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CONTENTS. 
Nores : — Page 
Daniel Defoe and his Ghost Stories - - - 241 
Pet Names, by Rev. B. H. Kennedy - = - 242 
Lacedawmonian Black Broth - - - - 242 
A Hint to intending Editors - - - - 243 
Notes on Cunningham’s London, by E.F.Rimbault - 244 
Folk Lore — Easter Eggs—Buns—Gloucestershire Cus- 
tom — Curious Custom - - - = 244 
QUERIES - — 
White Hart Inn, Scole, by C. H. Cooper 5 - 245 
On Passages in Pope - - - - 245 
Belvoir Castle - - = - - - 246 
Minor Queries: —Dr. Hugh Todd’s MSS. — French 
Leave — Portugal — Tureen — Military Execution — 
Change of Name — Symbolism of Fir Cone — Kentish 
Ballad — Monumental Brass —A_ Tickhill Man — 
Bishop Blaize — Vox et preterea Nihil — Cromwell 
Relics — Lines on Woman’s Will - - - 246 
REPLIES : — 
E\fric’s Colloquy, by S. W. Singer and C. W. G. - 258 
An hony Alsop - ~ “ - - 249 
Replies to Minor Queries: — Origin of Snob — Bishop 
Burnet — Circulation of the Blood — Genealogy of 
European Sovereigns — Sir Stephen Fox — French 
Maxiin — Shipster — Sparse — Cosmopolis — Complu- 
tensian Polyglot — Christmas Hymn — Sir J. Wyatt- 
ville — Peruse — Autograph Mottoes—Bodue —Annus 
Trabeationis - - - - - - 250 
MISCELLANIES : — 
Pursuits of Literature — Dr. Dobbs — Translation from 
V. Bourne — St. Evona’s Choice — Mutlins and 
Crumpets — Dulcarnon — Bishop Barnaby—Barnacles 
— Ancient Alms- Dish, &c. - = - - 253 
MISCELLANEOUS: 
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - - - 255 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 255 
Notices to Correspondents - - - = 255 
Advertisements - - . - - - 256 
DANIEL DE FOE AND HIS GHOST STORIES. 
I feel obliged by your intelligent correspondent 
“PD. S.,” having ascertained that De Foe was the 
author of the Tour through Great Britain. Per- 
haps he may also be enabled to throw some light 
on a subject of much curiosity connected with De 
Foe, that appears to me well worth the inquiry. 
Mrs. Bray, in her General Preface prefixed to 
the first volume of the reprint, in series, of her 
Novels and Romances, when giving an account of 
the circumstances on which she founded her very 
pepe and interesting romance of Trelawny of 
relawne, says — 
“In Gilbert’s History of Cornwall, I saw 1 brief but 
striking account, written by a Doctor Ruddell, a 
clergyman of Launceston, respecting a ghost which (in 
the year 1665) he had seen and laid to rest, that in the 
first instance had haunted. a poor Jad, the son. of a Mr. 
Bligh, in his way to school, in a place ealled the 
“Higher Broom Field.’ This grave relation showed, 
I thought, the credulity of the times in which the 
author of it lived; and so J] determined to have doctor, 
boy, and ghost in my story. But whereas, in the 
worthy divine’s account of the transaction, the ghost 
appears to come on earth for no purpose whatever 
(unless it be to frighten the poor boy), I resolved to 
give the spirit something to do in such post-mortem 
visitations, and that the object of them should be of 
import to the tale. Accordingly, I made boy, doctor, 
and the woman (who is said after her death to have 
appeared to the lad) into characters, invented a story 
for them, and gave them adventures.” 
Mrs, Bray adds — 
“ Soon after the publication of Trelawny, my. much 
esteemed friend, the Rev. F. V. f Arundell*, informed 
me, that, whilst engaged in his antiquarian researches 
in Cornwall, he found among some old and original 
papers the manuscript account, in Dr. Ruddell’s own 
hand-writing, of his encounter with the ghost in ques- 
tion. This helent Gilbert, who inserted it in his His- 
tory of Cornwall; and there I first saw it, as stated 
above. A few months ago, I purchased some of the 
reprinted volumes of the Works of Danielde Foe. Among 
these was the Life of Mr. Duncan Cumpbell, a fortune- 
teller. To my great surprise, I found inserted in the 
Appendix (after verses to Mr. Duncan Campbell), 
without either name of the author, reference, or intro- 
duction, under the heading, ‘A remarkable Passage 
of an Apparition, 1665,’ no other than Dr. Ruddell’s 
account of meeting the ghost which had haunted the 
boy, so much the same as that J had read in Gilbert, 
that it scarcely seemed to differ from it in a word. 
The name of Mr. Bligh, the father of the boy, was, 
however, omitted; and Dr. Ruddell could only be 
known as the author of the account by the lad’s father 
calling the narrator Mr. Ruddell, in their discourse 
about the youth. he account is so strangely mserted 
in the Appendix to the volume, without comment or 
reference, that, had I not previously known the circum- 
stances above named by Mr. Arundell, I should have 
fancied it a fiction of De Foe himself, like the story 
* Of Landulph, Cornwall, the author of Discoveries 
in Asia Minor, and the well-known Visit to the Seven 
Churches of Asia. Mr. Arundell is now dead, 
