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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 



Historical Coincidences : Barclay and Perl'.iis - 

 Uemains of King James II. . . - 



Shetland Full; Lore: — The Wresting Thread — Riii 



worm — Burn — I'^lfshot - _ _ _ 



Minor Notes : ^- Names of Places in Normandy and 

 Orkney ..---- 



QUBRIES : — 



Minor Queries: — Meaning of Ploydes — Green-eyed 

 Monster^Perpetual Lamp — Family of I3utcs-^ Greek 

 Names of Fishs^s — Uriininnitavichillichatan — Chalk- 

 back Day — Moravian Hymn-; — Hural and Urltau 

 Deans — Ducks and Drakes — \'inceiir Kiddf^r — House 

 at Wetling — "^hmpshire. Price of Land — L?gal Time 



Minor Qi'Ekies Answered: — Thorns of Daupliine 

 Inscription at Lyons — Turnpikes 



Replies : — 



General .Tames Wolfe . . . . . 



" Flemish Account ------ 



Popa and Flatman, hy Henry H. Creen - - - 



Derivation of" London," by Francis Crosslev, So. 



Replies to Minor Queries; — L'J^'end of the Kobin Re;!- 



brea.t — Monk and Cromwell — Souiiny — Clekit 



House — lifter Falbot — Races in whicli Cl»ildren, .^c. 



— li.icon a Poet _St')ry referreil to by Jeremy I'ayior 



— .Siiare of Presl>yters in Oi'dmation — Weever's 

 Funeral Monument — Dial M )tto at KaiUbad —Cabal 



— Ixectitudines Singularum Personaruni — Stanzas in 

 Cbilde Harold — The Island and Temple of .Egina — 

 Herschel anticipated — Wyle Cop — Maclarlane ftla- 

 nuscripts ------- 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Bioks, Sales. Catalogues, &c. - - • 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - . 



Notices to Correspondents . . . . 



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HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES. 



Barclay and Perkins. 



Have you ever amused yourself by tracing liis- 

 torical parallels Y did you ever note how often one 

 age reflects the character of another, so that the 

 stage of real life seems to us at intervals as a the- 

 atre on which we see represented the ))assions of 

 the [last, its political tendencies, and monied spe- 

 culations ; tiie only change being that of costume, 

 and a wider but more modified method of action ? 

 So true it is tliat men change, institutions vary, 

 and that human nature is always the same. The 

 f.liurch reproduces il.s Laud, the railway exchange 

 its Law, the bench has its jNLinsfield, the Horse 

 (juards its greater Marlborough, and Xewgute its 

 Mrs. lirownrigg. We have giants as great as 

 King Charles's porter, and a. Tom Thumb wh > 



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would have frightened the very ghosts of all 

 departed Jeffery liudsons, — a class not generally 

 accused of fear, e.'icept at d;iybreak, — by his un- 

 equalled diminuticeness. Take the great questions 

 which agitate the church and the senate-house, 

 which agitated them intlie sixteenth, during much 

 of the two following centuries, and you will find 

 the same theological, political, commercial, and 

 sanitary questions debated witii equal honesty, 

 equal truth, and similar prospects of satisfactory 

 solution. I confess, however, that ibr one his- 

 torical coiniadence I was unprepared ; and that 

 "Barclay and Perkins," in the case of assault upon 

 a noted public character, should have an historical 

 antecedent in the seventeenth century, has caused 

 me some surprise. It is not necessary for me to 

 recall to your attention how Barclay and Perkins 

 were noised about on the occasion of the attack on 

 General Haynau. Tiie name of the liriu was as 

 familiar to our lips as their porter : 



" Never came reformation in a flood 

 With such a hendi/ cuiraiice.' 

 There had been no similar emeute, as I was told 

 by a civic wit, since the days of "Vat Tyler." 

 Now let me remind you of the Barclay and Per- 

 kins and the other Tiu-nhani Green men's plot, 

 who conspired to assault and assassinate King 

 William IIL Mind, the coincidence is only in 

 name. The historic parallel is rather of kind than 

 event, but it is not the less remark.able when we 

 consider the excitement twice connected with these 

 names. The character of James II. may be 

 described as tiie villuinij of loeahuess. It possessed 

 nothing of elevation, breadth, or strength. It was 

 this weak obliquity which mtide him deceive his 

 people, and led them to subvert the laws, supplant 

 the church, and to become a tyrant in the name 

 of religious liberty. His means to recover the 

 throne were as mean as the inanner of its desertion 

 was despicable, lie tried cajolery, it i'ailed ; the 

 bravery of his Irish soldiers, it was unavailing, 

 lie ne.xt relied on the corruption of Russeil, the 

 avarice of i\!arlborough ; but as these men were 

 to be bought as well as sold, he put his trust 

 finally in any villain who was willing to be hired 

 for assassination. In 1()92 M. de Gr;indval, a 

 captain of dragoons, was shot in the allied camp, 



