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No. 49.] 



Saturday, October 5. 1850. 



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CONTENTS. Page 



Notes : — 



Stray Notes on Cunningham's London ^ 



Satirical Song upon Villiers Duke of Buckingham, by 



Dr. Rimbault ..---- 

 Baker's Notes on Author of " Whole Duty of Man," by 



Kev. i. E. B. Mayor . - - - - 



Mistake about George Wither, by Dr. Rimbault 

 Useful V. Useless Learning - - - - 



Minor Notes : — Numerals— Junius and Sir P. Francis 



_ Jens under the Commonwealth _ " Is any thing 



but," &c. — Fastitocalon . . - . 



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Queries : — 



Bishop Cosin's Conference . - . - 



Engelman's " Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorura," by 

 Profi'ssor De Morgan . . - - - 



Minor Queries :_ Portrait of Sir P. Sidney — Confes- 

 sion — Scotch Prisoners at Worcester — Adamson's 

 Edward U. — Sir Thomas Moore — Dr. E. Cleaver — 

 Gwynn's London— Coronet— Cinderella— Judas' Bell 

 -Dozen of Bread — Konss Skuggsia— Coins of Gan- 

 dophares — Satirical Medals . - - - 



Replies.' — 



Gaudentio di Lucca . . - - - 



On a Passage in the Tempest, by J. Payne Collier 

 Gray's Elegy ------ 



Bishops and their Precedence . . - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Leicester and the reputi d 



Poisoners of his Time — What is the correct Prefix of 



Majors — iVi arks of Cadency . - - - 



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Miscellaneous .- — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements 



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STRAY KOTES ON CUNNINGHAm's LONDON. 



The followinp; notes are so trivial, that I slioukl 

 have scrupled to send them on any other ground 

 than that so well-eonceive<l and laboriously-exe- 

 cuted a work .should liave its most minute ami un- 

 important details as correct as possible. This, in 

 such a work, can only be edected by each reader 

 pointing,' out the circumstances that he has reason 

 to believe are not quite correctly or completely 

 given in it. 



Page 24. Astronomical Societ/j.—The library has 



been recently augmented by the incorporation with 

 it of the books and documents (as well as the 

 members) of the Matheniaticul Society of London 

 (Spitalfields). It contains the most complete col- 

 lection of the English mathematical works of the 

 last century known to exist. A friend, who has 

 examined them with some care, specifies particu- 

 larly some of the tracts published in the contro- 

 versy raised by Bishop Berkeley respecting " the 

 ghosts of departed quantities," of which he did 

 before know the existence. 



The instruments to which Mr. Cunningham 

 refers as bequeathed to the Society, are not used 

 there, nor yet allowed to lie unused. They are 

 placed in the care of active practical observers, 

 according as the special character of the instru- 

 ments and the special subjects to which each ob- 

 server more immed'ately devotes his attention, 

 shall render the assignment of the instrument ex- 

 pedient. The instruments, however, still remain 

 the property of the Society. 



P. 37. Bath House. — Date omitted. 



p. 143. — Evans's Hotel, Covent Garden, is de- 

 scribed as having been once the residence of "James 

 West, the great collector of books, &c., and Pre- 

 sident of the Royal Society." There has certainly 

 never been a President, or even a Secretary, of 

 that name. However, it is just possible that there 

 might have been a Vice president so named (as 

 these are chosen by the President from the mem- 

 bers of the council, and the council has not always 

 been composed of men of science) : but even this 

 is somewhat doubtful. 



P. 143. Conent Garden Theatre. — Xo future 

 account of this theatre will be complete without 

 the facts connected with the ill-starred J)elii(ield; 

 just as, into the Olympic, the history of the de- 

 faulter Watts, of the Globe Assurance Office, must 

 also enter. 



P. 143. near top of col. 2. "Heigho! saysKcmble." 

 — Before this period, a variation of the rigmarole 

 upon which this is founded had become popular, 

 from the humour of Liston's singing at Sadler's 

 Wells. I have a copy of the music and the words; 

 and likewise a broadside edition of the words 

 altogether identical with those in the music. Of 

 these, with other matters connected with the 



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