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CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Jacob Grimm on the Genius and Vocation of the English Language125
Preservation of valuable Papers from Damp; Drying Closets126
Position of the Clergy in the Seventeenth Century, by J. Lewelyn Curtis126
General Wolfe127
Inscriptions in Books127
Folk Lore:—Baptismal Custom—Subterranean Bells—Leicestershire Custom—Hooping Cough: Hedera Helix128
Minor Notes:—The Aught And Forty Daugh—Alliterative Pasquinade—The Names "Bonaparte" and "Napoleon"—A Parish Kettle—Pepys's Diary; Battle of St. Gothard—First Folio Shakspeare—An ancient Tombstone128
Queries:—
Excessive Rainfall, by Robert Rawlinson130
Baptist Vincent Lavall, by William Duane130
Graves of Mickleton, co. Gloucester, by James Graves130
Searson's Poems131
Minor Queries:—Haberdon or Habyrdon—Holles Family—"To lie at the Catch"—Names of Planets: Spade—Arms in painted Glass—The sign of "The Two Chances"—Consecrators of English Bishops—A nunting Table—John Pictones—Gospel Place—York Mint—Chipchase of Chipchase—Newspapers—On alleged historical Facts—Costume of Spanish Physicians—Genoveva—Quotation—"God and the World"—"Solid Men of Boston"—Lost MS. by Alexander Pennecuik—"The Percy Anecdotes"—Norman Song—God's Marks—The Bronze Statue of Charles I., Charing Cross132
Minor Queries with Answers:—Hutter's Polyglott—Ethnology of England—Pitt of Pimperne—"The Bottle Department" of the Beer-trade...

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