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CONTENTS. 

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Edmund Burke, and the " Annual Register," by James 



Crossley - - . - - - - 



Jews in China ....-- 



Tlie Dutch Martyroln?y . . - - - 



I.Hily Flora Hastings' Bequest - - - - 



W'itclicraft in the Seventeenth Century - - - 



Indulftences proposed to Benefactors to the Church of 



St. George tlie Martyr, Southwark . - - 



Gray's Plagiarisms, by Henry H. Breen - - - 



On the .Application of the Word " Littus" in the Sense 



of liipa. the Bank of a River - - - - 



Minor Notes : — Epigrams by Coulanges and Prior — 



Brewhouse Antiquities — Joseph of Exeter de Bello 



Antiocheno — Illustrations of Welsh History - 



Queries : — 



The Window-tax, Local Mints, and Noblis of Norwich 

 Mmor Queries : — Gillinghani — " We hope, and hope, 

 and hope" — What is Chanipak ?— Encorah and 

 Millicent — Diogenes in his Tub — Topical Memory — 

 St. Paul's Clock striking Thirteen — A regular Mull : 

 Origin of the Phrase — Register book of the Parish of 

 Petivorth — Going to Old Weston — "As drunk as 

 Chloe" — Mark lor a Dollar —Stepony — Longueville 

 M.SS. — Carling Sunday- Lion Rampant holding a 

 Crozier — Monumental Symbolism — Ptolemy's Pre- 

 sents to the Seventy-two — Baronette — Meaning of 

 " Hernshaw " — Hogan — " Trepidation t:ilk'd " — 

 Lines on the Temple — Death — Was Stella Swift's 



Sister? 448 



Minor Queries Answered: — John Marwoode — St. 

 Paul — Meaning of ZuU-verein — Crex, the White 

 BuUace ..-•--- 



Replies:— £r' - 



The Outer Temple, by Edward Foss - . - 



The Old Lon.lon Bellman and his Songs or Cries, by 



Dr. E. F. Rimbault ..... 



The Travels of liaion Munchausen, and the Author of 



" The Sabbath " - 

 The Penn Family, by Hepworth Dixon . - - 



On the Word " Pienzie " in "Measure for Measure " 



by S. W. Singer. S. Hickson, &c. - - 

 Ri'pliesto Minor Queries; — Countess of Pembroke's Epi- 

 taph — Court Dress — Ex Peile Herculem — Day of the 



Accession of Richard HI Tennyson's " In Memo- 



riam " — Cardinal Azzolin — Babington's Conspirac}' 



— Robert de Welle — Family of Sir John Banks — 

 Charles Lamb's Epitaph — Quel)e(;a and his Epitaph 



— The Fro/:en Horn — West Chester — Registry of 

 Dissenters — Poem upon the Grave — Round Robin 



— Derivation of the W'ord " Yankee" — Letters on 

 the British Museum — Namei of the Ferret — Ano- 

 nymous Uavennas — The Lion, a Symbol of the Re- 

 surrection — Paring the Nails, &c.— Meaning of Gig- 

 Hill— The Mistletoe on the O.ik — Spelling of" Bri- 

 taiinicus" — T. Gdbert on Clandestine Marriages — 

 Dog's Head in the Pot — Pope Joan — "Nettle in 

 Dock out" — Mind yi.ur P's and Q's — Lay of the 

 Last Minstrel ^ Tingry — Sabliatiial and Jubilee 

 Years of the Jews — Luncheon — Prophecy respecting 

 the Discovery of America — Sliakspeare's Designation 

 of Cleopatra— Harlequins — . Chrisi's-cross Row, S:c. 



HlICEi.l.ANROim : — 



NotJ!s on Hooks, Sales, Catalogues, &e. ... 

 Hooks and Odd Volumes wanted ... 



Notices to Correspondents .... 



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EDMUND BURKE, AND THE " ANNUAL REGISTER." 



That Burke wrote the Annual Hegisters for 

 Dodsley for some period after its commencement, 

 is well known ; but no one has yet distinctly 

 stated when his participation in that work ceased. 

 Mr. Prior, in his Life of Burke, places in his list 

 of his writings : "Annual Register, at first the 

 whole work, afterwards only the Historical Ar- 

 ticle, 1758," &c. He also states that "many of 

 the sketches of contemporary history were written 

 from his immediate dictation for aliout thirty 

 years," and that " latterly a Mr. Ireland wrote 

 much of it under Mr. Burke's immediate direc- 

 tion." {Life, vol. i. p. 85. edit. 1826.) 



In proof of this statement, a fac-simile is given 

 of Burke's receipts to Dodsley for two simis of 

 50?. each "for \\iq Annual Register oi 110,1,"' the 

 orioinals of which were in Upcott's collection. 

 At the sale of Mr. Wilks's autograjAs this month, 

 I observe there was another receipt for writing 

 the Annual Register for 1763. I am not aware 

 whether any other receipts from Burke are in 

 exisience for the money paid to him for his con- 

 tributions to this periodical ; but for the Animal 

 Rensters beginninor with 1767, and terminatino; in 

 1791, I have the receipts of Thomas English, who 

 appears to have received from Dodsley, first 140/., 

 and subserpiently 150/. annually, for writing and 

 compiling the historical portion of the work. 

 Burke's connexion with the publication must 

 therefore have lasted a much shorter period than 

 Mr. Prior appears to have supposed, and appa- 

 rently was not continued beyond seven or eight 

 years, from 1758 to 1766, after which year, English 

 seems to have taken his place. 



Everything relating to Btirke is of importance ; 

 and if any of your correspondents can afford any 

 further assistance in defining as correctly as pos- 

 sible the limits of his particijiation in the Annual 

 Register, I feel assured that the intbrmation will 

 be gladly received by your readers. 



I have not .seen it noticed, that the historical 

 articles in the Annual Registers, from 1758 to 1762 

 in(.'lu.sive, were collected in an 8vo. vol. under the 

 title of — 



Vol. in.— No. 84. 



