CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
The Tredescants and Elias Ashmole—concluded, by S. W. Singer [385]
Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson [387]
Note on Virgil, by Rev. E. S. Taylor [387]
MSS. of Dr. Whitby, and Petition of Inhabitants of Allington, Kent, by Rev. Richard Hooper [388]
Bills for Printing and Binding "the King's Booke," by Joseph Burtt [389]
Sir Ralph Vernon, by W. Sneyd [389]
The Fallacy of Traditions [390]
On the Derivation of "the Rack," by Samuel Hickson [390]
Minor Notes:—Book-keepers—The Substitution of the Letter "I" for "J" in the Names of "John, James, Jane," &c.—Daniel De Foe—English Surnames: Bolingbroke—Waistcoats worn by Women—"Thirty Days hath September," &c. (Antiquity of) [391]
Folk Lore:—The Frog—An Oath in Court—St. Clement's and St. Thomas's Day [393]
QUERIES:—
Speaker Lenthall, by F. Kyffin Lenthall [393]
Notte of Imbercourt, Surrey [393]
Minor Queries:—Suffragan Bishops—Poison—Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell—Martha, Countess of Middleton—Lord Lieutenant and Sheriff—Vikingr Skotar—The Abbot of Croyland's Motto—Apple Sauce with Pork—Gipsies—Breezes from Gas Works—The Phrase "and tye"—Stonehenge, a Pastoral, by John Speed—"Buro · Berto · Beriora"—'Prentice Pillars—Archer Rolls: Master of Archery—Witchcraft: Mrs. Hicks and her Daughter—Antony Hungerford—Rev. William Dawson—"Up, Guards, and at them!"—St. Botolph—Rental of Arable Land in 1333, &c. [394]
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Knollys Family—Emblematical Halfpenny—National Proverbs—Heraldic Query—Chantrey's Marble Children—Autobiography of Timour [397]
REPLIES:—
The Earl of Erroll [398]
General Wolfe [398]
James Wilson, M.D., by Professor De Morgan [399]
Oliver Cromwell: the "Whale" and the "Storm" in 1658, by A. Grayan [400]
Authenticated Instances of Longevity [401]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Haberdascher—Cou-bache—Meaning of Groom—Grinning like a Cheshire Cat—Mallet's Death and Burial—Town-halls, &c. [402]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, &c. [406]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted [406]
Notices to Correspondents [406]
Advertisements [407]