CONTENTS.
The Claims of Literature [337]
NOTES:—
Daniel Defoe and the "Mercator," by James Crossley [338]
Punishment of Edward Prince of Wales, by King Edward I., for Disrespect to a Judge, by William Sidney Gibson [338]
Notes on the Word: "Αδελφος," by T. R. Brown [339]
Lambert, the "Arch-Rebell," by Richard John King [339]
The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney [340]
Minor Notes:—A Hint to Catalogue Makers—Virgil and Goldsmith—Mental Almanac—Merlin and the Electric Telegraph [340]
QUERIES:—
Bishop Bramhall and Milton [341]
The Sempills of Beltrus: Robert Sempill [343]
Descendants of John of Gaunt [343]
Minor Queries:—Rocky Chasm near Gaëta: Earthquake at the Crucifixion—Cavalcade—A Sept of Hibernians—Yankee Doodle—Seventeenth of November: Custom—Chatter-box—Printing in 1449, and Shakspeare—Texts before Sermons—Paradyse, Hell, Purgatory—Dead Letter—Dominus Bathurst, &c.—Grammar Schools—Fermilodum—Lord Hungerford—Consecration of Bishops in Sweden [343]
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Effigy of a Pilgrim—"Modern Universal History"—Origin of Evil—Nolo Episcopari—Authors of the Homilies—Family of Hotham of Yorkshire—Vogelweide—Meaning of Skeatta [345]
REPLIES:—
Marriage of Ecclesiastics, by Henry Walter, &c. [346]
Lord Strafford and Archbishop Ussher [349]
Sculptured Stones in the North of Scotland [350]
Anagrams [350]
The Locusts of the New Testament [351]
The Soul's Errand, by Dr. Edward F. Rimbault [353]
The Two Drs. Abercrombie [353]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Dacre Monument at Hurstmonceux—Book-plates—Sermon of Bishop Jeremy Taylor—Moonlight—Flatman and Pope—Berlin Time—Ruined Churches—Italian Writer on Political Economy—Death of Carli, &c. [354]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. [357]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted [357]
Notices to Correspondents [358]
Advertisements [358]