| NOTES:— | Page |
| 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] |