Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 74 pages of information about Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850.

Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 74 pages of information about Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850.

WILLIAM CAMDEN, CLARENCEUX KING OF ARMS, from the Picture in the possession of the Earl of Clarendon.

SIR ANTHONY SHIRLEY, AMBASSADOR FROM THE COURT OF PERSIA TO JAMES I., from the Original Miniature by Peter Oliver.

HENRY CAREY, LORD FALKLAND, LORD DEPUTY OF IRELAND, from the Original by VANSOMER, formerly in the Strawberry Hill Collection.

SIR ROBERT DUDLEY, SON OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER, from the Original Miniature by N. HILLIARD, in the possession of Lord De l’Isle and Dudley.

THE RIGHT HON.  WILLIAM LENTHALL, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, from a Miniature by J. COOPER, in the possession of R.S.  Holford, Esq.

MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE, from the Original Picture in the Collection of F. Vernon Wentworth, Esq.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE, M.D., of NORWICH, from an Original Picture in the College of Physicians, London.

SIR CHARLES SCARBOROUGH, M.D., PHYSICIAN TO CHARLES II., JAMES II., and WILLIAM III., from the Original Picture in the Barber-Surgeons’ Hall.

FLORA MACDONALD, from the Original by A. RAMSAY, 1749, in the Picture Gallery, Oxford.

M.M.  HOLLOWAY, 25.  BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF VENERABLE BEDE,

Collected and edited by the Rev. Dr. GILES, comprising the COMMENTARY ON HOLY SCRIPTURE, ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, HOMILIES, TRACTS, LETTERS, POEMS, LIFE, &c. &c., in Latin and English.—­Also,

THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS AND LIFE OF BEDE,

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“A new edition of Bede’s Works is now published by Dr. Giles, who has made a discovery amongst the MS. treasures which can scarcely fail of presenting the venerable Anglo-Saxon’s Homilies in a far more trustworthy form than the press has hitherto produced them.”—­Soames’s Edition of Mosheim’s Note, vol. ii. p 142.

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