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Country Dealers in Second-hand Books 97 

 "King Lear," Act IV. Sc. 1.: "Our 



meanes secures us," the Reading: of the 



first Folios asserted by Rev. W. R. 



ArroTTsmith - - - - 97 



William Amall and the " Free Briton," 



by William J. Thorns - - - 98 



Hampshire Folk Lore, by Avon Lea - 100 

 Mrs. Hannah More on Female Poetical 



Genius - - - - ■ joi 



Predictionsof the Fire of London - 102 



MiKoa Notes : —The Manor of Ken- 

 nerleieh, near Crediton in Devon- 

 •hire, lost by a Game of Cards — Pepys' 

 Mother— The " French Book," printed 

 by Wilkes — Contemporary r. Cotem- 

 porary — Curious Inscription - - 102 



QUBRIKS; 



"When did Copes cease to be worn ? by 

 CuthbertBede, B.A. ... 103 



Arms of Abbey of Bardney, by Pishey 

 Thompson - - . - 104 



Minor Queries -.—Kymerton — Hun- 

 tmgton and Lennard Families _ Wil- 

 liam Bailie, Bishop of Clonfert — 

 Origm of the Sign of Cock and Pye — 

 Ells Family, &c. — Culver, Culyer, or 

 Colier Rents, &c. — Christopher Urs- 

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Sophist— Lord Carberry — " A Short 

 Catechism "_ Lord Mahon's "His- 

 tory" - - ... . 105 



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"Calamum temperare," by Philar^te 



Chasles - - - . .106 



Dean Swift and " The Examiner " - 107 

 Pilgrims' Roads - - . -108 



Sir Jerome Bowes, by J. Virtue Wynen 109 

 Blue Rose, by W. Pinkerton - - 109 



The Ancient Mysteries : " Sibylle " or 

 "SybiUe" - . . .no 



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 Fran5aise de Photographie - - HI 



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 Hobdays — Buying the Devil — Po- 

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 Circle, &c. . . . - 112 



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Notes on Books, &c. . . - 115 



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