Volume 5 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
Cibber's Lives of the Poets, by James Crossley 25
Job, by the Rev. T. R. Browne 26
A New Zealand Legend 27
Minor Notes:—A Dutch Commentary on Pope—Satirical Verses on the Chancellor Clarendon's Downfall—Execution of Charles I.—Born within the Sound of Bow Bell 27
QUERIES:—
Are our Lists of English Sovereigns complete? 28
Minor Queries:—Marriage Tithe in Wales—"Preached in a Pulpit rather than a Tub"—Lord Wharton's Bibles—Reed Family—Slavery in Scotland—Leslie, Bishop of Down—Chaplains to the Forces—John of Horsill—St. Crispin's Day—Poniatowski Gems—Why Cold Pudding settles one's Love? 29
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Poem by Camden—Marches of Wales and Lords Marchers 30
REPLIES:—
Moravian Hymns 30
Wady Mokatteb not mentioned in Num. xi. 26., by the Rev. Dr. Todd, &c. 31
Boiling to Death as a Punishment, by J. B. Coleman 32
The Roman Index Expurgatorius of 1607 33
Hobbes's "Leviathan" 34
Major-Gen. James Wolfe, by Lord Braybrooke, Rev. M. Walcott, &c. 34
"There is no mistake," by C. Ross 35
The Rev. Mr. Gay, by Edward Tagart 36
Parish Registers, Right of Search, by John Nurse Chadwick 36
Replies to Minor Queries:—Proverbs—Infantry Firing—Joceline's Legacy—Winifreda; Stevens' "Rural Felicity"—"Posie of other Men's Flowers"—Abigail—Legend of St. Molaisse—Collars of SS.—Pronunciation of Coke—Use of Misereres—Inscription on a Pair of Spectacles—John Lord Frescheville—Nightingale and Thorn—Godfrey Higgins's Works—Ancient Egypt—Crosses and Crucifixes—Rotten Row—Borough-English—Tonge of Tonge—Queen Brunéhaut—"Essex Broad Oak"—Frozen Sounds and Sir John Mandeville, &c. 37
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 44
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 45
Notices to Correspondents 45
Advertisements 45