Volume 4 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
Historical Coincidences: Barclay and Perkins 497
Remains of King James II. 498
Shetland Folk Lore:—The Wresting Thread—Ringworm—Burn—Elfshot 500
Minor Notes:—Names of Places in Normandy and Orkney 501
QUERIES:—
Minor Queries:—Meaning of Ploydes—Green-eyed Monster—Perpetual Lamp—Family of Butts—Greek Names of Fishes—Drimmnitavichillichatan—Chalk-back Day—Moravian Hymns—Rural and Urban Deans—Ducks and Drakes—Vincent Kidder—House at Welling—Shropshire, Price of Land—Legal Time 501
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Thorns of Dauphine—Inscription at Lyons—Turnpikes 502
REPLIES:—
General James Wolfe 503
"Flemish Account" 504
Pope and Flatman, by Henry H. Breen 505
Derivation of "London," by Francis Crossley, &c. 505
Replies to Minor Queries:—Legend of the Robin Redbreast—Monk and Cromwell—Souling—Clekit House—Peter Talbot—Races in which Children, &c.—Bacon a Poet—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Share of Presbyters in Ordination—Weever's Funeral Monument—Dial Motto at Karlsbad—Cabal—Rectitudines Singularum Personarum—Stanzas in Childe Harold—The Island and Temple of Ægina—Herschel anticipated—Wyle Cop—Macfarlane Manuscripts 506
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 509
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 510
Notices to Correspondents 510
Advertisements 510