CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
The Pendulum Demonstration of the Earth's Rotation [129]
Minor Notes:—The Day of the Month—Foreign English—Birds' Care for the Dead—Snake's Antipathy to Fire—Aldgate, London—Erroneous Scripture Quotations [130]
QUERIES:—
The Lady Elizabeth Horner or Montgomery [131]
Pope and Flatman, by W. Barton [132]
Minor Queries:—Southampton Brasses—Borough-English—Passage in St. Bernard—Spenser's Faerie Queene—Broad Halfpenny Down—Roll Pedigree of Howard—Rev. John Paget, of Amsterdam—Visiting Cards—Duke de Berwick and Alva—The Earl of Derwentwater—"But very few have seen the Devil"—Aulus Gellius' Description of a Dimple—Forgotten Authors of the 17th Century [132]
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:— Sundays, on what Days of the Month?—John Lilburne [134]
REPLIES:—
"Lay of the Last Minstrel" [134]
Meaning of "Prenzie," by Samuel Hickson [135]
House of Yvery [136]
Queen Brunéhaut [136]
Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor [137]
Cowper or Cooper [137]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Voce Populi Halfpenny—Dog's Head in the Pot—"O wearisome Condition of Humanity"—Bunyan and the "Visions of Heaven and Hell"—Pope's Translations of Imitations of Horace—Prophecies of Nostradamus—Thread the Needle—Salmon Fishery in the Thames—Entomological Query—School of the Heart—Fortune, Infortune, Fort une—Ackey Trade—Curious Omen at Marriage [138]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. [ 142]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted [143]
Notices to Correspondents [143]
Advertisements [144]