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Quidam. Vernon's Anglo-Saxon Guide should be followed up by Thorpe's Analecta and Anglo-Saxon Gospels.
Silenus. If our correspondent will refer to our First Volume, pp. 177. 203. 210. 340., and our Second Volume, p. 3., he will find the history of the well-known couplet from the Musarum Deliciæ,
"For he that fights, and runs away,
May live to fight another day,"
fully illustrated.
Writing Paper. Will our correspondent, who sometime since
sent us a specimen manufactured at Penshurst, favour us for the information of another correspondent with the name of the maker?
Record of Existing Monuments. We hope next week to return to this important subject. In the meantime, Mr. A. J. Dunkin, of Dartford, announces that the first part of his Monument. Anglic. is in the press, and will be published in July.
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Errata.—Page 380. col. 1. lines 12. and 13. for "Prichard" read "Richards;" p. 389., in the Query on the "Blake Family," for "Bishop's Hall" read "Bishop's Hull;" p. 390. col. 2. l. 29., for "fragments" read "payments;" and l. 30., for "South Green" read "South Lynn;" p. 393. col. 2. l. 11., for "Turners" read "Tanners."
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