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CONTENTS. Page 



On Sir Robert Peel, and his Claims to be remembered 

 by the Literary Men of England ... 433 



Notes : — 



Sitting in Bede's Chair, by Cuthbert Bede 

 Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson 

 On a Passage in " Measure for Measure," Act I. Sc. 1., 

 by S. VV. Singer ------ 



Folk Lore: — Sites of Buildings mysteriously changed 



— Burning the Bush — Essex Superstition 

 Old Song, " Not long ago I drank a full Pot " - 

 Minor Notes : — Boston and Bunker's Hill — Snooks — 



— Last Slave sold in England — Hoax on Sir Walter 

 Scott ....... 



Queries : — 



Irish Queries - ..... 



Minor Queries: — The Azores — Johnny Crapaud — . 

 Poems in the " Spectator " — Old John Harries, 

 " Bishop of Wales " — University Hood — Black Rood 

 in Scotland ; Cross Neytz — Crown Jewels once kept 



at Holt Castle — "Cane Decane," &c Rev. John 



Meekins, D.D Finsbury Manor — Frebord — The 



Stature of Queen Elizabeth — Portrait of Charles Mor- 

 daunt. Earl of Peterborough — Inscription by Luther 



— "O Juvenis frustra," &c. — All-fours — Richard, 

 second Son of the Conqueror — Francis Walkinghame 



— Optical Phenomenon - . - - . 



Minor Queries Answered :_ Abraham-men — Author 

 of" Le Blason des Couleurs " — Banyan-day — General 

 Urmston — Works of Alexander Neville — Lindisfarne 



— Index to the Critical Review — " No great shakes " 

 Translation of Richard de Bury — Life of Ken — 

 Wedding Rings — Monasteries, &c. dissolved— Bishops 

 at the Hampton Court Controversy . - - 



Beplies : — 



Scottish Regalia -.--.- 

 Gospel Oaks, by Professor Theodore Goedes - 

 Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger - 

 Lords Marchers of Wales, by E. Smirke - . - 



Doctrine of the Resurrection . - - - 



Can a Clergyman marry himself ? . . - 



Beplies to Minor Queries : — Algernon Sydney — Cock- 



and-BuU Stories — Thomas Crawford — Longevity 



Theological Tract: The Huntyngof the Romish Fox 



— Moke— Ground Ice — Nobleman alluded to by 

 Bishop Berkeley — House at Welling— Constable of 

 Scotland — The Iron Plate in Lewes Castle— Chel- 

 ■woldesbury—" The King's Booke"— Kev Experi- 

 ments _ Rhymes on Places— Old Scots March, &c. 



— Ecclesiastical Geography — "Please the Pigs " — 

 The Word Shunt — Plato's Lines in " Antho. Palat" 



— Abigail — Nuremberg Token— Meaning of Lode — 

 Mother Damnable — Monuments of De la Beche 

 •f^-imily — Coke and Cowper— Monumental Portraits 



— Motto on Chimney-piece — " Ve dal am daro" 



White-hvered — Enigmatical Epitaphs — Pelican in 

 her Piety, &c. - . . . 



Miscellaneous : 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - . - - 



Notices to Correspondents - - - . 



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Vol. v. — No. 132. 



SIR ROBERT PEEL, AND HIS CLAIMS TO BE REMEMBERED 

 BV THE LITERARV MEN OF ENGLAND. 



One of the most interesting of the recently published 

 parts of Murray's Reading for the Rail is unquestionably 

 Theodore Hooh, a Sketch, which has been reprinted from 

 the Quarterlif Review, with some additional notes. O; 

 these there is one (at p. 62.) which presents us with 

 the following honorable and characteristic anecdote of 

 the late Sir Robert Peel : — 



" The writer of this sketch, now that Sir R. Peel is 

 no more among us, takes this, perhaps his only oppor- 

 tunity of mentioning the generosity of that statesman's 

 conduct towards Maginn. The Doctor having always 

 retained the strong feelings of an Irish Orangeman, 

 was one of those who condemned with severity Sir 

 Robert's pro-Catholic policy of 1829; nor, perhaps, 

 was there any one writer of the time by whom the per- 

 sonal motives of the minister were more unmercifully 

 dealt with. The Doctor assailed them with unwearied 

 pertinacity, in various newspapers and magazines ; but 

 especially in rhymes only less galling than the fiercest 

 of Swift's. He had never been personally acquainted 

 with Peel, who could have known nothing about him 

 so distinctly as this hostility. Yet when, a few years 

 before Maginn's death, some of his friends were pri- 

 vately making a subscription to relieve him from some 

 pressing difficulties. Sir Robert, casually hearing of it, 

 immediately sent through the writer of this sketch, 

 with a stipulation for secrecy, the sum of lOOl. as a 

 contribution to the fund. The writer believes that 

 Sir Robert on various subsequent occasions interfered 

 on the Doctor's behalf in a manner not less liberal, and 

 with the same delicate precautions. At all events, 

 when the doctor was near his end. Sir Robert for- 

 warded for his use a similar benefaction of lOOZ. The 

 writer has no reason to suppose that Maginn was ever 

 aware of any of these kind deeds. It remains to be 

 added that, some years after Dr. Maginn's death, his 

 only son, on attaining the requisite age, received a 

 cadetship in the East Indies from Sir Robert Peel's 

 last government." — ( 1 8 52. ) 



The perusal of this interesting passage has reminded 

 us of a desire which we felt most strongly at the time 

 when the country lost the distinguished man to whom 

 it relates ; and which wo should then have given 

 expression to, but for the fear that in the multitude of 

 projects for doing honour to his memory then floating 



