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QUERIES:- Ranting, Roaring Willie'-Horton-Source of Quotation Wanted-Bolognian Enigma-Feast of St. George -Jubilee of George III.-Marson of Holborn-Creature Drink, 7-West-Lee, King of the Gipsies-Society of Friendly Brothers-La Russie Juive'-Scotland and Liberal- ism-Mackenzie's Manuscript-Pre-Existence-Matemans- Pillory-Irish Privy Council Records-Reprint of the First Folio-Orestes Brownson-John Frost-Cargo-Country not one in a hundred of these "Celtic" claims is REPLIES:-Religious Orders, 10-Bunhill Fields, 11-"De- fence, not Defiance," 12-'Plea for the Midsummer Fairies' -Goldwyer, 13-Jacob the Apostle-Earthquakes-Sir T. Erpingham, 14-Brougham-Precedence in Church-Hugue- not Families-Owner of Coat of Arms-Orpen-Yam-Anti- gugler-Jordeloo-Bluestockingism-Pycroft's 'Oxford Me- moirs,' 15-"Another guess -Wordsworth-Nocturnal Noises-Sitwell, 16-Baroness Bellasis-To Rally-Nom de plume"-Arabella Churchill-Arms of Sir Francis Drake, 17-First Principles of Philology-A Pair of Kidderminster Swanns-Motto of Waterton Family-Scarlett: Anglin, 18 -Eddystone-Hampshire Plant-Names, 19. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Lumby's 'Ranulphi Higden Poly- chronicon, Vol. IX.-Burrows's Family of Brocas of Beaurepaire-Benham's Dictionary of Religion-Brand's I am sorry to see that MR. ADDY (7th S. iii. 421) is infected with the craze for discovering traces of Celtic occupation in English local names. MR. ADDY comes to the astounding conclusion that there existed, side by side with the English and Danish villages, settlements inhabited exclusively by Celts, who kept themselves entirely distinct from ever substantiated does not seem to discourage MR. ADDY'S offences are not so grave as those of the average "Celtic" advocate. He wisely lets Welsh alone. But it is, nevertheless, a phono- logical offence to derive the surname Bright from the A.-S. Bryt, a Briton. This A.-S. Bryt is a very exceptional designation for a Welshman. He is mostly a Wealh; sometimes, to distinguish him - (see Cart. Sax.,' ii. 72, 37; 595, 32), that is, the well of |