Volume 5 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
Unpublished Song by Thomas Otway, by Dr. Rimbault 337
Shakspeare's "We three," by the Rev. Arthur Hussey 338
Cowley's Prose Works 339
Note on Coleridge's Christabel 339
Convertibility of the Words "Grin" and "Gin" 340
Folk Lore:—Game Feathers—Isle of Man Folk Lore 341
Minor Notes:—Epitaph at King Stanley—Monuments of De la Beche Family—Cousinship—Borrowing Days—Monumental Plate at Lewes Castle—Junius and the Quarterly Review—Handwriting 341
QUERIES:—
Dutch Manufactories of Porcelain 343
Salmon Fisheries 343
Thomas Crawford 344
Minor Queries:—The Chronologic Institute—Mother Carey's Chickens—Suwich Priory—Anthony Babington—Sir Isaac Newton, Cicero, and Gravitation—Diotrophes—Grisly—Birthplace of St. Patrick—Motto on Chimney-piece—Curious Bequest—Wilkie's Blind Fiddler—Lode—Ballad quoted by Sir Walter Scott—Ann Stewart, Wife of Christopher Hall—Moveable Organs and Pulpits—Nobleman alluded to by Bishop Berkeley—Chelwoldesbury—Swallows' Nests—Quotation from Arthur Hopton—Group at Prague—Cards prohibited to Apprentices—Cursitor Barons—Phelps's Gloucestershire Collections—Huant Le Puisné—Arms of Roberson 344
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Winterton—Emblems of a Saint—Quack—Dr. Hieron Mercurialis—The Book of Sports 346
REPLIES:—
Meaning of Groom 347
Ballad of Lord Delaware, by Dr. Rimbault 348
Family Likenesses 349
Earl of Erroll 350
The Bowyer Bible 350
Replies to Minor Queries:—Exeter Controversy—Coleridge's "Friend"—Praying to the Devil—The Word "shunt"—St. Paul's Quotation of Heathen Writers—Rex Lucifer—Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative—Spanish Verses on the Invasion of England—Templars—Story of the Greek referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Emaciated Monumental Effigies—Deaths from Fasting—London Genealogical Society—Martinique—"The Delicate Investigation"—Miserrimus—Cynthia's Dragon-yoke—Cromwell's Skull—Almas-Cliffe—Artificial Memory—Punishment of Boiling to Death—Barnard's Church Music—Portrait of Baskerville—Autograph Music by Handel—Dr. Fell—Fern-seed—Longevity and Rejuvenescency—Indignities on the Bodies of Suicides—Large Families: Twenty-seven Children—The last of the Palæologi 351
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on books, &c. 357
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 358
Notices to Correspondents 358
Advertisements 358