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CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
The English, Irish, and Scotch Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, by William Winthrop[189]
Duport's Lines to Izaak Walton[193]
Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, James Cornish, &c.[193]
Minor Notes:—Sir Francis Drake—Similarity of Idea in St. Luke and Juvenal—Sincere—Epitaph in Appleby Churchyard, Leicestershire[195]
Queries:—
The Crescent, by W. Robson[196]
Minor Queries:—The Hebrew Testament—Dr. Franklin—Flemish Refugees—"Sad are the rose leaves"—References wanted—Tea-marks—William the Conqueror's Surname—Old Saying—To pluck a Crow with One—"Well's a fret"—Pay the Piper—Greek Inscription upon a Font, mentioned by Jeremy Taylor—Acharis—Attainment of Majority—Hartman's Account of Waterloo—Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury—Translation of Athenæus—Passages from Euripides—Anderson's Royal Genealogies[196]
Minor Queries with Answers:—Louis le Hutin[199]
Replies:—
Bee-Park—Bee-Hall[199]
Milton's Widow, by J. F. Marsh and T. Hughes[200]
Peculiar Ornament in Crosthwaite Church[200]
Curious Mistranslations, by Henry H. Breen[201]
"To speak in lutestring" by the Rev. W. Fraser[202]
Burial in Unconsecrated Places, by Wm. T. Hesleden and R. W. Elliot[202]
Photographic Correspondence:—Mr. Muller's Process—Detail on Negative Paper—Ammonio-nitrate of Silver[203]
Replies to Minor Queries:—"Up, guards, and at them!"—German Heraldry—The Eye—Canute's Point, Southampton—Symon Patrick, Bishop of Ely: Durham: Weston—Battle of Villers en Couché—Curious Posthumous Occurrence—Passage in Job—St. Paul and Seneca—Haulf-naked—Books chained to Desks in Churches—Scheltrum—Quarrel—Wild Plants, and their Names—Jeremy Taylor and Christopher Lord Hatton—Burial on the North Side of Churches—Rubrical Query—Stone Pillar Worship—Bad—Porc-pisee—Lowbell—Praying to the West—Old Dog—Contested Elections—"Rathe" in the Sense of "early"—Chip in Porridge—"A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn"—Gibbon's Library: West's Portrait of Franklin—Derivation of "Island"—Spur—On the Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits—Selling a Wife—Impossibilities of History—Lad and Lass—Enough[204]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[210]
Notices to Correspondents[210]
Advertisements[210]