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Marrying to save Life, by W. Pinkerton 257 

 Ancient Chattel Property in Ireland, by 



James F. Ferguson ... ^57 

 Letter from Charles I. to Chief Justice 



Heath, by Ev. Pli. Shirley - - 259 



Folk Lobe : — Cure for Measles — Cure 

 for Rickets — Harvestman — Seventh 

 Son of Seventh Son— Weather Pro- 

 verb - - - - - 259 



The Eaxls of Antrim, by Simon Ward - 260 

 Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Tem- 

 ple, &c. - - ... 261 



Minor Notes : — Bishop Patrick (?) and 

 the Latitudinarians — " Noise " in the 

 sense of Music — Omission of Editors 



— Huns and Frisians — *'Jower" — 

 Dr. Bliss's New Edition of Wood's 



" Athenae Oxonienses " - - - 262 



Queries : — 

 What are we to do with our Pamphlets ? 263 



Minor Queries: — Verses in French 

 Patois — " An angel now, itnd little 

 less before" — Dramatic Poems — 

 My tens the Painter —'■ Ertenki Mani " 



— Family of Lee of Alt UiJl : Cardinal 

 Fescli — " Ganapla " — iHeraldic 

 Query — The Conquest of Ireland — 

 1 irst Folios of Shakspeare — Wheble 

 the Printer — EUises of Kent — Dr. 

 Johnson's Brother Nathaniel Ukases 



— "Elliott's Library has been sold" 

 ("Times," Sept. 20th, p. 1.1- Towns 

 in the Crimea and the Caucasus — 



— Thomas Perceval, F. S. A. _ The 

 Martiniere College at Calcutta - 264 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Kev. C. Love — " History of William 

 III." — Jewell and Hardinee —Bald- 

 win Hamey, Phil-Evanprelicus Medi- 

 cus— The Soke — The Vicar of Bray 



— Charter to the Town of Leeds — The 

 Manningtree Ox - - - . 266 



Replies : — 



Pollard Oaks, by Lieut.-General C. Fox 268 

 A possible Test of Authorship, by R.W. 



Hackwood - . . . 269 

 Cambridge Jeux d'Esprit, by C. Mans- 

 field Ingleby - - - - 270 

 Hampden's Death - - - - 271 

 Fire, by T . J . Buckton, &c. - - 272 



Photooraphic Correspondence : 



Fenton's Photographs for the Crimea 



— Single Stereoscopic Pictures - - 272 



Kbplies to Minor Queries : — Old 

 English Proverbs _ Rosemary used 

 in making Love — Christopher Urs- 

 wick and Christopher Bainbridge — 

 Opinion of an English Bishop on 

 Mixed Marriages — Is copying a Ser- 

 mon Felony?— On the words "Par- 

 son," " Clerk," &c. — Chancellors 

 under Fifty — Old Deeds — " Old 

 Nick," &c. - - . - 273 



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