MINOR QUERIES:--Petrarch's Laura--"Epitaphium Lucretiae"--
McDowall Family--Arms of Geneva--Webb of Monckton Farleigh--
Translation Wanted--Latin Translation from Sheridan, &c.--
Gale of Rent--Arms of Sir Richard de Loges--Gentile Names
of the Jews--Henry, Earl of Wotton--Kicker-eating--Chadderton
of Nuthurst, co. Lancashire--George, first Viscount
Lanesborough, and Sir Charles Cotterell--"Firm was their
faith," &c.--The Mother of William the Conqueror--Pedigree
of Sir Francis Bryan 562

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS--"The Whole Duty of Man"--"It
rained cats and dogs and little pitchforks:" Helter-skelter--
Father Traves--Precise Dates of Births and Deaths of the
Pretenders--Clarence 564

REPLIES:--
Mackey's "Theory of the Earth" 565
Sincere, Simple, Singular 567
Poetical Tavern Signs 568
Homo Unius Libri 569
The Forlorn Hope, by W. R. Wilde 569
Tieck's "Comoedia Divina" 570
Liveries worn by Gentlemen 571

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.--Queries on Dr. Diamond's
Calotype Process--Albumenized Paper 572

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Marcarnes--X on Brewers' Casks--
No Sparrows at Lindham--Theobald le Botiller--Vault at
Richmond, Yorkshire--Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers--
Portraits at Brickwall House--The Words "Mob" and "Cash"--
English Clergyman in Spain--The Cid--Exterior Stoups--Green
Jugs used by the Templars--"Peccavi," I have Scinde--
Raffaele's "Sposalizio"--Early Use of Tin: Derivation of the
Name of Britain--Unpublished Epigram by Sir Walter Scott--
Derivation of the Word "Humbug"--Bees--Topsy Turvy--Parish
Clerks and Politics, &c. 572

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 577
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 578
Notices to Correspondents 578
Advertisements 578

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Notes.

ORIGINAL ROYAL LETTERS TO THE GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA.

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