NOTES:--
Etymology of "Whitsuntide" and "Mass." 129
Folk Lore:--Sympathetic Cures--Cure for Ague--Eating
Snakes a Charm for growing young. 130
Long Meg of Westminster, by E.F. Rimbault. 131
A Note on Spelling,--"Sanatory," "Connection." 131
Minor Notes:--Pasquinade on Leo XII.--Shakspeare
a Brass-rubber--California--Mayor of Misrule and
Masters of the Pastimes--Roland and Oliver. 131
QUERIES:--
The Story of the Three Men and their Bag of Money. 132
The Geometrical Foot, by A. De Morgan. 133
Minor Queries:--Plurima Gemma--Emmote de Hastings--Boozy
Grass--Gradely--Hats worn by Females--Queries
respecting Feltham's Works--Eikon
Basilice--"Welcome the coming, speed the parting
Guest"--Carpets and Room-paper--Cotton of Finchley--Wood
Carving in Snow Hill--Walrond Family--Translations--Bonny
Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse--Franz von Sickingen--Blackguard--Meaning
of "Pension"--Stars and Stripes of the American
Arms--Passages from Shakspeare--Nursery Rhyme--"George"
worn by Charles I.--Family of Manning
of Norfolk--Salingen a Sword Cutler--Billingsgate--"Speak
the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke"--Genealogical
Queries--Parson, the Staffordshire Giant--Unicorn
in the Royal Arms--The Frog and the Crow of
Ennow--"She ne'er with treacherous Kiss," &c. 133
REPLIES:--
A treatise on Equivocation. 136
Further Notes on the Derivation of the Word "News." 137
"News," "Noise," and "Parliament." 138
Shakpeare's Use of the Word "Delighted" by Rev. Dr.
Kennedy and J.O. Halliwell. 139
Replies to Minor Queries:--Execution of Charles I.--Sir
T. Herbert's Memoir of Charles I.--Simon of
Ghent--Chevalier de Cailly--Collar of Esses--Hell
paved with good Intentions--The Plant "Hæmony"--Practice
of Scalping among the Scythians--Scandinavian
Mythology--Cromwell's Estates--Magor--"Incidis
in Scyllam"--Dies Iræ--Fabulous Account
of the Lion--Caxton's Printing-Office. 140
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 142
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 143
Answers to Correspondents. 143
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