Volume 5 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
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An Epitaph in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, possibly by Milton, by Thomas H. Gill 361
Liability to Error, by Bolton Corney 362
Baxter's Pulpit, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 363
Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, No. I. By T. Sternberg 363
Folk Lore:—Body and Soul—Giving Cheese at a Birth—Sneezing—Marlborough 5th November Custom—Spectral Coach and Horses 364
Antiquaries of the Time of Queen Elizabeth 365
The Tredescants and Elias Ashmole, by S. W. Singer 367
Minor Notes:—Bothwell's Burial-place—Handel's Organ at the Foundling Hospital—Correction to the "Oxford Manual of Monumental Brasses"—Milton's Rib-bone 368
QUERIES:—
The Danes in England, by J. J. A. Worsaae 369
Minor Queries:—Taylor Family—Analysis—Old Playing Cards—Canongate Marriages—Devil, Proper Name—Hendurucus du Booys; Helena Leonora de Sieveri—Can a Clergyman marry himself? &c. 370
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Jacobite Toast—Rev. Barnabas Oley—Sweet-singers—"Philip Quarll"—Dedication of Middleton Church—Lunatic Asylum benefited by Dean Swift 372
REPLIES:—
St. Christopher 372
"Rehetour" and "Moke," two obscure Words used by Wycklyffe, A.D. 1384, by N. L. Benmohel, A.M. 373
Plague Stones 374
Rhymes on Places 374
Archaic and Provincial Words 375
London Street Characters 376
Stone Pillar Worship 377
On a Passage in Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 4. 377
"The Man in the Almanack," by S. W. Singer 378
Epigram on Dr. Fell 379
Replies to Minor Queries:—Verses in Prose—Stops, when first introduced—Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes, &c. 379
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, &c. 382
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 383
Notices to Correspondents 383
Advertisements 383