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Page 



Remarkable Imprints - - - 143 



Legends of the Co. Clare, by Francis 



Robert Davies - - - - 145 



Canting Arms - - - - 1 16 



Minor Notes : — Selleridge — Tombs 

 of Bishops — Lines on visiting the 

 Portico of Beau Nash's Palace, Bath- 

 Acrostic in Ash Church, Kent — A 

 Hint to Publishers _ Uhland, the 

 German Poet — Virgilian Inscription 

 for an Infant School - 146 



Queries : — 



The Shippcn Family— John White, by 



Thos.Balch - - - - 147 



Books issued in Parts and not completed 147 



Minor Queries : — " Hovd Maet of 

 Laet " _ Hand in Church — Egger 

 Moths — The Yorkshire Dales— Ciss, 

 Cissle, ffce. — Inn Signs, &c. — Smiths 

 and Robinsons — Coin of Carausius — 

 Verelst the Painter — Latin Treatise 

 on whipping School-boys — White- 

 washing in Churches — Surname 

 " Kynoch " — Dates of published 

 Works — Saw-dust Recipe - - 118 



3Iinor Queries with Answers : — 

 Branks, or Gossips' Bridles — Not 

 «aring a Fig for anything — B. C. Y. 



Earl Nugent's Poems — Huntbach 



MSS. — Holy Loaf Money — St. 

 Philip's, Bristol — Foreign Univer- 

 sities - - - - - 149 



Death-.varnings in Ancient Families, 

 by C. Mansfield Inglcby 



Starvation, by N. L. Melville, &c. 



Osmotherley in Yorkshire, by T. Gill - 



Echo Poetry, by Jas. J. Scott 



Rluckguard - - - - - 



" Wurin," in Modern German — Pas- 

 sage in Schiller's " Wallenstein " 

 'Was Shakspeare descended from a 

 Landed Proprietor ? by R. Gole, &c. - 



Lord Fairfax .... 



'Photographic Correspondence : — Mr. 

 Lyte on Collodion — Dr. Diamond on 

 Sensitive Collodion - 



/Replies to Minor Queries : — Portrait 

 of Alva — Lord Mayor of London 

 not a Privy Councillor — New Zea- 

 lander and Westminster Bridge — 

 Cui Bono — Barrels Regiment — Sir 

 Matthew Hale — Scotch Grievance — 



— " Merciful Judgments of High 

 Church," &c. — Robert Dudley, Earl 

 of Leicester — Fleet Prison — The 

 Commons of Ireland previous to the 

 Union— "Les Lettres Juives"_Sir 

 Philip Wentworth — General Fraser 



— Namby-Pamby — The Word " Mi- 

 ser "— The Forlorn Hope—Thornton 



Abbey — " Quid fades," &c Clvrist- 



Cross-Rovr— Sir Walter Scott, and his 

 Quotations from himself, &c. - 



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Notes on Books, &c. - 



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