CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
Sterne at Sutton on the Forest, by the Rev. A. Gatty [409]
Readings in Shakspeare, No. IV. [410]
Presentiment [411]
Curious Bill of Fare, and Storm, in 1739, by Edward Hawkins [412]
Peculiar Attributes of the Seventh Son [412]
Folk Lore:—Game-feathers protracting the Agony of Death—Charm for Ague—Old Shoes thrown for Luck—Folk Lore of the Kacouss People [413]
Burials in Woollen, by the Rev. E. S. Taylor [414]
Minor Notes:—Unacknowledged Quotations from the Scriptures—Latin Hexameters on the Bible—Epigram on La Bruyère—Cock And Bull Story—Mary Queen of Scots; her Monument and Head [414]
QUERIES:—
The Book of Jasher [415]
Minor Queries:—Old China—Pagoda, Joss House, Fetiche—"And Eva stood and wept alone"—Hearne's Confirmation; Baxter's Heavy Shove; Old Ballad—Gunpowder Mills—Macfarlane of that Ilk—Armorial Bearings—Scologlandis and Scologi—Ednowain ap Bradwen—Mummy Wheat—The Trusty Servant at Winchester—Anecdote—St. Augustine—Ghost, Evidence of one not received—Roman and Saxon Cambridge—Queries on the Mistletoe—Portrait of Mesmer [415]
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Saint Richard—"Coming Events cast their Shadows before"—St. Christopher—Cuddy, the Ass—Toady—Mother Shipton [418]
REPLIES:—
Ralph Winterton [419]
Meaning and Origin of "Era," by S. W. Singer [420]
Lady Arabella Stuart, by A. Grayan [421]
Newton, Cicero, and Gravitation [422]
Deferred Executions, by Ambrose Florence, &c. [422]
Duchess of Lancaster [423]
Surnames [424]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Dyson's Collection of Proclamations—"Up, Guards, and at them!"—Bawderich, and Bells—Algernon Sydney—"History is Philosophy teaching by Examples"—On a Passage in Pope—Plague Stones—"Archæologia Cambrensis, Vol. I., 2nd Edit."—Town-halls—Emaciated Monumental Elegies—Coleridge's "Friend"—Enigma on the Letter "I"—Mother Carey's Chickens—Burnomania—Cagots—Chantrey's Sleeping Children—Topography of Ashbourne—Arkwright—Pilgrimages to the Holy Land—"Merchant Adventurers" [425]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, &c. [430]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted [430]
Notices to Correspondents [431]
Advertisements [431]