Volume 4 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
The Old Countess of Desmond, No. 1. 305
Panslavic Sketches, by Dr. J. Lotsky 306
Monumental Bust of Shakspeare, by J. O. Halliwell 307
Notes on Passages in Virgil, by Dr. Henry 307
Folk Lore:—Superstitions respecting Bees—Bees invited to Funerals—North Side of Churchyards—Ashton Faggot: a Devonshire Custom—Offerings to the Apple-trees: Devonshire Superstition 308
Poetical Imitations 310
Gloucestershire Ballads:—A Gloucester Ditty; George Ridler's Oven 311
The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 312
Minor Notes:—Note on the Duration of Reigns—Cock and Bull Story—"Multa renascentur," &c.—Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words 312
QUERIES:—
Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell's Confession 313
Minor Queries:—"'Tis Twopence now"—Scythians blind their Slaves—The "Gododin"—Frontispiece to Hobbes's Leviathan—Broad Arrow or Arrow Head—Deep Well near Bansted Downs—Upton Court—Derivation of Prog—Metrical History of England—Finger Pillories in Churches—Stallenge Queries—Ancient MS. History of Scotland—Pharetram de Tutesbit—Inundation at Deptford—Butler's Sermons—Coleridge's Christabel—Epigram ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots 314
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Meaning of Farlieu—"History of Anglesey"—The Word "Rile" 317
REPLIES:—
Winchester Execution 317
Cockney 318
Sir Edmund Plowden or Ployden 319
General James Wolfe 322
Stanzas in Childe Harold 323
Replies to Minor Queries:—MS. Note in a Copy of Liber Sententiarum—Naturalis Proles—Print cleaning—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Anagrams—Battle of Brunanburgh—Praed's Works—Sir J. Davies—Coins of Constantius Gallus—Passage in Sedley—Buxtorf's Translation of Elias Levita's "Tub Taam"—Stonehenge—Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture—Fortune, infortune, fort une—Matthew Paris's "Historia Minor"—Sanford's "Descensus"—Death of Pitt—History of Hawick—"Prophecies of Nostradamus"—Bourchier Family—William III. at Exeter—Passage in George Herbert—Suicides buried in Cross Roads—Armorial Bearing—"Life of Cromwell"—Harris, Painter in Water Colours—"Son of the Morning"—Grimsdyke or Grimesditch—Cagots—The Serpent represented with a human Head—Fire Unknown—Plant in Texas—Copying Inscriptions—Chantrey's Statue of Mrs. Jordan—Portraits of Burke—Martial's Distribution of Hours 326
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 332
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 333
Notices to Correspondents 333
Advertisements 333