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CONTENTS. 



Notes:— Page 



Rigby Correspondence - - - - - 349 



Isthmus of Darien ..---- 351 

 Notes on several misunderstood Words - . - 352 



Folk Lore: — Drills presaging Deatli — Beltane in 

 Devonshire — Touching for King's Evil - - 353 



Gaffer or Gammer, &c., by Thos. Keightley - - 354 



Minor Notes : — Search for MSS Clifton of Norman- 

 ton— The Three per Cent. Consols ... 354 



Queries : — 



Wolves nursing Children, by Gilbert N. Smith - - 355 

 " The Luneburg Table " — Queen Elizabeth's Love of 

 Pearls 355 



Minor Queries : — St. Dominic—" Will " and " shall " 



— Sir John Fleming — Deal, how to stain — Irish 

 Characters on the Stage — Arms on King Robert 

 Bruce's Coffin-piate — Chaucer's Prophetic View of 

 the Crystal Palace — Magistrates wearing their Hats in 

 Court — Derby Municipal Seal — Sir Josias Bodley — 

 Sir Edwin Sadler — The Cross given by Richard I. to 

 the Patriarch of Antioch — Lister Family — Family of 

 Abrahall, Eborall, or Ebrall— Eulenspiegel : Murner's 

 Visit to England — Aged 116 — Annuellarius - 356 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Boyer's " Great 

 Theatre of Honour and Nobility " — List of Bishops of 

 Norwich — "A Letter to a Convocation Man " — . 

 Nicholas Thane — Churchwardens, Qualification of — 

 Sir John Powell— S.N. 's " Antidote," &c Beads - 358 



Replies: — 



Broad Arrow - - - - - .360 



English Comedians in the Netherlands - • . 360 



The Sweet Singers - - - - - - 361 



Edmund .Spenser - - - - - - 362 



Lamech killing Cain, by Francis Crossley, &c. - - 362 



Photographic Notes and Queries : — Photographic 

 Notes— On some Difficulties in Photographic Practice 

 — Mr. Weld Taylor's cheap Iodizing Process - - 363 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Somersetshire Ballad— . 

 Family of De Thurnham — Major-General Lambert — 

 Loggerheads — Grafts and the Parent Tree — The 

 Lisle Family — The Dodo in Ceylon — Thomas Watson, 

 Bishop of St. David's, 1687 to 1«99— Etymology of Fuss 

 — Palindromical Lines — Nugget — Hibernis ipsis Hi- 

 bcrniores — The Passame Sares (mel. Passamezzo) 

 Galliard — Swedish Words current in England — Gotch 



— Passage in Thomson : " Steaming" — The Word 

 "Party" — Curious Fact in Natural Philosophy — Low- 

 bell — Life and Correspondence of S. T. Coleridge — 

 Coniger, &c. — Cupid Crying — Westminster Assembly 

 of Divines, &c. - • . . . 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



Advertisements 



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V0L.VII. — No. 180. 



RIGBY COERESPONDENCE. 



[We are enabled, by the kindness of their possessor, 

 to lay before our readers copies of the foliovring charac- 

 teristic letters from the well-known Richard Rigby, 

 Esq., who was for so many years the leader of the Bed- 

 ford party in the House of Comitions. They were ad- 

 dressed to Robert Fitzgerald, Esq., a member of the 

 House of Commons in Ireland, and Judge of the Court 

 of Admiralty in that country.] 



Mr. Righy to Mr. E. Fitzgerald. 

 "Woburn Abbey, Wednesday, II th Dec, 1765. 

 Dear little Bob, 



I am impatient to know if you had resolution 

 enough to attend his Excellency last Sunday, as I 

 advised, and if you had, what was the result of the 

 audience. ........ 



I arrived here last night, and find the Duke and 

 Duchess, Marquis and Marchioness, all in perfect 

 health. With my love to the Provost *, tell him 

 the chancellorship answers the intention to the 

 utmost of his desire : we are wonderfully pleased 

 with it. Tell him also that I do not find the de- 

 falcation amongst our friends to be as was repre- 

 sented in Dublin. Stanley is not, but has refused 

 to be, ambassador to Berlin ; Lord North is not,, 

 but has refused to be, vice-treasurer. The parlia- 

 ment meets on Tuesday : the ministers of the 

 House of Commons, who are to be rechose, can get 

 nobody who is in Parliament to read the king''s ' 

 speech for them at the Cockpit the night before. 

 They, I believe, are iu a damned dilemma : how 

 much that makes for us time must show. Cooper 

 is bribed to be Secretary of the Treasury, by 5001. 

 a-year for his life, uppn the 4| per cents, in the 

 Leeward Islands, the same that Pitt's pension is 

 upon. He remains for the present, however, at 

 Bath. Calcraft will run Cooper hard at Rochester, 

 against both Admiralty and Treasury. Wish Col. 

 Draper joy for me of his red riband : he will have 

 it next week with Mitchell, who returns to the 



. * T. Andrews, Provost of Trin. Col,, Dublin. 



