Notices to Correspondents.
We have many articles in type which we are compelled, by want of space, to postpone until next week, when the publication of our double number will enable us to insert many interesting communications which are only waiting for room.
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Liturgicus, who writes on the subject of the letters M. and N. in the Catechism and Marriage Service, is referred to our First Volume, pp. 415. and 468.
F. M. B. Hicks' Hall was so called from its builder, Sir Baptist Hicks, afterwards Viscount Camden; and the name of the Old Bailey, says Stow, "is likely to have arisen of some Count of old time there kept."—See Cunningham's Handbook of London.
K. R. H. M. received.
E. T. (Liverpool). We propose to issue a volume similar to our first and second, at the termination of every half-year.
E. S. T. T. For origin of
"Tempora mutantur," &c.,
see our First Volume, pp. 234. 419.
George Petit. The book called Elegantiæ Latinæ, published under the name of the learned Joh. Meursius, was written by Chorier of Grenoble. Meursius had no share in it.
H. A. R. Much information concerning the general and social condition of Lunatics before 1828 will be found in Reports of Committees of House of Commons of 1815, 1816, and 1827, and of the House of Lords of 1828.
A. C. P. The explanation furnished is one about which there can be no doubt, but for obvious reasons we do not insert it.
K. R. H. M. We cannot promise until we see the article; but, if brief, we shall have every disposition to insert it.
C. H. P. Surely there is no doubt that Lord Howard of Effingham, who commanded the Armada, was a Protestant.
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Erratum.—No. 65. p. 67. col. 2. l. 12., for "melt" read "meet."
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