rd Husband--Creation of Knights--Martyn the
Regicide--History of the Nonjurors--Florin and the Royal
Arms--A Mistletoe Query 620

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Sewell Family--Greek
Epigram--Translations from Aeschylus--Prince Memnon's
Sister--"Oh! for a blast," &c.--Robin Hood's
Festival--Church in Suffolk 621

REPLIES:--

Children called Imps 623

The Divining Rod 623

Change of Meaning in Proverbial Expressions, &c. 624

Sneezing, by Francis John Scott, &c. 624

Books burned by the common Hangman, by W.
Fraser, &c. 625

Jews in China, by T.J. Buckton 626

Poetical Tavern Signs 626

The Curfew, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 628

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Photographic Engraving--Collodion
Negatives 628

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--"London Labour and the London
Poor"--Felicia Hemans's inedited Lyric--Sir Arthur
Aston--Grammar in relation to Logic--Descendants of
Milton--Pronunciation of Bible Names--Henry I.'s
Tomb--Bells at Berwick-upon-Tweed--Return of Gentry, temp.
Henry VI.--Peter Allan--Burial in an erect Posture--The
Word "Mob"--Gen. Sir C. Napier--To Come--Passage in
Sophocles--Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century--Judges
styled Reverend--Veneration for the Oak--Rapping no Novelty 629

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 632

Notices to Correspondents 632

Advertisements 633

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Notes.

FOLK LORE IN THE REIGN OF KING JAMES I.

In turning over the pages of an old book of controversial divinity, I
stumbled upon the following illustrations of folk lore; which, as well from
their antiquity as from their intrinsic curiosity, seem worthy of a place
in your columns. They make us acquainted with some of the usages of our
ancestors, who lived in the remoter districts of England early in the reign
of James I. The title of the volume in which they occur is the following:

"The Way to the True Chu