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Vol. V.—No. 136.Saturday, June 5. 1852.Price Fourpence.
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CONTENTS.

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Autobiography of William Oldys, by Charles Bridger[529]
On Cosin's "History of Popish Transubstantiation,"edited by the Rev. J. S. Brewer[531]
Ancient Guildhalls in England[532]
The Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, by Henry Edwards[532]
Robert Drury[533]
Folk Lore:—Gabriel Hounds—Weather Prophecy—Originof Moles—Mistletoe[534]
Minor Notes:—Byron's "Siege of Corinth"—Goldsmith's"Poetical Dictionary"—Corrupted Names[534]
Queries:—
Mr. Halliwell's Annotated Shakspeare Folio[535]
Restive[535]
Reason and Understanding according to Coleridge, byC. Mansfield Ingleby[535]
Minor Queries:—Banning or Bayning Family—Ladiesstyled Baronets—St. Christopher and the Doree—Customof Women wearing Masks in the Theatre—Brassof Abbot Kirton; Matrices—Lines on Chaucer—TheNacar—Cilgerran Castle—Use of Slings bythe Early Britons—"Squire Vernon's Fox Chase"—TheDeath Watch—Genealogical Queries—Ben Jonson'sadopted Sons—Kyrle's Tankard at Balliol—IrishLanguage in the West Indies—"Battle of Neville'sCross"—Sir Walter Raleigh's Ring—"Narne;or, Pearle of Prayer"—Sir George Howard—"Loveme, love my Dog"—Mummy Wheat—A PhotographicQuery—"Stunt with false Care"—WinchesterCollege—Old Royal Irish Academy House, GraftonStreet—Quotations wanted—Shakspeare's Seal—Thelong-lived Countess of Desmond[536]
Minor Queries Answered:—Temple Church and Lincoln'sInn Chapel—Edmund Bohun—"Nimrod"[539]
Replies:—
The Three Estates of the Realm, by William Fraser[539]
Burials in Woollen, by John Booker and J. B. Colman[542]
Braem's MS. "Memoires touchant le Commerce"[543]
General Pardons, by John Gough Nichols[544]
The Dodo, by A. D. Bartlett[544]
Whipping of Princes by Proxy[545]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Penkenol—Johnny Crapaud—SirJohn Darnall—Bastides—Compositionsunder the Protectorate—Hoax on Sir Walter Scott—Statuteof Limitations abroad—Lines on Crawfurdof Kilbirnie—Swearing on a Skull—Rhymes onPlaces—The Silent Woman—Serpent with a humanHead—Poem on the Burning of the Houses of Parliament—LargeFamilies—Frebord—Milton's (?) Epitaph—CanBishops vacate their Sees?—Sleekstone,Meaning of—Poems in the Spectator—Line onFranklin—St. Christopher—Lines on Woman—Burial—Portraitof Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland[545]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[549]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[550]
Notices to Correspondents[550]
Advertisements[551]