Volume 4 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
The Battle of Brunanburgh, by Dr. Thurnam 249
The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 250
Accuracy Of Printing 250
Folk Lore:—Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned—Tom Chipperfeild—East Norfolk Folk Lore 251
Sermon of Bishop Jeremy Taylor, by James Crossley 251
Cowley and Gray, No. 11. 252
Minor Notes:—Remains of Sir Hugh Montgomery—Westminster Hall—Meaning of "Log-ship"—Locusts of the New Testament 254
QUERIES:—
Coinage of Vabalathus, Prince of Palmyra, by the Rev. E. S. Taylor 255
Minor Queries:—Chaucer, how pronounced—The Island of Ægina—Statute of Limitations Abroad—Tapestry Story of Justinian—Praed's Works—Folietani—Berlin Mean Time—Defoe's House at Stoke Newington—Oxford Fellowships—Leonard Fell and Judge Fell—"Cleanliness is next to Godliness"—Davies Queries 255
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Poet referred to by Bacon—The Violin—Sir Thomas Malory, Knt.—Archbishop of Spalatro—Play of "The Spaniards in Peru"—Selion 257
REPLIES:—
Prophecies of Nostradamus 258
Borough-English 259
Passage in Virgil 260
Replies to Minor Queries:—Ell-rake—Freedom from Serpents—Nao, for Naw, for Ship—De Grammont—The Termination "-ship"—The Five Fingers—Marriages within ruined Churches—Death of Cervantes—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Gray's Obligations to Jeremy Taylor—Blessing by the Hand—Sacre Cheveux—Pope and Flatman—Linteamina and Surplices 260
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 263
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 263
Notices to Correspondents 263
Advertisements 264