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Notes: — 



Presence of Strangers in tlie Hou<e of ComraoDS - 17 



The .igapemoni', liy Richard fireene - . - 17 



London Parish Kegisters, by Robert Cole - - IS 



Folk Lore:,— Divination by Bible and Key — Charm for 

 Wans — Boy or Girl . - . . - 19 



Queries : — 



Po€t Laureates . - . _ . - 20 



Minor Queries : —Wood Paper— Latin Line — New Edi- 

 tion ol Milton — Banim and Sarum— Roman Roads — 

 Jolin Dutton, of Dutton — Rome— Prolocutor of Con. 

 vocation — Language of Queen Mary's Davs— Vault 

 Interments — Archbishop Williams' Persecutor, R. K. 



— The Sun feminine in English— Construe and trans- 

 lare— Men but Children of a larger Growth — Clerical 

 Costume — Ergh, Er, or Argh -Burial Si;'rvice — Gjiol 

 Chaplains — Hanging out the Broom — George Lord 

 Goring — Bands - . . . . ,21 



Replies: — 



De, ivation of " News " and " Noise," bv Samuel Hickson 23 

 I he Dodo Queries, by H. E. Strickland - - -24 



Bohn's Edition of Miiion - - . . .-24 



Umbrellas - . . . .' . -25 



Emancipation of the Jews . . - . I 25 



Replies to Minor Queries :— Wellington, Wirwast, and 

 Cokam-^Sir William Skipwyth — Dr. Jrihnson and 

 Dr. Warton— \\orm of Lambton — .SlmUspeare's Will 



— Joiias lliach Stada— The Temtile or A Temple — 

 Bawn — ■' Heigh ho ! says Rowlev "—Arabic Numerals 



— Pusan — " I'd preach as though " — " Fools rush in" 



— Allusion m Fri.ir Brackley's Sermon- Earwig — Sir 

 R. Haigh's Letter-book— Marescautia — Memoirs of an 

 American Lady — Poem by Sir E. Dyer, &c. - - 26 



MiSCELLANlKS: — 



Blue Boar Inn, Holborn — Ladv Morgan and Lurry- 

 Sir ^^ alter Scott and Iirasinus- Parallel Pass;!ges — 

 Graj's Ode-TI.e Grand Sljlc—Hoppesteris— Sheri- 

 dan s last Residence . . ' . _ - 30 



Miscellaneous : 



Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. . . - 31 



Notices to Correspondents - - . . .31 



AttverCiseinents - - . . . - 32 



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PRESENCE OF STEANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF 

 COi'ff.MONS. 



In the late debate on Mr. Grantley Berkeley's 

 motion for a fi.'cud duty on eorn, Sir JJenjamin 

 Hiill is rei)orteil to have" imagined the presence of 

 a stranger to witness the debate, and to have said 

 that he was imagining what every one knew the 

 rules of the House rendered an impossibility. It 

 is strange that so intelligent a member of the 

 House of Commons should be ignorant of the faet 

 that the old sessional orders, which absolutely 

 prohibited the pre.sence of strajigers in the House 

 of Commons, were abandoned in 1845, and that a 

 standing order now exists in their place which 



recognises and regulates their presence. The 

 insertion of this "note" may j)revent many 

 "queries" in after times, when the sayings and 

 doings of 1«50 have become matters of antiqua- 

 rian discussion. 



The following standing orders were made by 

 the House of Commons on the 5th of February, 

 1845, on the motion of Mr. Chiistie, (see Hansard, 

 and Commons' Journals of that day), and super- 

 seded the old sessional orders, which purported 

 to exclude strangers entirely from the House of 

 Commons : — 



" That the Serjeant at arms attending this House do, 

 fiom time to time, take into his custody any stranger 

 whom he may see, or who may be reported to him to 

 be, in any part of the House or gallery appropriated to 

 tlie members of this House ; and also any stranger 

 who, having been admitted into any other part of tlie 

 House or gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall 

 not withdraw when strangers are directed to witlidraw, 

 while the House, or any coinmittee of the wliole House, 

 is sitting ; and that no person so taken into custody 

 be discharged out of custody without the special order 

 of the House. 



" That no member of this House do presume to 

 bring any stranger into any part of tlie House or gal- 

 lery appropriated to the members of this House wliile 

 tlie House, or a committee of the whole House, is 

 sitting." 



Now, therefore, strangers are only liable to be 

 taken into custody if in a part of the House ap- 

 propriated to memliers, or misconductinof them- 

 selves, or refusing to withdraw when ordered by 

 the Speaker to do so; and bii- Benjamin Hall 

 imagined no impossibility. CII. 



TU-E AGAPEMONE. 



Like most other things, the "Agapemone'' 

 wickedness, which has recently disgusted all de- 

 cent people, does not appear to be a new thing by 

 any means. The religi(ui-mongers of the nine- 

 teenth century have a f)recedeut nearly 300 years 

 old for this house of evil repute. 



In the reign of Elizabeth, the following procla- 

 mation was issued against " The Sectaries of the 

 Family of Love :" — 



" Whereas, by report of sundry of the Bishops of 



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