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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Notes from a MS. of Sir Edward Walker, Kt. Garter, 



in his own Hand ..-..- 405 

 Singular Memorial in the Churchvard of Areley-Kings, 



Worcestershire, by Ciithbert Bede, B.A. - - 40C, 



Ileloisa's Letters, by Thomas H. Gill - . - 407 



Poetical Foresiglit exliibited in Shakspearo's Descrip- 

 tion of the Entry of Bolingbroke into London - 407 

 On Quotations, by Arthur Hussey ... 408 

 Tlie Termination " -ster," by Charles Thiriold - 409 

 Folk Lore : — Charm for Warts — Superstition in Scot- 

 land—Rhymes upon Places— Merry Hewid — Kentish 

 Local Names ...... 409 



Minor Notes : — Shakspeare a Calvinist — The Mathe- 

 matical Society of Wapping — Americanisms (so called) 

 —St. Paul and Vitruvius, &c. - - - - 410 



Queries : — 



Pepys charged with Treason - - » - 411 



Early Jesuit Missions - - - - _ 412 



Minor Queries : — ITovellers or Uhvellers — Timepiece 



— " Qiiando tandem " — " Memoires d'un Homme 

 d' Etat " — Uoor-head Inscriptions — Quercus — Collins 



— Sir Robert Ayrton, who was he?— " All Alive and 

 Merry" (date of) — "Inter cuncta;micans" — Ferguson's 

 Letter to Sir John Trenchard — Biographical Queries,! 

 — The first Book printed in Birmingham — " Whoe'er 

 has travell'd Life's dull round" — Purdie Family — 

 Print of the Head of Christ — T. Park- . - 412 



Minor Queries Answered : — Wilson's Sacra Privata — 

 Who was Gurnall ? — " Ophiomaches, or Deism Re- 

 vealed " — Sydney Smith's Receipt for a Salad Mixture 

 — Eagle supporting Lecterns — Jack Robinson— Pas- 

 sage in " Religio Medici" — Sir Thomas Roe's MSS. . 414 

 Replies : — 



The British Apollo, by J. Crossley - - - 416 



The trusty Servant at Winchester College, by W. H. 

 Gimner .._.... 417 



" Inveni Portum," &c., by A. Grayan ... 417 

 Father Petre - . . . . .418 



Government of St. Christopher's in 1662 . - - 419 



Sir Abraham Shipman ..... 419 



Formyl ' - - - - - - .420 



Trial of Capt. Green and Mr. Mather, by Jas. Crossley 421 



Photography applied to Archaeology, &c. - - 421 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Shakspeare's MSS. — 



Authorship of " Bombastes Furioso "—The Oak of 



Reformation — Chantry Chapels — Huguenots in 



Ireland — On the Word " raised," as used by the 



! Americans — Waller's Handwriting — Shakspeare 



Emendations— The Salt Box, a College Examination 



— Connecticut Halfpenny — Chadderton's Arms — 

 Taliesin's Mabinogi— Roman (or British) Road in Berk- 

 sliire— Phonetic Spelling — Ancient Popular Stories — 

 The Bride's Seat in Church — Man in the Moon — Lady 

 Day and Feasts of the Blessed Virgin — Rumoured 

 Discovery in Coll — Whipping of Women at Worcester 



— Colonial Newspapers — Earl of Winnal — Robert 

 Stanser, second Bishop of Nova Scotia — "Caudem derae 

 volat " — Bibere Papaliter — Dutensiana, bcc. - - 422 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted . - - . 426 



Notices to Correspondents . _ . . 420 



Advertisements -....- 426 



Vol. VL — 1^0. 157. 



NOTES FROM A MS. OF SIR EDWARD WALKER, KT. 

 GARTER, IN HIS OWN HAND. 



On the first fly-leaf he says : 



" Monday, the fift of June, 1637, I, Edward Walker, 

 was created Rouge Dragon Pursuivant-at-Armes in 

 ordinary." 



" Thursday, 8 Februarie, 1637, I was created 

 Chester Herauld-at-Armes, in the place of my good 

 friend Henry Chitlinge, Esq., Chester Herauld, lately 

 before dead." 



The MS. is entitled : 



" A Particular of such Occurrences as have been ob- 

 servable since the first of June, 1637." 



Extracts : — 



" Anno 1637. — Thursday, 3 August, at Lambeth, 

 was solemnized the marriadge between James Duke of 

 Lenox and Mary "Villiers, daughter to the late Duke 

 of Buckingham, widow of Charles Lord Herbert, eldest 

 Sonne to the Earl of Pembroke, by the Lord Archbi- 

 shoppe of Canterbury His Grace, being present, the 

 King and a great part of the nobilitie then about the 

 Court ; they dined, supped, and lay at Yorke House." 



" Friday, 4 August, Morninge. — At Anckcrwyke 



neere — -. died the yonge Lord Stafford, the 



only heire of that princely family, and- last of so many 

 great and illustrious Peers, whose death was exceed- 

 ingly lamented, and with teares, by the third and ex- 

 cellent Earl of Arundell and Surrey, Earl Marshall 

 of England, under whose tuition he was, as also at this 

 present is the yonge Earl of Oxford, who is also the 

 last of that great house." 



Ben. Johnson : 



"Thursday, 17 August. — Died at Westminster Mr. 

 Benjamin Johnson, the most famous, accurate, and 

 learned poet of our age, especially in the English 

 tongue, having left behind him many rare pieces which 

 have sufficiently demonstrated to the world his worth. 

 He was buried the next day following, being accom- 

 panied to his grave with all or the greatest part of the 

 nobilitye and gentrie then in the towne." 



Col. Goreing : 



" Much about that time (Oct. 1637)newes came 

 into England of a wound received by CoUonel Goreing, 

 eldest son to the Lord Goreing, before Breda, in the 

 legge, by a great shot, which much endangered the. 



