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CONTENTS. 



NoTRs:— Page 



Predictions of the Fire and Plague of London, No. II., by 



Vincent T. Sternberg - - - - - 173 



Examples of the French Sizain, by W. Pinkerton - 17-1 



Epigrams .--•--- 174 

 " Goe, soule, the bodies guest," by George Daniel - 175 

 Petitions from the County of Nottingham - - 175 



Folk Lore:— Lancashire Fairy Tale— Teeth. Supersti- 

 tion respecting — New Moon Divination — The Hyena 

 an Ingredient in Love Potions — The Elder Tree 



Minor Notes: — The Word "Party" — Epitaphs — 

 Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope" — Palindromical 

 Lines — "Derrick" and "Ship's Painter" — Lord 

 Reay's Country ------ 



Queries : — 



Unanswered Queries - . . - . 



Mr. John Munro, by Dan. Wilson - - . 



Minor Queries : — Song in Praise of the Marquess of 

 Granby — Venda — The Georgiad — R. S. Townshend 

 of Manchester — " Mala malae malo" — " Dimidium 

 Scie tia; " — Portrait Painters — "An Impartial In- 

 quiry," &c. — " As poor as Job's Turkey " — P'uss — 

 Suicide encouraged in Marseilles — Fabulous Bird — 

 Segantiorum Portus — Stamping on Current Coinage 



Rhymes : Dryden — The Cadenham Oak — St. 



Mary's Church, Beverley — The Rev. Joshua Marsden 



— Bentley's Examination — Derivation of" Lowbell" 



Meaning of Assassin — Punishment for exercising 



the Roman Catholic Religion — Hogarth's Pictures — 

 Lines in a Snuff-box — Rosa Mystica — Old-Shoe 

 throwing at Weddings — Herbe's Costumes Fran^ais - 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Humphry Smith — 

 Meaning and Etymology of " Conyngers " or ">Conni- 

 gries " — Letters U, V, W, and St. Ives 



Replies : — 



The Orkney Islands in Pawn . _ . . 



The Passage in King Henry VIII., Act III. Sc. 2, by 



S W. Singer 



Miniature Ring of Charles I., by C. Ley 



Chantry Chapels ---.-. 



Photographic Notes and Queries: —The Collodion 

 Process — Mr. Weld Taylor's Iodizing Process — Sir 

 William Newton's Process : Further Explanations - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Lady Nevell's Music, 

 book — Tuch — Eva, Princess of Leinster — Whipping 

 Post — The Dodo — " Then comes the reckoning," &c. 

 — Sir J. Covert, not Govett — Chatterton — Tennyson — 

 Llandudno on the Great Orme's Head — Oldham, 

 Bishop of Exeter — Arms of Bristol — The Cross and 

 the Crucifix — Sir Kenelm Digby — Martin Drunk 



— The Church Catechism — Sham Epitaphs and 

 Quotations — Door-head Inscription — Potguns — 

 " Pompey the Little" — Eagles supporting Lecterns — 

 Lady Day in Harvest — Inscriptions in Churches — 

 Macaulay's Young Levite, &c. - - - - 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - . - 



Notices to Correspondents . - _ - 



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V01..VII.— No. 173. 



PEKDICTIONS OF THE FIRE AND PLAGUE OF LONDON, 

 NO. 11. 



One of the most striking predictions occurs in 

 Daniel Baker's Certaine Warning for a Naked 

 Heart, Lond. 1659. After much invective against 

 the evil ways of the metropolis, he proceeds : 



" A fire, a consuming fire, shall be kindled in the 

 bowels of the earth, which will scorch with burning 

 heat all hypocrites, unstable, double-minded workers of 

 iniquity. ... A great and large slaughter shall be 

 throughout the land of darkness where the unrighteous 

 decrees and laws have been founded. Yea, a great 

 effusion of blood, fire, and smoke shall encrease up in 

 the dark habitations of cruelty ; howling and groat 

 wailing shall be on every hand in all her streets." 



Thomas EUwood disposes of the city in a very 

 summary manner : 



" For this shall be judgment of Babylon (saith the 

 Lord); in one day shall her plagues come upon her, 

 death, and mourning, and famine, and she shall be utterly 

 burnt with fire ; for great is the Lord who judgeth 

 her." — Alarm to the Priests, Lond. 1662. 



George Fox also claims to have had a distinct 

 prevision of the fire. (See Journal, p. 386., 

 ed. 1765.) He also relates the story of a Quaker 

 who was moved to come out of Huntingdonshire 

 a little before the fire, and to — 



" Scatter his money up and down the streets, turn his 

 horse loose, untie the knees of his breeches, and let his 

 stockings fall down, and to tell the people • so they 

 should run up and down scattering their money and 

 goods, half undressed, like mad people, as he was 

 a sign to them,' which they did when the city was 

 burning." 



Lilly's celebrated book of Hieroglyphicks, which 

 procured the author the dubious honour of an 

 examination before the committee appointed to 

 inquire into the origin of the fire, is well known. 

 In one of the plates, a large city, understood to 

 denote London, is enveloped in flames; and another 

 rude woodcut, containing a large amount of graves 

 and corpses, was afterwards interpreted to bear 

 reference to the Plague. Aubrey seems to be a 



