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We have been induced, by the number of articles which we have 

 in type waiting for insertion, to omit our usual Notes on Books, 

 &c. 



Agmond. Cecil was written by Mrs. Gore. 



F. M. M. Balaam Box has long been used in Blackwood as the 

 name of the depository of rejected articles. The allusion is 

 obvious. 



H. M. H. will find all the. information he can desire respecting 

 The Gentlemen at Arms, in Pegge's Curialia; Thise/ton's Memoir 

 of that Corps, published in 1819 ; or, better still, Curling's Account 

 of the Ancient Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, 8vo. 1850. 



J. C. K. The coin is a very common penny of Henry III., 

 worth ninepence, or a shilling at ?nost. 



Balliolensis. Porson'sjeu d'esprit is reprinted in the Facetiae 

 Cantabrigienses (1850), p. 16. 



Enquirer. A triolet is a stanza of eight lines, in which, after 

 the third the, first line, and after the sixth the first two lines, are 

 repeated, so that the first line is heard three times : hence the name. 

 It is suited for playful and light subjects, and is cultivated by the 

 French and Germans. The volume of Patrick Carey's Trivial 

 Poems and Triolets, edited by Sir Walter Scott, in 1820, from a 

 MS. of 1651, is an early instance of the use of the term. 



A. B. M. The line referred to—" Pride, pomp, and circumstance 

 of glorious war" — is from Othello, Act III. Sc. 3. 



Jarltzberg. Has not our Correspondent received a note we 

 inclosed to him respecting The Circle of the Seasons ? 



Old Mortality's offer of a collection of Epitaphs is declined 

 with thanks. We have now waiting for insertion almost as many 

 as would fill a cemetery. 



Abhba. The proverb " Mad as a March hare" has appeared 

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F. (Oxford.) The extract forwarded from Southey's Common 

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H. C. M. The dale of the earliest Coroner's Inquest, we should 

 think, cannot be ascertained. The office of Coroner is of so great 

 antiquity that its commencement is not known. It is evident that 

 Coroners existed in the lime of Alfred, for that king punished with 

 death a judge who sentenced a party to suffer death upon the 

 Coroner's record, without allowing the delinquent liberty to tra- 

 verse. (Bac. on Gov. 66. ; 6 Vin. Abr. 242.) This officer is also 

 mentioned by Athelstanin his charter to Beverly (Dugd. Monast. 

 171.). 



I. R. R. Henry Machyn was a citizen and merchant- tailor of 

 London from 4.D. 1550 to 1563. See a notice of him prefixed to his 

 Diary, published by the Camden Society. — An account of John 

 Stradling, the epigrammatist, will be found in Wood's Athenae 



(Bliss), vol. ii. p. 396 Hockday, or Hokeday, is a high-day, a 



day of feasting and mirth, formerly held in England the second 

 Tuesday after Easter, to commemorate the destruction of the 



Danes in the time of Ethelred For notices of George Wither in 



the Gentleman's Mag., see vol. lxxxvi. pt. ii. 32. 201. ; vol.lxxxvii. 

 pt. i. 42. ; vol. lxxxviii. pt. i. 138. — An interesting account of 

 the Paschal Eggs is given in Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. i. 

 p. 246., vol. ii. pp. 439. 450. ; and in Brand's Popular Antiquities. 



Marvell's reference is probably to Charles Gerard, afterwards 



created Baron Gerard of Brandon, gentleman of the bed-chamber 

 to Charles II., and captain of his guards. 



W. S. The lens is certainly very good ; you should practise to 

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