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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



Notes on Grammont, by G. Steinman Steinman - 461 



Change of Meaning in Proverbial Expressions, by Thos. 



Keightley ------- 4G4 



Extracts from Colchester Corporation Records, by Jas. 



Whishaw .-.-.-- 4G4 



Convocation in the Reign of George TI., by \V. Eraser - 4G5 



Parallel Passages, by Harry L»roy Temple - - 4')5 



Shakspeare Correspondence, by J. O. Halliwell - 4GG 



Minor Notes : — Local Rhymes, Kent — Samuel 

 Pepys's Grammar — Roman Remains — To grab — 

 Curfew at Sandwich — Ecclesiastical Censure — The 

 Natural History of Balmoral — Shirt Collars - - 4GG 



Queries : — 



" Days of my Youth " - - - - -407 



Minor Qderies : — Randall Minshull and his Cheshire 

 Collections — Mackey's " Theory of the Earth " — 

 Birthplace of King Edward V. — Name of Infants — 

 Geometrical Curiosity — Denison Family — "Came" 



— Montmartre — Law of Copyright: British Museum 



— Veneration for the Oak — Father Matthew's 

 ChicKens — Pronunciation of Bible and Prayer Book 

 proper Names — MSS. of Anthony Bave — Return of 



Gentry, temp. Hen. VI Taylor's " Holy Living" — 



Captain Jan Dimmeson — Greek and Roman Fortifi- 

 cation — The Queen at Chess — Vida on Chess - 4G? 



Minor Queries with Answers: — Thornton Abbey — 

 Bishop Wilson's "Sacra Frivata" — Derivation of 

 " Chemistry " — Burning for Witchcraft — The small 

 City Companies — Rousseau and Boileau — Bishop 

 Kennett's MS. Diary - - - - - 469 



Milton's Widow, by S. W'. Singer - - - 471 



Oaths, by Honors de Mareville, &c. - - . 471 



Commlnatory Inscriptions in Books, by Philarete 



Chasles -.-.._. 

 Liveries Worn, and Menial Services performed, by 



Gentlemen, by J. Lewelyn Curtis - . . 473 



Female Parisli Clerks '-.... 474 

 Poetical Epithets of the Nightingale, by W. Pinkerton 475 



Photographic Correspondence:— Photographic Ex- 

 hibition — How much Light is obstructed by a Lens V 



— Stereoscopic Angles — To introduce Clouds 



Refi.ies to IMiNOR Queries: — Death of Edward II 



Luther no Iconoclast — Rev. Urban Vigors — Portrait 

 of Baretti — Passage in Sophocles — Brothers of the 

 sanie Name — High Dutch and Low Dutch — Trans- 

 lations of the Prayer Book into French — Divining- 

 rod — Slow-worm Superstition — Ravailliac — Lines 

 on the Institution of the Garter — Passage in Bacon 



— What Day is it at cur Antipodes ?_ Calves' Head 

 Club— Heraldic Query— The Temple Lands in 

 Scotland- Sir John Vanbriigh— Sir Arthur Aston — 

 Nugget ---.».- 



472 



- 47G 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements 



477 



• 481 



- 481 



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Vol. Vlir. — No. 211. 



NOTES ON GRAMMONT. 



Agreeintj with Mr. Peter Cunningham (viile 

 History of Nell Gwyn), that a new edition of 

 Grammont is much wanted, I beg to avail myselt* 

 of your pages, and to offer a lew remarks and 

 notes which I have made in reference to that very 

 entertaining work for the consideration of a future 

 annotator. 



Of the several maids of honour mentioned there- 

 in I will begin with those of the queen. They are 

 Miss Stewart, Miss " "Warminster," Miss Bellen- 

 den, Miss Bardon, Miss de la Garde, Miss Wells, 

 Miss Livingston, Miss Fielding, and Miss Boyn- 

 ton. 



The names of Miss Stewart (Frances Theresa), 

 Miss Boynton (Catherine), Miss Wells (Wine- 

 fred), and Miss Warmistre are found among the 

 original six, appointed on the queen's marriage, 

 May 21, 1GG2. The affiliation and marriages of 

 the first two have been well ascertained; but Miss 

 Warmistre's birth is yet open to some conjecture, 

 whilst her marriage, like Miss Wells's parentage, is 

 wholly unknown. 



Horace Walpole, on the authority of the last 

 Earl of Arran, of the Butler family, has con- 

 founded her with Mary, one of the daughters of 

 George Kirke, E.«q., a groom of the bedchamber 

 to Charles I., by Mary his wife, daughter of Aure- 

 lian Townsend, Esq., " the admired beauty of the 

 tymes," on whose marriage at Christ Church, 

 Oxford, February 26, 1645-6, "the king gave 

 her." She herself was maid of honour to the 

 Duchess of York in 1674, and the year following 

 left the court, we may believe, under the same 

 circumstances as Miss Warmistre, more than ten 

 years before, had quitted it : after being the mis- 

 tress of Sir Thomas Vernon, the second Baronet 

 of Hodnet in Shropshire, she became his wife, and 

 ended her life in miserable circumstances at Green- 

 wich in 1711. 



" 171 1, 17 August, Dame Mary, relict of Sir Tlioir.as 

 Vernon, carried away." — Burial register of Greenwich 

 Church. 



She was sister to Diana, the last De Vere, Earl 

 of Oxford's, countess, a lady of as free a morality 



