Vol. IV.—No. 88.NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

Our Fourth Volume 1

The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books, by Sir F. Madden 1

Folk Lore:—Stanton Drew and its Tradition, by David Stevens 3

Minor Notes:—The Hon. Spencer Perceval—An Adventurer in 1632—Almanacs 4

Ghost Stories, by the Rev. Dr. Maitland 5

A Book of Enzinas, or Dryander, wanted, by Benjamin B. Wiffen 5

Salting the Bodies of the Dead, by W. B. MacCabe 6

Minor Queries:—The Star in the East—Meaning of Sinage: Distord: Slander—Miss—Jacques Mabiotte—Registry of British Subjects abroad—Shawls—Figures of Saints—Conceyted Letters, who wrote?—Acta Sanctorum—Pope's "honest Factor"—Meaning of "Nervous"—Doomsday Book of Scotland 6

MINOR QUERIESANSWERED:—Dr. Sacheverell—Princess Wilbrahama—Early Visitations 8

Written Sermons, by J. Bruce, &c. 8

Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 9

Dr. Elrington's Edition of Ussher's Works, by the Rev. Dr. Todd 10

Replies to Minor Queries:—Mind your P's and Q's— Serius Seriadesque—Catharine Barton—Alterius Orbis Papa—Charles Dodd—"Prenzie"—"In Print" —Introduction of Reptiles into Ireland—Ancient Wood Engraving of the Picture of Cebes—"The Groves of Blarney"—Tennyson's Lord of Burleigh —Bicêtre—On a Passage in Dryden—Derivation of Yankee—Ferrante Pallavicino 11

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 13

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 14...