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CONTENTS. 



Notes : _ Page 



Tlie State Prison in the Tower, by William Sidney 

 Gibson -..---. 



Ineilited Letter from Henry VIII. of England to 

 James V. of Scotland, by Tlios. Nimmo 



Hiindbook to tlie Library of tlie British Museum, by 

 Bolton Corney . . - . 



Folk Lore: —Derbyshire Folk Lore — Weather Su- 

 perstitions — Weather Rhymes, &c. — Folk Lore in 

 Cambridgeshire ------ 



Eapping no Novelty, by D. Jardine _ . . 



Minor Notes : — Bond a Poet — The late Harvest 

 — Misquotation — Epitaph in Ireland — Reynolds 

 (Sir Joshua's) Baptism — Tradescant - 



509 

 510 



- 511 



513 



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 514 



Queries : — 



Grammar in relation to Logic, by C. Mansfield Ingleby 



The Coronet [Crown] of Llewelyn ap Griffith, Prince 



of Wales - ._-.-- 



Minor Queries : — Monumental Brass at Wanlip, 

 CO. Leicester, and Sepulchral Inscriptions in English 



— Influence of Politics on Fashion — Rev. W. Rondall 

 — Henry, third Earl of Northumberland—" When we 

 survey," &c Turnbull's Continuation of Robertson 



— An Heraldic Query — Osborn filius Herfasti — 

 -Jews in China — Derivation of " Mammet "— Non- 

 recurring Diseases — Warville — Dr. Doddridge — 

 Pelasgi _ Hue's Travels — The Mousehunt — Lock- 

 wood, the Court Jester — Right of redeeming Pro- 

 perty - - - - - - - 515 



Minor Queries with Answers: — Dictionary of Zin- 

 gari — Sir Robert Colce — Regium Donum — Who 

 was the Author of " Jerningham " and " Doveton ? " 



— Alnia'Mater - - - - - - 517 



Replies : — 



Alexander Clark --.--- 517 



Amcotts Pedigree, by W. S. Hesleden - - - 518 



Sir Ralph Winwood, by the Rev. W. Sneyd - - 519 



Trench on Proverbs, by the Rev. M. Margoliouth, &c. - 519 



On Palindromes, by Charles Reed, &c. - - - 620 



Replies to Minor Queries:— The Claymore — 

 Temple Lands in Scotland — Lewis and Sawell 

 Families — Pharaoh's Ring — "Could we with ink," 

 ■ fee. — " Populus vult decipi " — Red Hair — " Land 

 of Green Ginger" — " I put a spoke in his wheel" 



— Pagoda — Passage in Virgil — To speak in Lute- 

 string — Dog Latin — Longevity — Definition of a 

 Proverb — Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant — Ennui 



— Belle Sauvage — History of York — Encore — 

 " Hauling over the Coals " — The Words " Cash " 

 and " Mob " — Ampers and — The Keate Family, of 

 the Hoo, Herts— Hour-glasses — Marriage of Cousins 



— Waufjh, Bishop of Carlisle — Marriage Service — 

 Hoby, Family of — Cambridge Graduates — "I own 



I like not," &c " Topsy Turvy " — "When the 



Maggot bites," &c. - - - - - 520 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. . . _ » - 527 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - . - 528 



Notices to Correspondents ... - 528 



Advertisements • ..... 528 



Vol. VIII. ~ No. 213. 



THE STATE PRISON IN THE TOWEK. 



A paragraph has lately gone the round of the 

 newspapers, in which, after mentioning the alter- 

 ations recently made in the Beauchamp Tower and 

 the opening of its " written walls" to public in- 

 spection, it is stated that this Tower was formerly 

 the place of confinement for state prisoners, and 

 that " Sir William Wallace and Queen Anne 

 Boleyn" were amongst its inmates. 



Now, I believe there is no historical authority 

 for saying that "the Scottish hero" was ever con- 

 fined in the Tower of London ; and it seems cer- 

 tain that the unfortunate queen was a prisoner in 

 the royal apartments, which were in a diflTerent 

 part of the fortress. But so many illustrious per- 

 sons are known to have been confined in the 

 Beauchamp Tower, and its walls preserve so many 

 curious inscriptions — the undoubted autographs 

 of many of its unfortunate tenants — that it must 

 always possess great interest. 



Speaking from memory, I cannot say whether 

 the building known as the Beauchamp (or Wake* 

 field) Tower was even in existence in the time of 

 Edward I. ; but my impression is, that its archi- 

 tecture is not of so early a time. It is, I believe, 

 supposed to derive its name from the confinement 

 in it of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, 

 in 1397. Of course it was not the only place of 

 durance of state prisoners, but it was the prison 

 of most of the victims of Tudor cruelty who were 

 confined in the Tower of London ; and the walls 

 of the principal chamber, which is on the first 

 storey, and was, until lately, used as a mess-room 

 for the oflicers, are covered in some parts with 

 those curious inscriptions by prisoners which were 

 first described' in a paper read before the Society 

 of Antiquaries in 1796, by the Rev. J. Brand, and 

 published in the thirteenth volume of The Archceo- 

 logia. 



Mr. P. Cunningham, in his excellent Handbook, 

 says : 



" William Wallace was lodged as a prisoner on his 

 first arrival in London in the house of William dc 

 Leyre, a citizen, in the parish of All Hallows Staining, 

 at the end of Fenchurch Street." 



