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Bishop Coverdale, by George OfFor - 443 

 Note on some Peculiarities in Mr. Dyee'a 

 Edition of Mid'llKton's Works, by 

 Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith - - 44,S 



Historical Parallels, by T . J. Buckton 445 

 Turner the Painter: his Eminence pre- 

 dicted, by William Bates - - 446 

 Henry Vlfl.'s Divorce from Anne of 



Cleves, l)y James Gairdner - - 446 



Hexameters in " Maud " - - . 447 



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 terbury - - - - - 447 



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 Cool Tankard — Sir Anthony Pearson 



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 Account of Parish Churches in Scot- 

 land — " Le Nyuveau Guliiver,"&c. — 

 Halberjectes — "The Paradise of Co- 

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Bbplirs ; — 



The Martiniferc College at Calcutta - 453 

 llanuscripts relating to Essex, by Sir 



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Order of St. John of Jerusalem - - 455 



Prynne's Imprisonment in Jersey, by 



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