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CONTENTS. 



"KoTEs : — Page 



Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, 



by William Wintlirop . » . - . flS? 

 Penny Sights and Exhibitions in the Reign of James 1., 



by A. Grayan ...... SSS 



The Impossibilities of our Forefathers ... 559 



Parallel Passages, by the Rev. John Booker - - 580 



Astrology in America - - - - - 561 



MiNon Notes : — " Hierosolyma est perdita " — Quaint 

 Inscription in a Belfry — The Chronicles of the Kings 

 of Israel and Judah — The Using a Circumstance as 

 a " Peg," or " Nail," to hang an Argument on, fiC. — 

 Turkish and Russian Grammars — Chronograms in 

 Sicily — Stone Pulpits — Advertisements and Pro- 

 spectuses - - . . - - - 561 



(Queries : — 



English Refugees at Ypenstein - - - . 562 



Minor Queries: — Pe-rarch's Laura — " F.pitaphium 

 Lucretiae " — M'Dowall Family — Arms of Geneva — 

 Webb of Monckton Farleigh — Translation Wanted—. 

 Latin Translation from Sheridan, &c. — Gale of Rent 



— Arms of Sir Richard de Loges — Gentile Names of 

 the Jews — Henry, Earl of Wotton — Kicker-eating 



— Chadderton of Nuthllr^t, co. Lancashiri- — George, 

 first Viscount Lanesborough, and Sir Charles Cot- 

 terell — " Firm was their 'aith," &c. — The Mother 

 of William the Conqueror — Pedigree of Sir Francis 

 Bryan - - - - - - - 562 



Minor Queries with Ansvpers: — " The Whole Duty 

 of Man " — " It rained cats and dogs and little pitch- 

 forks : " Helter-skelter — Father Traves — Precise 

 Dates of Births and Deatlis of the Pretenders — 

 Clarence --.-.-. 564 



;ilePLIES : — 



Mackey's " Theory of the Earth" ... 565 



Sincere, Simple, Singular .... - 567 



Poetical Tavern Signs . . ■ . . 568 



Homo Uniiis Libii -..--. 5P9 



The Forlorn Hope, by W. R. Wilde - - - 569 



TIeck's " Comoedia Divina " - - - - 570 



Liveries worn by Gentlemen .... 571 



Photographic Correspondence. — Queries on Dr. 

 Diamond's Calotype Process — All)umenized Paper - 572 



Eeplifs to Minor Queries : — Mnrcarnes — X on 

 Brewers' Casks— No Sparrows at Lindham — Theo- 

 bald le Botiller— Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire — 

 Lord Audley's Attendants at Poirtiers — Portraits 

 at Brickwall Hoiise — The Words " Mob " and 

 "Cash" — Knglish Clergyman in Spain — The Cid 



— Exterior Stoups — Green Jugs us^d by the Tem- 

 plars —" Peccavi," I have Scinde— Raffaele's " Spo- 

 salizio " — Early Use of Tin : Derivation of the 

 Name of Britain — Unpublished Epigram by Sir 

 Walter Scott —Derivation of the Word " HumbUfr " 



— Bees— Topsy Turvy—Parish Cleiks and Politics, &c. 572 

 Miscellaneous : — . 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 577 



Book'i and Odd Volumes wanted ... - !j78 



Notires to Correspondents .... 578 



Advertisements - • . . . . 578 



Vol. VIIL — No.215. 



ORIGINAL ROYAL LETTERS TO THE GRAND MASTERS 

 OF MALTA. 



(Continued from p. 99.) 



In my first communication I did myself the 

 pleasure to send you a correct list of all the royal 

 letters which had been sent by different English 

 monarclis to the Grand Masters of Malta, with 

 their dates, the languages in which they were 

 written, and stating to whom they were addressed. 

 I now purpose to forward with your permission 

 from time to time, literal translations of these 

 letters, which Mr. Strickland of this garrison has 

 kindly promised to give me. The subjoined are 

 the first in order, and have been carefully com- 

 pared, by Dr. Vella and myself, with the originals 

 now in the Eecord Office. 



No. I. 



Henry by the grace of God, King of England and 

 France, Defender of the Faith, and Lord of 

 Ireland, to the Rev. Father in Christ, Philip 

 Villiers de L'lsle Adam, Grand Master of the 

 Order of Jerusalem. 



Our most dear friend — Greeting : 

 The venerable and religious men. Sir Thomas 

 Docreus, Prior of St. John's in this kingdom, and 

 Sir W. Weston of your convent, Turcoplerius, 

 have lately delivered to us the epistle of your 

 Reverence, and when we had read it, they laid 

 before us the commission which they had in charge, 

 with so much prudence and address, and recom- 

 mended to us the condition, well being, and ho- 

 nour of their Order with so much zeal and 

 affliction, that they have much increased the good 

 will, which of ourselves we feel towards the Order, 

 and have made us more eager in advancing all its 

 affairs, so that we very much hope to declare by 

 our actions the affection which we feel towards 

 this Order. 



And that we might give some proof of this our 

 disposition, we have written at great length to His 

 Lnperial Majesty, in favour of maintaining the oc- 

 cupation of Malta, and we have given orders to 

 our envoys there to help forward this affair as 

 much as they are able. The other matters, indeed, 



