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Vol. v.— No. 125.] Saturday, March 20. 1852. 



5 Price Fourpencft 



C Stamped Edition, gd. 



CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 



Tlie Caxton Coffer, by BoUon Corney - - - 



John Tradescant the Younger, an Englishman - 

 Cowley and his Monument, by Henry Campkin - 

 Count Konigsmark and the Duchess of Somerset, by 

 D. Jardine ...... 



Folk Lore, by C. D. Lament _ . - - 



London Street Characters, by Alfred Catty 

 Minor Notes : —Dean Swift on Herbert's Travels — Joe 

 Miller — Hints to Book-buvers — Birmingham Anti- 

 quities — Buchanan and Voltaire — Indignities on the 

 Bodies of Suicides _ _ - . - 



Queries : — 



" God's Love," &c., and other Poems - - - 



Praying to the Devil ..... 



Minor Queries : — John Ap Rice's Register — Pri- 

 deaux's Doctrine of Conscience — John Adair, Geo- 

 grapher for Scotland (alive in 1715) — Clergymen first 

 styled Reverend — Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes — Mean- 

 ing of the word "Elvan " — Wiclif — Showing the 

 White Feather — Gray and Locke— Horses and Sheep, 

 Remains of in Churches — Archa^ologia Cambrensis, 

 Vol. I., Reprint — Presbyterian Oath — "A Pinch of 

 Snuff from Dean Swift's Box" — Cromwell's Skull — 

 Guy, Thomas, Founder of Guy's Hospital, and M. P. for 

 the Borough forTamworth, d. s. p. 1724 — Episcopal 

 Mitre — John Lord Berkeley, Bishop of Ely— Palace of 

 Lucifer — Ecclesiastical Geography — History of Com- 

 merce — Merchant Adventurers to Spain — King's 

 College Chapel Windows — The King's Standard — 

 James Wilson, M.D. - . - . _ 



Minor Queries Answered: — Prestwich's Respublica — 

 Instance of Longevity— Solidus Gallicus, &c. Sept 



— Essay towards Catholic Communion — Bigot 

 Replies : — 



Age of Trees ; Tilford Oak - . . . 



St. Paul's Quotation of Heathen Writers ; St. Paul and 



Plato -..-_-. 



Sir Alexander Cummin^ --.._. 



General Wolfe _-__.. 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Song of "Miss Bailey" 



— Fern Storms — The Last of the Paleologi — 

 " Whipping Graves " — Rev. John Paget — Old 

 Scots March, &c. — Sir R. Howard's "Conquest of 

 China" — Mary Howe — Dutch Chronicle of the 

 World— Thistle of Scotland— Bull the Barrel— Bishop 

 Kidder's Autobiography— Which are the Shadows ? 

 — Welsh Names " Blaen " — The Verb " to commit " — 

 Beocera-gent — New Zealand Legend — Twenty-seven 

 Children — Reeve and Mnggleton — Black Book of 

 Paisley — Pasquinades — Elegy on Coleman — Liber 

 Conformitatum. &c — Grimesdyke ; Grimes Graves — 

 Jnnius and the Quarterly Review again — Ink — Maps of 

 Africa— Learned Men of the Name of Bacon — Paring 



' the Nails— Mottoes on Dials — Mispronounced Names 

 of Places—" There's ne'er a villain," &c. 



MlSCELLANEOCS :-~ 



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Notes on Books, &c. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



Advertisements 



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285 

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Vol. v. — No. 125. 



THE CAXTON COFFER. 



[Proposals of Mr. Banded Minshull, c. 1742.*] 



" Proposals for printing an exact and ample ac- 

 count of all the books printed by William Caxton, 

 who was the first printer in England : wherein will 

 be set forth some select chapters from each book, 

 to shew the nature and diction thereof, with all 

 his proems, prologues, epilogues, and tables, in his 

 own words. There will be also interspersed 

 several ancient and curious matters relating to the 

 history of England, and other curious subjects : 

 with a vocabulary of the old English words, and 

 an explanation of them, which will greatly illus- 

 trate the ancient English language, as it was 

 written in the reign of Edward III, and continued 

 down to Henry VII. kings of England, as con- 

 tained in the writings of Thomas Woodstock duke 

 of Glocester, Anthony Woodville earl Rivers,- 

 John Gower, GeoiFry Chaucer, John Lydgate, 

 and other famous persons. 



By R. Minshull, library-keeper to the right 

 honourable the earl of Oxford deceas'd. 



' Ut sylvas foliis pronos mutantur in annos, 

 Prima cadunt, ita verborum vetiis interit a;tas, 

 Et juvenum ritu, florent modo nata vigentq; 

 Debemur morti nos, nostraq ; ! ' — Hoa. 



It is proposed by the editor hereof, as follows : 

 viz. 



I. This woi'k will contain about 200 sheets of 

 paper, printed in the same form of letter and 

 paper, as this specimen. 



II. There shall be no more printed than 500 



* This document, though before printed, is as rare 

 as a manuscript. Dibdin had not seen it when he 

 wrote his memoir of Caxton, nor could he prove its 

 existence but by a reference to the BibUotheca Westiana. 

 It IS now reprinted from a copy in the Grenville col- 

 lection in the British Museum. The specimen is a 

 small folio, in pica type, and on thin laid paper. As 

 my information on Mr. Randal Minshull is at present 

 very scanty, I reserve it with the hope of more for- 

 tunate gleanings. — Bolton CoRSEy. 



