r Queries:--William ap Jevan's Descendants--
"Geographers on Afric's Downs"--Irish Brigade--Passage
in Oldham--Mont-de-Piete--Poem upon the Grave--When
self-striking Clocks first invented--Clarkson's
Richmond--Sir Francis Windebank's elder Son--Incised
Slab--Etymology of Balsall--St. Olave's Churches--
Sabbatical and Jubilee Years of the Jews--Arms of the
Isle of Man--Doctrine of the Resurrection--National
Debts--Leicester's Commonwealth 372

REPLIES:--
Histoire des Sevarambes 374

Was there an "Outer Temple" in the Possession of the
Knights Templars or Knights of St. John? by Peter
Cunningham 375

Obeism, by H. H. Breen 376

San Marino 376

The Bellman and his History, by C. H. Cooper 377

Replies to Minor Queries:--"God takes those soonest,"
&c.--Disinterment for Heresy--The Vellum-bound
Junius--Pursuits of Literature--Dutch Books--Engilbert,
Archbishop of Treves--Charles Lamb's
Epitaph--Charles II. in Wales--"Ex Pede Herculem"--God's
Acre--Abbot Eustacius--Vox Populi
Vox Dei--Francis Moore and his Almanack 377

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 381

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 382

Notices to Correspondents 382

Advertisements 382

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THE GREAT EXHIBITION, NOTES AND QUERIES, AND CHAUCER'S PROPHETIC VIEW OF
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

The first of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, will be remembered in the
Calendar for centuries after those who witnessed its glories shall have
passed away. Its memory will endure with our language; and the Macaulays
and Hallams of the time to come will add brilliancy to their pages by
recounting the gorgeous yet touching ceremonial of this great Apotheosis of
Peace. Peace has occasionally received some foretaste of that day's glory;
but only at times, when the sense of its value had been purchased by the
horrors which accompany even the most glorious warfare. But never until the
reign of Victoria were its blessings thus recognised and thus celebrated,
after they had been uninterruptedly enjoyed for upwards of a quarter of a
century. Who th