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CONTENTS. 



Our Seventii Volume ' - 

 Notes : — \ 



Proclamations of the Society of Antiquaries, and their 



Value as Historical Evidences, by John Bruce - 3 



Curiosities of Advertising Literature, by Cuthbert Bade 4 

 On a Passage in "King Henry VIII.," Act III. Sc. 2., 



by S. W. Singer - 5 



Notes on Bacon's Essays, by P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. - 6 

 Latin Poems in connexion with Waterloo, by Lord 



Braybrooke ....-- 6 



Sir Henry Wotton and Milton, by Bolton Corney - 7 



Folk Lore: — Unlucky to sell Eggs after Sunset — Old 



Song — Nursery Tale — Legend of Change - - 7 



Passage in Hamlet ------ 8 



Volcanic Influence on the Weather, by Rev, Wm. S. 



Hesledon - ..-.-.9 

 Minor Notes: — ValueofMSS Robert Hill— English 



Ortliography — Bookselling in Glasgow in 1735^ 



Epitaph on a Sexton - - - . - 9 



QUERIBI : — 



Eustache de Saint Pierre, by Philip S. King - - 10 



Devizes, Origin of: a Question for the Heralds, by 



J. Waylen 11 



Minor Queries: — Gold Signet Ring— Ecclesia Angli- 

 can a — Tan giers : English Army in 1684 — Smith — 

 Termination " -itis " — Loak Hen — Etymological 

 Traces of the Social Position of our Ancestors — 

 Locke's Writings — Passage in Gothe's "Faust" — 

 Schomberg's Epitaph by Swift— The Burial Service 

 said by Heart— Shaw's Staffordshire MSS. — "Ne'er 

 to these chambers," &c.— County History Societies — 

 Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter— The English Do- 

 inestic Novel — Dr. Young — Bishop Hall's Medita- 

 tions — Chatterton — Passage in Job — Turner's View 

 of Lambeth Palace — Clarke's Essay on the Usefulness 

 of Mathematical Learning — " The General Pardon" - 12 

 Minor Queries with Answers: — Edward the Con- 

 fessor's Ring — The Bourbons - - - - 15 



Replies : — 



Emblems .--.---15 

 Marriages en Cheraise—Mantelkinder— Legitimation, by 



L. Smirke, &c. - - . - - - 17 



Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662, by Arch- 

 deacon Cotton - - - - - -18 



Etymology of Pearl, by Sir J. Emerson Tennapt, &c. - 18 

 " Martin Drunk," by Dr. E. F. Rimbault - - 19 



Gothe's Reply to Nicolai - - - - - 19 



Photooraphic Correspondence : — Processes upon 

 Paper— Exhibition of Photography at the Society of 

 Arts .---..-20 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Quotation in Locke — 

 Pic-nic — Discovery at Nuneham Regis — Door-head 

 Inscriptions— Cross and Pile — Rhymes upon Places 

 — 'Ajv/ov — Who was the greatest General? — Beech- 

 trees struck by Lightning — Passage in Tennyson — In- 

 scriptions in Churches— Dutensiana — Early Phono- 

 graphy — Kontish Local Names; Dray — Monument 

 at Moiistena— Book-plates— " World without end," &c. 23 

 Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 28 



Notices to Correspondents - - . .28 



Advertisements - - - _ . - 28 



Vol. VII. — No. 166. 



OUR SEVENTH VOLUME. 

 We might, without any offence against truth or 

 modesty, begin our Seventh Volume by congratulating 

 ourselves and our Readers on the continued sfuccess and 

 increasing circulation of our work. As to Truth, our 

 Readers can only judge in part, and must take our 

 word for the rest ; but they may see enough in our 

 pages to lead them to do so. Let them but look at 

 the signatures which from time to time appear in our 

 columns, and they will see enough to prove that we 

 have the sanction of a list of names, high in literary 

 reputation, such as it might seem ostentatious to 

 parade in our columns on an occasion like the present. 

 We abstain the more readily, because we have felt it 

 our duty to do the thing so frequently and fully in our 

 prospectuses. And as to Modesty, can there be any 

 want of it in saying that with such — or perhaps we 

 should say by such — contributors we have produced a 

 work which the public has found acceptable ? With 

 such contributors, and others whom we should be 

 proud to name with them, if they had given names 

 which we cannot but know, but do not feel authorised 

 to decypher — with such help, what sort of animal 

 must an editor be who could fail to make a work 

 worth reading ? In fact, if not our highest praise, it 

 is the plainest proof of the value of our publication, 

 that we have done little or nothing except to give the 

 reader the greatest possible quantity of matter in a 

 legible form, wholly unassisted by graphic ornament 

 or artistic decoration of any kind — without even the 

 attraction of politics, scandal, or polemics. 



Our pride is that we are useful ; and that fact is 

 proved by another to which it has given rise, namely, 

 that we are favoured with many more contributions 

 than we can possibly find room for ; and therefore, in- 

 stead of employing the occasion which offers for a few 

 words with our Headers, by way of introduction to a 

 new Volume, in any protracted remarks on what we 

 have done, we would rather confer with them on the 

 ways and means of doing more. 



In the first place, let us say explicitly that we do 

 not mean by the most obvious method of increasing 

 the bulk of our publication. It is quite clear that we 



