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Political Predictions, by Henry H. 



Breen ----- 559 

 Derivation of the Word "Bigot" - 560 



"Book of Almanacs," by Professor De 



Morgan - - - - - 561 



Minor Notes : — Distances at which 



Sounds have been heard — Anagram 



— Logan or Rocking Stones - - 5S1 



■Queries: — 



A Rubens Query - - - - 561 



The Paxs Pennies of William the Con- 

 queror - 662 



Minor Queries : — Peculiar Customs 

 at Preston, in Lancashire — Obsolete 

 Statutes — Sale of Offices and Salaries 

 in the Seventeenth Century — Board 

 of Trade — Sacheverell's and Charles 

 Lamb's Residences in the Temple — 

 Braddock and Orme - - - 562 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Cromwell's Bible — Canne's Bible — 

 Dryden and Luke Milbourne— Portrait 

 Painters of the last Century — ^Kinii 



— Sir Adam, or Sir Ambrose, Brown 563 



Replies : — 



Norwich, Kirkpatrick Collection of 

 MSS. for the History of, by B. B. 



Woodward, &c. - - - - 564 



Early German Coloured Engravings - 565 

 The Bellman at Newgate, by J. W. 



Farrer - 565 



Herbert's " Church Porch " - - 566 



Ancient Usages of the Church - - 566 



Popiana, by R. Carruthers - - 568 



Oatholic Floral Directories - - 568 



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Lyte's New Instantaneous Process 



Photographs, &c. of the Crystal Palace 



— Soluble Cotton — Cameras - - 570 



.Replies to Minor Queries : — Shak- 

 upeare Portrait — " Aches " — " Waes- 

 tart " — Willow Bark in Ague — Lord 

 Fairfax — The Young Pretender — 

 Dobney's Bowling-green ; Wildman ; 

 t3ampson — Palasologus — Children by 

 one Mother — Robert Brown the Sepa- 

 ratist — Hero of the " Spanish Lady's 

 Love"— Niagara — Hymn attributed to 

 Handel — Marquis of Granby — Con- 

 vocation and the Society for the Pro- 

 pagation of the Gospel — Cassie 



"Three cats sat," &c. — Tailless Cats 



— Francklyn Household Book 



" Violet-crowned "Athens — Smith of 

 .Nevis and St. Kitt's — Hydropathy — 

 Leslie and Dr. Middleton — Lord 

 Brougham and Home Tooke — Irish 

 Rhymes — Cabbages — Sir William 

 " Usher," not " Upton" — " Buckle " 



— Cornwall Family _ John of Gaunt 

 — " Wellesley" or " Wesley"— Mantel- 

 piece— " Perturbabantur," &c. — Edi- 

 tion of " Othello " — Perspective — 

 "Go to Bath," &c. - - - 571 



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