CONTENTS.
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"That Swinney" 213
Monumental Inscription in Peterborough Cathedral, by Thos. Wake 215
Folk Lore:—Superstition of the Cornish Miners—Northamptonshire Folk Lore 215
Shakspeare Correspondence 216
Minor Notes:—Lemon-juice administered in Gout and Rheumatism—Weather Proverbs—Dog Latin—Thomas Wright of Durham—A Funeral Custom 217
Queries:—
Littlecott—Sir John Popham, by Edward Foss 218
Early Edition of the New Testament, by A. Boardman 219
Minor Queries:—Ravilliac—Emblem on a Chimney-piece—"To know ourselves diseased," &c.—"Pætus and Arria"—Heraldic Query—Lord Chancellor Steele—"A Tub to the Whale"—Legitimation (Scotland)—"Vaut mieux," &c.—Shakspeare First Folio—The Staffordshire Knot—Sir Thomas Elyot—"Celsior exsurgens pluviis," &c.—The Bargain Cup—School-Libraries.—Queen Elizabeth and her "true" Looking-glass—Bishop Thomas Wilson—Bishop Wilson's Works—Hobbes, Portrait of 219
Minor Queries with Answers:—Brasenose, Oxford—G. Downing—Unkid—Pilgrim's Progress—John Frewen—Histories of Literature—"Mrs. Shaw's Tombstone" 221
Replies:—
Cranmer and Calvin, by the Rev. H. Walter 222
Barnacles, by Sir J. E. Tennent and T. J. Buckton 223
Dial Inscriptions, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 224
The "Saltpeter Maker" 225
Tsar, by T. J. Buckton, &c. 226
"Land of Green Ginger," by John Richardson and T. J. Buckton 227
Photographic Correspondence:—Stereoscopic Angles—Protonitrate of Iron—Photographs in natural Colours—Photographs by artificial Lights 227
Replies to Minor Queries:—Vandyke in America—Title wanted: Choirochorographia—Second Growth of Grass—Snail-eating—Sotades—The Letter "h" in "humble"—Lord North—Singing Psalms and Politics—Dimidiation by Impalement—"Inter cuncta micans," &c.—Marriage Service—Widowed Wife—Pure—Mrs. Tighe—Satirical Medal—"They shot him dead at the Nine-Stone Rig"—Hendericus du Booys: Helena Leonore de Sievéri—House-marks, &c.—"Qui facit per alium, facit per se"—Engin-à-verge—Campvere, Privileges of—Humbug: Ambages—"Going to Old Weston"—Reynolds's Nephew—The Laird of Brodie—Mulciber—Voiding Knife—Sir John Vanbrugh—Portrait of Charles I.—Burial in an erect Posture—Strut-Stowers and Yeathers or Yadders—Arms of the See of York—Leman Family—Position of Font 228
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c. 234
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 234
Notices to Correspondents 234
Advertisements 235