hire
--Junius's Letters to Wilkes--The Reformer's
Elm--How to take Paint off old Oak 619

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Cadenus and Vanessa
--Boom--"A Letter to a Member of Parliament"
--Ancient Chessmen--Guthryisms 620

REPLIES:--

Correspondence of Cranmer and Calvin, by Henry Walter 621

"Populus vult decipi," by Robert Gibbings, &c. 621

Latin: Latiner 622

Jack 622

Passage in St. James, by T. J. Buckton, &c. 623

Faithfull Teate 624

Parvise 624

The Coenaculum of Lionardo da Vinci 624

Font Inscriptions, by F. B. Relton, &c. 625

Burn at Croydon 626

Christian Names, by William Bates, &c. 626

Weather Rules 627

Rococo, by Henry H. Breen 627

Descendants of John of Gaunt, by J. S. Warden 628

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem 628

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Anticipatory Worship
of the Cross--Ennui--"Qui facit per alium, facit per
se," &c.--Vincent Family--Judge Smith--"Dimidiation"
in Impalements--Worth--"Elementa sex,"
&c.--"A Diasii 'Salve,'" &c.--Meaning of "Claret"
--"The Temple of Truth"--Wellborne Family
--Devonianisms--Humbug--George Miller, D.D.
--"A Letter to a Convocation Man"--Sheriffs
of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire--Ferdinand
Mendez Pinto--"Other-some" and "Unneath"
--Willow Pattern--Cross and Pile--Old Fogie
--Another odd Mistake--Spontaneous Combustion
--Erroneous Forms of Speech--Ecclesia Anglicana--
Gloves at Fairs--The Sparrows at Lindholme, &c. 629

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 634

Notices to Correspondents 634

Advertisements 634

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Notes.

WITCHCRAFT IN SOMERSETSHIRE.

Perhaps the following account of superstitions now entertained in som