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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — 



Robertson's " Index of Charters " - - 



Cowper or Cooper, by George Daniel - - 



Yankee, its Origin and Meaning, by Dr. William Bell 

 Sliakspeare's Bedside, or the Doctors enumerated : a 



new Ballad, by James Cornish - , „ , 



Folk Lobe : — Cures for the Hooping Cough : Eubus 



truticosus, Gryphea incurva. Donkey - 



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WiNOB Notes:— Epitaphs— Nostradamus on the Gold- 

 diggings—Whimsical Bequest— The OrkneysmPawn 

 —Lord Du«f 's Toast . - - - - 



Queries : — 



The Meteoric Stone of the Thracian Chersonesus, by 

 W. S. Gibson ..---- 



Banbury Cakes and Zeal - - - - - 



Minor Qoekies :— Richardson or Murphy — Legend 

 attached to Creeper in the Samoan Isles—Shearman 

 Family- American Fisheries— Grindle-A Gentleman 

 executed for whipping a Slave to Death — Brydone— 

 -Clear the Decks for Bognie's Carriage " — London 

 Queries — Scarf worn by Clergyman — Life of Queen 

 Anne — Erasmus Smiih— Croxtonor Crostin ol Lan- 

 cashire — Grub Street Journal — Chaplain to the 

 Princess Elizabeth — " The Snow-flake " 



Minor Qiiebies with Answers : — Leamhuil or 

 Lahoel — Orte's Maps, Edition of 1570 — Prayer for 

 the Recovery of George I IL . - - - 



IlSCElLANEOUS : — 



Notes on Books, Ac. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



Advertisements 



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Replies : — 



Mrs. Mackey's Poems . - . • - 



Map of Ceylon, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent Z ^ ' 

 "Am, have, and will be:" Henry VIII., Act III. So. 2. 

 Sir Henry Wotton's Letter to Milton . - - 



Skull. caps versus Skull-cups, by Thomas Lawrence 

 Inedited Poem by Pope - *,'..," 



, Cibber's " Lives of the Poets," by W. L. Nichols 



English Comedians in the Netherlands - - - 



La Bruvere, by J. Sansom - - - 



Southey's Criticism upon St. Mathias Day in Leap- 

 year ...---- 

 Photogbaphic Notes and Queries :— Portable Camera 

 for Travellers— The Albumen Process — Black Tints 

 of French Photographers— Originator of the Collodion 

 Process — Developing Paper Pictures with Pyrogallic 

 Acid - - . . . - - 

 Repliks to Minor Queries : —Waterloo— Irish Peerages 

 — Martha Blount — Quotations wanted— Pepys's 

 Morena— Goldsmiths' Year-marks — Turner's View 

 of Lambeth Palace — " For God will be your Kmg to- 

 day " — Jennincs Family — The Furze or Gorse in 

 Scandinavia — Mistletoe— Inscription on a Dagger— 

 Steevens — " Life is like a Game of Tables," &c. - 1 17 



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V0L.VII. — No. 170. 



Robertson's "index of charters." 



This work, so often quoted, is familiar to every 

 antiquary ; but as the name of the intelligent 

 and laborious editor does not appear in any of our 

 biographical dictionaries, a short sketch may not 

 be unacceptable to our readers. 



William Robertson was born at Fordyce, in the 

 county of Banff, in the year 1740. Having gone 

 through the usual course of elementary instruc- 

 tion in reading and writing, he entered the Latin 

 class at the grammar school of his native parish ; 

 a seminary then, as now, of great celebrity in the 

 North of Scotland. Among his schoolfellows he 

 contracted a particular intimacy with Mr. George 

 Chalmers, afterwards Secretary of the Board of 

 Trade ; so well known by many elaborate and 

 valuable commercial, historical, and biographical 

 publications. The connexion between the school- 

 boys, originating in a similarity of taste and pur- 

 suits, was strengthened at a subsequent period of 

 their lives by the contributions of the intelligent 

 Deputy Keeper of the Records of Scotland to the 

 local and historical information of the author of 

 Caledonia, so honourably recorded in that national 

 work. He completed his academical studies at 

 King's College, Aberdeen, where he was parti- 

 cularly distinguished by his proficiency in the 

 Greek language, under Professor Leslie. He was 

 then apprenticed to Mr. Turner of Turnerhall, 

 advocate in Aberdeen ; but had been little more 

 than a year in that situation, when Mr. Burnett 

 of Monboddo applied to Professor Leslie to re- 

 commend to him as his second clerk a young man 

 who had a competent knowledge of the Greek 

 language, and properly qualified to aid him in his 

 literary pursuits. The Professor immediately men- 

 tioned young Robertson ; and Mr. Turner, in the 

 most handsome manner, cancelled his articles of 

 apprenticeship. During his connexion with Mr. 

 Burnett, he accompanied him in several visits to 

 France, on taking evidence as one of the counsel 

 in the great Douglas cause. On his first visit 

 there, he went with him to see the savage girl, 

 who, at that time, was creating a gi-eat sensation 

 in Paris ; and, at his request, made a translation 



