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Oblation of a white Bull ... - - 1 



Newst-ad Abbey, by W. S. Hasleden . . - 2 



On a celebrated Passage in " Komeo and Juliet," 



Act III. So. 2., by S. W. Singer ... 3 



On the Passage fiom " King Lear " - - - 4 



Manners of the Irish, by H. T. EUacombe, &c. - - 4 



Minor Notes : — Burial in an Erect Posture — 'The 

 Archbishop of Armagh's Cure for the Gout, 1571— 

 The last known Survivor of General Wolfe's Army 

 in Cana'ia— National Methods of applauding — Curious 

 Posthumous Occurrence .... 5 



"SQderies : — 



Did Captain Cook first discover the Sandwich Islands ? 



by J. S. Warden 6 



Superstition of the Cornish Miners - - - 7 



Minor Queries : — Clerical Duel — Pistol — Council of 

 Laodicea, Canon 35. — Pennycomequick, adjoining 

 Plymouth — Park the Antiquary — Honorary U.C.L.'s 



— Battle of Villers en Couche — Dr. Misaubin — . 

 Kemble, Willet. and Forbes — Piccalyly — Post- Office 

 about 1770 — " Carefully examined and well-authenti. 

 cated"— Sir Heister Ryley — Effigies with folded 

 Hands ...--..7 



Minor Queries with Answers :— Passage in Bishop 

 Horsley — " Marry come up ! " — Dover Court — 

 Porter— Dr. Whitaker's ingenious Earl — Dissimulate 9 



®EPLIES : — 



Bishop Ken, by the Rev. J. H. Markland - - 10 



Bohn's Edition of Hoveden, by James Graves . .11 



Coleridge's Christabel, by J. S. Warden - - - 11 



Its - - - - - - . - 12 



Tamily of Milton's Widow, by T. Hughes - - 12 



'Books of Emblems — Jacob Behmen, by C. Mansfield 

 Ingleby .......13 



Raffaelle's Sposalizio - - . - .14 



Windfall 14 



Mr. Justice Newton, by the Rev. H. T. EUacombe and 

 F. KyfHn Lenthall . - ... 15 



Photographic Correspondence : — Mr. Lyte's Treat- 

 ment of Positives — Stereoscopic Angles — Query re- 

 specting Mr. Pollock's Process — Gallo-nitrate of 

 Silver ....... 15 



Heflies to Minor Queriks :— Verney Note decyphered 



— Emblems by John Bunyan— Mr. Cobb's Diary — 

 "Satcito si sat bene " — Mythe versus Myth — The 

 Gilbert Family — Alexander Clark —Christ's Cross 



— The Rebellious Prayer — " To the Lords of Con- 

 vention" — Wooden Tombs and Effigies — Lord 

 Clarendon and the Tubwoman — House-marks — 



■" Amentium hand amantium " — The Megatherium 

 in the British Museum — Pictorial Proverbs — " Hur- 

 rah," and other War-cries - - . - 17 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 20 



Books ana OrW Volumes wanted - - - - 21 



Notices to Correspondents . - - - 21 



Advertisements - _ . . . _ 21 



Vol. VIII. — No. 192. 



HattS. 



OBLATION OP A WHITE BULL. 



By lease dated 28th April, 1533, the Abbat of 

 St. Edmund's Bury demised to John Wright, 

 glazier, and John Anable, pewterer, of Bury, the 

 manor of Haberdon appurtenant to the office of 

 Sacrist in that monastery, with four acres in tlj^ 

 Vynefeld, for twenty years, at the rent of 5/. 4*!! to 

 the Sacrist ; the tenants also to find a white bsU 

 every year of their term, as often as it should 

 happen that any gentlewoman, or any other 

 woman, should, out of devotion, visit the shrine of 

 the glorious king and martyr St. Edmund, and 

 wish to make the oblation of a white bull. (Dodsw. 

 Coll. in Bibl. BodL, vol. Ixxi. f. 72.) 



If we are to understand a white bull of the an- 

 cient race of wild white cattle, it may be inferred, 

 I suppose, that in some forest in the vicinity of 

 Bury St. Edmund's they had not disappeared jax 

 the first half of the si.xteenth century. The wUd 

 cattle, probably indigenous to the great Caledonian 

 forest, seem to have become extinct in a wild st^ 

 before the time of L eland, excepting where pre* 

 served in certain ancient parks, as Chillingham 

 Park, Northumberland, Gisburne Park in Craven, 

 &c., where they were, and in the former at all 

 events still are, maintained in their original purity 

 of breed. They were preserved on the lands of 

 some abbeys; for instance, by the Abbats of 

 Whalley, Lancashire. 



Whitaker (History of Craven, p. 34.) mentions 

 Gisburne Park as chiefly remarkable for a herd of 

 wild cattle, descendants of that indigenous race 

 which once roamed in the great forests of Lanca- 

 shire, and they are said by some other writer to 

 have been originally brought to Gisburne from 

 Whalley after the dissolution. One of the de- 

 scendants of Robert de Brus, the founder of Gains- 

 borough Priory, is stated by Matthew Paris to 

 have conciliated King John with a present of 

 white cattle. The woods of Chillingham Castle 

 are celebrated at this day for the breed of this 

 remarkable race, by which they are inhabited ; and 

 I believe there are three or four other places ia 

 which they are preserved. 



In the form and direction of the horns, these 

 famous wild white oxen seem to be living repre- 



