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SaturDAY, DreceMBER 8. 1849. 
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Stamped Edition 4a. 
CONTENTS. Page 
A few Words of Explanation - - = = aro 
Nores:— Letter from the Earl of Shaftesbury respecting 
Monmouth’s Ash - = - = 5 
Drayton’s Poems - - - 
On a Passage in Goldsmith - - - - - - 83 
Ancient Libraries, by Rev. Dr. Todd - - - 83 
Defence of a Bald Head, by J. Hayne Collier - - 84 
Royal Household Allowances - 8 
Adversaria: — Printers’ Ce a — Charles Martel - 86 
Bodenham and Ling - - - 86 
Travelling in England - 87 
Minor Notes: — Ancient Alms “Dish _ = Bishop that 
Burneth — Ironworks in Saaees. &c.— Order of Mi- 
nerva, &c. - - - - - - 87 
Queries answered : — 
Dorne the Bookseller - - - - - 8S 
Henno Rusticus - - - - - - 89 
Myles Blomefylde - - - - - - 90 
Answers: to Minor Queries: — Curse of Scotland — 
Katherine Pegg— Rev. T. Leman— Burnet Prize — 
Humble Pie, &c. - - - - - - 90 
Minor Queries: —Eva, Daughter, &c.—John de Daun- 
delyon — Genealogy of ppkopens Sov Eyed — eae of 
Ashgrove, &c. - = - 92 
MISCELLANEOUS : — 
Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. - - - 94 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 95 
Notices to Correspondents - - - - - 95 
Advertisements - - - - - - 95 
A FEW WORDS OF EXPLANATION. 
Ir was in no boastful or puffing spirit that, when 
thanking a correspondent in our last number for 
“his endeavour to enlarge our circulation,” and 
requesting all our friends and correspondents “ to 
follow Puiro’s example by bringing ‘ Norges anp 
Queries’ under the notice of such of their friends | 
as take an interest in literary pursuits,” we added 
“for it is obvious that they will extend the use- 
fulness of our paper in proportion as they 1.crease 
its circulation.” We wished merely to state a plain 
obvious fact. Such must necessarily be the case, 
and our experience proves it to be so; for the 
number of Queries which have been solved in our 
columns, has gone on increasing in proportion to 
the gradual increase of our circulation ;—a result 
which fully justifies that passage of our opening 
address which stated, “ that we did not anticipate 
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any holding back by those whose Notes were most 
worth having.” 
No sooner is information asked for through our 
medium, than a host of friendly pens are busied to 
supply it. From north, south, east, and west, — 
from quarters the most unlooked for, do we re- 
ceive Notes and Illustrations of every subject 
which is mooted in our pages. Many of these re- 
plies, too, though subscribed only with an initial 
or a pseudonyme, we know to be furnished by 
scholars who have won the foremost rank in their 
respective branches of study. Such men manifest, 
by their willingness to afford information to those 
who need it, and their readiness to receive it from 
those who have it to bestow, the truthfulness of 
old Chaucer's portrait of the Scholar : — 
“ Ful gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.” 
Nor do our columns exhibit the total result of our 
labours. Besides the information communicated 
to ourselves, some of our friends who inserted 
Queries under their own names, have received 
answers to them without our intervention. 
In addition to those friends who promised us 
their assistance, we receive communications from 
quarters altogether unexpected. Our present num- 
ber furnishes a striking instance of this, in the 
answer to Mr. Bruce’s inquiry respecting the 
“Monmouth Ash,” kindly communicated by the 
Earl of Shaftesbury, its distinguished owner. 
We trust that each successive paper shows im- 
provement in our arrangements, and proves also 
that our means of procuring answers to the Que- 
ries addressed to us are likewise increasing. In 
the belief that such is the case, we feel justified in 
repeating, even at the risk of being accused of 
putting in éwo words for ourselves under the sem- 
blance of one for our readers, “that it is obvious that 
our friends will extend the usefulness of our paper 
in proportion as they increase its circulation.” 
