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" Shakspeare's Rime which he made at 

 the Mytre," by Dr. E. F. Rimbault - 439 



Rous, the Scottish Psalmist. Provost of 

 Eton College: and his "Will, by the 

 Rev. II. T. Ellacombe - - - 440 



Original English Royal Letters to the 

 Grand Masters of Malta, by William 

 "Winthrop - - - - 442 



Disease among Cattle, by Thos. Nimmo 445 



Popiana. by Harry Leroy Temple - 445 



Hampshire Folk Lore, by Eustace W. 

 Jacob ----- 446 



The most curious Book in the World - 446 



Minor Notes :— Baptism, Marriage, and 

 Crowning of Geo. III. — Copernicus — 

 First Instance of Bribery amongst 

 Members of Parliament — Richard 

 Briusley Sheridan— Publican's Invita- 

 tion — Bishop Burnet again ! — Old 

 Custom preserved in Warwickshire — 

 English Diplomacy v. Russian - 447 



Queries: — 



Ancient Tenure of Lands, by A. J. 



Dunkin - - - - - 448 



Owen Rowe the Regicide - - 449 



Writings of the Martyr Bradford, by the 



Rev. A. Townsend - - - 448 



Minor Queries :_ Courtney Family — 

 " The Shipwrecked Lovers"— Sir John 

 Bingham— Proclamation for making 

 Mustard — Judges practising at Bar 



— Celebrated Wagers— "Pay me tri- 

 bute, or else "—"A regular Turk" 



— Benj. Rush — Per Centum Sign — 

 Burial Service Tradition— Jean Bart's 

 Descent on Newcastle — Madame de 

 Stael — Honoria, Daughter of Lord 

 Denny— Hospital of John of Jerusalem 



— Heiress of Haddon Hall— Monteith 



— Vandyking — Hiel the Bethelite — 

 Earl of Glencairn — Willow Bark in 

 Ague — " Perturbabantur," &c. - 450 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Seamen's Tickets — Bruce, Robert — 

 Coronation Custom — William Warner 

 — "Isle of Beauty " — Edmund Lodge 



— King John .... 452 



Replies: — 



Has Execution by Hanging been sur- 

 vived ? by William Bates - - 453 



Coleridge's Christabel, by C. Mansfield 

 Ingleby - - - - - 455 



General Whitelocke - - - 455 



Photographic Correspondence : 



Gravelly Wax Negatives — Photo- 

 graphic Experience - - - 456 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Turkish 

 Language — Dr. Edward Daniel 

 Clarke'3 Charts of the Black Sea — 

 Aristotle on living Law — Christ's or 

 Cris Cross Row — Titles to the Psalms 

 in the Syrhic Version—" Old Rowley " 

 —Wooden Effigies — Abbott Families 456 



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Notes on Books, &c. - - - 458 



Books and Odd Volumes Wanted - 458 



Notices to Correspondents - - 459 



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