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Notes : — Page 



Proclamations, by Rev. II. H. Wood - 237 



" Coming events cast their sliadows be- 

 fore " 238 



Folk Lobe : — Norfolk Candlemas 

 AVcatlier Proverbs — Morayshire Folk 

 I/Oi c — Cures for Hooping-cough — 

 Shrove Tuesday, 1855 - - - 238 



Botanical Notes from Theophrastus, by 

 J.M. Bodwell - - - - 239 



JIiN"K Notes : — Curiosities of TranF- 

 lation—Carr: Synge — Titles of the 

 King's Sons — The blind Lascar — 

 Parochial Registers — The Oxford 

 Educational System — An Inde- 

 pendent Editor — Moore's Wife — 

 Charles II.'B Wig — A Sign - - 240 



Qderies; — 



Heraldry : Dancctttc Lines - - 242 



MiNOK QoEBiEs : — Names of illegiti- 

 mate Children — Sir Martin West- 

 combe— Latin Vocabulary— Corderius 

 _ Robert Orme — Minute Eng;raving 

 on Glass — '' Medico Mastix " — 

 '• Gazza Ladra : " "The Thieving 

 Magpie " — Impressions of Wax Seals 



— Average annual Temperature — 

 Nautical Queries — Sir Dawes Wy- 

 mondsold, of Putney — " The Curious 

 Book " — Pearmonger — Erasmus, and 

 Allusions to him — Royal Family of 



f Sardinia — Homography — Baro- 

 netages of the United Kingdom - 242 



Mj.vor Queries with Answers : — 

 The Great Charter, and that of the 

 Forest, 9 Ileury III. : Judge Black- 

 stone's Remarks upon the Character 

 and Authenticity of Dean Lyttelton's 

 Copy — William Wogan — Earl Har- 

 court. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland — 

 Arminian and Calvinistic Controversy 



— Colonial Coinage of George IV. — 

 " Who drives fat oxen," &c. — 



I M.A.C.L.—Bayeux Tapestry - 214 



Bepliics : — 



Dramatic Attack on Pope and Cardinals 246 



" Old Dominion," by Thos. Balch - 24G 



"Carronade," by Geo. Henry Preble, 



Lieut. U.S. N. - - - - 247 



Sultan Crim Ghery - - - 248 



Value of Money in 1653, by W. Coles - 248 

 Surnames ending in " -house," by Chas. 



S. Greaves - - - - 249 



Photographic Cor respoxrence : — 

 Hardwick's " Jf anual of Photographic 

 Chemistry " _ Dr. Diamond's Iodizing 

 Formula : Mr. Merritt's Camera - 250 



Replies to Minor Queries: — "What 

 shadows we arc," &c. — Symondson 

 Family —Quotation from St. Augus- 

 tine— Sir T. Bodley's Life — "Im- 

 probus," Meaning of — The Irish 

 Palatines — Old Pulpit Inscriptions 



— "Torat,"&c. - - - - 251 



Miscellaneous : — 

 Notes on Books, &c. ... 2156 



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