LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1862.

CONTENTS. —No. 1.

Our Third Series, 1.

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NOTES: -Memoir of William Oldys, Esq., Norroy-King-at-

Arms, 1-Archbishop Leighton's Library at Dunblane,

8-Toland, 6-America before Columbus ?7 - The "Cot-

greave" Forgeries of the late W. S. Spence, 8.

MINOR NOTES:- Cowell's Interpreter condemned

Note to the "Voyages of Sir Francis Drake and Sir Thomas

Cavendish" The Saturday Half-Holiday - Petronius

Arbiter-Armorial Glass, temp. James I., 9.

QUERIES: -Wells City Seals and their Symbols, 10-

Avignon Inscriptions- Passage in Bossuet - English Am

bassadors to France - Epigrams on the Popes of Rome'

&c.- A Giant found at St. Bees Italian Proverbs -Sir

Henry Langford, Bart.-Lee of Quarendon-Mrs. Mur-

ray- Paper Money at Leyden-Pascha's Pilgrimage to

Palestine Peace Congress proposed in 1693 - Prayer

Book of 1604-Dr, Richard Sibbes-Standgate Hole-

Stonehenge-St. Napoleon, 11.

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The Ass

QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:- Sir Francis Page-

and the Ladder-Legends of the Wandering Jew-Quo-

tation, 13.

REPLIES:- Epitome of the Lives of the Kings of France,

14-Earthquakes in England: Uriconium, 15-Biblical

Literature: William Capenter-Article "Use and Have"

- Representations in Sculpture of the First Person of the

Holy Trinity-Enthusiasm in favour of Hampden-Mu-

tilation of Sepulchral Memorials - Newtons of Whitby-

Dr. Arne's Father-Clergyman's Right to take the Chair

-St. Benigne, Dijon-Neil Douglas James Glassford

Peter Watkinson Owtrem Sir Richard Shelley-

Sir James Pemberton-Churchwardens-The Sleepers, 17.

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