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CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
John Goodwin's Six Booksellers' Proctor nonsuited, byJames Crossley[553]
Mr. Collier's Folio Shakspeare: A Passage in "As YouLike It," by Samuel Hickson[554]
Notes on Books, No. III.—Laurence Humphrey, Presidentof Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dean of Winchester,by S. W. Singer[554]
Scoto-Gallicisms[555]
On a Passage in "Cymbeline," Act IV. Sc. 2., byS. W. Singer[556]
Old Concert Bill, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault[556]
Minor Notes:—Note for Mr. Worsaae—SingularEpitaph—Largesse—Brogue and Fetch—Taibhse—Derivationof "Caul"—"Pandecte," an entireCopy of the Bible[557]
Queries:—
Boy Bishop at Eton[557]
"Speculum Christianorum multa bona continens," byW. Sparrow Simpson[558]
Massacre of the Welsh Bards[558]
Minor Queries:—Portrait of William Combe—"Quodnon fecerunt barbari," &c.—Lines on English History—Windows—Angel-beast;Cleek; Longtriloo—RoyalArms in Churches—"Cease, rude Boreas"—PictorialProverbs—Inscription on George Inn, Wansted—LearnedMan referred to by Rogers—Mormonismand Spalding's Romance—Carrs or Calves—Stoup—CasperZiegler and the Diaconate—Inscription atPersepolis—"I do not know what the truth may be"—Twittens—ClapperGate—Jemmy—Muffs wornby Gentlemen[558]
Replies:—
St. Patrick, by D. Rock, &c.[561]
Nashe's "Terrors of the Night"[562]
Serjeant's Rings[563]
The Old Countess of Desmond[564]
A few Things about Richard Baxter, by Cuthbert Bede[565]
St. Botulph[566]
Sir Richard Pole, the Father of Cardinal Pole[567]
Proclamations to prohibit the Use of Coal, by F. SomnerMerryweather[568]
Ralph Winterton[569]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Family of Bullen—Wallington'sJournal—The Amber Witch—Twyford—TheRing Finger—Brass of Lady Gore—Gospel Trees—"Whofrom the dark and doubtful love to run"—Sonof the Conqueror; Walter Tyrrel—Sir Gilbert Gerrard—FidesCarbonarii—Line on Franklin—Meaningof Royd as an Addition to Yorkshire Names—Binnacle—PlagueStones—Ramasshed—YankeeDoodle—"Chords that vibrate," &c.—Derivation ofMartinique—Anthony Babington, &c.[569]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[574]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[575]
Notices to Correspondents[575]
Advertisements[575]