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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

CONTENTS.

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• Parish Registers—Statistics 1
• The Hudibrastic Verse, by S.W. Singer 3
• Custom of presenting Gloves, by Jas. Crosby 4
• Folk Lore: Exhumation of Body ominous to Family of the Deceased—Suffolk Folk Lore—Cure for Fits—Bible and Key 4
• Notes on Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ, &c., by J.E.B. Mayor 5
• Unpublished Epigrams in the British Museum 6
• On Authors and Books, No. 7., by Bolton Corney 6

QUERIES:—

• Punishment of Death by Burning 6
• Cornelis Drebble 6
• Verses attributed to Charles Yorke 7
• Cultivation of Geometry in Lancashire 8
• Asinorum Sepultura by W.B. MacCabe 8
• Minor Queries:—Ransom of an English Nobleman—When does Easter end?—Carucate of Land—Members for Calais—Members for Durham—Leicester and the reputed Poisoners of his Time—Lord John Townshend's Poetical Works—Martello Towers—Mynyddyslwyn—Three Dukes—Bishops and their Precedence—Guineas—Parish