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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



A Propiiet -381 



Folk Lorr: — Folk Lore in Cambridgeshire — New 

 Brunswick Folk I-ore — North Lincolnshire Folk 

 Lore — Portuguese Folk Lore - - - - 382 



Pope and Cowper, by J. Yeowell - - - - 383 



Sbakspeare Correspondence, by Patrick Muirson, &-c. - 383 



Minor Notes : — Judicial Families — Derivation of 

 "Topsy Turvy" — Dictionaries and Encyclopasdias — 

 " Marv, weep no more for me " — Epitaph at Wood 

 Dittoii — Pictorial Pun - - - - - 384 



•QnERiES : — 



Sir Thomas Button's Voyage, 1G12, by John Petheram 385 



Minor Queries : —The Words " Cash " and '■ Mob " 



"Hist 'ry of Jesus Christ "—Quantity of the Latin 



Termination -anus — Webb and Walker Families — 

 Cawdrey's " Treasure of Similes " — Point of Etiqviette 



Napoleon's Spelling — Trench on Proverbs— Kings 



formerly worn by Ecclesiastics — Butler's "Lives of 

 the Saints " — Marriage of Cousins— Castle Thorpe, 

 Bucks — Where was Edward 1 1, killed ? — Encore — 

 Amcotts' Pedigree — Blue Bell: Blue Anchor — 

 " We've parted for the longest time " — Matthew 



'Lewis Paradise Lost— Colonel Hyde Seymour — 



A^ault at Richmond, Yorksiiire — Poems published at 

 Manchester — Handel's Dettingen Te Deum — 

 Edmund Spenser and Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. - - 386 



Minor Queries with Answers : — The Ligurian Sage 



— Gresebrok in Yorkshire — Stillingfleet's Library — 

 The whole System of Law — Saint Malachy on the 

 Popes Work on the Human Figure . - - 389 



vSeplies: — 



" Namby Pamby," and other Words of the same Form 390 



F.arl of Oxford - - - - - - 392 



Picts' Houses ...-•- 392 



Pronunciation of " Humble " - - - - 393 



School Libraries ------ 395 



Jhotographic Correspondence :—Albumenized Paper 



— Cement for Glass Baths— New Process for Positive 

 Proofs 395 



Replies to Minor Queries: — The Groaning Elm- 

 plank in Dublin — Passage in Whiston — " When 

 Orpheus went down" — Foreign Medical Education 

 — "Short red, good red " — Collar of S3 — Who first 

 thought of Table-turning— Passage of Thucydides on 

 the Greek Factions — Origin of " Clipper " as applied 

 to Vessels — Passage in Tennyson — Huet's Naviga- 

 tions of Solomon — Sincere— "The Saltpetre Man — 

 Major Andrfe — Longevity — Passage in Virgil — Love 

 "Charm from a Foal's Forehead — Wardhonse, where 

 was ? — Divining llod — Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle — 

 Pagoda 397 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Jidvertisements . . . - 



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- 401 



- 402 



Toi.. VIU. — No. 208. 



i^attS, 



A PROPHET. 



What a curious book would be " Our Prophets 

 and Enthusiasts ! " The literary and biographical 

 records of the vaticinators, and the heated spirits 

 who, after working upon the fears of the timid, 

 and exciting the imaginations of the weak, have 

 flitted into oblivion! As a specimen of the odd 

 characters such a work would embrace, allow me 

 to introduce to your readers Thomas Newans, a 

 Shropshire farmer, who unhappily took it into his 

 head that his visit to the lower sphere was on a 

 special mission. 



Mr. Newans is the author of a book entitled 

 A Key to the Prophecies of the Old and Neio 

 Testament ; showing (among other impending 

 events) "The approaching Invasion of England ;" 

 " The Extirpation of Popery and Mahometisme ;" 

 " The Restoration of the Jews," and " The Mil- 

 lennium." London : printed for the Author (who 

 attests the genuineness of my copy by his signa- 

 ture), 1747. 



In this misfitted key he relates how, in a vision, 

 he was invested with the prophetic mantle : 



" In the year 1723, in the night," says Mr. Newans, 

 " I fell into a dream, and seemed to be riding on the 

 road into the county of Cheshire, When I was got 

 about eight miles from home, my horse made a stop on 

 the road ; and it seemed a dark night, and on a sudden 

 there shone a light before me on the ground, which 

 was as bright as when the sun shines at noon-day. In 

 the middle of that bright circle stood a child in white. 

 It spoke, and told me that I must go into Cheshire, 

 and I should find a man with uncommon marks upon 

 his feet, which should be a warning to me to believe ; 

 and that the year after I should have a cow that would 

 calve a calf with his heart growing out of his body in 

 a wonderful manner, as a token of what should come 

 to pass ; and that a terrible war would break out in 

 Europe, and in fourteen years after the token it would 

 extend to England." 



In compliance with his supernatural communi- 

 cation, our farmer proceeded to Cheshire, where 

 he found the man indicated ; and, a year after, his 

 own farm stock was increased by the birth of a 

 calf with his heart growing out. And after taking 

 his family, of seven, to witness to the truth of 



