by T. T. Wilkinson 526
MINOR QUERIES:--"Wanderings of Memory"--
"Wandering Willie's Tale"--Chapel Sunday--Proud
Salopians--George Miller, D.D.--Members of Parliament
--Taret--Jeroboam of Claret, &c.--William Williams
of Geneva--The First of April and "The Cap
awry"--Sir G. Browne, Bart.--Bishop Butler--Oaken
Tombs--Alleged Bastardy of Elizabeth--"Pugna
Porcorum"--Parviso--Mr. Justice Newton--Mufti
--Ryming and Cuculling--Custom at the Savoy
Church 527
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Faithful Teate--
Kelway Family--Regatta--Coket and Cler-mantyn 529

REPLIES:--
Curfew 530
The "Salt-Peter-Man," by C. H. Cooper 530
Forms of Judicial Oaths, by John Thrupp, &c. 532
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Washing Collodion
Pictures--Test for Lenses--Improvement in
Positives--Cheap Portable Tent--Rev. Mr. Sisson's
New Developing Fluid 533
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Vanes--Loselerius
Villerius--Westminster Parishes--Hevristic--Creole
--General Monk and the University of Cambridge--
Ecclesia Anglicana--Gibbon's Library--Golden Bees
--Passage in Orosius--Names first given to Parishes
--Grafts and the Parent Tree--Lord Cliff and Howell's
Letters--The Bouillon Bible--Rhymes on Places--
Serpents' Tongues--Consecrated Roses, &c. 534

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 537
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 538
Notices to Correspondents 538
Advertisements 538

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Notes.

ON CHAUCER'S KNOWLEDGE OF ITALIAN.

In the Memoir prefixed to the Aldine edition of the _Poetical Works of
Chaucer_, London, 1845, Sir Harris Nicolas expresses an opinion that Dan
Geoffrey was not acquainted with the Italian language, and therefore not
versed in Italian literature.

"Though Chaucer undoubtedly knew Latin and French, it is by no means
certain, notwithstanding his supposed o