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Parish Registers, by G. BIcncowe, .Ic. - 337 

 Ballad on the Escape of Charles II., by 



J. O. Halliwell - - - - 3<0 



Forms of Prayer, by Rev. T. Lathbury 341 

 "Belted Will : " Lord Howard, by James 



J. Scott 341 



National Benefactors - - - 34a 



Minor Notes : — Sebastopol Twenty 

 Years since, and its anticipated At- 

 tack by the English — The Emperor 

 cf Morocco pensioned by England — 

 "Don Quixote " — Kegimental Colours 

 burnt by the Common Hangman — 

 ' An old bird not to be caught with 



chaff " — Typography — Sinope — 

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Sharp Practice - 

 a3rd Regiment - 



Crimea and the 



312 



QuFiiiKs : — 



The Author of " Vathek," by James 



J. Scott 344 



Colonel Carlos, by J. B. Whitborne - 344 

 " Rol)inRon Crusoe," who wrote it ? by 

 James J . Scott - - - - 345 



Minor Querifs : — Genealogies in old 

 Bibles—Old and new Books — " Quin- 

 tus Calaber "— Pritchurd's Ship, with- 

 out Sail or Wind — Taking off the 

 Hat — " Goucho," or "Guacho" — 

 Wickliffe's " Clippers" and "Purse- 

 kervers " — The Devil's Dozen — De- 

 scendants of Archbp. Abbott — Fish- 

 ing Season in Italy— Bolingbroke's 

 Advice to Swift — Charles Cotton — 

 Infidel Court Chaplain — Gibson's 

 Concordance — Bust of Shakspeare — 

 Preen or Prene in Sliropshire — Spill- 

 ing Salt— "S." and" St." - - 345 



Minor Qubries with Answers : — 

 Gun-shot Wounds — Frischlinus, Lu- 

 binus, Marte du Cygne — Vavassori's 

 "De Ludica Dictione " — Family of 

 Martin Folkes — Chronicles of Al- 



phonsus XI Butler's "Hudibras" 



— Rev. Joseph Glauvil's Works — 

 Whitmore Motto - - - 345 



Replies; — 



Sir Jerome, Jeremiah, or Jeremy Bowes, 



first English Ambassador to Russia - 348 

 Dr. Wilmot - - - - 349 



The Pope sitting on the Altar, by Rev. 



W.Denton - - - - 340 



" The Poor Voter's Song " - - 350 



The Extinction of the PalEEologi, by Sir 

 J. E. Tenuent, .tc. - - - 351 



Photographic Corkfsponoence : — Ob- 

 servation Instrument for Photogra- 

 phers _ Buckle's Brush - - 352 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Rules of 

 Precedence — " The devil hath not," 



Sc. — "On the green slope," ix 



" Obedient Yamen " — " The storm 

 that wrecks the winter Eky " — "Her 

 iiiciuth a rosebud filled with snow " 

 Reynolds, Bishop of Hereford, — " Ba- 

 ratariana" aud"Pranceriana," &c. - 352 



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