bevis of Hampton.—More Kentish Proverbs.—Cromwell and the Saddle Letter of Charles I.—Recent Discoveries at Rome.—Folk-Lore of British Birds.—An Old Political Broadside.—Notes for Coin Collectors.—Higham Priory.—Byways of Periodical Literature.—How to Trace a Pedigree.—The Curiosities of Ale.—The Books and Bookmen of Reading.—The Language of the Law.—Words, Idioms, &c., of the Vulgar.—Notes on Old Chelsea.—The Romans in Cumbria.
Collectanea.—Early Italian Prints.—Tercentenary of the Potato.—Chaucer Discovery.—Sir John Soane’s Museum.—Copyright in Government Publications.—Pausanias.—The Loan of Manuscripts.—Paper Making in 1588.—Portraits of Charles Dickens.—Hopton Castle.—A very Ancient Watch.—The Value of Antiquarian Study.—Curious Forestry Privilege.—A “Factory.”—Thimbles Old and New.—Mrs. Glasse’s Cookery Book.—A Bucks Estate.—Chalfont St. Giles.—Greek Coins.—Shakespearian Literature.—Geography in the Sixteenth Century.—Welsh Place Names.—Japanese Art.—Duelling in 1760.—Shelleyana.—English Archers.—Oriental Porcelain.—South Italian Folk-Lore.—Serpent-Lore.—Modern Witches.—The Domesday Plough.—A Bishop of the Olden Time.—Historical Treasures in the Upsala Cathedral.—The Witches Ladder.—Old Prayer-Book.—A Relic of James II.—Pontefract and Ripon.—Old Shoes.—Love Charms.—County Families.—A Roman Fire Brigade.—Parish Registers.—Border Raiding.—Peasant Proprietors.—Queen Mary’s Tree.—The Turks and Persians as Book-lovers.—Epitaph of John Ruskin’s Parents.—Quakers.—“Yankee” and the “Stars and Stripes.”—Gipsies.—The Royal Academy.—Chigwell Church, Essex.—Printers’ Errors.—A Village Club.—An Historical Fishery.—A Survival.—A Cock Match.—Early Publishing.—Pancakes at Westminster School.—The Archbishop’s Palace at Croydon.—The Art of the Saracens in Egypt.—The Early Custody of Domesday Book.
Correspondence.—The late Bishop Hannington’s Ancestry.—A Reader of Curious Books.—Throwing the Dart in Cork Harbour.—The De la Poles.—The Family of John Hampden.—The “Olla Podrida” and T. Monro.—Life of Bertram Montfichet.—Magdalen College, Oxford.—Book Bound in a Murderer’s Skin.—A Forgotten Society.—Latin Verses by Dr. Johnson.—“Merchet” and the “Jus Primæ Noctis.”—Hanna, Hanet, and Wallace.—Another Book Bound in a Murderer’s Skin.—Humorous Portrait of Charles Dickens.—Beating Boys at Parish Boundaries.—Destruction of National Antiquities.
Reviews.—Obituary Memoirs.—Meetings of Learned Societies.—News and Notes.
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