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KoTBs : — Page 



Unpublished Letter of John Locke - 137 



PopiANA : — '"limoleou" — Pope and 

 Warburton - - - - 139 



One of Speed the Historian's MS. Au- 

 thorities - - - - - 139 



Crimean Requirements, bjr Bolton Cor- 

 ney - - - - - HI 



Folk Lobk : — A Shropshire Supersti- 

 tion—Fishermen's Superstition— Salt- 

 spilling - - - - - 112 



The " Kabeljaauwen " and the 

 "Hoeks,"by Rev. C. H. Gunn - 14 J 



Monumental Brasses, by F. S. Growse - 143 



Minor Notes: — "Oilins boilins " — 

 Derivation of "retract "— A Literal, 

 Critical, Poetical Transcript from 

 Lloyd's — Shipwreclcs and Disasters 

 at Sea — Genuine Rejected Addresses 



— Cutty-pipes- Newspapers— Friar 

 Bacon's Study — Early Disappearance 



of Publications - - - - 143 



QoiRixs: 



Bishops' Arms, by Sir F. Madden - 145 

 The Right of bequeathing Land - 145 



Minor QuKBiis: — Tax on Clocks and 

 Watches — A Lady restored to Life — 

 Fox Family — " Non omnia terra 

 obruta,"&e.—Proeressive Geography- 

 Walter Wilson's MSS. — Roman Sta- 

 tions and Roads— Mildew on Piutures 



— Queen's College, Oxford — The Rev. 

 John Angler — Greek and Roman 

 Churches — " Leda " by Leonardo da 



, Vinci — Ireland : Ancient Usage — 

 Ancient Order of Hiccabites - - 145 



Minor Qdkriks with Ak5w».bs : — 

 Authors of Imtin Plays — Ross or 

 Rouse— Hon. Anchitell Grey- Law- 

 rence Holden _ Dictionaries, Cyclo- 

 pedias, &c.-" To te-he "— Allhallows 147 



RsPLiEs : — 

 Was Prussic Acid obtained from Bull's 



Blood by the Greeks ? - - - 148 



Sancte Bell at Clapton, by Rev. H. T. 



Ellacombe - - - - 150 



Archbishop Leighton and Provost Ai- 



kenhead - • - - - 150 



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Replies to Minor Qukries ; — Fair- 

 child Lee ure — Bishops in Chess 



Monastery of Nutcelle — Use of the 

 Terra" vaccinated "-Englisli Bishops' 

 Mitres — Eartlienware Vessels found 

 in the Foundations of Buildings — 

 1'^3'^reachers — Meaning of " worth " 



— "Our Mieaus secure us"— Cardi- 

 nals red ii«t — First Book printed 

 Pj'''^',r''°?''"-1 - Baker's Dozen — 



The Woodw-eele »o„g, and wold not 

 cease, &c.—^Nunsacn.^ as Priests in 

 the Mass — Osbern's Life if odo — 

 Husbandman, ice. - - - 152 



Miscellaneous : — 

 Notes on Books, &c. - - - 155 



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