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Secret Chambers in Old Mansions in- 

 tended for Priests' Hidine-places, by 

 Henry Tuck - - - - 437 



On a Passasre in Shakspeare's "King 

 Henry VIII.," Act IV. Sc. 2., by S. W. 

 Singer - - - - - 438 



Original Letter of James Anderson - 439 

 " Englisli, Past and Present " - - 440 



Almanacs and tlieir Makers - - 441 



Minor Notes :— The Life and Writ- 

 ings of Dean Swift — The Kertch 

 Museum — Thomas 4 Kempis : " De 

 Imitatione Christi," libri iv He- 

 raldic Inaccuracy in "Ivanhoe" — 

 History of the Post-office — Proposed 

 Work on Roman Britain — Dickens' 

 Names ----- 442 



Queries ; — 



What is Lord Dundonald's Plan? by 

 Charles Reed - - - - 443 



Minor Qdkbies: —De HoyYill Family 

 — Charles Wager— Northern Fine Arts 

 Society — Mail Coaches — Assignat, 

 Value of — "Poetical Epistle to Dr. 

 W. K." — Dramatic Works — John 

 Hess — " Oriana " — Way-side Crosses 



— Roasting of Egirs — Coaclimakers' 

 Hall — Blue Mould on Coins — Natu- 

 ralisation liaws — Green Water — Ca- 

 thedral Registers — Jean Paul, Comte 

 de Cerdan — The Hed Dragon— "Si- 

 bylle " or " Sybille " - - - 444 



Minor Queries with Answers ; — 

 James I. : Cajsar Caisarum _ Edward 

 Chandler, Bishop of Durham — Car- 

 dinal Wolsey's Coatof Arms — " War- 



reniana"— •' Imbosk," "Strook " 



Gerard Douw — Mines : " Huel," or 

 "Wheal" - - - - 446 



Replies ; — 



The Red Hand - - - - 447 



Roundels - - - . . 44g 



The Rose of Jericho - - . 449 



Lines on the Succession of the Kings of 

 England, by Cuthbert Bede, B. A. - 450 



Photographic Correspondence : — 

 On tlie Alteration of Positives, and 

 their Revival - - - - 451 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Fourth 

 Estate — Laureate Epigram — Hospi- 

 tallers in Ireland — On Stocking Ma- 

 rine Aquaria — Wild Cabbaiies — 

 " That Swinney " — Scotch Prisoners 

 ' in 1651 sold as Slaves — Weldons of 

 Cornwall— Royal Family of Sardinia 



— Barmecide's Feast — Naval Action 



— Junius's Letters, supposed Writers 

 of— Hannah Lightfoot — Latin and 

 English Nomenclature — Nuns acting 

 as Priests — Quarter of Wheat _ York 

 Chapter-house — I-egend of the Co. 

 Clare — Etiquette Query, &c. - - 452 



Miscellaneous : — 

 Notes on Books, &c. - - - 456 



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