Replies to Minor Queries:--Countess of Pembroke's Epitaph--Court Dress--Ex Pede Herculem--Day of the Accession of Richard III.--Tennyson's "In Memoriam"--Cardinal Azzolin--Babington's Conspiracy--Robert de Welle--Family of Sir John Banks--Charles Lamb's Epitaph--Quebeça and his Epitaph--The Frozen Horn--West Chester--Registry of Dissenters--Poem upon the Grave--Round Robin--Derivation of the Word "Yankee"--Letters on the British Museum--Names of the Ferret--Anonymous Ravennas--The Lion, a Symbol of the Resurrection--Paring the Nails, &c.--Meaning of Gig-Hill--The Mistletoe on the Oak--Spelling of "Britannicus"--T. Gilbert on Clandestine Marriages--Dog's Head in the Pot--Pope Joan--"Nettle in Dock out"--Mind your P's and Q's--Lay of the Last Minstrel--Tingry--Sabbatical and Jubilee Years of the Jews--Luncheon--Prophecy respecting the Discovery or America--Shakespeare's Designation of Cleopatra--Harlequins--Christ's-cross Row, &c. 456 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 470 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 470 Notices to Correspondents 471 Notes. EDMUND BURKE, AND THE "ANNUAL REGISTER." That Burke wrote the _Annual Registers_ for Dodsley for some period after its commencement, is well known, but no one has yet distinctly stated when his participation in that work ceased. Mr. Prior, in his _Life of Burke_, places in his list of his writings: "_Annual Register_, at first the whole work, afterwards only the Historical Article, 1758," &c. He also states that "many of the sketches of contemporary history were written from his immediate dictation for about thirty years," and that "latterly a Mr. Ireland wrote much of it under Mr. Burke's immediate direction." (_Life_, vol. i. p. 85. edit. 1826.)