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No. 31.] Saturday, June 1. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:--
Parish Registers--Statistics 1
The Hudibrastic Verse, by S.W. Singer 3
Custom of presenting Gloves, by Jas. Crosby 4
Folk Lore: Exhumation of Body ominous to Family
of the Deceased--Suffolk Folk Lore--Cure for Fits--Bible and Key 4
Notes on Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ, &c., by J.E.B. Mayor 5
Unpublished Epigrams in the British Museum 6
On Authors and Books, No. 7., by Bolton Corney 6

QUERIES:--
Punishment of Death by Burning 6
Cornelis Drebble 6