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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — 



Autobiography of ■William Oldys, by Charles Bridger - 

 On Cosin's " History of Popish Transubstantiation," 

 edited by the Rev. J. S. Brewer ... 



Ancient Guildhalls in England _ - - - 



The Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, by Henry Edwards 

 Robert Drury ..---- 



Folk Lore : — Gabriel Hounds _ Weather Prophecy — 



Origin of Moles — Mistletoe 

 Minor Notes : — Byron's " Siege of Corinth " — Gold- 

 smith's " Poetical Dictionary " — Corrupted Names — 



Queries : — 



Mr. Halliwell's Annotated Shakspeare Folio 



Restive ..-.--- 



Reason and Understanding according to Coleridge, by 



C. Mansfield Ingleby . _ . . _ 



Minor Queries : — Banning or Bayning Family — Ladies 



styled Baronets — St. Christopher and the Doree— . 



Custom of Women wearing Masks in the Theatre — 



Brass of .Abbot Kirton ; Matrices — Lines on Chaucer 



— The Nacar — Cilgerran Castle — Use of Slings by 

 the Early Britons — " Squire Vernon's Fox Chase" — 

 The Death Watch — Genealogical Queries — Ben Jon- 

 soii's adopted Sons — Kyrle's Tankard at Balliol — 

 Irish Language in the West Indies — " Battle of Ne- 

 ville's Cross"— Sir Walter Raleigh's Ring — " Name ; 

 or, Pearle of Prayer " — Sir George Howard — " Love 

 me, love my Dog " — Mummy Wheat — A Photogra- 

 phic Query — " Stunt with false Care " — Winchester 

 College— Old Royal Irish Academy House, Grafton 

 Street — Quotations wanted— Shakspeare's Seal — The 

 long-lived Countess of Desmond . . - 



Minor Queries Answered : — Temple Church and Lin- 

 coln's Inn Chapel — Edmund Bohun — " Nimrod " - 

 Replies : — 



The Three Estates of the Realm, by William Fraser - 

 Burials in Woollen, by John Booker and J. B. Colman 

 Braem's MS. " Memoires touchant le Commerce " 

 General Pardons, by John Gough Nichols 

 The Dodo, by A. D. Bartlett - - - - 



Whipping of Princes by Proxy . - - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Penkenol — Johnny Cra- 

 paud — Sir John Darnall — Bastides — Compositions 

 under the Protectorate — Hoax on Sir Walter Scott 



— Statute of Limitations abroad — Lines on Crawford 

 of Kilbirnie — Swearing on a Skull — Rhymes on 

 Places — The Silent Woman — Serpent with a human 

 Head — Poem on the Burning of the Houses of Parlia- 

 ment — Large Families — Frebord — Milton's (?) Epi- 

 taph — Can Bishops vacate their Sees? — Sleekstone, 

 Meaning of — Poems in the Spectator — Line on 

 Franklin — St. Christopher — Lines on Woman — 

 Burial — Portrait of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northum- 

 berland _-.... . 545 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. .... - 549 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 550 



Notices to Correspondents - _ . . 550 



Advertisements - - - - - -551 



Vol. v.— No. 136. 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM OLDYS. 



Previous to receiving the appointment of Norroy 

 King at Arms, Oldys wrote a short account of his own 

 life, which is now in my possession ; and as it contains 

 some interesting particulars of his connexion with the 

 Earl of Oxford, in the formation of the magnificent 

 collection of manuscripts now in the British Museum, 

 I have forwarded a copy of it, which you are at liberty 

 to make use of, if suited to the pages of " N. & Q." 



" After my unfortunate adventures in the South 

 Sea, my long and expensive law-suits for the re- 

 covery of my right, and five years' retirement to a 

 nobleman's in the country, with whom I had been 

 intimate in my youth, I became, in less than two 

 years after my return to London, first known to 

 the Earl of Oxford in the year 1731 ; when he 

 invited me to show him my collections of MSS. 

 Historical and Political, which had been the Earl 

 of Clarendon's ; my collections of Royal Letters, 

 and other Papers of State ; together with a very 

 large collection of English heads in sculpture, 

 which alone had taken me up some years to collect, 

 at the expense of at least threescore pounds. All 

 these, Avith the catalogues I drew up of them, at 

 his lordship's request, I parted with to him for 

 forty pounds, and the frequent intimations he gave 

 me of a more substantial recompense hereafter, 

 which intimations induced me to continue my 

 historical researches, as what would render me most 

 acceptable to him. Thei-efore I left off writing in 

 the Universal Spectator, in which I had then pub- 

 lished about twenty papers, and was proffered the 

 sole supply thereof; which would have returned 

 me fifty-two guineas per annum. 



" Further, when his lordship understood that my 

 printed books consisted chiefly of personal history, 

 he desired catalogues of them also : which I drew 

 out, and he had several large parcels of the most 

 scarce and curious amongst them, in the two 

 years following ; for which, though I never re- 

 ceived more than five guineas, not the fourth part 

 of their value, yet his friendly deportment towards 

 me increased my attachment and zeal to oblige 

 him. This friendship he further ^exerted, in the 



