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NoTBi : — Page 



The Ledger of Henry Woodfall, Jun., 

 173"-1748. - - - 217 



Ineditcd Letters of Charles I., by J. C. 

 Wittou 219 



Shakspkariaxa : — 1. " Henry the 

 Kiahth "—2. Sliakspeare and hisCo- 

 tempcraries — 3. Kandom Notes on 

 Bhakspeare— ■!. Dog-cheap—S. Frailty 

 ofWomau - - - - 220 



Arehhishoo Williams, 1582—1650, by J. 

 Virtue Wynen - - - - 221 



Tf'PooBAPiiy OP London: — Thames 

 Salmon — Smithfield Market a Nui- 

 sance of Five Hundred Years' standing 222 

 ermutating H(»ameters, by William 

 Bates - - - - - 222 



Coningsby Family, by Cutlibert Bede, 

 B.A. 222 



Minor Notes : — Affected Words — 

 Clerks of the Council: Sampson and 

 Va'-'et — Curious old Epitaph — Mail 

 in the Phrase " Black Mail " — Jordan 223 



Queries : — 



" The Judgment," &c. - - - 224 



Minor Qitfbifs : — Cuneiform Charac- 

 tefs — Bishop Duppa — "Will Whim- 

 sical's Miscellany " — " White Horse " 

 in Warwickshire — The Family of 

 Swaine — Epitaph at Luss — Captain 

 Swaine — The Divining Kod — Anony- 

 mous Plays — Cavaliers surprised at 

 Brackley — Heady Reckoners — 

 "Trumpeter unus erat," &c. — Cole- 

 ridge's " Iteligious Musings " — Wil- 

 liam Creswell — " Dickey i Sam " — 

 Joseph Clunne— Throckmorton Carew 225 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Pagoda Bridge in St. James's Park — 

 Eric the Forester — Autlior of " Four 

 Years in France," &c — " Pale Envy," 

 &c Hannibal Evans Lloyd — Chan- 

 cellors under Fifty — Pictures in Eng- 

 land 227 



Replies : — 



" Old Nick," by Wm. Matthews - 228 



Mothering Sunday ... 229 



Kclative Value of Money, by W. Coles - 229 



Sir Jerome Bowes - - - - 230 



Is Copying a Sermon Felony ? - - 231 



liussian Aionarchy : Warrings, by Hyde 



Clarke 231 



Protooraphio Correspondence : — 

 Deepening Collodion Negatives - 232 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Opinion 

 of an English Bishop on mixed Mar- 

 riages — Ray's '• History of the Rehel- 

 lion of 1714"- Bible Epigram — The 

 Chinese Ilevolution and Slasonry — 

 Koads of the Romans — Tennyson and 

 liis "Baby" — Beckett Pedigree — 

 Nursery Khyme — Grants of Queen 

 Elizabeth — Arras of Bishop Towers — 

 Old English Proverbs, &c. - - 232 



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