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Notes : — Page 



Arthur Moore and the Moorcs - - 1 77 



The English, Irish, and Scotch Knights 



of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem 178 

 Legends of the Co. Clare, by Francis 



Kobert Davies - - - - 180 



"Papas" of Iceland and Orkney - 181 



Chetham Family - - - - 182 



Character of the Turks, by Bolton Cor- 



ney - - - - - 183 



Minor Notes : — Death of the Czar — 

 Saxons in the Crimea — Mottoes for 

 Sun-dials, by Rev. W. L. Bowles — 

 "Retrospective Review." Vol. I. — 

 Tlie Cock Thorpe Admirals — Byron: 

 Sardanapalus — Death and the Burial 

 Board : a Grave Note — Hue and Cry 1 

 Harrow and Help ! - - - 183 



Queries : — 

 Edmund Burke : his Family, Marriaee, 



&c. - - - - - - 185 



Manuscript Comedy - - - 185 



Minor Queries :— Cockades — Napo- 

 leon's Marshals — Extract from the 

 Bishop of St. Asaph's Charge — " The 

 Affairs of the World " — Kirkstal Ab- 

 bey — Dedication of Heworth Church 

 — ■'Pilgrimage to the Holy Land" — 

 " The Postman robbed of his Mail," 

 &c. — Symondson Family — Grey and 

 Ratcliffe lamilies _" What shadows 

 we are, and what shadows we pursue " 

 — " I dreamt that, buried," Sic. — " In- 

 tensify" — Ela de Longcspee — Sur- 

 names ending in "-house" - - 186 



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 County Histories _ John Asgill — 

 Ethical Writers— Episcopal Consecra- 

 tions — English Translation of " Abe- 

 lard "— Cohorn - .... 187 



Keplies : — 



Schonbomerus, by C. W.Bingham - 188 



"Mysterious Scrawl" in Queen's Col- 

 lege Library, Oxford, by H.H.Wood 189 



Prophecies respecting Constantinople, by 

 William Bates - - - -189 



Epitaphs - . - - .190 



Photographic Correspondence : — 



Bromo-iodide of Silver— Portability 

 of .Sensitized Collodion Plates— Ca. 

 mera for Succharized Plates, and Per- 

 ambulating Stand for Field Purposes 191 



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 Reman Churches — Custom observed 

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 dixerunt! " — Clay Tobacco-pipes — 

 Curious Properties of the Thames 

 Wate. — Boliugbroke's Advice to 

 Swift— Julian Bowers — Duration of 

 a Visit — Anglo-Saxon Language — 

 " Bromley Letters " — Two Brothers 

 ■with same Christian Name — Corpse 

 passing makes a Right of Way — Jen- 

 nens — Was Queen Elizabeth fair or 

 dark ? — Adamsoniaua, &c. - - 192 



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