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  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--Anglo-Saxon Graves--Robert Brown the
  Separatist--Commissions issued by Charles I. at Oxford       493

  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Hogmanay--Longfellow's
  "Hyperion"--Sir Hugh Myddelton--Sangarede--Salubrity of
  Hallsal, near Ormskirk, Lancashire--Athens--James Miller     495

  REPLIES:--
  Brydone, by Lord Monson                                      496
  Coleridge's Unpublished MSS., by C. Mansfield Ingleby        496
  Mr. Justice Talfourd and Dr. Beattie                         497
  Russian "Te Deum," by T. J. Buckton, &c.                     498
  Artesian Wells, by Henry Stephens, &c.                       499
  Dog-whippers                                                 499
  Cephas, a Binder, and not a Rock, by T. J. Buckton, &c.      500
  Whittington's Stone                                          501

  PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Photographic Experience--
  Conversion of Calotype Negatives into Positives--Albumenized
  Paper                                                        501

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Table-turning--Female Dress--
  Office of Sexton held by one Family--Lyra's Commentary--
  Blackguard--"Atonement"--Bible of 1527--Shrove Tuesday--
  Milton's Correspondence--"Verbatim et literatim"--Epigrams   502

  MISCELLANEOUS:--
  Notes on Books, &c.                                          504
  Books and Odd Volumes Wanted                                 505
  Notices to Correspondents                                    505

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