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No. 237.]
SATURDAY, MAY 13. 1854.
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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                                    Page

  "Shakspeare's Rime which he made at the Mytre," by
  Dr. E. F. Rimbault                                           439

  Rous, the Sottish Psalmist, Provost of Eton College: and
  his Will, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe                        440

  Original English Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of
  Malta, by William Winthrop                                   442

  Disease among Cattle, by Thos. Nimmo                         445

  Popiana, by Harry Leroy Temple                               445

  Hampshire Folk Lore, by Eustace W.
  Jacob                                                        446

  The most curious Book in the World                           446

  Minor Notes:--Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of
  Geo. III.--Copernicus--First Instance of Bribery amongst
  Members of Parliament--Richard Brinsley Sheridan--Publican's
  Invitation--Bishop Burnet again!--Old Custom preserved in
  Warwickshire--English Diplomacy v. Russian                   447

  QUERIES:--

  Ancient Tenure of Lands, by A. J. Dunkin                     448

  Owen Rowe the Regicide                                       449

  Writings of the Martyr Bradford, by the Rev. A. Townsend     449

  MINOR QUERIES:--Courtney Family--"The Shipwrecked Lovers"--
  Sir John Bingham--Proclamation for making Mustard--Judges
  practising at Bar--Celebrated Wagers--"Pay me tribute, or
  else----"--"A regular Turk"--Benj. Rush--Per Centum Sign--
  Burial Service Tradition--Jean Bart's Descent on Newcastle--
  Madame de Stael--Honoria, Daughter of Lord Denny--Hospital
  of John of Jerusalem--Heiress of Haddon Hall--Monteith--
  Vandyking--Hiel the Bethelite--Earl of Glencairn--Willow
  Bark in Ague--"Perturbabantur," &c.                          450

  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Seamen's Tickets--Bruce,
  Robert--Coronation Custom--William Warner--"Isle of
  Beauty"--Edmund Lodge--King John                             452

  REPLIES:--

  Has Execution by Hanging been survived? by William Bates     453

  Coleridge's Christabel, by C. Mansfield Ingleby              455

  General Whitelocke