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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                                    Page
  Marlowe's "Lust's Dominion"                                  253

  Dover Castle: a Note to Hasted                               254

  Dean Swift: Autographs in Books, by George Daniel            255

  Shakspeare Elucidations, by Thomas Keightley                 255

  Imprecatory Epitaphs, by Dr. E. Charlton                     256

  Derivation of "Lad" and "Lass"                               256

  MINOR NOTES:--Iona--Inscriptions in Parochial Registers--
    Lieutenant--"Prigging Tooth" or "Pugging Tooth"--
    London--Note from the Cathedral at Seville--Riddles
    for the Post Office                                        257

  QUERIES:--

  National Portraits: Portrait of the Duke of Gloucester,
    Son of Charles I., by Albert Way                           258

  Boston Queries, by Pishey Thompson                           258

  Welborne Family                                              259

  Descendants of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by C. Gonville          259

  MINOR QUERIES:--English Bishops deprived by Queen
    Elizabeth, 1559--John Williams of Southwark, Esq.--
    "A Screw"--Tanner's MSS.--The Westminster Assembly of
    Divines--The Witch Countess of Morton--Mary, Daughter
    of King James I. of Scotland--Hibernicis Hibernior--
    The Cucking-stool, when last used--Grafts and the
    Parent Tree--Conway Family--Salt--Geological
    Query--Wandering Jew--Frescheville Family--The
    Wednesday Club--Oratories--Arms of De Turneham--
    Poisons--Open Seats or Pews in Churches--Burial of
    unclaimed Corpse                                           260

  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Sir John Powell--"Reynard
    the Fox"--Campvere, Privileges of--Bishops Inglis and
    Stanser of Nova Scotia                                     262

  REPLIES:--

  Monument to Barbara Mowbray and Elizabeth Curle at Antwerp   263

  Rigby Correspondence                                         264

  Marigmerii--Melinglerii--Berefellarii                        264

  PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Replies to Photographic
    Questions--Developing Paper Pictures with Pyrogallic
    Acid--Photography in the Open Air; Improved Camera--
    New Effect in Collodion Pictures--Powdered Alum:
    How does it act?                                           265

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Chatterton--Princes'
    Whipping-boys--"Grub Street Journal"--"Pinch of
    Snuff"--Race for Canterbury--Chichester Pallant--Scarfs
    worn by Clergymen--Alicia Lady Lisle--Major-General
    Lambert--Mistletoe--The Sizain--Venda--Meaning of
    "Assassin"--Dimidium Scientiae--Epigrams--Use of Tobacco
    before the Discovery of America--Oldham, Bishop of
    Exeter--Tortoiseshell Tom Cat--Irish Rhymes--Consecrated
    Rings--Brasses since 1688--Derivation of Lowbell--The
    Negative given to the Demand of the Clergy at
    Merton--Nugget--Blackguard                                 267

  MISCELLANEOUS:--

  Notes on Books, &c.                                          273

  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                 274

  Notices to Correspondents                                    274

  Advertisements                                               274

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Notes.

MARLOWE'S "LUST'S DOMINION."

The Rev. Mr. Dyce omits the play of _Lust's Dominion, or the Lascivious
Queen_, from the excellent, and (in all other respects) complete edition of
Marlowe's _Works_ which he has lately published, considering it to have
been "distinctly shown by Mr. Collier" that it could not have been the work
of that poet. I must say, however, that the argument for its rejection does
not appear to me by any means conclusive. It runs thus: in the first act is
presented the death of a certain King Philip of Spain; and this King Philip
must be Philip II., because in a tract printed in the _Somers' Collection_,
giving an account of the "last words" of that monarch, are found passages
which are plainly copied in the play. Now, Philip II. did not die till
1598, and the tract was not published till 1599, whereas Marlowe's death
took place in 1593. _Ergo_, Marlowe could not have written _Lust's
Dominion_. But we know that it was the constant custom of managers to cause
acting plays to be altered and added to from time to time: the curious
_Diary of Manager Henslowe_ is full of entries of the payment of sums of
twenty shillings or so, to the authors whom he kept, for "adycyons" to the
works of others. And surely it is no forced hypothesis to suppose that