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  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

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  John Locke                                                   493

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  Artesian Wells, by Henry Stephens, &c.                       499
  Dog-whippers                                                 499
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  Whittington's Stone                                          501

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  Books and Odd Volumes Wanted                                 505
  Notices to Correspondents                                    505

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