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Notes : — Page 



Original English Royal Letters to the 

 Grand Masters of Malta, by William 

 Winthrop- - - - - 263 



Fata Morgana, by J. Macray - - 267 



On the Destruction of Monumental 



Brasses - - - - - 268 



Original Letter of the Countess of 

 Blessington to Sir William Drum- 

 inoncl - - - - - 2«8 



Minor Notes : —The late Judge Tal- 

 fourd — Authors' Trustee Society _ 

 The Old Clock at Alderley — The 

 Olympic Plain, &c — Electric Tele- 

 graph—Irish Law in the Eighteenth 

 Century— Gravestone Inscriptions - 269 



Queries: — 



Minor Queries : — Paintings of Our 

 Saviour — Heraldic — Dedication of 

 Kemerton Church — Consolato del 

 Mare— Consonants in Welsh— Atone- 

 ment — Sir Stephen Fox — " Account 

 of an Expedition to the Interior of 

 New Holland "—Darwin on Steam — 

 Scottish Female Dress — " The Inno- 

 cents," a Drama — Waugh of Cum- 

 berland — Norton — De La Fond — 

 " Button Cap "—Cobb Family— Prince 

 Charles' Attendants in Spain — Sack 270 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Ralph Ashton the Commander — 

 Christopher Hervie — Dannocks — 

 Brass in All Saints, Newcastle-uoon- 

 Tyne — Imperfect Bible — The Poem 

 of " Helga " — " Merryweather's 

 Tempest Prognosticator " — Edward 

 Spencer's Marriage — Yew-tree at 

 Crowhurst - - - - 272 



Replies : — 



The Electric Telegraph in 1753 - - 27* 



Factitious Pedigrees : Dixon of Beeston, 

 by Lord Monson, E. P. Shirley, &c. - 275 



Licences to Crenellate, by the Rev. W. 

 Sparrow Simpson, &c. - - - 276 



Newspaper Folk Lore, by C. Mansfield 

 Ingleby, &c. - - - - 276 



French Season Rhymes and Weather 

 Rhymes, by Edgar MacCulloch - 277 



"Vault Interments : Burial in an Erect 

 Posture : Interment of the Troglo- 

 ditaj 278 



Do Conjunctions joinPropositions only ? 

 by H. L. Mansel, &c. - - - 279 



Has Execution by Hanging been sur- 

 vived? - 280 



Photographic Correspondence: A 



Stereoscopic Note — Photographic 

 Query _ Deepening Collodion Nega- 

 tives — Caution to Photographers - 282 



Replies to Minor Queries : Ar- 

 tesian Wells _ Prior's Epitaph on 



Himself _ Handwriting " Beggin" 



the Question" —When and where 

 does Sunday begin or end ? — Precious 

 Stones— Scotch Grievance— " Corpora- 

 tions have no Souls," &c Devereux 



Bowly _ Reversible Names — Duval 

 Family, &c. - - - - 283 



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Notes on Books, &c. - 2F8 



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Notices to Correspondents - - 289 



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