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Page 



Capital Punishments in Henry VIII. 's 



Reisn, bv Rev. H. Walter - - 21 



The English Turcopolier of the Order of 

 St. John of Jerusalem, by William 



"Winthrop 21 



Letter from Joanna Baillie, by H. Mar- 

 tin 23 



Scraps from an old Common-place Book 23 

 Kare Trncts, by K. C. Warde - - 24 



Englirfi Lawyers and English Diction- 

 aries - - - - - 24 



Minor Noths : — " Traverse " — Mil- 

 ton's Description of Rome — Custom 

 observed in drinking at public Feasts 



— Female Rank — The first Dublin 

 Newspaper - - - - 24 



QniRiEs : — 



Calendnr of Saints' Days - - - 26 



Leech Queries - - - - 26 



JVIiKoR QoFRiKs : — Foreigm Collections 

 of Floral Poetry — A Ryder — " Cralivs 

 of War" — Sestertium — Epigram in 

 -a Bible — Eminent Men born in the 

 same Vear — Published Lists of the 

 Users of Hair Powder — Legal Query 



— Burial by Torch-lipht — " Proverbcs 

 Gascons : ' Translation wanted — Ni- 

 trous Oxide and Poetry—" Whychcote 

 of St. John's " — Latinizing Proper 

 Names : Index Geographicus — Reply 



to Leslie's "Case stated " - - 26 



MtNOR QUKRTFS WTTIf AWSWFRS I 



" Bridsewater Treatises "— " Caucus," 

 its Derivation— Ballad quoted by Bur- 

 ton — Family Arms — Menenius — 

 Hanwell, Oxou - - - - 28 



'^IXPLIES : — 



Golden Table of Luneburg: Ancient 



Punishment of the Jews - - 29 

 Military Titles - - - - 30 

 The Pala!ologi, by William Bates, &c. - 31 

 Lord Clarendon's Riding-school at Ox- 

 ford - - - - - 32 

 ■Works on Bells, by Rev. H. T. EUa- 

 combc. Sic. - - - - 32 

 I 

 "Photooraphec Correspoxdence : — On 

 developing long-excited Collodion 

 Plates — CoUodionized Glass Plates, 

 &c. 33 



JIeplies to Minor Queries: — The Bio- 

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 ■Newspapers — Flemings in England — 

 Paint Tel lant — Colonel Maceroni _ 

 ■Origin of the Terms " Wliig " and 

 "' Tory " _ Bell-childe — Seals, Books 

 relating to —The Schoolmen _ Sand- 

 banks—Brasses restored — Clay To- 

 baccii-pi|)cs — Churches dedicated to 

 St. Pancras — Oxford Jeu d'Esprit — 

 Song of the Cuckoo — " Nag " and 

 " Knagg " — Sir Henry JoUnes, &.Q. - 34 



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IVTEW COMMENTARIES ON 



1a the laws of ENGLAND, in which 

 are interwoven, under a New and Original 

 Arrangement of the General Subject, all such 

 parts of the WORK OF BLACKSTONE as 

 are applicable to the present times ; together 

 with full but compendious Expositions of the 

 Modem Improvements of tl'e Law up to the 

 latest period, the oriainal and adopted Mate- 

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 HENRY JOHN STEPHEN, Serjeant-at- 

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 by JAMES STEPHEN, of the Middle Temple, 

 Barrister-at-Law, and Professor of English 

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 add as much more to liis information wlicn he 

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