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Innocent Convicts--The San Grail--Meaning of "Slums"-- Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended and Reformed"-- Odour from the Rainbow--Tradesmen's Signs 222 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Supporters borne by Commoners--Answer to Fisher's Relation--"Drink up Eisell" 224 REPLIES:-- Scandal against Queen Elizabeth 225 The Mistletoe on the Oak, by James Buckman, &c. 226 Universality of the Maxim, "Lavor come se tu," &c., by S. W. Singer 226 Replies to Minor Queries:--Tennyson's In Memoriam-- Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c.--Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland-- Oration against Demosthenes--Borrow's Danish Ballads--Head of the Saviour--Lady Bingham-- Shakespeare's Use of Captious--Tanthony--Lama Beads--"Language given to Men," &c.--Daresbury, the White Chapel of England--Holland Land--Passage in the Tempest--Damasked Linen--Straw Necklaces-- Library of the Church of Westminster, &c. 227 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 230 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 231 Notices to Correspondents 231 Advertisements 231 * * * * * SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS. When, in the opening Number of the present Volume (p. 14), we called the attention of our readers to the _Monumentarium of Exeter Cathedral_, we expressed a hope that the good services which Mr. Hewett had thereby rendered to all genealogical, antiquarian, and historical inquirers would be so obvious as to lead a number of labourers into the same useful field. That hope bids fair to be fully realised. In Vol. iii., p. 116., we printed a letter from MR. PEACOCK, announcing his intention of copying the inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the Hundred of Manley; and we this week present our readers with three fresh communications upon the subject. We give precedence to MISS BOCKETT'S, inasmuch as it involves no general proposal upon the subject, but is merely expressive of that lady's willingness, in which we have no doubt she will be followed by many of her countrywomen to help forward the good work. In your Num
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