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Reprints of Early Bibles, by the Rev. 



R. Hooper, M.A. - - - 487 



Marriage Licence of John. Gower, the 



Poet, by W. H. Gunner - - 487 



Aska or Asea .... 488 



Legends of the County Clare, by Francis 



Robert Davies - - - - 490 



Archaic Words - - - - 491 



Minor Notes : — Inscriptions on Build- 

 ings — Epitaphs — Numbers — Celtic 

 Language— Illustration of Longfellow : 

 "God's Acre" - - - - 492 



Queries : — 

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Minor Queries: — "The Village 

 Lawyer "—Richard Plantagenet, Earl 

 of Cambridge— Highland Regiment- 

 Ominous Storms— Edward Fitzgerald 

 Boyle Family— Inn Signs— Demo- 

 niacal Descent of the Plantagenets— 

 Anglo-Saxon Graves — Robert Brown 

 the Separatist— Commissions issued by 

 Charles I. at Oxford - - - 493 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Hogmanay— Longfellow's " Hyperion" 

 —Sir Hugh Myddelton— Sangarede— 

 Salubrity of Hallsal, near Ormskirk, 

 Lancashire — Athens — James Miller 495 



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Brydone, byLordMonson - - 496 

 Coleridge's Unpublished MSS., by C. 



Mansfield Ingleby - - - 496 



Mr. Justice Talfourd and Dr. Beattie - 497 

 Russian "Te Deum," by T. J. Buckton, 



&c. ----- 4p8 



Artesian Wells, by Henry Stephens, &c. 499 



Dog-whippers .... 499 

 Cephas, a Binder, and not a Rock, by 



T. J. Buckton, &c. - - - 500 



Whittington's Stone - - - 501 



Photographic Correspondence : — 

 PhotographieExperience— Conversion 

 of Calotype Negatives into Positives— 

 Albumenized Paper - - - 501 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Table- 

 turning — Female Dress — Office of 

 Sexton held by one Family _ Lyra's 

 Commentary— Blackguard— " Atone- 

 ment ' '—Bible of 1 527— Shrove Tuesday 

 — Milton's Correspondence — " Ver- 

 batim et literatim " — Epigrams - 502 



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Notes on Books, &c. - - - 504 



Books and Odd Volumes Wanted - 505 



Notices to Correspondents - - 505 



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