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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                                    Page
  Reprints of Early Bibles, by the Rev. R. Hooper, M.A.        487
  Marriage Licence of John Gower, the Poet, by W. H. Gunner    487
  Aska or Asca                                                 488
  Legends of the County Clare, by Francis Robert Davies        490
  Archaic Words                                                491

  MINOR NOTES:--Inscriptions on Buildings--Epitaphs--Numbers--
  Celtic Language--Illustration of Longfellow: "God's Acre"    492

  QUERIES:--
  John Locke                                                   493

  MINOR QUERIES:--"The Village Lawyer"--Richard Plantagenet,
  Earl of Cambridge--Highland Regiment--Ominous Storms--Edward
  Fitzgerald--Boyle Family--Inn Signs--Demoniacal Descent of
  the Plantagenets--