MINOR QUERIES:--Mediæval Parchment--"Mater ait natæ"--Fox
of Whittlebury Forest--Names and Numbers of British
Regiments--Daughters of St. Mark--Kentish Fire--Optical
Phenomenon--Cardinal Bentivoglio's Description of
England--Remarkable Signs--Old Fable--Tide Tables--Passage
in Ovid--Roger Pele, Abbot of Furness--Curtseys and
Bows--Historical Proverb--Bishop Patrick's "Parable of a
Pilgrim"--Dr. Parr's Dedications--"Königl. Schwedischer
in Teutschland geführter Krieg"--"Officium Birgittinum
Anglice"--Campbell's Hymn on the Nativity 155
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"When Our Lord falls in Our
Lady's Lap"--Hobnail-counting in the Court of
Exchequer--A Race for Canterbury--Nose of Wax--"Praise
from Sir Hubert Stanley!"--Rosary 157