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Griffin's "Fidessa," and Shakspcare's 



" Passionate Pilgrim" - - -27 



Caps at Cambridge - - - - 27 



Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by 



Sir Henry Ellis - - - - 28 



Newspaper Folk Lore - - - 29 



Xing James's Irish Army List of 1689-90, 



by John D'Alton - - - - 30 



Minor Notes : — Authors and Publisher! 

 — Inscriptions on old Pulpits — Recent 

 Curiosities of Literature — Assuming 

 Names — False Dates in Water-marks 

 of Papers - - - - - 11 



Qriiuis : — 



Captain Farre - - - - 32 



Marriage Ceremony in the Fourteenth 



Century - - - - - 33 



.Manuscript Catena - - - - 33 



Minor Queries ; _ Jews and Egyptians 



— Skin-flint — Garlic Sunday— Custom 

 of the Corporation of London — Gi ne- 

 ral Stokes — Rev. Philip Morant — The 

 Position of Suffragan Bishops in Con- 

 vocation — Cambridge Mathematical 

 Questions — Crabbe MSS._ Tilly, an 

 Officer of the Courts at Westminster — 

 Mr. Gye — Three Fleurs-de-Lys — The 

 Commons of Ireland previous to the 

 Union in 1801 — " All Holyday at Peck- 

 ham " — Arthur de Vere — Master of 

 the Nails— Nattochiis and Calchanti — 

 *'Nedo' the Todding" - - - 31 



3Iinor Queries with Answers : — 

 Bridget Cromwell and Fleetwood — 

 Culet , - - - - - 36 



Replies : — 

 The Asteroids or recently discovered 



Lesser Planets, by the Rev. H. Walter • 36 

 Fmblematic Meanings of Precious Scot es 



— Planets of the Months symbolised by 

 Precious Stones, by W. Pinkerton » 37 



Non-recurring Diseases - - - 38 



Milton's Widow, by J. F. Marsh - - 38 



Table-turning, by J. Macray - - 39 



Celtic Etymology - - - - 40 



Photographic Correspondence : — The 

 Calotype Process : curling up of Paper 

 —Turner's Paper —A Practical Photo- 

 graphic Query - - - - 40 



Replies to Minor Queries : — "Service 

 is no Inheritance" — Francis Browne 



— Catholic Bible Society — Legal Cus- 

 toms — Silo — Laurie on Finance 



David's Mother — Anagram — Passage 

 in Sophocles _B. L. M. — " The For- 

 lorn Hope" — Two Brothers of the 

 same Christian Name — Passage in 



Watson— Deri vntion of " Mammet " 



Ampers and —Misapplication of Terms 



— Belle Sauvage — Arms of Geneva — 

 " Arabian Nights' Entertainments " — 

 Richard I. —Lord Clarendon and the 

 Tubwoman — Oaths — Double Chris- 

 tian Names — Chip in Porridge — Cla- 

 rence Dukedom — Prospectuses, &c. - 41 



Miscellaneous i 



Notes on Books, &e. - - - 45 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 46 



Notices to Correspondents - - 46 



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