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Title: Notes & Queries 1849.12.15

Author: Various

Release Date: March 22, 2004 [EBook #11651]

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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No. 7.]
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1849.
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CONTENTS.

NOTES:--Marriage Contract of Mary Queen of Scots
Bill of Fare of 1626, by Rev. L.B. Larking
Moneta Sanctae Helenae, by T. Hudson Turner
Translations of Gray's Elegy
On Authors and Books, No. 2, by Bolton Corney
Minor Notes:--Quotations from Pope--Angels' Visits
--Extract from Register of North Runcton--The Norman
Crusader--Lady Jane of Westmoreland
Notes in answer to Queries:--Lobster in Medal of
Pretender--Straw Necklaces
Answers to Minor Queries:--Ancient Motto--Political
Maxim--Annus Trabeationis--Betterton's Duties of
a Player--Betterton's Essay--Incumbents of Church
Livings--Mare de Saham--Reinerius--Whelps--
Cowley or Cowleas

QUERIES:--Berkeley's Theory of Vision
Dr. Johnson and Professor de Morgan
Caracciolli's Life of Lord Clive
Suppressed Passages in Cartwright's Poems

MINOR QUERIES:--Christencat--Hexameter Verses in the
Scriptures

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

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MARRIAGE CONTRACT OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND THE EARL OF BOTHWELL.

[Among the curious documents which have been produced from time to
time before the House of Lords in support of peerage claims, there
have been few of greater his