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Notes : — Page 



Kennington Common, by the Rev. W. 



Sparrow Simpson - 295 



Life and Death - - - - 298 



Battle of Trafalgar and Death of Nel- 

 son - - - - - - 297 



Heraldic Anomaly ... 298 



.Polk Lore :_ Three Maids— Mother 

 Russel's Post — Shrove Tuesday Cus- 

 tom - - - - - 299 



Stornello - - - - - 299 



Minor Notes : —Perspective — " That " 

 — Gorporation Enactments —Jacobite 

 Club — Dean Novell's first Wife — 

 "Oxoniana" — An Epigram falsely 

 ascribed to George Herbert— Ingulph: 

 Bohn's " Antiquarian Library " - 300 



■Queries : — 



Quotations wanted - - - 301 



Sir Edmund Plowden, by S. F. Streeter 301 

 Ancient Clock, and Odevaere's History 



of it, by Octavius Morgan - - 302 



Minor Queries : — Spielberg, when 

 built ?_ Ded. Pavli " — Mantelpiece: 

 Mantelshelf : Mantleboard : Mantell 

 and Brace — Passage in Job — Pro- 

 vincial Glossaries — Chadderton of 

 Nuthurst, co. Lancaster — A marvel- 

 lous Combat of Birds — Battle of the 

 Gnats — Sandford of Thorpe Salvine, 

 CO. York — " Outlines of the History 

 of Theology " — " Mawkin " — " Plain 

 Dealer"— Hymn attributed to Handel 

 —Degrees in Arts — "Goloshes:" " Kut- 

 chin-kutchu " — Cornwalls of London 



— Flasks for Wine-bottles — Frox- 

 halmi, Prolectricus, Phytacus, Tuleus, 

 Candos, Graciauus, and Tounu or 

 Tonnu - - - - - 302 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Postmaster at Merton College—" Lyra 

 Apostolica " — East Dereham Manor 



— Quakers executed in North Ame- 

 rica _ Inscription in Fulham Church 



— Hero of the " Spanish Lady's Love " 



— " Bothy " — " Children in the 

 Wood" - - - - - 304 



Replies : — 

 Brydone the Tourist, by John Macray 305 

 " The Red Cow " — Cromwell's Car- 

 riages, &c. - 306 

 Fox-hunting, by F. M. Middleton - 307 

 Weather Rules, by E. MaeCulloch, &c. 307 

 Bingham's Antiquities - 308 

 Ancient Tenure of Lands - 309 

 Photographic Correspondence: — Spots 

 on Collodion Pictures, &c. — The 

 Double Iodide Solution — Mounting 

 Photographs - 310 



Replies to Minor Queries: Books 



on Bells— Medal in Honour of Cheva- 

 lier St. George —Dean Swift's Suspen- 

 sion _ " Vanitatem observare " 



Ballina Castle, Mayo — Dorset — Ju- 

 dicial Rank hereditary — Tolling the 

 Bell on leaving Church — Archpriest 

 in the Diocese of Exeter —Dogs in 

 Monumental Brasses — The Last of 

 the Palieologi — Long Names, &c. - 310 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, kc. - - - 313 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 314 



Notices to Correspondents - - 311 



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