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WILLIS'S

CURRENT NOTES:

A SERIES OF ARTICLES

ON

Antiquities, Biography, Beraldry, Bistory, Languages,
Literature, Natural Bistory, Curious Customs, Kr.,

SELECTED FROM

ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS

ADDRESSED DURING THE YEAR

1855,

TO THE PUBLISHER,

GEORGE WILLIS,

GREAT PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.

MDCCCLVI.

TBARY

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Concordance, the earliest English, 8.
Condog, 12.

Amadis de Gaule, early editions, 95-96. Constable's White Horse, 28.

American Presidents, 22.
Angelo's Reminiscences, 39.
Anti-Jacobin Poetry quoted, 83.
Arctic armorial distinction, 65.
Army abuses, (by Erskine)? 3.
Associations, Literary and Scientific,

40.

Assuanlee Cup, 51.
Atlantidis Reliquiem, 2.

Atossa, characterised by Pope, 14.
Baal-Zephon, the god of the North, 29.
Bacon, on early Education, 88.
Bayle's Dictionary defined, 35.
*Bedford, First Duke, signature, 18.
Belfry rhymes, 7, 19, 36.

Bell inscriptions, 19, 30, 85.

*Bell marks, 29.

Best's Poems? 20; reply, 27.
Bill nor ban? 56.

Biographical History suggested, 34.

Black-book of Scone, 4.

Blenheim palace stone, 79.

Blessington on Society, 86.
Blood-hound noticed, 38.
Boccaccio and Chaucer, 52.
Book Inscriptions, 44.
Broomes, New Broomes! 69.
Bunyan's descendant, 94.
Burial customs, 44, 45.
Burney's Apologetical lines, 38.
Butler's Hudibras misquoted, 3.
Camden Society? 2; reply, 14.
Carnival assassinations, 38.
Charles I., bronze statue, 17.
Charles and Henrietta Maria? 71.
Chaucer's Miller's Tale, 52.
Chinese Mythology, 59.
Christ Cross rhyme, 86.

Churchyards, north side unhallowed,
24, 31.

Clever, uses of the word, 23, 38, 47.
Coinage, 1854, 48.

Copernicus opposed to the Bible, 88.
Cowper's death, verses on, 5.
Covent Garden Market, 17.
Croft's Musica Sacra, 72.
Cromberger, early printer, 95.
Culloden relics, 75.

Cur morietur Homo, etc? 44; replies,
see Schola Salernitana
Cutler's poetry? 56; replies, 56, 66,
75, 92.

Dante, Paradiso, quoted, 97.
Dagger attached to sword, 38.
Debt of Nature, 64.
Dialects in the World, 56.
Dispraise of Women, 49.
Doom-Well of St. Madron, 93.
Dorchester Roman Vase, 21.
Dorchester Antiquities, 45.
Douglas' Praise of Heraldry, 29.
D'Oyley Family? 14.
Ducking-stool, Scotland, 98.
D'Urfey portrait, 81.
Easter Court Frolics, 24.

Edmondson's Manuscripts? reply, 47.
Edward I., Coinage of, 34.
Edward VI. legend on Shilling, 1.
*Effigy in Airlie kirk, 4.
English Epistolary Correspondence, 24.
Epitaphs, 36, 63, 64, 71, 72, 82, 85,
97.

Exeter Change? reply, 31.
Falstaff's Praise of Sack, 70.
Fastradana; Monumental Inscription
explained, 86.

Feast of Tabernacles? reply, 35.

French Newspapers, 8.
Froissart statue, 37.

*Galloway rock inscription? 90.
Garrick, verses to, 1.

Garrick Club inauguration, 55.
Garter-badge, worn by the Emperor
Nicholas, 40.

Gay's Shepherd's Week quoted, 6.
Genoa, Duke of; public library, 75.
*Glamis' Castle tradition, 19.
Gray, Lord, asserted sacrilege refuted,

11.

Grotesque in Churches, 42.

Hampton Court Theatricals, 49, 50.
Handel Commemoration, 38.
Henry Vth, Embarkation, 40.
Henry VIIIth, Irish groats, 16.
Highland wives, 23.

Honour and Fame? 56.

*Hornbooks described, 75-78, 86.
Hornbook of Jacobite Toasts, 18.
Hoyle Family notes, 31, 40, 41.
Hume, Joseph, early career, 47.
Immaculate Conception, 64.
Infant Sleeping, verses on, 100.
Ingledew Family? 51; replies, 64, 65.
Inscribed Wall rhymes, 69.

Inveni portum, etc.? 36.
*Inverquharity castle, 62.
Invocation to the Virgin, 56, 63, 64,
70, 71.

Ipswich Arms grant, 80.
Ireland, William Henry, 98.
Jacobite Toasts hornbook, 18.
Jacobite Mementoes, 75.
Johnsonian advice, 85.
King's Cup-bearer, 11, 12.
Kirby Family notes, 61.
Kneller's Jocosery, 26.

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