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ne--The Badger--Ecclesiastical Year--Sir William Coventry--The Shrew--Chip in Porridge--Temple Stanyan--Tandem--As lazy as Ludlum's Dog--Peal of Bells--Sir Robert Long--Dr. Whichcot and Lord Shaftesbury--Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston--Gray's Alcaic Ode--Abbey of St. Wandrille--London Dissenting Ministers--Dutch Language--Marylebone Gardens--Toom Shawn Cattie--Love's Last Shift--Cheshire-round--Why is an Earwig called a "Coach-bell?"--Chrysopolis--Pimlico, &c. 381

REPLIES:-- Blunder in Malone's Shakspeare 386 Hints to intending Editors 386 Replies to Minor Queries:--Depinges--Lærig--Vox et præterea Nihil--Havior--Mowbray Coheirs--Sir R. Walpole--Line quoted by De Quincey--Quem Jupiter, &c.--Bernicia--Cæsar's Wife, &c. 387

MISCELLANIES:-- Franz von Sickingen--Body and Soul--Laissez faire--College Salting--Byron and Tacitus--Pardonere and Frere--Mistake in Gibbon 389

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 390 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 390 Notices to Correspondents 391 Advertisements 392

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SKINNER'S LIFE OF MONK.

Reading for a different purpose in the domestic papers of Charles II.'s reign in the State Paper Office, I came upon a letter from Thomas Skinner, dated Colchester, Jan. 30. 1677, of which I will give you what I have preserved in my notes; and that is all that is of any interest.

It is a letter to the Secretary of State, asking for employment, and recommending himself by what he had done for Monk's memory. He had previously written some account of Monk, and he describes an interview with Lord Bath (the Sir John Grenville of the Restoration); in which his Lordship expressed his approval of the book.

"He [Lord Bath] professed himself so well satisfied, that he was pleased to tell me there were two persons, viz. the King and the Duke of Albemarle, that would find some reason to reflect upon me."

Lord Bath gives Skinner a letter to the Duke of Albemarle (Monk's son), who receives him

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