NOTES AND QUERIES:

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


"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.


No. 20.SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1850.Price Threepence.
Stamped Edition 4d.

CONTENTS.

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Alfred's Geography of Europe, by S.W. Singer[313]
The First Coffee Houses in England, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D.[314]
True Tragedy of Richard III.[315]
Folk-Lore—Merry Lwyd—Deathbed Superstition[315]
Passage in L'Allegro—Milton's Minor Poems[316]
Doctor Dobbs—Golden Age of Magazines[316]
Use of Beaver Hats in England, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D.[317]
Extracts from Old Records, by R. Cole[317]
QUERIES:—
Queries on Outline[318]
Christ's Hospital—Old Songs once popular there[318]
Watching the Sepulchre, &c.[318]
Minor Queries:—Conrad of Salisbury—Peruse orPervise—Cromlech—Meaning of Grummett—Vertue'sMSS.—Loscop—Ormonde House—As Morse caughtthe Mare—Dustpot, Forthlot—Tracts attributed toEachard—Queen of Hearts—Guildhalls—VoxPopuli—Use of Coffins—Rococo—Howlet theEngraver—The Bear, &c.[319]
REPLIES:—
Letter attributed to Sir R. Walpole[321]
College Salting[321]
Junius[322]
White Hart Inn, Scole[323]
Parkership, Porkership, Pokership[323]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Coleridge's Christabel—SirWilliam Rider—God tempers the Wind—ComplutensianPolyglot—Tickhill—Bishop Blaise—Sangred—JudasBell—La Mer des Histoires[324]
MISCELLANIES:—
Tale of a Tub—A Genius—Dedications[326]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.[326]
Notices to Correspondents[326]
Advertisements[327]