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 Our Ninth Volume - - - - 3 



Notes : — 



A Strawberry-Hill Gem, by Bolton 



Corney - - - - - 3 



The "Ancren Riwle," by SirF. Madden 5 

 Order for the Suppression of Vagrancy, 



a.d. 1650-51, by John Bruce - - 6 



Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by 



Sir Henry Ellis - 7 



Burial-place of Archbishop Leighton, 



by Albert Way .... 8 



Minor Notes :— Grammars, fcc. for 

 Public Schools — "To captivate" — 

 Bonn's Edition of Matthew of West- 

 minster — French Season Rhymes 

 and Weather Rhymes — Curious Epi- 

 taph in Tillinghum Church, Essex • 8 



■Queries : — 



Domestic Letters of Edmund Burke - 9 



Minor Queries ; — Farrant's Anthem 



— Ascension Day Custom — Saw- 

 bridge and Knight's Numismatic 

 Collections — " The spire whose silent 

 dinger points to heaven " — Lord 

 Fairfax — Tailless Cats— Saltcellar 



— Arms and Motto granted to Col. 

 "William Carlos — Naval Atrocities — 

 Turlehydes— Foreign Orders: Queen 

 of Bohemia — Piekard Family — Irish 

 Chieftains — General Braddock - 9 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex — 

 Motto on old Damask — Explanation 

 of the Word " Miser " — " Acis and 

 Oalatea " — Birm-bank — General 

 Thomas Gage - - - - 11 



Rkplif.s : — 



Rapning no Novelty , by Rev. Dr. Mai t - 



land - - - - - 12 



Occasional Forms of Prayer, by John 



Macray - - - - - 13 



Celtic and'Latin Languages - - 14 



Ceometrical Curiosity, by Professor De 



Morgan - - - - -14 



The Black-guard, by P. Cunningham - 15 

 The Calves' Head Club, by Edward 



Peacock - - - - - 15 



Photographic Correspondence : 



The Calotype Process — Hockin'a 

 Short Sketch— PhotographicSociety's 

 Exhibition - - - - 16 



Replies to Minor Querips : "Firm 



•was their faith," &c Vellum-clean- 

 ing— Wooden Tombs— Solar Eclipse 

 in the Year 1263 —Lines on Woman 



— Satin — " Quid facies," &c. — So- 

 ta-.les-The Third Part of "Chris- 

 tabel " — Attainment of Majority — 



Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton 



The fifth Lord Byron — Burton Fa- 

 mily — Provost Hodgson's Transla- 

 tion of the Atys of Catullus, &c. - 17 



Miscellaneous : 



Notes on Books, &c. - . - 21 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 21 



In otices to Correspondents - - S3 



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