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CONTENTS. 

 NoTKS : — Page 



Historical Value of South 's Sermons - - - 25 

 Shakspeare Headings, No. V. — " Coriolanus," Act III. 



>sc. 1. - - - - - - - 2G 



Kiiby Glass 28 



Folic Lore : — Springs and Wells — Paganism in the Six- 

 teenth Century - - - - - - ?8 



raise Spellings arising out of Sound, bv J. Waylen - 29 



Cathedrals in Norway, by William E. C. Nourse - 20 



The true Vaiden-hair Fern - - - - 30 



Cranes in Stoims ; Credibility of the Ancient Naturalists 31 



Queen Elizabeth's Prayer-book - - - - 32 



■Whimsical Bouk-piate - - - - - 32 



Minor Notes : — Lord Goring— Banquo's Ghost — Reve- 

 rrnce to the Altar — Woman executed by Burning at 

 Dublin — " The proper study of mankmd is man" - 33 



Queries : — 



The Royal New Eng'and Regiment, bv T. Wesfcott - 33 

 Wilton Castle and the Bridges Family, by J Liwelyn 

 Curtis .......34 



Why was I he Dodo called a Dronte ? by Richard Hooper 34 

 Minor Queries ; — Similitude of an Eagle in a Braken 

 Stalk — Dictionnaire Bibliojiraphique — Continental 

 Writers on Popular Antiquities — Was William the 

 Conqueror buried without a Cotfin ? — Comitissa 

 Ysabel — Etymology and Meaning of the Word 

 " Snike?" — "Sacrum pingne dabo, ' &c. — Can a Man 

 baptize Himself ? — Seal of Mary Queen of Scots — 

 Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots— Death, a Bill of 

 Excliaiige — The Flemish Clothiers in Wales — Six 

 Thousand Years — Sir Ho>;er de Coverley - 'Ihe 

 Names and Numbers of B-itish Rejii'nents — A Delec- 

 table Discourse on Fishing—" I'm the Laird of Windy 

 Walls" — Mrs. Philarmonica — Admiral Sir Richard 

 1. Strachan, K.C.B. — The Ogden and \\estcott 

 Families — Licenser of the Press - - - 3.5 



Ebplies : — 



Bertram, Editor of Richard of Cirencester, by J. J. A. 

 Worsaae .......37 



Rnbeit Forbes - - - - - - ?8 



.The " Heavy Shove" - - - - - 3S 



John Hope .......39 



Optical Phenomenon - - - - - 40 



Origin of the Stars and Stripes, by T. Westcott - 41 



One or two Passages in " King Lear," by J. Payne Collier 41 



Keplies to Minor Queries : — The Ch valier St. George 

 — " Like a fair Lily," .S:c " Roses all that's fair adorn" 



— Frel)i>rd— Ireland's Freedom from Keptiles — Por- 

 tnitof George Fox — Pimcli and Judv -" Hostages to 

 Fortune"— Dorking Horses— How'the Ancient Irish 

 crowned their KinjiS — Hoax on Sir Walter Scott — 

 American Loyalists— Spanish Vessels » recked (m the 

 Coast of Ireland — Suicides buried in Cross Roads — 

 Dr. Klizabeth Blackwell— American D-grees— Note 

 by Warton on Aristotle's Poets — Meaning of Whit — 

 " Possessi 'n is nine points of the law " Age of Trees 



— .Market Crosses - - - - - 42 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. . . . • - 4.5 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 4fi 



Notices to Correspondents - - - - 4S 



Advertigemeat« . . .... 40 



VT "NTn liil 



HISTORICAL VALUE OF SOUTh's SERMONS. 



I seldom take up the Sermons of the eloquent 

 and witty Dr. South without feelinjr niiu-li sur- 

 prisetl ihiit so little use is made of ihein in illus- 

 tratinjr the History of Eiigland from the luartvr- 

 (h)ni of King Charles I. to tlie death of Queen Anne. 

 And I now venture to offer this hint tliroiijili the 

 medium of tiie "N. & Q. ;" for I feel confident 

 tliat any one who reads tliem with a historical, as 

 well as a theological view, will be well refKiiil for 

 his trouble. South passed a long and active life 

 in the service of the Church of Knghind ; and 

 amongst her worthies she can scarcely jvckon a 

 more al«le or undaunted son. He was born in 

 1633, and lived on, through the most eventful 

 period of English history, until Jidy Sth, 1716. 

 He likewise retained the full possession of all liis 

 faculties to the last, and was more than eij.ditv-one 

 years old when he dedicated to the Rioiit Hon. 

 Win. Bromley the fourth volume of his inimitable 

 Sermons : 



"Jam senior; sed cruda Deo virldisque senectus." 



In the year 1647, South was entered one of the 

 king's sciiolars at Westminster ; and si<inalised 

 himself the following year by reading tlie Lutin 

 prayers in the school on the day of King 

 Chillies I.'s martyrdom, and praying for his sacred 

 miijesty by name about an iiour or two before lie 

 was belieaded. This anecdote I tiike parily from 

 the memoirs prefi.xed to South's PostMimous Worksy 

 p. 4., Lond. 1717, 8vo., ami partly from his own 

 most valuable sermon upon Proverbs xxii. 6., 

 vol. ii. p. 188., Dublin, 1720, fol. I do wish we 

 could make out the names of the youthful heroes 

 who were South's companions upon this interest- 

 ing occasion ; but the good Dr. Busby was their 

 tutor, which will account for their being " really 

 king's .«clio!:irs as well as called so." 



Ill 1651 South was elected student of Christ's 

 Church. Oxford, togetlier with the notable John 

 Locke, and graduated Bachelor of Arts I6.J4. In 

 the same year a thin Ittle quarto volume w.-is pub- 

 lished by the University of O.xford ti> ctmgratuhite 

 Oliver Cromwell upon the peace then concluded 

 wiih the Dutch, and some Latin verses were con- 



