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Notes : — 



Folk I.ore: The first Mole in Cornwall — "A whis- 



tlina Wife," itc. — A Cliarin lor Warts— Hanging out 



the Broom _.---- 



l,orl Plnnket and St. Agobard - - ' „ „" 



Notes on Cunningham's Handbook of London, by E. F. 



Rinibanit - - - - - "r.T>" 



Note« on Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, by J. E. B. 



Masor - - - - - -" 



Minof Notes : — Capture of Henry VI. — Notes from 



Mentmore Register . - . - - 



QOERIES :— V 



.Toachira, the French Ambassador ... 



Roman Cathnlic Translations ofihe Scriptures, *c. - 

 Minor Qiieiies: — The Lost Tribes _ Partrige Family 



Commoner marrying a Peeress — The diameter 



" & " —Combs buried with the Oeaii— Cave's Historia 

 Literaria — Julin — Richardson Family — -Arabic 

 Name of Tobacco — Pole Money — Welsh Money — 

 A Skeleton in every House — Whetstone of Reproof — 

 Morganatic Marriages — Gospel of Distaffs 



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Poeta Anglicns ------ 



Caxtim's I'rintinj-office, by J. C. Nichols 

 The Use of Coffins, liy Rev. A. Gatty - - - 



Sliakspeares Use of the Word " Delighted" 

 Ventriloquism ...--- 



Replies to Minor Queries :_ Earl of Oxford's Patent 

 — The Dail)y Ram — Rotten How and Stoekuell 

 Street— Hornbooks — Passages from Sliakspeare — 

 Mildew in Books— Pilgrims' Road to Caiiterlmry — 

 Abbe Strickland— Etymology of Totnes — iE.lricus 

 qui Signa fundeba*^ — Fiz-gig — Guinea^ — Numisma- 

 tics — Querela Camabrigiensis — Ben Johnson — 

 Barclay's "Argenis " — Hockey- Praed's Poetical 

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



Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



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FOLK LOBB. 



The First MoIk in Curnwall ; a Morality from 

 the Stowe of Mnrwenna^ in the Rocky hand. — 

 A lonely life for tin; dark and silent mole! She 

 glides aionjj her narrow vaults, unconscious of the 

 glad and jiiorioiis scenes of earth, and air, and sea! 

 She was Ijorn, as it were, in a grave, and in one 

 long living sotnilchre she tlwclls and dies ! Is not 

 existence to her a kind of doom ? Wlierefore is 

 she thus a dark, sad c.\ile from the blessed light of 

 day ? Hearken I Here, in our own dear Corn- 



wall, the first mole was a lady of the land ! Her 

 aboile was in the ftir west, among tlie hills of Mor- 

 wenna, beside the Severn sea. Slie was the 

 daughter of a lordly race, the only child of her 

 mother, and the fiither of the house was dead. 

 Her name was Alice of the Lea. Fair was she 

 and comely, tender and tall ; and she stood upon 

 the threshold of her youth. But most of all did 

 men wonder at the glory of her large blue eyes. 

 They were, to look upon, like the summer '.vaters, 

 when the sea is soft with light ! They were to 

 her mother a joy, and to the maiden herself— ah! 

 benedicite — a pride. She trusted in the loveli- 

 ness of those eyes, and in her face, and features, 

 and form : and so it was that the damsel was wont 

 to pass the summer's day, in the choice of rich 

 apparel, and precious stones, and gold. Howbeit 

 this was one of the ancient and common customs 

 of those old departed days. Now, in the fashion 

 of her stateliness, and in 'the hue and texture of 

 her "'■arments, there was none among the maidens 

 of old Cornwall like Alice of tlie Lea. Men 

 sought her far and nigh, but she was to them all, 

 like a form of graven stone, careless and cold. 

 Her soul was set upon a Granville's love, Aiir Sir 

 Bevil of Stowe, the tlower of the Coniisli chivalry 

 — that noble gentlemnn ! that valorous knight! 

 He was her st;ir. And well might she wait upon 

 his eyes; for he was the garland of the west — the 

 loyal soldier of a sainted king. He was that stately 

 Granville who lived a hei'o-life, and died a war- 

 rior's death ! 



Now there was signal made of banquet in the 

 halls of Stowe, of wassnil, and the dance. The 

 messengers hatl sped, and Alice of the Lea would 

 be there. llobes, precious and many, were un- 

 Iblded from their rest, and the casket poured 

 forth jewel and gem, that the maiden might 

 stand before the knight victorious! It was the 

 day — the hour — the time. Her mother sate 

 by her wheel at the hearth. The page waited in 

 the hall. She came down in her loveliness into 

 the old oak room, and stood before the inirroi-ed 

 glass. Her robe was of woven velvet, rich, and 

 glossy, and soft; jewels shone like st.ars in the 

 uii(lii"ii;hl of her raven hair, and on her hand there 

 gleamed, ufar oil', a bright and glorious ring ! She 



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