Sir Alexander Cumming 278 General Wolfe 279 Replies to Minor Queries:--Song of "Miss Bailey"--Fern Storms--The Last of the Paleologi--"Whipping Graves"--Rev. John Paget--Old Scots March, &c.--Sir R. Howard's "Conquest of China"--Mary Howe--Dutch Chronicle of the World--Thistle of Scotland--Bull the Barrel--Bishop Kidder's Autobiography--Which are the Shadows?--Welsh Names "Blaen"--The Verb "to commit"--Beócera-gent--New Zealand Legend--Twenty-seven Children--Reeve and Muggleton--Black Book of Paisley--Pasquinades--Elegy on Coleman--Liber Conformitatum, &c.--Grimesdyke; Grimes Graves--Junius and the Quarterly Review again--Ink--Maps of Africa--Learned Men of the Name of Bacon--Paringthe Nails--Mottoes on Dials--Mispronounced Names of Places--"There's ne'er a villain," &c. 280 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 285 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 286 Notices to Correspondents 286 Advertisements 287 Notes. THE CAXTON COFFER. [_Proposals of Mr. Randal Minshull, c. 1742._[1]] [Footnote 1: This document, though before printed, is as rare as a manuscript. Dibdin had not seen it when he wrote his memoir of Caxton, nor could he prove its existence but by a reference to the _Bibliotheca Westiana_. It is now reprinted from a copy in the Grenville collection in the British Museum. The specimen is a small folio, in pica type, and on thin laid paper. As my information on Mr. Randal Minshull is at present very scanty, I reserve it with the hope of more fortunate gleanings.--BOLTON CORNEY.] "Proposals for printing an exact and ample account of all the books printed by William Caxton, who was the first printer in England: wherein will be set forth some select chapters from each book, to shew the nature and diction thereof, with all his proems, prologues, epilogues, and tables, in his own words. There will be also interspersed several ancient and curious matters relating to the history of England, and other curious subjects: with a vocabulary of the old English words, and an explanation of them, which will greatly illustrate the ancient English language, as it was written in the reign of Edward III. and continued down to Henry VII. kings of England, as contained in the writings of Thomas Woodstock duke of Glocester, Anthony Woodville earl Rivers, John Gower, Geoffry Chaucer, John Lydgate, and other famous persons. "By R. Minshull, library-keeper to the right honourable the earl of Oxford deceas'd.