[** Transcriber's note. I used the Unicode combiningdiacritical to indicate a long o in Hæreseos.In the note on Parish Register's Tax, I could not make out onesuperscript;I have left it as an asterisk. I also could not make outpart of the text in "HOWKEY or HORKEY"; I have left the unreadabletext as a row of asterisks. **]

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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—Statistics1
• The Hudibrastic Verse, by S.W. Singer3
• Custom of presenting Gloves, by Jas. Crosby4
• Folk Lore: Exhumation of Body ominous to Family of the Deceased—Suffolk Folk Lore—Cure for Fits—Bible and Key4
• Notes on Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ, &c., by J.E.B. Mayor5
• Unpublished Epigrams in the British Museum6
• On Authors and Books, No. 7., by Bolton Corney6

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• Punishment of Death by Burning6
• Cornelis Drebble6
• Verses attributed to Charles Yorke7
• Cultivation of Geometry in Lancashire8
• Asinorum Sepultura by W.B. MacCabe8
• Minor Queries:—Ransom of an English Nobleman—When does Easter end?—Carucate of Land—Members forCalais—Members forDurham—Leicester and the reputed Poisonersof his Time—Lord John Townshend's PoeticalWorks—MartelloTowers—Mynyddyslwyn—...