CONTENTS.

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Our Ninth Volume 3

NOTES:--

A Strawberry-Hill Gem, by Bolton Corney 3

The "Ancren Riwle," by Sir F. Madden 5

Order for the Suppression of Vagrancy, A.D. 1650-51,

by John Bruce 6

Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis 7

Burial-place of Archbishop Leighton, by Albert Way 8

MINOR NOTES:--Grammars, &c. for Public

Schools--"To captivate"--Bohn's Edition of Matthew of

Westminster--French Season Rhymes and Weather

Rhymes--Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex 8

QUERIES:--

Domestic Letters of Edmund Burke 9

MINOR QUERIES:--Farrant's Anthem--Ascension

Day Custom--Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic

Collections--"The spire whose silent finger points

to heaven."--Lord Fairfax--Tailless Cats--

Saltcellar--Arms and Motto granted to Col. William

Carlos--Naval Atrocities--Turlehydes--Foreign Orders:

Queen of Bohemia--Pickard Family--Irish Chieftains--

General Braddock 9

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Lawless Court,

Rochford, Essex--Motto on old Damask--Explanation

of the Word "Miser"--"Acis and Galatea"--Birm-bank--

General Thomas Gage 11

REPLIES:--

Rapping no Novelty, by Rev. Dr. Maitland 12

Occasional Forms of Prayer, by John Macray 13

Celtic and Latin Languages 14

Geometrical Curiosity, by Professor De Morgan 14

The Black-guard, by P. Cunningham 15

The Calves' Head Club, by Edward Peacock 15

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--

The Calotype Process--Hockin's Short Sketch--

Photographic Society's Exhibition 16

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--"Firm was their

faith," &c.--Vellum-cleaning--Wooden Tombs--Solar

Eclipse in the Year 1263--Lines on Woman--Satin--

"Quid facies," &c.--Sotades--The Third Part of

"Christabel"--Attainment of Majority--Lord Halifax

and Mrs. C. Barton--The fifth Lord Byron--Burton

Family--Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys

of Catullus, &c. 17

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Notes on books, &c. 21

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 21

Notices to Correspondents 22

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THE SACRED GARLAND, or THE CHRISTIAN'S DAILY DELIGHT.

"Pluck a Flower."

A New Edition of the above excellent and popular work will shortly be

published in large type, crown 8vo., and may be obtained of any respectable

bookseller in town or country.

MILNER & SOWERBY, Halifax.

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