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BILL OF FARE OF 1626. If an actual bill of fare in a gentleman’s house, anno 1626, be worth your acceptance, as a pendant to the one prescribed in your fourth number, you are welcome to the foll... Read more

A. A.(A.) on solemnization of matrimony, 46.  Admiration, a note of, 86.  Adur, origin of, 71. 108.  AEneas, Silvius, 423.  Aerostation, works on, 199. 251. 269. 285. 317. 380. 459... Read more

NOTES Portrait of Cardinal Beaton. A portrait of this eminent Man was engraved by Pennant, from a picture at Holyrood House, in Part ii. of his Tour in Scotland, p. 243. 4to.  Lond. 1776.  L... Read more

CONTENTS. Notes:—­ Page   Daniel Defoe and his Ghost Stories 241   Pet Names, by Rev. B.H.  Kennedy ... Read more

NOTES Etymology of Penniel. Some eighteen years ago, the writer of the following sonnets, by the kindness of the proprietors of a pleasant house upon the banks of the Teviot, enjoyed two happy autumns... Read more

NOTES. Folk Lore. The First Mole in Cornwall; a Morality from the Stowe of Morwenna, in the Rocky Land.—­A lonely life for the dark and silent mole!  She glides along her narrow vaults,... Read more

EARLY STATISTICS.—­CHART, KENT. Perhaps some one of your numerous readers will be good enough to inform me whether any general statistical returns, compiled from our early parish registers, ... Read more

OUR PROGRESS Although very unwilling to encroach upon the enlarged space which we have this week afforded to our numerous and increasing contributors, we may be permitted to refer to the fact of our h... Read more

NOTES. What is the meaning of “Delighted,” As sometimes used by Shakspeare. I wish to call attention to the peculiar use of a word, or rather to a peculiar word, in Shakspeare, which I do ... Read more

OLIVER CROMWELL AS A FEOFFEE OF PARSON’S CHARITY, ELY There is in Ely, where Cromwell for some years resided, an extensive charity known as Parson’s Charity, of which he was a feoffee or g... Read more

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. In two former communications on a subject incidental to that to which I now beg leave to call your attention, I hinted at a result far more important than the discovery of the... Read more

NOTES. The Oldenburg horn. The highly interesting collection of pictures at Combe Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Craven, in Warwickshire, was, for the most part, bequeathed by Elizabeth, Queen of Bohe... Read more

T.H.T Let me refer Mr. P. Cunningham to “Stow’s Survey, p. 27. 92.  Thoms’ Edition,” for a full answer to his query.  The passages are too long to cite, but Mr. C. wi... Read more

NOTES The author of the “Characteristics.” Lord Shaftesbury’s Letters to a young Man at the University, on which Mr. Singer has addressed to you an interesting communication (Vol. ii... Read more

QUERIES. NICHOLAS BRETON’S “CROSSING OF PROVERBS.” Although my query respecting William Basse and his poem, “Great Britain’s Sun’s Set,” (No. 13. p. 200), pro... Read more

NOTES Further notes on derivation of the word “News”. Without being what the Germans would call a purist, I cannot deem it an object of secondary importance to defend the principles of the... Read more

NOTES Shakspeare and Marlowe. A special use of, a use, indeed, that gives a special value to your publication, is the communication through its means of facts and conclusions for the information or as... Read more

NOTES. Sir William Gascoigne. Although you and I no doubt unite in the admiration, which all our fellow-countrymen profess, and some of them feel, for our immortal bard, yet I do not think that our ze... Read more