Edited by G. W. REDWAY, F.R.Hist.S.
The following are the Contents of the first Four Numbers published
this year. ARTICLES:--Domesday Book.--Frostiana.--Some Kentish
Proverbs.--The Literature of Almanacks.--“Madcap Harry” and Sir
John Popham.--Tom Coryate and his Crudities.--Notes on John Wilkes
and Boswell’s Life of Johnson.--Rarities in the Locker-Lampson
Collection.--A Day with the late Mr. Edward Solly.--The Defence of
England in the 16th Century.--The Ordinary from Mr. Thomas Jenyns’
Booke of Armes.--A Forgotten Cromwellian Tomb.--Visitation of the
Monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII.--The Rosicrucians.--The
Seillière Library.--A Lost Work.--Sir Bevis of Hampton.--More Kentish
Proverbs.--Cromwell and the Saddle Letter of Charles I.--Recent
Discoveries at Rome.--Folk-Lore of British Birds.--An Old Political
Broadside.--Notes for Coin Collectors.--Higham Priory.--Byways of
Periodical Literature.--How to Trace a Pedigree.--The Curiosities
of Ale.--The Books and Bookmen of Reading.--The Language of the
Law.--Words, Idioms, &c., of the Vulgar.--Notes on Old Chelsea.--The
Romans in Cumbria.
COLLECTANEA.--Early Italian Prints.--Tercentenary of the
Potato.--Chaucer Discovery.--Sir John Soane’s Museum.--Copyright in
Government Publications.--Pausanias.--The Loan of Manuscripts.--Paper
Making in 1588.--Portraits of Charles Dickens.--Hopton Castle.--A
very Ancient Watch.--The Value of Antiquarian Study.--Curious
Forestry Privilege.--A “Factory.”--Thimbles Old and New.--Mrs.
Glasse’s Cookery Book.--A Bucks Estate.--Chalfont St. Giles.--Greek
Coins.--Shakespearian Literature.--Geography in the Sixteenth
Century.--Welsh Place Names.--Japanese Art.--Duelling in
1760.--Shelleyana.--English Archers.--Oriental Porcelain.--South
Italian Folk-Lore.--Serpent-Lore.--Modern Witches.--The Domesday
Plough.--A Bishop of the Olden Time.--Historical Treasures in
the Upsala Cathedral.--The Witches Ladder.--Old Prayer-Book.--A
Relic of James II.--Pontefract and Ripon.--Old Shoes.--Love
Charms.--County Families.--A Roman Fire Brigade.--Parish
Registers.--Border Raiding.--Peasant Proprietors.--Queen
Mary’s Tree.--The Turks and Persians as Book-lovers.--Epitaph
of John Ruskin’s Parents.--Quakers.--“Yankee” and the “Stars
and Stripes.”--Gipsies.--The Royal Academy.--Chigwell Church,
Essex.--Printers’ Errors.--A Village Club.--An Historical Fishery.--A
Survival.--A Cock Match.--Early Publishing.--Pancakes at Westminster
School.--The Archbishop’s Palace at Croydon.--The Art of the Saracens
in Egypt.--The Early Custody of Domesday Book.
CORRESPONDENCE.--The late Bishop Hannington’s Ancestry.--A Reader
of Curious Books.--Throwing the Dart in Cork Harbour.--The De la
Poles.--The Family of John Hampden.--The “Olla Podrida” and T.
Monro.--Life of Bertram Montfichet.--Magdalen College, Oxford.--Book
Bound in a Murderer’s Skin.--A Forgotten Society.--Latin Verses by Dr.
Johnson.--“Merchet” and the “Jus Primæ Noctis.”--Hanna, Hanet, and
Wallace.--Another Book Bound in a Murderer’s Skin.--Humorous Portrait
of Charles Dickens.--Beating Boys at Parish Boundaries.--Destruction of
National Antiquities.
REVIEWS.--OBITUARY MEMOIRS.--MEETINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES.--NEWS AND
NOTES.
_Published periodically, four numbers out, 1s. each._