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Notes : — Page 



List of the Names of tlie Members of the 

 House of Commons that advanced 

 Horse. Money and Plate for Defence 

 of the Parliament, June 10, 11, and 

 13. 1642. by F. Kyffin Lenthall - 337 



Photographic Portraits of Shalcspeare, 



by S. W, Singer - - - - 339 



Names and Picts - - . _ 339 



Oriein of " Blacltwood's Magazine," by 



W. Jerdan - - - . 339 



Poetical Advertisements, by R. W. 

 Hacliwood . - . . 340 



Minor Notes : _ An Old Fifth of No- 

 vember Pong—Notes from Fly Leaves 



— Thf Sarmati —Pinchbeck, the Metal 

 why so called — Money and a Friend 



— A Curious Notice of a Death — 

 Churciidowu - - - - 341 



Qdsrirs : — 



' Were all " The Waverley Novels " writ- 

 ten by Sir Walter Scott ? by William 

 John Fitz- Patrick - - - 342 



Minor Quekibs : — " Tlie Friend of 

 Humanity and tlie Knife Grinder "_ 

 Milton's (?) Sonnet on the Library at 

 Cambridize — Rini?-taw. &c, — Colum- 

 bus Relic- UfFenbach Library-New- 

 ton of Edgefield, co. Norfolk _ Sedilia 



— Bronze Mortar — The Locust Tree 



— "Widow" and" Relict " — Brasses, 

 Armour, Jtc, from Streathara Church 

 — Herzen nnd Russian Serfdom—Rare 



, Book on the Round Towers of Kerry 



— Round Towers of Kerry — Conver- 

 sations with Wordsworth, &c. — Ralph 

 Palmer — Glass malleable, &c. - 3!3 



MiXOR QUKRIES WITH AnsWERS I — 



Romney Marsh — Gainsborough the 

 Painter — Didron's " Christian Icono- 

 graphy "_Tlie Plith and Knout — 

 Mihtia Officers and their Precedence 

 --'•Clap-trap" — Mr. Ferrand and 

 the "Devil Dust" - . - 347 



Bepues : 



Marrying to save Life, by William 



Bates, &c. - - . . 349 



Kniehts Hospitallers in Ireland - - 3i9 



Drui<lical Monument at Carnac - - 349 



The Harp - , - - . - 350 



The Running Thursday, by Lord Mon- 



Bon- - - - - . 350 



PH^TOORAPHrc CnRRE.SPONDENCE : — 



Single Stereoscopic Pictures — The 

 Stereoscopic Question - - - 351 



Kepmes to Minor Queries : — " Regis 

 adexemplum totuscomponiturOrbis " 



— Ancieut Cements — Gloucester Ca- 

 thedral : curious Fruit-tree— Rinops 



— Cromwell's Portrait, &c. —Duke of 

 Marlborough and Mr. Barnard — Dr. 

 Bloxholme, not Bloxham — John 

 Acton — Fire — My Sister wed me, &c. 35-2 



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Notes on Books, &c. - - - 355 



Books auu v)uu V olumes Wanted. 

 Notices to Correspondents. 



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