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Our Seventh Volume[1]
Notes:—
Proclamations of the Society of Antiquaries, and their Value as Historical Evidences, by John Bruce[3]
Curiosities of Advertising Literature, by Cuthbert Bede[4]
On a Passage in "King Henry VIII.," Act III. Sc. 2., by S. W. Singer[5]
Notes on Bacon's Essays, by P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.[6]
Latin Poems in connexion with Waterloo, by Lord Braybrooke[6]
Sir Henry Wotton and Milton, by Bolton Corney[7]
Folk Lore:—Unlucky to sell Eggs after Sunset—Old Song—Nursery Tale—Legend of Change[7]
Passage in Hamlet[8]
Volcanic Influence on the Weather, by Rev. Wm. S. Hesledon[9]
Minor Notes:—Value of MSS.—Robert Hill—English Orthography—Bookselling in Glasgow in 1735—Epitaph on a Sexton[9]
Queries:—
Eustache de Saint Pierre, by Philip S. King[10]
Devizes, Origin of: a Question for the Heralds, by J. Waylen[11]
Minor Queries:—Gold Signet Ring—Ecclesia Anglicana—Tangiers: English Army in 1684—Smith—Termination "-itis"—Loak Hen—Etymological Traces of the Social Position of our Ancestors—Locke's Writings—Passage in Göthe's "Faust"—Schomberg's Epitaph by Swift—The Burial Service said by Heart—Shaw's Staffordshire MSS.—"Ne'er to these chambers," &c.—County History Societies—Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter—The English Domestic Novel—Dr. Young—Bishop Hall's Meditations—Chatterton—Passage in Job—Turner's View of Lambeth Palace—Clarke's Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning—"The General Pardon"[12]
Minor Queries with Answers:—Edward the Confessor's Ring—The Bourbons[15]
Replies:—
Emblems[15]
Marriages en Chemise—Mantelkinder—Legitimation, by E. Smirke, &c.[17]
Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662, by Archdeacon Cotton[18]
Etymology of Pearl, by Sir J. Emerson Tennant, &c.[18]
"Martin Drunk," by Dr. E. F. Rimbault[19]
Göthe's Reply to Nicolai[19]
Photographic Correspondence:—Processes upon Paper—Exhibition of Photography at the Society of Arts[20]
Replies To Minor Queries:—Quotation in Locke—Pic-nic—Discovery at Nuneham Regis—Door-head Inscriptions—Cross and Pile—Rhymes upon Places—Ἀρνίον—Who was the greatest General?—Beech-trees struck by Lightning—Passage in Tennyson—Inscriptions in Churches—Dutensiana—Early Phonography—Kentish Local Names; Dray—Monument at Modstena—Book-plates—"World without end," &c.[23]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[28]
Notices to Correspondents[28]
Advertisements[28]