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shot him on the nine-stane rig"--Wardhouse, and Fishermen's Custom there--"Adrian turn'd the bull"-- Cary's "Palaeologia Chronica"--The Southwark Pudding Wonder--Roman Catholics confined in Fens of Ely--White Bell Heather transplanted--Green's "Secret Plot"-- "The full Moon brings fine Weather"--Nash the Artist-- Woodwork of St. Andrew's Priory Church, Barnwell-- "The Mitre and the Crown"--Military Music 78 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Stoven Church--The Statute of Kilkenny--Kenne of Kenne--Rents of Assize, &c.--Edifices of Ancient and Modern Times--Gorram-- "Rock of Ages" 80 REPLIES:-- Remuneration of Authors 81 On the Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits 82 Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge 83 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Multiplication of Photographs--Yellow Bottles for Photographic Chemicals 85 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Donnybrook Fair--Abigail-- Honorary Degrees--Red Hair--Historical Engraving-- Proverbs quoted by Suetonius--"Sat cito, si sat bene"-- Council of Laodicea, Canon 35.--Anna Lightfoot--Jack and Gill--Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle-- Gibbon's Library--St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca-- "Hip, Hip, Hurrah!"--Emblemata--Campvere, Privileges of-- Slang Expressions: "Just the cheese"--The Honorable Miss E. St. Leger--Queries from the Navorscher--"Pity is akin to Love" 86 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 89 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 90 Notices to Correspondents 90 Advertisements 90 * * * * * Notes. WILLIAM BLAKE. My antiquarian tendencies bring me acquainted with many neglected and obscure individuals connected with our earlier English literature, who, after "fretting their hour" upon life's stage, have passed away; leaving their names entombed upon the title-page of some unappreciated or crotchetty book, only to be found upon the shelves of the curious. To look for these in Kippis, Chalmers, Gorton, or Rose would be a waste of time; and although agreeing to some extent with the _Utilitarians_, that we have all that was worth preservin
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