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No. 65. SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1851. Price Sixpence. Stamped Edition 7d.

CONTENTS.

NOTES:— Page

Traditional English Ballads, by Dr. E.F. Rimbault 49

The Father of Philip Massinger 52

Touchstone's Dial, by George Stephens 52

Discrepancies in Dugdale's Account of Sir Ralph de Cobham, by W. Hastings Kelke 53

Henry Chettle 54

Coverdale's Bible 54

Answer to Cowley 55

Folk Lore of Lancashire, No. 1., by T.T. Wilkinson 55

Minor Notes:—Proclamation of Langholme Fair—Seats in Churches—Flemish Account—Use of Monosyllables—Specimen of Foreign English—Epitaph 56

QUERIES:—

The Tale of the Wardstaff, by S.W. Singer 57

Ballad ascribed to Sir C. Hanbury Williams, by G.H. Barker 59

Minor Queries:—Book called Tartuare—William Wallace in London—Obeism—Aged Monks—Lady Alice Carmichael—"A Verse may find him"—Daresbury, the White Chapel of England—Ulm Manuscript—Merrick and Tattersall—Dr. Trusler's memoirs—Life of Bishop Frampton—Probabilism—Sir Henry Chauncy's Observations on Wilfred Entwysel—Theological Tracts—Lady Bingham—Gregory the Great—John Hill's Penny Post in 1659—Andrea Ferrara—Imputed Letter of Sallustius—Thomas Rogers of Horninger—Tandem D.O.M.—The Episcopal Mitre 59

REPLIES:—

The Passage in Troilus and Cressida, by John Taylor 62

Black Images of the Virgin, by J.B. Litchfield 63

Outline in Painting 63

Ten Children at a Birth 64

Shakspeare's Use of "Captious" 65

Sword of William the Conqueror 66

Meaning of Eisell 66

Altar Lights, &c. 68

Replies to Minor Queries:—Handbell before a Corpse—Sir George Downing—Hulls, the Inventor of Steamboats—"Clarum et venerabile Nomen"—Occult Transposition of Letters—Darby and Joan—Did Banyan know Hobbes?—Mythology of the Stars—Dodo Queries—Holland Land—Swearing by Swans—The Frozen Horn—Cockade and True Blue—The Vavasours of Hazlewood—"Breoches" Bible—Histoire des Sévarambes—Verses attributed to Charles Yorke—Archbishop Bolton of Cashel—Erasmus and Farel—Early Culture of the Imagination—William Chilcot—By and bye—Mocker—Was Colonel Hewson a Cobbler?—Mole—Pillgarlick—A recent Novel—Tablet to Napoleon—North Sides of Churchyards—Wisby—Singing of Swans—Dacre Monument at Herstmoneux—Herstmoneux Castle—Suem; Ferling; Grasson—Portrait of Archbishop Williams—Swans hatched during Thunder—Etomology of Apricot—"Plurima gemma latet circa tellure sepulta"—Time when Herodotus wrote—Lucy and Colin—Translations of Apuleius, &c.—Etymology of "Grasson"—Lynch Law—"Talk not of Love"—The Butcher Duke—Curfew—Robertson Struan 68

MISCELLANEOUS:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 77

Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 78

Notices to Correspondents 78

Advertisements 78