CONTENTS.
On Sir Robert Peel, and his Claims to be remembered by the Literary Men of England [433]
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Sitting in Bede's Chair, by Cuthbert Bede [434]
Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson [435]
On a Passage in "Measure for Measure," Act I. Sc. 1., by S. W. Singer [435]
Folk Lore:—Sites of Buildings mysteriously changed—Burning the Bush—Essex Superstition [436]
Old Song, "Not long ago I drank a full Pot" [437]
Minor Notes:—Boston and Bunker's Hill—Snooks—Last Slave sold in England—Hoax on Sir Walter Scott [438]
QUERIES:—
Irish Queries [439]
Minor Queries:—The Azores—Johnny Crapaud—Poems in the "Spectator"—Old John Harries, "Bishop of Wales"—University Hood—Black Rood in Scotland; Cross Neytz—Crown Jewels once kept at Holt Castle—"Cane Decane," &c.—Rev. John Meekins, D.D.—Finsbury Manor—Frebord—The Stature of Queen Elizabeth—Portrait of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough—Inscription by Luther—"O Juvenis frustra," &c.—All-fours—Richard, second Son of the Conqueror—Francis Walkinghame—Optical Phenomenon [439]
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Abraham-men—Author of "Le Blason des Couleurs"—Banyan-day—General Urmston—Works of Alexander Neville—Lindisfarne—Index to the Critical Review—"No great shakes" Translation of Richard de Bury—Life of Ken—Wedding Rings—Monasteries, &c. dissolved—Bishops at the Hampton Court Controversy [442]
REPLIES:—
Scottish Regalia [443]
Gospel Oaks, by Professor Theodore Goedes [444]
Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger [444]
Lords Marchers of Wales, by E. Smirke [445]
Doctrine of the Resurrection [446]
Can a Clergyman marry himself? [446]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Algernon Sydney—Cock-and-Bull Stories—Thomas Crawford—Longevity—Theological Tract: The Huntyng of the Romish Fox—Moke—Ground Ice—Nobleman alluded to by Bishop Berkeley—House at Welling—Constable of Scotland—The Iron Plate in Lewes Castle—Chelwoldesbury—"The King's Booke"—Key Experiments—Rhymes on Places—Old Scots March, &c.—Ecclesiastical Geography—"Please the Pigs"—The Word Shunt—Plato's Lines in "Antho. Palat."—Abigail—Nuremberg Token—Meaning of Lode—Mother Damnable—Monuments of De la Beche Family—Coke and Cowper—Monumental Portraits—Motto on Chimney-piece—"Ve dâl am daro"—White-livered—Enigmatical Epitaphs—Pelican in her Piety, &c. [447]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, &c. [454]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted [454]
Notices to Correspondents [454]
Advertisements [455]