CONTENTS.

NOTES:--

Portrait of Cardinal Beaton 433

On the Pointing of a Passage in "All's Well that Ends

Well" by A. Roffe 434

Folk-Lore:--The bigger the Ring, the nearer the Wet

--Power of prophesying before Death--Change in the

Appearance of the Dead--Strange Remedies--Mice

as a Medicine--Omens from Birds 434

Mode of computing Interest 435

On the Cultivation of Geometry in Lancashire 436

Minor Notes.--Sermon's Pills--An Infant Prodigy--

A Hint for Publishers--"He who runs may read"--

The Rolliad--The Conquest 438

QUERIES:--

Bibliographical Queries 440

Minor Queries.--Dr. Timothy Thruscross--Echo

Song--Meaning of Thwaites--Deus Justificatus--

Death by Burning--Irish Bull--Farquharson's

Observations on Auroræ--Defender of the Faith--

Calendar of Sundays in Greek and Roman Churches--

Dandridge the Painter--Chaucer's Portrait by Occleve--

John o'Groat's House--Dancing the Bride to

Bed--Duke and Earl of Albermarle 441

REPLIES:--

Julin, the Drowned City 443

Nicholas Ferrar and the so-called Arminian Nunnery of

Little Gidding 444

Vineyards 446

Treatise of Equivocation, by J. Sansom 446

Riots in London 446

Replies to Minor Queries:--Osnaburg Bishoprick--

Death of Richard II.--Scottish Prisoners sold to

Plantations--Lachrymatories--Querela Cantabrigiensis--

"Then" for "than."--Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception--

Letters of Horning--Dr. Euseby Cleaver--Mrs. Partington--"Never

did Cardinal bring good to England"--Florentine Edition of the

Pandects--Master John Shorne--"Her Brow was

Fair"--Dodd's Church History--Blackwall Docks--

Wives of Ecclesiastics--Stephens' Sermons--Saying

of Montaigne--Scala Coeli--Red Hand 447

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Notes on Books, Sales Catalogues, &c. 453

Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 453

Notices to Correspondents 454

Advertisements 454

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