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CONTENTS. 

 'Notes : — 



The Scottish National Records - - - 



Patrick Carey . . . . - 



Inedited Lyric by Felicia Heraans, by Weld Tajlor 

 ■' Green Eyes," by Harry Leroy Temple 



Page 



- 405 



- 40G 

 407 

 407 



Shakspeare Correspondence, by Samuel Hickson, &c. - 408 



Minor Notes : — Monumental Inscriptions — Marlbo- 

 rough at Blenheim — Etymology of "till," "until" 



— Dog-whipping Uf.y in Hull — State- • - 408 



;QuERlES : — 



Polarised Light - - - - - - 409 



HiNOR Queries :—" SaUis Populi," &c — Dramatic 

 Representations by the Hour-glass — John Campbell 

 of Jamaiiia — llodKkins's Tree, Warwick — The 

 Doctor — English Clergyman in Spain — Caldecott's 

 Translation of the New Testament — Westhumble 

 Chapel — Perfect Tense — La Fleur des Saints — 

 Oasis — Book Reviews, their Origin — Martyr of 

 Collet Well — Black as a Mourning .Colour— The 

 Word " Mardel," or " Marille," whence derived? — 

 Analogy between the Genitive and Plural — Ballina 

 Castle — Henry L's Tomb— " For man proposes, but 

 God disposes " — Garrick Street, May Fair — The 

 'Forlorn Hope— Mitred Abbot in Wroughton Church, 

 Wilts — Eevnolds' Portrait of Barretti — Crosses on 

 Stoles — Te'mporalities of the Church — Etymology 

 of "The Lizard"— Worm in Books - - - 410 



Minor Queries with Answers: — Siller Gun of Dumfries 



— Margery Trussell — Caves at Settle, Yorkshire— • 

 The Morrow of a Feast — Hotchpot — High and Low 

 Dutch — "A Wilderness of Monkies " — Splitting 

 Paper — The Devil on Two Sticks in England - 412 



Stone Pillar Worship and Idol Worship, by William 



Blood, &c. 413 



"BUgueur" and "Blackguard," by PhilarSte Chasles 414 

 Harmony of the Four Gospels, by C. Hardwick, T. J. 



Buckton, Chris. Roberts, &c. . - - - 415 



Small Words and Low Words, by Harry Leroy Temple 416 



A Chapter on Rings . . - . . 416 

 Anticipatory Use of the Cross. — Ringing Bells for the 



Dead - - - . - - -417 



Photographic Corresfondence :— Stereoscopic Angles 419 



iReplies to Minor Queries : — Berefellarii — " To 



know ourselves diseased," Ac Gloves at Fairs — 



•" An" before " u " long — " The Good Old Cause " 



— Jeroboam of Claret, &c Humbug — " Could we 



-with ink," &c. — " Hurrah ! " — " Qui facit per alium 

 facit per se " — Tsar — Scrape — Baskerville — 

 Sheriffs of Glamorganshire — Synge Family — Lines 

 on Woman — Lisle Family— Duval Family - - 420 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements 



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Vol.. VIIL— No.209. 



THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL EECOEDS. 



The two principal causes of the loss of these 

 records are, the abstraction of them by Edward I. 

 in 1292, and the destruction of a great many 

 others by the reformers in their religious zeal. 

 It so happens that up to the time of King Robert 

 Bruce, the history is not much to be depended on. 

 A great many valuable papers connected with the 

 ancient ecclesiastical state of Scotland were carried 

 off to the Continent by the members of the ancient 

 hierarchy, who retired there after the Reformation. 

 Many have, no doubt, been destroyed by time, 

 and in the destruction of their depositories by 

 revolutions and otherwise. That a great many 

 are yet in existence abroad, as well as at home, 

 which would throw great light on Scottish history, 

 and which have not yet been discovered, there 

 is no doubt, notwithstanding the unceremonious 

 manner in which many of them were treated. At 

 the time when the literati were engaged in investi- 

 gating the authenticity of Ossian's Poems (to go 

 no farther back), it was stated that there was ia 

 the library of the Scotch College at Douay a 

 Gaelic MS. of several of the poems of great anti- 

 quity, and which, if produced, would have set the 

 question at rest. On farther inquiry, however, it 

 was stated that it had been torn up, along with 

 others, and used by the students for the purpose 

 of kindling the fires. It is gratifying to the an- 

 tiquary that discoveries are from time to time 

 being made, of great importance : it was announced 

 lately that there had been discovered at the Trea- 

 sury a series of papers relating to the rebellion 

 of 1715-16, consisting chiefly of informations of 

 persons said to have taken part in the rising ; and 

 an important mass of papers relative to the rebel- 

 lion of 1745-46. There has also been discovered 

 at the Chapter House at Westminster, the corre- 

 spondence between Edward I., Edward II., and 

 their lieutenants in Scotland, Aymer de Valance, 

 Earl of Pembroke, John, Earl of Warren, and 

 Hugh Cressingham. The letters patent have also 

 been found, by which, in 1304, William Lamber- 

 ton. Bishop of St. Andrew's, testified his having 

 come into the peace of the king of England, and 



