CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
The Old Countess of Desmond, No. 1. [305]
Panslavic Sketches, by Dr. J. Lotsky [306]
Monumental Bust of Shakspeare, by J. O. Halliwell [307]
Notes on Passages in Virgil, by Dr. Henry [307]
Folk Lore:—Superstitions respecting Bees—Bees invited to Funerals—North Side of Churchyards—Ashton Faggot: a Devonshire Custom—Offerings to the Apple-trees: Devonshire Superstition [308]
Poetical Imitations [310]
Gloucestershire Ballads:—A Gloucester Ditty; George Ridler's Oven [311]
The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney [312]
Minor Notes:—Note on the Duration of Reigns—Cock and Bull Story—"Multa renascentur," &c.—Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words [312]
QUERIES:—
Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell's Confession [313]
Minor Queries:—"'Tis Twopence now"—Scythians blind their Slaves—The "Gododin"—Frontispiece to Hobbes's Leviathan—Broad Arrow or Arrow Head—Deep Well near Bansted Downs—Upton Court—Derivation of Prog—Metrical History of England—Finger Pillories in Churches—Stallenge Queries—Ancient MS. History of Scotland—Pharetram de Tutesbit—Inundation at Deptford—Butler's Sermons—Coleridge's Christabel—Epigram ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots [314]
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Meaning of Farlieu—"History of Anglesey"—The Word "Rile" [317]
REPLIES:—
Winchester Execution [317]
Cockney [318]
Sir Edmund Plowden or Ployden [319]
General James Wolfe [322]
Stanzas in Childe Harold [323]
Replies to Minor Queries:—MS. Note in a Copy of Liber Sententiarum—Naturalis Proles—Print cleaning—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Anagrams—Battle of Brunanburgh—Praed's Works—Sir J. Davies—Coins of Constantius Gallus—Passage in Sedley—Buxtorf's Translation of Elias Levita's "Tub Taam"—Stonehenge—Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture—Fortune, infortune, fort une—Matthew Paris's "Historia Minor"—Sanford's "Descensus"—Death of Pitt—History of Hawick—"Prophecies of Nostradamus"—Bourchier Family—William III. at Exeter—Passage in George Herbert—Suicides buried in Cross Roads—Armorial Bearing—"Life of Cromwell"—Harris, Painter in Water Colours—"Son of the Morning"—Grimsdyke or Grimesditch—Cagots—The Serpent represented with a human Head—Fire Unknown—Plant in Texas—Copying Inscriptions—Chantrey's Statue of Mrs. Jordan—Portraits of Burke—Martial's Distribution of Hours [326]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. [332]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted [333]
Notices to Correspondents [333]
Advertisements [333]