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CONTENTS. 



Notes:— Page 



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 — Epi- 

 gram on La BruyCre — 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, Fe- 

 tiche — " 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 — .-Vnecdote — 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 



Beplies : — 



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 : — JDyson's Collection of Pro- 

 clamations — " Up, Guards, and at them ! " — Baw- 

 derich, and Bells — Algernon Sydney — "History is 

 Philosophy teaching by Examples " — On a Passage 

 in Pope — Plague Stones — " Archaeologia Cam- -.- 

 brensis, Vol. I., 2nd Edit."— Town-halls— Emaciated 

 Monumental Effigies — Coleridge's " Friend " — 

 Enigma on the Letter " I "—Mother Carey's Chickens 



— Burnomania— Cagots— Chantrey's Sleeping ChiU 

 dren — Topography of Ashbourne — Arkwright —Pil- 

 grimages 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 



Vol, v. — No. 131. 



STERNE AT SUTTON ON THE FOREST. 



The following extracts from the Register Book 

 of the parish of Sutton on the Forest, Yorkshire, 

 which are in the handwriting of Lawrence Sterne, 

 have come into my possession through the kind- 

 ness of my friend Archdeacon Creyke (of York), 

 and I beg to offer them for insertion in " N. & Q." 



" Lawrence Sterne, A. B., was inducted into j« 

 Vicarage of Sutton August y« 25"^, 1738. 



" Lawrence Sterne created Master of Arts at Cam- 

 bridge, July, 1740. 



" L. Sterne, A. M. , made Prebendary of York 

 (Givendale) by Lancelot Arch-bishop in January, 

 1740 ; and in Jan. 1741 prefer'd by his Lords? to the 

 Prebend of N. Newbald. 



" Mem*. That the Cherry Trees and Espalier Apple 

 Hedge were planted in y« Gardens October y« 9, 1742. 

 Nectarines and Peaches planted the same day. The 

 Pails set up two months before. 



" I laid out in the Garden, in y« year 1742, the sura 

 of 81. 1 5s. 6d. L. Sterne." 



" Laid out in enclosing the Orchard, and in Apple 

 Trees, &c., in y« year 1743, 51. 



" The Apple Trees, Pear and Plumb Trees, planted 

 in y" Orchard y'' 28"' day of October, 1743, by 



" L. Sterne." 



"Laid out in Sushing* the House, 121., A. Dom. 

 1741. • 



" In Stukbing* and Bricking 

 the Hall - - - - 



In Building the Chair House 



In Building the Par' Chim- 

 ney - - - - 



Little House - _ - 



" Spent in shapeing the Rooms, plastering, Under- 

 drawing, and Jobbing — God knows what." 



"In May, 1745 — 



" A dismal Storm of Hail fell upon this Town, and 

 some other adjacent ones, w'='' did considerable damage 



* There are two words in Sterne's own memoranda 

 which may puzzle other readers besides me ; Sushing 

 and Stukbing. I have thought they might mean sash- 

 ing, i.e. for windows, and stuccoing the walls. Perhaps 

 some contributor to " N. & Q." will kindly interpret 

 them. 



