Volume 5 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
A few Things about Richard Baxter, by H. M. Bealby 481
Latin Song by Andrew Boorde, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 482
Shakspeare Notes 483
Publications of the Stuttgart Society, by F. Norgate 484
Manuscript Shakspeare Emendations, by J. O. Halliwell 484
The Grave-stone of Joe Miller 485
Folk Lore:—Swearing on a Skull—New Moon—Rust 485
Minor Notes:—Epitaph at Low Moor—Sir Thomas Overbury's Epitaph—Bibliotheca Literaria—Inscription at Dundrah Castle—Derivation of Charing 486
QUERIES:—
Poem by Nicholas Breton 487
The Virtuosi, or St. Luke's Club 487
The Rabbit as a Symbol 487
Is Wyld's Great Globe a Plagiarism from Molenax? by John Petheram 488
Minor Queries:—Poem on the Burning of the Houses of Parliament—Newton's Library—Meaning of Royd—The Cromwell Family—Sir John Darnell, Knt.—Royal "We"—Gondomar—Wallington's Journal—Epistola Lucifera, &c.—Cambrian Literature—"VCRIMDR" on Coins of Vabalathus—Lines on Woman—Penkenol—Fairfax Family Mansion—Postman and Tubman in the Court of Exchequer—Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains, &c. 488
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Welsh Women's Hats—Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday—Shakspeare, Tennyson, and Claudian 491
REPLIES:—
The Ring Finger 492
The Moravian Hymns 492
Cagots 493
Sheriffs and Lords Lieutenant 494
St. Christopher 494
General Pardons: Sir John Trenchard, by E. S. Taylor 496
Replies to Minor Queries:—Dayesman—Bull; Dun—Algernon Sidney—Age of Trees—Emaciated Monumental Effigies—Bee Park—Sally Lunn—Baxter's Pulpit—Lothian's Scottish Historical Maps—British Ambassadors—Knollys Family—'Prentice Pillars; 'Prentice Windows—St. Bartholomew—Sun-dial Inscription—History of Faction—Barnacles—Family Likenesses—Merchant Adventurers to Spain—Exeter Controversy—Corrupted Names of Places—Poison—Vikingr Skotar—Rhymes on Places—"We three"—Burning Fern brings Rain—Plague Stones—Sneezing—Abbot of Croyland's Motto—Derivation of the Word "Azores"—Scologlandis and Scologi 497
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, &c. 501
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 502
Notices to Correspondents 502
Advertisements 503