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NOTES:-- Page Daniel Defoe and his Ghost Stories 241 Pet Names, by Rev. B.H. Kennedy 242 Lacedaemonian Black Broth 243 A Hint to Intending Editors 243 Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault 244 Folk Lore--Easter Eggs--Buns--Gloucestershire Custom--Curious Custom 244

QUERIES:-- White Hart Inn, Scole, by C.H. Cooper 245 On Passages in Pope 245 Belvoir Castle 246 Minor Queries:--Dr. Hugh Todd's MSS.--French Leave--Portugal--Tureen--Military Execution-- Change of Name--Symbolism of Fir Cone--Kentish Ballad--Monumental Brass--A Tickhill Man-- Bishop Blaize--Vox et praeterea Nihil--Cromwell Relics--Lines on Woman's Will 246

REPLIES:-- AElfric's Colloquy, by S.W. Singer and C.W.G. 248 Antony Alsop 249 Replies to Minor Queries:--Origin of Snob--Bishop Burnet--Circulation of the Blood--Genealogy of European Sovereigns--Sir Stephen Fox--French Maxim--Shipster--Spars--Cosmopolis--Complutensian Polyglot--Christmas Hymn--Sir J. Wyattville-- Peruse--Autograph Mottoes--Boduc--Annus Trabeationis 250

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 254 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 255 Notices to Correspondents 255 Advertisements 256

DANIEL DE FOE AND HIS GHOST STORIES.

Mrs. Bray adds--

Such is Mrs. Bray's account of these very curious circumstances. The ghost story inserted in Gilbert, as mentioned above, is altogether so much in the style of De Foe, that a doubt remains whether, after all, he may not have been the author of it. Can "D.S.," or any of your readers, throw further light on the subject?

D.S.Y.

PET-NAMES.

BENJ. H. KENNEDY.

Shrewsbury, Feb. 2. 1850.

LACEDAEMONIAN BLACK BROTH.

If your readers are not already as much disgusted with Spartan Black Broth as Dionysius was with the first mouthful, I beg leave to submit a few supplementary words to the copious indications of your correspondents "R.O." and "W."

Selden says:--

"Each person at table had as much barley-bread as he could eat; swine's-flesh, or some other meat, to eat with it, with which the famous black-sauce was given round, and to close the meal, olives, figs, and cheese."

In a note he continues:--

"JUS ALEXANDRINUM IN PISCE ASSO.

"Piper, cepam siccam, ligusticum, cuminum, orignum, apii semen, pruna damascena enucleata; passum, liquamen, defrutum, oleum, et coques."

This only expresses the simplicity of Spartan cookery in general.

S.W.S.

A HINT TO INTENDING EDITORS.

R.R.

Lincoln's Inn.

NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HAND-BOOK OF LONDON.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

NASO.

FOLK LORE.

When the many identities which existed between Druidism and Magianism are considered, we can hardly doubt that this Persian commemoration of the Creation originated our Easter-eggs.

G.J.

G.J.

J.T.

QUERIES.

WHITE HART INN, SCOLE.

"Osmondeston, or Schole. The inn here was once remarkable for a pompous sign, with ridiculous ornaments, and is said to have cost a thousand pounds; long since decayed."

I shall be glad to be referred to any other notices of this sign, and am desirous of knowing if any drawing or engraving of it be extant.

C.H. COOPER.

Cambridge, 21st Jan. 1850.

PASSAGES FROM POPE.

I would also, in reference to Pope, beg leave to propound another query.

J.W.C.

Feb 12. 1850.

"Fancy and art in gay Petronius please, The scholar's learning with the courtier's ease."

I find no note on the lines either in the edition of Warton, 9 vols. 8vo., London, 1797, or in Cary's royal 8vo., London, 1839; but the similarity strikes me as curious, and deserving further examination.

C. FORBES.

Temple.

BELVOIR CASTLE.

"That part of the more ancient building, which was left by both unaltered, is included in the following concise description by an ingenious writer, who visited it in 1722:--

'AEdes in culmine montis sitae, scilicet, '

The description goes on for a few more lines; but it matters not to continue them. I should be much obliged by any of your readers giving an account of who this "ingenious writer" was, and on what authority he founded the foregoing observations, as it is a subject of much interest to me and others at the present time.

ALYTHES.

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