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No. 203.]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

                                                             Page

    Our Shakspearian Correspondence                           261

  NOTES:--

    Mr. Pepys and East London Topography, &c.                 263
    Picts' Houses in Aberdeenshire                            264

    FOLK LORE:--Legends of the County Clare--Devonshire
    Cures for the Thrush                                      264

    HERALDIC NOTES:--Arms of Granville--Arms of
    Richard, King of the Romans                               265
    Shakspeare Correspondence, by J. O. Halliwell and
    Thos. Keightley                                           265

    MINOR NOTES:--Longfellow's Poetical Works--Sir
    Walter Raleigh--Curious Advertisement--Gravestone
    Inscription--Monumental Inscription                       267

  QUERIES:--

    Sir Philip Warwick                                        268
    Seals of the Borough of Great Yarmouth, by E. S.
    Taylor                                                    269

    MINOR QUERIES:--Hand in Bishop Canning's Church
    --"I put a spoke in his wheel"--Sir W. Hewit--
    Passage in Virgil--Fauntleroy--Animal Prefixes
    descriptive of Size and Quality--Punning Devices
    --"Pinece with a stink"--Soiled Parchment Deeds
    --Roger Wilbraham, Esq.'s, Cheshire Collection
    --Cambridge and Ireland--Derivation of Celt--
    Ancient Superstition against the King of England
    entering or even beholding the Town of Leicester
    --Burton--The Camera Lucida--Francis Moore--
    Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle--Palace at Enfield--
    "Solamen miseris," &c.--Soke Mills--Second Wife
    of Mallet                                                 269

    MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Books burned by
    the Common Hangman--Captain George Cusack--
    Sir Ralph Winwood                                         272

  REPLIES:--

    Books chained to Desks in Churches, by J. Booker, &c.     273
    Epitaphs by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., &c.                      273
    Parochial Libraries                                       274
    "Up, Guards, and at them!" by Frank Howard                275

    PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Muller's Process
    --Stereoscopic Angles--Ammonio-nitrate of
    Silver                                                    275

    REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Sir Thomas Elyot--
    Judges styled "Reverend"--"Hurrah" and other
    War-cries--Major Andre--Early Edition of the
    New Testament--Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge
    --Sir William Hankford--Maullies, Manillas--The
    Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits--Derivation of the
    Word "Island"--A Cob-wall--Oliver Cromwell's
    Portrait--Manners of the Irish--Chronograms and
    Anagrams--"Haul over the Coals,"--Sheer Hulk--
    The Magnet--Fierce--Connexion between the
    Celtic and Latin Languages--Acharis, &c.                  276

  MISCELLANEOUS:--

    Notes on Books, &c.                                       282
    Books and Odd Volumes wanted                              282
    Notices to Correspondents                                 282
    Advertisements                                            283

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OUR SHAKSPEARIAN CORRESPONDENCE.

We have received from a valued and kind correspondent (not one of those
emphatically good-natured friends so wittily described by Sheridan) the
following temperate remonstrance against the tone which has distinguished
several