| No. 42. | SATURDAY, AUGUST 17,1850 | Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
| NOTES:— | Page |
| Alfred's Orosius, by Dr. Bell | 177 |
| Remarkable Proposition concerning Ireland, by H.Kersley | 179 |
| News: a few "old" Materials for its Elucidation,by S.W. Singer | 180 |
| Folk Lore:—Charming for Warts | 181 |
| Minor Notes:—Capture of Henry VI.—TheNew Temple | 181 |
| QUERIES:— | |
| Essays of certain Paradoxes: Poem on Nothing, byS.W. Singer | 182 |
| Minor Queries:—Papers ofPerjury—Church Rates—St. Thomas of Lancaster'sAccomplices—Prelates of France—Lord Chancellor'sOath—Mediæval Nomenclature—Sir ChristopherSibthorp—Alarm | 182 |
| REPLIES:— | |
| Shakspeare's Use of "Delighted," by SamuelHickson | 183 |
| English Comedians in Germany | 184 |
| Achilles and the Tortoise | 185 |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—"Barum" and"Sarum"—Countess of Desmond—Michael Servetus, aliasReves—Caxton's Printing-office—Somagia—VariousModes of Interment among the Ancients—Guy'sPorridge-pot—"Welcome the coming, speed the partingGuest"—"A Chrysostom to smoothe his Band in"—William ofWykeham—Dutch Language—"A Frog he would,"&c.—City Sanitary Laws—Sanitary Laws of otherDays—Michael Scott, the Wizard—ClericalCostume—The Curfew—Welsh Language—ArmenianLanguage—North Sides of Churchyards unconsecrated—"SirHilary charged at Agincourt"—Unicorn—Abbey of St.Wandrille, Normandy, &c. | 186 |
| MISCELLANEOUS:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | 191 |