CONTENTS.

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Defoe's Pamphlet on the Septennial Bill, by James Crossley[577]
Arthur O'Connor[579]
Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson[580]
Folk Lore:—Lancashire May-day Custom—Hair cut off, an Antidote—Weather Prophecy—The Oak Tree and the Ash[581]
The Diphthong "ai"[581]
Minor Notes:—A Bit o' fine Writin'—Custom of Cranes in Storms—Aldress—How the ancient Irish used to crown their King—One of Junius's Correspondents identified[581]
Queries:—
Old Music[582]
Treasury of St. Mark's; Record at Tiberius[583]
Unicorn[583]
Flanagan on the Round Towers of Ireland[584]
Minor Queries:—St. Augustine's Six Treatises on Music—Bishop Merriman—The Escubierto—J. Scandret—Mary Horton—Biblicus on the Apocalypse—Cleopatra playing at Billiards—"Then comes the reckoning"—Giving the Sack—Scotch Provincial Tokens of the Seventeenth Century—Burial of Sir John Moore—Mexican, &c. Grammar—Foundation Stones—Mary Faun—Tonson and the Westminsters[584]
Minor Queries Answered:—Lady Farewell's Funeral Sermon—Sir E. K. Williams—Order of the Cockle—Waller Family—Life of St. Werburgh—Blindman's Holiday—Ab. Seller—Martin-drunk—Bagster's English Version[585]
Replies:—
Reply to Mr. Hickson's Objections[587]
The Term "Milesian," by John D'Alton[588]
Ben. Jonson's adopted Sons, by C. H. Cooper[588]
Shakspeare's Seal[589]
Reason and Understanding according to Coleridge[590]
General Wolfe[590]
"The Miller's Melody," an old Ballad, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault[591]
Surnames[592]
Sir John Trenchard, by Sydney Walton[593]
Papal Seal[593]
Market Crosses[594]
Replies to Minor Queries:—The two Gilberts de Clare—Baxter's Shove—Frebord—Devil—Mummy Wheat—Nacar—Mistletoe—The Number Seven—Gabriel Hounds—Burial—Marvell's Life and Works—The Death-Watch—The Rabbit as a Symbol, &c.[594]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[599]
Notices to Correspondents[599]
Advertisements[599]