CONTENTS.
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Two Chancellors, by Edward Foss 257
Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III. 258
Folk Lore:—Cure of Hooping Cough—Charms from Devonshire—Lent Lilies—Oak Webs, &c. 258
The Threnodia Carolina of Sir Thomas Herbert, by Bolton Corney 259
Minor Notes:—Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis—Moorfields in Charles II.'s Time—Derivation of Yankee—A Word to Literary Men 260
Queries:
Poems of John Seguard of Norwich, by Sir F. Madden 261
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke 262
Minor Queries:—The Vellum-bound Junius—What is a Tye?—"Marriage is such a Rabble Rout"—Arms of Robert Nelson—Knebsend or Nebsend, co. York —Moore's Almanack—Archbishop Loftus—Matrix of Monastic Seal—Syriac Scriptures and Lexicon— Villiers Duke of Buckingham—Porci solidi-pedes— The Heywood Family—Was Charles II. ever in Wales?—Dog's Head in the Pot—"Poor Alinda's growing old" 262
Minor Queries Answered:—Who was the Author of "The Modest Enquiry, &c."?—William Penn's Family —Deal, Dover, and Harwich—Author of Broad Stone of Honour—Pope Joan—The Well o' the World's End—Sides and Angles—Meaning of Ratche —"Feast of Reason," &c.—Tu autem 264
Replies:—
Barons of Hugh Lupus 266
Edmund Prideaux and the First Post-office 266
Lady Jane of Westmoreland 268
Replies to Minor Queries:—Ulm Manuscript—Father Maximilian Hell—Meaning of "strained" as used by Shakspeare—Headings of Chapters in English Bibles 269
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 269
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 270
Notices to Correspondents 270
Advertisements 271