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Notices of Ancient Libraries, No. 2., by 

 Rev. B. H. Cowper - - - 337 



Philological Notes- - - - 338 



Copy of Junius's Letters, with some 

 Manuscript Corrections by the Author 338 



"Healer! heal thyself!" or Physicians 

 and Leeches accounted for - - 339 



Monumental Brasses, by Rev. W. Spar- 

 row Simpson - - - . 340 



Minor Notes : — Prophecies of the 

 Plaaue and Fire of London — Shut- 

 tlecock — "Infortunate " and " Un- 

 fortunate " — The Hon. Mrs. Norton 

 V. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens - - 341 



Queries: — 

 " Itincrarium ad Windsor:" "White- 

 locke's Diary :" " Whitefield's Diary," 

 by John Bruce - - - - 341 



MiNoii Queries:— First Tripos Day 

 at Cambridtre — Letters of Georsre IV. 

 —bank, Sankey— " Berta etas Mundi " 

 — " Youth's Trazedy," " Youth's 

 Comedy " _ Trawle-net — Thomas 

 Morrison —Ritual of Holy Confirm- 

 ation — The Monmouth and the Fou- 

 dro.v ant — Heavenly Holes — Poem by 

 Semlegue (?) — Michael Angelo — 

 Different Ideas of a Religion among 

 Christians and Pagans — Payment to 

 Lord Rochford _ Scott's Novels — 



" What tho' my name be Roger ?" 



Alliterative hpelling-book — Joseph 

 Hill. Cowper's Friend — Sir Simon Le 

 Blanc — Glatton - - - 342 



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 Passage in Gay _ Godwyn on the Jews 

 or Hebrews — St. Vedast — Summa 

 and M odus — Quarter of Wheat — A. 

 Greenfield — The Ash Igdrasil or 

 YgdrasU ----- 343 



Kepliks : — 



Franklin's Parable and Taylor's 



" Liberty of Prophecying," by S. W. 



Singer - - - - - 344 



Serpent's Egg, Scby W. Pinkerton, &c. 34.^ 



Nuns acting as Priests in the Mass - 316 



Epitaphs - . - - - 347 

 The Queens Regimental Goat,by Henry 



H. Breen ----- 347 



I^ord Byron, by John Macray - - 348 

 Oxford Jeux d'Esprit, by Cuthbert Bede, 



B.A. - - - - - 349 



Sign of the Stag in Dorsetshire - - 319 



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 Leach — " Strain at a, gnat " — Com- 

 memoration of Saints, &c. - - 351 



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