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
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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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