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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
Vol. V.--No. 136.] SATURDAY, JUNE 5. 1852 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
Autobiography of William Oldys, by Charles Bridger 529
On Cosin's "History of Popish Transubstantiation," edited by the Rev. J. S. Brewer 531
The Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, by Henry Edwards 532
Folk Lore:--Gabriel Hounds--Weather Prophecy--Origin of Moles--Mistletoe 534
Minor Notes:--Byron's "Siege of Corinth"--Goldsmith's "Poetical Dictionary"--Corrupted Names 534
Mr. Halliwell's Annotated Shakspeare Folio 535
Reason and Understanding according to Coleridge, by C. Mansfield Ingleby 535
Minor Queries:--Banning or Bayning Family--Ladies styled Baronets--St. Christopher and the Doree--Custom of Women wearing Masks in the Theatre--Brass of Abbot Kirton; Matrices--Lines on Chaucer--The Nacar--Cilgerran Castle--Use of Slings by the Early Britons--"Squire Vernon's Fox Chase"--The Death Watch--Genealogical Queries--Ben Jonson's adopted Sons--Kyrle's Tankard at Balliol--Irish Language in the West Indies--"Battle of Neville's Cross"--Sir Walter Raleigh's Ring--"Narne; or, Pearle of Prayer"--Sir George Howard--"Love me, love my Dog"--Mummy Wheat--A Photographic Query--"Stunt with false Care"--Winchester College--Old Royal Irish Academy House, Grafton Street--Quotations wanted--Shakspeare's Seal--The long-lived Countess of Desmond 536
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Temple Church and Lincoln's Inn Chapel--Edmund Bohun--"Nimrod" 539
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
Replies to Minor Queries:--Penkenol--Johnny Crapaud--Sir John Darnall--Bastides--Compositions under the Protectorate--Hoax on Sir Walter Scott--Statute of Limitations abroad--Lines on Crawfurd of Kilbirnie-- Swearing on a Skull--Rhymes on Places--The Silent Woman--Serpent with a human Head--Poem on the Burning of the Houses of Parliament--Large Families--Frebord-- Milton's (?) Epitaph--Can Bishops vacate their Sees?-- Sleekstone, Meaning of--Poems in the Spectator--Line on Franklin--St. Christopher--Lines on Woman--Burial-- Portrait of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland 545