tish Museum
--Veneration for the Oak--Father Matthew's
Chickens--Pronunciation of Bible and Prayer Book
proper Names--MSS. of Anthony Bave--Return of
Gentry, temp. Hen. VI.--Taylor's "Holy Living"--
Captain Jan Dimmeson--Greek and Roman Fortification
--The Queen at Chess--Vida on Chess 467

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Thornton Abbey--
Bishop Wilson's "Sacra Privata"--Derivation of
"Chemistry"--Burning for Witchcraft--The small
City Companies--Rousseau and Boileau--Bishop
Kennett's MS. Diary 469

REPLIES:--

Milton's Widow, by S. W. Singer 471
Oaths, by Honore de Mareville, &c. 471
Comminatory Inscriptions in Books, by Philarete
Chasles 472
Liveries Worn, and Menial Services performed, by
Gentlemen, by J. Lewelyn Curtis 473
Female Parish Clerks 474
Poetical Epithets of the Nightingale, by W. Pinkerton 475

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Photographic Exhibition
--How much Light is obstructed by a Lens?
--Stereoscopic Angles--To introduce Clouds 476

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Death of Edward II.--
Luther no Iconoclast--Rev. Urban Vigors--Portrait
of Baretti--Passage in Sophocles--Brothers of the
same Name--High Dutch and Low Dutch--Translations
of the Prayer Book into French--Divining-rod
--Slow-worm Superstition--Ravailliac--Lines
on the Institution of the Garter--Passage in Bacon
--What Day is it at our Antipodes?--Calves' Head
Club--Heraldic Query--The Temple Lands in
Scotland--Sir John Vanbrugh--Sir Arthur Aston--
Nugget 477

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 481
Notices to Correspondents 481
Advertisements 481

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Notes.

NOTES ON GRAMMONT.

Agreeing with Mr. Peter Cunningham (vide _History of Nell Gwyn_), that a
new edition of Grammont is much wanted, I beg to avail myself of your
pages, and to offer a few remarks and notes which I have made in reference
to that very entertai