ions," &c.--Pursuits of Literature--
Satirical Medal--Matthew's Mediterranean
Passage--Inscription on an Oak Board--Expressions
in Milton--Saints' Days--Chepstow Castle--The
Wilkes MSS. and "North Briton"--"O wearisome
Condition of Humanity!"--Epitaph in Hall's "Discovery" 239

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Canon and Prebendary--
What Amount of Property constitutes an Esquire?--
Cromwell Family--Daughters of the Sixth Earl of
Lennox--Wife of Joseph Nicholson--Six Abeiles--
Southey--Epigram against Burke--Knight's Hospitallers 242

REPLIES:--
Mesmerism, by Dr. Maitland 243
Lord Howard of Effingham 244
Iovanni Volpe, by William Hughes 244
Replies to Minor Queries:--Sir Andrew Chadwick--
Manuscript of Bede--Closing of Rooms on account
of Death--Enigmatical Epitaph on Rev. J. Mawer--
Haybands in Seals--Notes on Newspapers--Duncan
Campbell--Christmas-day--MS. Sermons by Jeremy
Taylor--Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel--Rev.
W. Adams--Duchess of Buckingham--"Go the
whole Hog"--Lord Bexley's Descent from Cromwell--
Morse and Ireton Families--The Countess of Desmond--
Aristophanes on the Modern Stage--Denarius
Philosophorum--On a Passage in the Tempest--
Meaning of Waste-book--Arthur's Seat and Salisbury
Craigs--Meaning of "Harrisers" &c. 247

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 253
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 254
Notices to Correspondents 254
Advertisements 255

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Notes.

ON PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED ENGLISHMEN.

In submitting to you the following brief observations, it is neither my
wish nor intention to undervalue or disparage the labours of Horace
Walpole, and Granger, and Pennant, and Lodge, and the numerous writers who
have followed in their train, and to whom we are so much indebted for their
notices of a great variety of original portraits of distinguished
Englishmen, which still adorn the mansions of our aristocracy, and are
found in the smaller collections throughout the realm. But I may be
permitted to express my surprise and regret that in this age of inquiry no
general catalogue of these national treasures should ever have be