Vol. V.—No. 125.NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 265

John Tradescant the Younger, an Englishman 266

Cowley and his Monument, by Henry Campkin 267

Count Königsmark and the Duchess of Somerset, by D. Jardine 269

Folk Lore, by C. D. Lamont 270

London Street Characters, by Alfred Gatty 270

Minor Notes:—Dean Swift on Herbert's Travels—Joe Miller—Hints to Book-buyers—Birmingham Antiquities—Buchanan and Voltaire—Indignities on the Bodies of Suicides 271

"God's Love," &c., and other Poems 272

Praying to the Devil 273

Minor Queries:—JohnAp Rice's Register—Prideaux's Doctrine of Conscience—John Adair, Geographer for Scotland (alive in 1715)—Clergymen first styled Reverend—Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes—Meaning of the word "Elvan"—Wiclif—Showing the White Feather—Gray and Locke—Horses and Sheep, Remains of in Churches—Archæologia Cambrensis, Vol. I., Reprint—Presbyterian Oath—"A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Box"—Cromwell's Skull—Guy, Thomas, Founder of Guy's Hospital, and M.P. for the Borough for Tamworth, d. s. p. 1724—Episcopal Mitre—John Lord Berkeley, Bishop of Ely—Palace of Lucifer—Ecclesiastical Geography—History of Commerce—Merchant Adventurers to Spain—King's College Chapel Windows—The King's Standard—James Wilson, M.D. 273

MINORQUERIESANSWERED:—Prestwich's Respublica—Instance of Longevity—Solidus Gallicus,&c.—Sept—Essay towards Catholic Communion—Bigot 276