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A Bibliograpliical Blue-book, by Bolton 



Coniey ----- 417 

 Woodfall's Ledger, 1734—1747 - - 418 



Folk Lobe : _ Marriage Custom in Scot- 

 land — Legend of the Bells of St. 

 Andrew, Romford — " White bird, 

 featherless" — Candlemas — Cat's 

 Cradle - - - - - 420 



Edwin's Hall, the Residence of Arch- 

 bishop Sandys (1519-1588), by J. 

 Virtue Wynen - - - - 422 



Remarks on Crowns, and more particu- 

 larly on the Royal or Imperial Crown 

 of Great Britain, by S. M, Leake, 

 Garter 422 



Minor Notks : — Lord Byron's " Mo- 

 nody on the Death of Sheridan" — 

 Bisson — Drinkins Healths in New 

 England— Balthazar Vigures : Error 

 in Wood's " Athente Oxonienses " — 

 Miles Corbet— Kitty Clive's Opinion 

 of Airs. Siddons — A Suggestion — A 

 Handbook of the War — Origin of 

 " Navvy " - - - - 423 



Queries : — 

 Three Letters on Italy 



- 424 



Minor Queries:- Mr. Pierpoint'sMSS. 



— Eshe, Ushaw, Flass — John Duer, 

 Esq., of Antigua — Decalogue in Com- 

 mon Prayer — Marine Policies — Ar- 

 morial — St. Gervaise — " The Coat 

 and the Pillow" — " Dialogus de La- 

 miis et Pythonicis " — " Antrix " — 

 Bon-mot attributed to D' Alembert — 

 " Pot-luck " — Jute — Vigors — Lava 



— Quotations wanted — Stone Altars 



— Ijemmins Arms and Family —Dou- 

 glas, Lord Mordington - - - 425 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Hogarth and Joe Miller — "As thin 

 as Banbury Cheese " — " Passionale ' ' 



— Moore of Abingdon — A Player's 

 Epitaph —" PhilomcHrus " - - 427 



Beplies ; — 



Names of Cat and Dog - - - 429 



Gorton's " Biographical Dictionary " - 430 

 Burials at Maple Durham - - 432 



Photographic Correspondence : — 

 On tlie Alteration of Positives, and 

 their Revival - - - - 432 



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 roily — Author of "Palmyra," &c. 



— " Sanlegue " — Double Christian 

 Names — " Handicap," &c. — Stat- 

 fold — Pamphlet by the Rev. Dr. 

 Davy — Posies from Wedding-rings — 

 Publication of Admissions to Lincoln's 

 Inn, the Temples, and Gray's Inn — 

 " I'd be a butterfly " — Caldecott's 

 Translation of the New Testament 



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 Notes on Books, &c. - - - 436 



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