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Vol. IV.—No. 95. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. CONTENTS. Notes.

THE PENDULUM DEMONSTRATION OF THE EARTH'S ROTATION. Minor Notes.

The Day of the Month. Foreign English. Birds' Care for the Dead. Snake's Antipathy to Fire. Aldgate, London. (A Note for London Antiquaries) Erroneous Scripture Quotations.

Queries.

THE LADY ELIZABETH HORNER OR MONTGOMERY. POPE AND FLATMAN. Minor Queries.

80. Southampton Brasses. 81. Borough-English. 82. Passage in St. Bernard. 83. Spenser's Faerie Queene (b. ii. c. ix. st. 22.).— 84. Broad Halfpenny Down. 85. Roll Pedigree of Howard, of Great Howard, Co. Lancaster. 86. Rev. John Paget, of Amsterdam. 87. Visiting Cards. 88. Duke de Berwick and Alva. 89. The Earl of Derwentwater. 90. "But very few have seen the Devil." 91. Aulus Gellius' Description of a Dimple. 92. Forgotten Authors of the Seventeenth Century.

Minor Queries Answered.

Sundays, on what Days of the Month? John Lilburne.

Replies.

"LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL." (Vol. iii., p. 464.) MEANING OF "PRENZIE." (Vol. iv., pp. 63, 64.) HOUSE OF YVERY. (Vol. iii., p. 101.) QUEEN BRUNÉHAUT. (Vol. iv., p. 86) LORD MAYOR NOT A PRIVY COUNCILLOR. (Vol. iv., p. 9.) COWPER OR COOPER. (Vol. iv., pp. 24.93) Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. Notices to Correspondents.