Notes:—Page
Rigby Correspondence[349]
Isthmus of Darien[351]
Notes on several misunderstood Words[352]
Folk Lore:—Drills presaging Death—Beltane in Devonshire—Touching for King's Evil[353]
Gaffer or Gammer, &c., by Thos. Keightley[354]
Minor Notes:—Search for MSS.—Clifton of Normanton—The Three per Cent. Consols[354]
Queries:—
Wolves nursing Children, by Gilbert N. Smith[355]
"The Luneburg Table"—Queen Elizabeth's Love of Pearls[355]
Minor Queries:—St. Dominic—"Will" and "shall"—Sir John Fleming—Deal, how to stain—Irish Characters on the Stage—Arms on King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate—Chaucer's Prophetic View of the Crystal Palace—Magistrates wearing their Hats in Court—Derby Municipal Seal—Sir Josias Bodley—Sir Edwin Sadler—The Cross given by Richard I. to the Patriarch of Antioch—Lister Family—Family of Abrahall, Eborall, or Ebrall—Eulenspiegel: Murner's Visit to England—Aged 116—Annuellarius[356]
Minor Queries with Answers :—Boyer's "Great Theatre of Honour and Nobility"—List of Bishops of Norwich—"A Letter to a Convocation Man"—Nicholas Thane—Churchwardens, Qualification of—Sir John Powell—S. N.'s "Antidote," &c.—Beads[358]
Replies:—
Broad Arrow[360]
English Comedians in the Netherlands[360]
The Sweet Singers[361]
Edmund Spenser[362]
Lamech killing Cain, by Francis Crossley, &c.[362]
Photographic Notes and Queries:—Photographic Notes—On some Difficulties in Photographic Practice—Mr. Weld Taylor's cheap Iodizing Process[363]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Somersetshire Ballad—Family of De Thurnham—Major. General Lambert—Loggerheads—Grafts and the Parent Tree—The Lisle Family—The Dodo in Ceylon—Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David's, 1687 to 1699—Etymology of Fuss—Palindromical Lines—Nugget—Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores—The Passame Sares (mel. Passamezzo) Galliard—Swedish Words current in England—Gotch—Passage in Thomson: "Steaming"—The Word "Party"—Curious Fact in Natural Philosophy—Lowbell—Life and Correspondence of S. T. Coleridge—Coniger, &c.—Cupid Crying—Westminster Assembly of Divines, &c. [364]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[369]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[370]
Notices to Correspondents[370]
Advertisements[371]

Notes.

RIGBY CORRESPONDENCE.

[We are enabled, by the kindness of their possessor, to lay before our readers copies of the following characteristic letters from the well-known Richard Rigby, Esq., who was for so many years the leader of the Bedford party in the House of Commons. They were addressed to Robert Fitzgerald, Esq., a member of the House of Commons in Ireland, and Judge of the Court of Admiralty in that country.]

Mr. Rigby to Mr. R. Fitzgerald.

Woburn Abbey, Wednesday, 11th Dec., 1765.

Dear little Bob,

I am impatient to know if you had resolution enough to attend his Excellency last Sunday, as I advised, and if you had, what was the result of the audience....

I arrived here last night, and find the Duke and Duchess, Marquis and Marchioness, all in perfect health. With my love to the Provost[[1]], tell him the chancellorship answers the intention to the utmost of his desire: we are wonderfully pleased with it. Tell him also that I do not find the defalcation amongst our friends to be as was represented in Dublin. Stanley is not, but has refused to be, ambassador to Berlin; Lord North is not, but has refused to be, vice-treasurer. The parliament meets on Tuesday: the ministers of the House of Commons, who are to be rechose, can get nobody who is in Parliament to read the king's speech for them at the Cockpit the night before. They, I believe, are in a damned dilemma: how much that makes for us time must show. Cooper is bribed to be Secretary of the Treasury, by 500l. a-year for his life, upon the 4-1/2 per cents, in the Leeward Islands, the same that Pitt's pension is upon. He remains for the present, however, at Bath. Calcraft will run Cooper hard at Rochester, against both Admiralty and Treasury. Wish Col. Draper joy for me of his red riband: he will have it next week with Mitchell, who returns to the King of Prussia. The poor young prince cannot live. I have time for no more.