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No. 62.] 



Saturday, January 4. 1851. 



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• Winter's Tale," by J. Payne 



CONTENTS 



Notes : — 



Old Ballads upon the 



Collier ---•'' 

 Crossing Rivers on Skins, by Janus Dousa 

 Folk Lore of South Northamptonshire, No. 3. - 

 Minor Notes :- Kentish Town in the last Century — 

 Murray's Hand-book for Devon and Cornwall -Judges- 

 Walk, Hampstead- Gray's Alcaic Ode -Fleet Mar- 

 riages ..---■" 



QVERIES : — 



Histoire des Sivarambes . . - - - 



Origin of present Penny Postage, by E. Venables 



Red Book of the Irish Exchequer - - ' -, .T 



Minor Queries: — Abbey of Shapp, or Hepp— ialk 



not of Love"-"FridayWeather"- Lucy and Colm 



— Chapel, Printing-office - Cockade— Suem, Ferlmg, 



Grasson— Cranmer's Descendants - Collections of 



Pasquinades -Portraits of Bishops -The Butcher 



Duke— Rodolph Gualter - Passage in St. Mark — 



" Fronte capillata," &c. - 



Replies: — 



" God speed the Plough "■ - 



" Defender of the Faith," by Robert Anstruther 



Beatrix Lady Talbot, by F. Madden 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Passage in Hamlet -Passage 

 in Tennyson — Was Quarles pensioned? — Old Hewson 

 the Cobbler- The Inquisition- Mrs. Tempest - Car- 

 dinal Allen's Declaration— Scandal against Queen 

 Elizabeth — Church of St. Saviour, Canterbury — Pope 

 Ganganelli-NicholasFerrar's Digest-Nicholas Ferrar 

 _ Cardinal Erskine-The Author of " Peter Wilkms " 

 — "The Toast," by Dr. King-" The Widow of the 

 Wood " — Damasked Linen 



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Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &e. 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents - 

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OLD BALLAD UPON THE " WINTEk's TALE." 



Some of your correspondents may be a^e to 

 give me information respecting an old ballad that 

 has very recently faUen in my way, on a story 

 similar to that of Shakspeare's Winters Tale, an. 

 in some particulars still more like Greene s novel 

 of Paiidosto, upon which the Winters Tale was 

 founded. You are aware that the earliest known 

 edition of Greene's novel is dated 1588, although 

 there is room to suspect that it had been oi'igin- 



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