Volume 5 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
Sterne at Sutton on the Forest, by the Rev. A. Gatty 409
Readings in Shakspeare, No. IV. 410
Presentiment 411
Curious Bill of Fare, and Storm, in 1739, by Edward Hawkins 412
Peculiar Attributes of the Seventh Son 412
Folk Lore:—Game-feathers protracting the Agony of Death—Charm for Ague—Old Shoes thrown for Luck—Folk Lore of the Kacouss People 413
Burials in Woollen, by the Rev. E. S. Taylor 414
Minor Notes:—Unacknowledged Quotations from the Scriptures—Latin Hexameters on the Bible—Epigram on La Bruyère—Cock And Bull Story—Mary Queen of Scots; her Monument and Head 414
QUERIES:—
The Book of Jasher 415
Minor Queries:—Old China—Pagoda, Joss House, Fetiche—"And Eva stood and wept alone"—Hearne's Confirmation; Baxter's Heavy Shove; Old Ballad—Gunpowder Mills—Macfarlane of that Ilk—Armorial Bearings—Scologlandis and Scologi—Ednowain ap Bradwen—Mummy Wheat—The Trusty Servant at Winchester—Anecdote—St. Augustine—Ghost, Evidence of one not received—Roman and Saxon Cambridge—Queries on the Mistletoe—Portrait of Mesmer 415
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Saint Richard—"Coming Events cast their Shadows before"—St. Christopher—Cuddy, the Ass—Toady—Mother Shipton 418
REPLIES:—
Ralph Winterton 419
Meaning and Origin of "Era," by S. W. Singer 420
Lady Arabella Stuart, by A. Grayan 421
Newton, Cicero, and Gravitation 422
Deferred Executions, by Ambrose Florence, &c. 422
Duchess of Lancaster 423
Surnames 424
Replies to Minor Queries:—Dyson's Collection of Proclamations—"Up, Guards, and at them!"—Bawderich, and Bells—Algernon Sydney—"History is Philosophy teaching by Examples"—On a Passage in Pope—Plague Stones—"Archæologia Cambrensis, Vol. I., 2nd Edit."—Town-halls—Emaciated Monumental Elegies—Coleridge's "Friend"—Enigma on the Letter "I"—Mother Carey's Chickens—Burnomania—Cagots—Chantrey's Sleeping Children—Topography of Ashbourne—Arkwright—Pilgrimages to the Holy Land—"Merchant Adventurers" 425
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, &c. 430
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 430
Notices to Correspondents 431
Advertisements 431