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No. 81. | Saturday, May 17. 1851. | Price Threepence |
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Illustrations of Chaucer, No. VI. | |
Dutch Folk-lore | |
Minor Notes:—Verses in Pope: "Bug" or "Bee"—Rub-a-dub—Quotations—Minnis—Brighton—Voltaire's Henriade | |
Queries:— | |
The Blake Family, by Hepworth Dixon | |
Minor Queries:—John Holywood the Mathematician—Essay on the Irony of Sophocles—Meaning of Mosaic —Stanedge Pole—Names of the Ferret—Colfabias—School of the Heart—Milton and the Calves-head Club—David Rizzio's Signature—Lambert Simnel: Was this his real Name?—Honor of Clare, Norfolk—Sponge—Babington's Conspiracy—Family of Sir John Banks—Meaning of Sewell—Abel represented with Horns | |
Minor Queries Answered:—The Fifteen O's—Meaning of Pightle—Inscription on a Guinea of George III. —Meaning of Crambo | |
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John Tradescant probably an Englishman, and his Voyage to Russia in 1618, by S. W. Singer | ... |