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Saint Swithin and Umbrellas, by Wil- 

 liam Bates . . - . 137 

 A Milton Note, by Tiiomas Keizhtley - 133 

 House of Commons temp. Elizabeth and 



James - - - - - 138 



Inedited Poem by Chaucer - - 1 40 



The late Thomas Rodd - - - 141 



" The Songs of the Dramatists," by W. 



Sawyer - - - - - 142 



Fly-leaves of Books : Reuben Burrow, 

 by Professor De Morgan - - 142 



Minor Notes : — A Green Rose — The 

 Tippet — Almanacs -_ Meaning of 

 " Codds " — Epigram — Places in the 

 Crimea — A Street Song — Origin of 

 Greenwich Park - - - - 143 



QuKRIES : — 



" Gesta Romanorum," and who com- 

 piled it ? 144 



Turtle, Whitebait, and Ministerial 

 Whitebait Dinners - - - 144 



MiNon Queries : — Sir Andrew de 

 Harcia _ Norse Sagas — Royal Li- 

 cence for Change of Surname — Objects 

 impressed on the Bodies of Persons 

 struck by Lightning —Grayling — 

 Freeman Family — Leonard Milburn 



— Magazine Tale — Limberham — Per- 

 sian Ambassador — Charles Masterton 

 _ Lands held by Tenure — Bohun — 

 Opal, its Origin — Beckett Pedigree — 

 The Martyr-Philosopher — Author of 



" Gravity and Levity " - - - 145 



Minor Qdrrif.s with Answers : — 

 William Gardiner and Rev. C. W. 



Chalklen — Heraldic — Aerolites 



Glass Windows in Alnwick Castle — 

 " Lycidas," a Masque —"The Arabian 

 Nights' Entertainments " - - 146 



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Historical Allusions - - - 148 



The Right of bequeathing Land, by 



Kussell Gole - - - - 148 

 Priests' Hiding-places, by J. Waylen,&c. 149 



Eslie, Ushaw, and I'lass, by Hyde 



Clarke, &c. - - - - 150 



Photographic Corresponoenck : — 

 Alteration of Positives - - - 150 



Replies to Minor Qhehies : The 



Burning of Jesuitical Books — Armo- 

 rial Bearings of the Clere Family — 



Ladies and Wives—" Cock and pye " 



Oblation of a White Bull— Kymerton 



— Verb and Nominative Case — Sensa- 

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 phrase " — Florins — Anonymous 

 Hymns — Stonehenge — Anastatic 

 Printing— Glee u. Madrigal — A Lady 

 restored to Lite — John Cleaveland — 

 French Churches _ Cambridge Jeux 

 d'Esprit — Eliza Steele — Sherard — 

 Cabbages — Anagrams, &c. - - 151 



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Notes on Books, &e. - . - 155 



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