X. G. X., who inquires how the word "premises" came to be used of a house and its adjuncts, is referred to our 4th Vol. p. 487.
S. K. (North Wilts). Lord Stair not the executioner of Charles I. See Answer to Correspondents last week.
R. D. H. We are not aware of any cheap ANNUAL REGISTER, unless The Household Narrative of Current Events (published monthly in twopenny numbers, and in annual volumes at three shillings) may be so considered. It is a work executed with great ability, and written in the lively style which our correspondent so desires.
G. P. P. We cannot trace the queries respecting De Pratelli's and Prestwich's Republica as having been received by us.
A. A. D. The book referred to was Whitaker's.
G. W. R. Manlove's Rhymed Chronicle is published by Shaw and Sons, Fetter Lane, and noticed by us in our Notes on Books, &c., No. 116. The addition of the price to our Notices of New Books would convert such notices into advertisements, and render them liable to the duty.
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J. B. HARRISON. The writer of the tract, The Holy Table, Name and Thing, has clearly mistaken Dover for Canterbury, called Dorobernia by Bede and the early chroniclers. St. Augustine's Abbey was originally consecrated to St. Peter and St. Paul.
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