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CONTENTS. 

 NOTF.S : — "''S® 



Defence of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, by 

 J. Pavne Collier ------ 



'■ De Navorscher," liv Bolon Corney ... 

 A Biddinj; at Weddings in Wales, by W. Spurrell 

 Coleriiige's '■Religious Musinss" - - . - 



Fiilk Lore: — Lammer Beads— Engraved Warming- 

 pans— Queen Elizabith's Cliristpuing Cloth - 

 Minor Notes: — The Breeches Bile — Origin of the 

 rreseut Race of English — True Blue — " By Hook or 

 by Crook " — Record ol Existing Monuments - 



Queries : — 



Five Queries and Notes on Books, Men, and Authors - 

 Minor Queries : — The Witches' Prayer — Water- 

 bvickets given to Sheriffs —A Craiow Pike -Meanmg 

 of Waste-liook — Machell's MS. Collections for West- 

 moreUud and Cumberland — Decking Churches at 

 Christmas— Coinage of Gennanv —Titles of Peers 

 who are Bishops — At Sixes and Sevens— Shaking 

 Hands— George Steevens — Extradition— Singing of 

 Metrical Psahns ani Hymn* in Churches — Ormonde 

 Portraits — Tradescant — Arthur s Seat and Salisbury 

 Craigs — Lincoln Mi.-sal - - - 



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Replies : — 



Meaning of Fisell.bv Samuel Hickson and S. W. Singer 

 Descent of Henry IV. . . - - - 



Fossil Elk of Ireland - - ' , \. ■ C 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Corerdale Bible — Epitaph 

 — Probat)ilism — Old Hewson the Colibler— Rodalph 

 Gu.iiter — Burning the Hill—" Fronte capillata," Kc. 

 -^Time when Htmdotns wrote — Herstmonreut Cas- 

 tle— Camden and Curwen Families— Joan Sanderson, 

 or the Cushion D4nce — North Sides of Churchvards 



'< Antiquitas Sieculi Juventus Muudi " — Umbrella 



Form of Prayer at the Healing . . - 



Miscellaneous : — 



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



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 



Notices to Correspondents - - . - - 



Advertisements .-.--- 



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DEFENCE OF THE EXECUTION OF MART QUEEN OF 

 SCOTS. 



Allow me to supply a deficiency in my last 

 volume of Extracts from the Registers of the Sta- 

 tioners' Company, printed by the Sliakspeare So- 

 ciety. It occurs at p. 224., in reference to an 

 entry of lltli Feb., 1.587, in the following terms : 



" John Wyndett. Lycensed alsoe to him, under the 

 R. of London hand and Mr. DL-nliain, An Analogie or 

 Ili'seinlilance betweeiif .lohane, Queene of Naples, and 

 Marye, Qucene of Scotland." 



In the note appended to this entry 1 point out 

 a mistake by Herbert (ii. 112G. of his History of 

 Printing), who fancied that the Defence of the 



Execution of Marij Queen of Scots, and Kyffin'a 

 Blessedness of Britain, wei-e the same work ; and 

 I add that "the Analogy here entered is not re- 

 corded among the productions of John Windet's 

 press." This is true ; but Mr. David Laing, of 

 Edinburgh, has kindly taken the trouble to send 

 me, all the way irom Scotland, a very rare volume, 

 which proves' that the Analogy in question was 

 printed by Windet in consequence of the registra- 

 tion, and that it was, in fact, part of a volume 

 which that printer put forth under the following 

 title : 



" A Defence of the Honorable Sentence and Execu- 

 tion of the Queene of Scots : exampled with Analogies, 

 and Diverse Presidents of Emperors, Kings, and Popes. 

 With the Opinions of learned Men in the Point, &c. ; 

 together with the Answere to certaine Objections 

 made by the favourites of the late Scottish Queene, &c. 

 At London, printed by John Wiiidct." 



It has no date : but it may be supplied by the 

 entry at Stationers' Hall, and by the subject of the 

 volume. The first chapter of the work is headed 

 "An Analogic or Resemblance betweene lone, 

 queene of Naples, and Marie, queene of Scotland," 

 which are the terms of the entry ; and the proba- 

 bility seems to be, that when Windet took, or sent, 

 it to be licensed, the book had no other title, and 

 that the clerk adopted the heading of the first 

 cha])ter as that of the whole volume. It consists^ 

 in fiict, of eight chapters, besides a " conclusion," 

 and a sort of supi'lement, with distinct signatures 

 (beginning with D, and possibly originally form- 

 ing "part of some other work), of Babingtou's letter 

 to^Mary, her letter to Babington, the heads of a 

 letter from j\lary to Bernardin Mendoza, and 

 " ]K)ints " out of other letters, subscribed by Curie. 

 The whole is a very interesting collection in rela- 

 tion to the history and end of Mary Queen of 

 Scots; but nobody who had not seen the book 

 could be aware that the entry in the Stationers' 

 Registers, of " An Amilogie" &c., applied to this 

 general Defence of lier execution. The manner 

 in which the " analogy " is made out may be seen 

 by the two first jiaragraphs, which your readers 

 may like to see quoted : — 



" lone, Quvene of Naples, being in love with the 

 Duke of Tareiit, caused her husband Andnisius (or, as 



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