Volume 5 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
The Old Countess of Desmond 145
The Imperial Eagle of France 147
Folk Lore:—Valentine's Day—Nottingham Hornblowing—Bee Superstitions; Blessing Apple-trees; "A Neck! a Neck!"—Hooping Cough 148
Note on the Coins of Vabalathus 148
The Agnomen of "Brother Jonathan," of Masonic Origin 149
Minor Notes:—Hippopotamus, Behemoth—Curious Inscription—Coins of Edward III. struck at Antwerp in 1337 149
QUERIES:—
Is the Walrus found in the Baltic? 150
English Free Towns, by J. H. Parker 150
Minor Queries:—Bishop Hall's Resolutions—Mother Huff and Mother Damnable—Sir Samuel Garth—German's Lips—Richard Leveridge—Thomas Durfey—Audley Family—Ink—Mistletoe excluded from Churches—Blind taught to read—Hyrne, Meaning of—The fairest Attendant of the Scottish Queen—"Soud, soud, soud, soud!"—Key Experiments—Shield of Hercules—"Sum Liber, et non sum," &c. 150
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Whipping a Husband; Hudibras—Aldus—"The last links are broken"—Under Weigh or Way—The Pope's Eye—"History is Philosophy" 152
REPLIES:—
Coverdale's Bible, by George Offor 153
"As Stars with Trains of Fire," &c., by Samuel Hickson 154
Dials, Dial Mottoes, &c. 155
Can Bishops vacate their Sees? 156
Character of a True Churchman 156
Wearing Gloves in Presence of Royalty 157
Gospel Oaks 157
The Pendulum Demonstration 158
Expurgated Quaker Bible, by Archdeacon Cotton 158
Junius Rumours 159
Wady Mokatteb not mentioned in Num. xi. 26., by Rev. Dr. Todd 159
Replies to Minor Queries:—Rotten Row—"Preached from a Pulpit rather than a Tub"—Olivarius—Slavery in Scotland—Cibber's Lives of the Poets—Theoloneum—John of Padua—Stoke—Eliza Fenning—Ghost Stories—Autographs of Weever and Fuller—Lines on the Bible—Hell-rake—Family Likenesses—Grimsdyke—Portraits of Wolfe, &c. 160
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, &c. 166
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 166
Notices to Correspondents 167
Advertisements 167