CONTENTS.

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Etymology of "Whitsuntide" and "Mass"[129]
Folk Lore:—Sympathetic Cures—Cure for Ague—Eating Snakes a Charm for growing young[130]
Long Meg of Westminster, by E.F. Rimbault[131]
A Note on Spelling,—"Sanatory," "Connection"[131]
Minor Notes:—Pasquinade on Leo XII.—Shakspeare a Brass-rubber—California—Mayor of Misrule and Masters of the Pastimes—Roland and Oliver[131]
QUERIES:—
The Story of the Three Men and their Bag of Money[132]
The Geometrical Foot, by A. De Morgan[133]
Minor Queries:—Plurima Gemma—Emmote de Hastings—Boozy Grass—Gradely—Hats worn by Females—Queries respecting Feltham's Works—Eikon Basilice—"Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest"—Carpets and Room-paper—Cotton of Finchley—Wood Carving in Snow Hill—Walrond Family—Translations—Bonny Dundee—Graham of Claverhouse—Franz von Sickingen—Blackguard—Meaning of "Pension"—Stars and Stripes of the American Arms—Passages from Shakspeare—Nursery Rhyme—"George" worn by Charles I.—Family of Manning of Norfolk—Salingen a Sword Cutler—Billingsgate—"Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke"—Genealogical Queries—Parson, the Staffordshire Giant—Unicorn in the Royal Arms—The Frog and the Crow of Ennow—"She ne'er with treacherous Kiss," &c.[133]
REPLIES:—
A treatise on Equivocation[136]
Further Notes on the Derivation of the Word "News"[137]
"News," "Noise," and "Parliament"[138]
Shakpeare's Use of the Word "Delighted" by Rev. Dr. Kennedy and J.O. Halliwell[139]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Execution of Charles I.—Sir T. Herbert's Memoir of Charles I.—Simon of Ghent—Chevalier de Cailly—Collar of Esses—Hell paved with good Intentions—The Plant "Hæmony"—Practice of Scalping among the Scythians—Scandinavian Mythology—Cromwell's Estates—Magor—"Incidis in Scyllam"—Dies Iræ—Fabulous Account of the Lion—Caxton's Printing-Office[140]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c.[142]
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted[143]
Answers to Correspondents[143]