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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. 170.Saturday, January 29. 1853.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Robertson's "Index of Charters"[101]
Cowper or Cooper, by George Daniel[102]
Yankee, its Origin and Meaning, by Dr. William Bell[103]
Shakspeare's Bedside, or the Doctors enumerated: a new Ballad, by James Cornish[104]
Folk Lore:—Cures for the Hooping Cough: Rubus fruticosus, Gryphea incurva, Donkey[104]
Minor Notes:—Epitaphs—Nostradamus on the Gold-diggings—Whimsical Bequest—The Orkneys in Pawn—Lord Duff's Toast[105]
Queries:—
The Meteoric Stone of the Thracian Chersonesus, by W. S. Gibson[105]
Banbury Cakes and Zeal[106]
Minor Queries:—Richardson or Murphy—Legend attached to Creeper in the Samoan Isles—Shearman Family—American Fisheries—Grindle—A Gentleman executed for whipping a Slave to Death—Brydone—"Clear the Decks for Bognie's Carriage"—London Queries—Scarf worn by Clergyman—Life of Queen Anne—Erasmus Smith—Croxton or Crostin of Lancashire—Grub Street Journal—Chaplain to the Princess Elizabeth—"The Snow-flake"[107]
Minor Queries with Answers:—Leamhuil or Lahoel—Orte's Maps, Edition of 1570—Prayer for the Recovery of George III.[108]
Replies:—
Mrs. Mackey's Poems[109]
Map of Ceylon, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent[110]
"Am, have, and will be:" Henry VIII., Act III. Sc. 2.[111]
Sir Henry Wotton's Letter to Milton[111]
Skull-caps versus Skull-cups, by Thomas Lawrence[112]
Inedited Poem by Pope[113]
Cibber's "Lives of the Poets," by W. L. Nichols[113]
English Comedians in the Netherlands[114]
La Bruyère, by J. Sansom[114]
Southey's Criticism upon St. Mathias' Day in Leap-year[115]
Photographic Notes and Queries:—Portable Camera for Travellers—The Albumen Process—Black Tints of French Photographers—Originator of the Collodion Process—Developing Paper Pictures with Pyrogallic Acid[116]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Waterloo—Irish Peerages—Martha Blount—Quotations wanted—Pepys's Morena—Goldsmiths' Year-marks—Turner's View of Lambeth Palace—"For God will be your King to-day"—Jennings Family—The Furze or Gorse in Scandinavia—Mistletoe—Inscription on a Dagger—Steevens—"Life is like a Game of Tables," &c.[117]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[120]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[120]
Notices to Correspondents[121]
Advertisements[121]