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The English, Irish, and Scotch Knights 



of the order of St. John of Jerusalem 1 ^^ 

 Notes on Manners, Costume, etc. - 178 



Words and Phrases common at Polperro 



in Cornwall, but not usual elsewhere 178 

 The Highlands of Scotland and the Gre- 

 cian Archipelago, by J. Macray - 180 

 FotK Lore :_ Curious Custom at Wells, 

 Somerset _ Northern Counties Folic 

 Lore : Cattle watering : Lambing 

 Season _ Marriage Custom _ Moon 

 Superstitions — Wedding Custom at 

 Cranbrook — Pemberton and Newton 180 

 Minor Notes :_ Cross and Pile— Le 

 Neve's Fasti — Story's " History of the 

 Wars in Ireland " — " Tabard," " Tal- 

 bot"— Irish Newspapers — Lord Jo- 

 celyn I81 



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Boston : Burdelyers : Wilkyns : Fem- 

 ble : Rayments : Tiplers, etc., by 

 Pishey Thompson - - - 182 



Which is the oldest Charitable Institu- 

 tion m England, by Henry Edwards 183 



Anglo-Saxon Typography, by Rev. Dr. 

 Giles 183 



Minor Queries: — Old Lady Blount of 

 Twickenham— Philip Ayres-L'Ame- 

 rique Delivr^e —Chester Inquisition- 

 Was the Host ever buried in a Pyx f — 

 Gules, a Lion rampant or— A Passage 

 in De Quincey's Writings — Roche, 

 Lord \ ernoy — Hedding Family — 

 The Public never blushes — Dr. Llew- 

 ellyn _ King in the Field of Battle — 

 " Baratariana " and " Pranceriana " 

 — Lords Clarendon and Hyde, and the 

 Academy for Riding in Oxford — Cap- 

 tain Richard Symonds — "In signo 

 Thau" — Luke, ii. U. - - - 184 



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 Berington's Memoirs of Gregorio 

 Panzani — St. Walburge — " Tel- 

 liamed " — Prester John — Words in 

 Michael Scot — Sculptor at Charing 

 Cross — Ecclesiastical Maps — Cousin 

 German — " Pig in a poke " — " Le 

 Messager des Sciences Historiques " 186 

 Bbpliss : 



I)oR;whippers, by Joseph Rix,&c. - 188 



Italian-English, by William Bates - 188 



Raiihaers Cartoons - - « 189 



Paring the nails, etc. - - - 190 

 Mathematical Bibliography, by James 



Cockle, M.A.,F.R.S.A. - - 190 



Eussian Language, by T. J . Buckton 192 



Photographic Correspondence : 



Hmts upon Iodizing Paper - - 192 



Kbpiies to Minor Queries : — Prophe- 

 cies respecting Constantinople— Regis- 

 tration Act — The Domum Tree at 

 Winchester — Prince Charles's House 

 in Derby — Churches erected — Irish 

 Characters on the Stage _ William 

 III. and Cooper _ Sepulchral Monu- 

 ments _" The Dunciad ;" &c. - - 192 

 Miscellaneous ; — 



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