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Notes ! — Page 



Notes on kccpins Notes - - - 317 



Henry of Huntingdon a Welshman, by 



T. Stephens - - - - 317 



" The Economy of Human Life, " &c., 



by W. Cramp - - - - 318 



Words and Phrases common atPolperro 



in Cornwall, but not usual elsewhere - 318 

 The Battle of Sedgmoor, 16SJ,by Henry 



Alford 320 



Folk Lore : — Baptismal Superstition 

 in Surrey — Extraordinary Supersti- 

 tion in Devonshire — Distich on St. 

 Matthew's Day— Cambridgesliire Folk 

 Lore — Kennedy for Jaundice — Adju- 

 ration to Bees - - - - 321 



' S'avery in Scotland in the Eighteenth 

 Century - - - - - 322 



Minor Notes : — The Literary Pensions 

 of the Year _ St. Maudit's Well — 

 Green's " Lives of the Princesses " — 

 Scottish Kuins — Alchymical Riddle 

 of the Sixteenth Century — Philolo- 

 gical Ingenuity —" Talented " - 322 



Queries: — 

 Burnine of the Jesuitical Books - 323 



South's Sermons - - - - 324 



Minor Queries : — "Rattlin' Roaring 

 Willie ' — Shakspeare Club Works — 

 The Stanleys in Man — Sir Walter 

 Scott and. Thomas Hood— The Green 

 Lady — Parallel Passages— The Rowe 

 Family — Greek spoken in Brittany — 

 Early Grants of Arms — Glasgow City 

 Arms— Portrait of Sir Thomas Allen 



— " The Polyanthea," &c. — Rowley 

 and Hudibras — Roman Catholic Di- 

 vines — Roubilliac's Statue of Cicero 



— The Sultan of the Crimea —Wolfe's 

 Gloves — " Die Heiligen," &c. - 325 



MixoR Queries with Answers : — 

 •' Cur moriatur homo," &c. — Lob's 

 Pound — Volkre's Chamber, Kings- 

 land Church, Herefordshire — Bax- 

 ter's " Horace " - - - - 327 



Replies : — 

 Dakeyne Motto, by Octaviu8Deacon,&c. 327 

 Hannah Lightfoot, by William Bates, 



Poetical Tavern Signs ... 329 

 Church Service : Preliminary Texts, by 



the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson - 329 



The dying Words of Venerable Bede, 

 by Edward Smirke and Sir J. E. Ten- 

 nent - - - - - 329 



Photographic Correspondence : — Pho- 

 tographic Excursions — Photography 

 in Germany — Albumenized Process - 331 



Replies to Minor Queries : — A Bio- 

 graphical Dictionary of Living Au- 

 thors—Louis de Beaufort — Bibliogra- 

 phical Queries — Sir Richard Ratcliftfe, 

 K.G Bell on leaving Church —Dis- 

 interment — A. M. and M. A. He- 

 raldic — Dr. William Nicolson, Bishop 

 of Carlisle, &c. - - - - 331 



Miscellaneous : — 

 Notes on Books, &c. - - - 336 



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