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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.

No. 169.Saturday, January 22. 1853.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Blackguard, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent[77]
Predictions of the Fire and Plague of London, No. I., by T. Sternberg[79]
Notes and Queries on Bacon's Essays, No. II., by P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.[80]
Folk Lore:—Irish Superstitious Customs—Charm for Warts—The Devil—"Winter Thunder," &c.[81]
Malta the Burial-place of Hannibal[81]
Minor Notes:—Waterloo—"Tuch"—The Dodo—Francis I.[82]
Queries:—
Dr. Anthony Marshall[83]
Lindis, Meaning of[83]
Minor Queries:—Smock Marriage in New York—The broken Astragalus—Penardo and Laissa—St. Adulph—St. Botulph—Tennyson—"Ma Ninette," &c.—Astronomical Query—Chaplains to Noblemen—"More" Queries—Heraldic Query—"By Prudence guided," &c.—Lawyers' Bags—Master Family—Passage in Wordsworth—Govett Family—Sir Kenelm Digby—Riddles—Straw Bail—Wages in the West in 1642—Literary Frauds of Modern Times[84]
Minor Queries with Answers:—"Very like a Whale"—Wednesday a Litany Day—"Thy Spirit, Independence," &c.—"Hob and nob," Meaning of[86]
Replies:—
Wellesley Pedigree, by John D'Alton[87]
Consecrated Rings for Epilepsy[88]
Turner's View of Lambeth Palace, by J. Walter, &c.[89]
Etymological Traces of the social Position of our Ancestors, by C. Forbes, &c.[90]
Goldsmiths' Year-marks, by W. Chaffers, Jun., and H. T. Ellacombe[90]
Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A.[91]
Photographic Notes and Queries:—Originator of the Collodion Process—Mr. Weld Taylor's Process—Dr. Diamond's Services to Photography—Simplification of the Wax-paper Process[92]
The Burial Service said by Heart, by Mackenzie Wallcott, M.A., &c.[94]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Mary Queen of Scots' Gold Cross—Jennings Family—Adamson's "England's Defence"—Chief Justice Thomas Wood—Aldiborontiphoscophornio—Statue of St. Peter at Rome—Old Silver Ornament—"Plurima, pauca, nihil"—"Pork-pisee" and "Wheale"—Did the Carians use Heraldic Devices?—Herbert Family—Children crying at Baptism, &c.[95]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[97]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[98]
Notices to Correspondents[98]
Advertisements[99]