NOTES AND QUERIES:

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No. 205.] Saturday, October 1. 1853. [Price Fourpence.
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CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
The Groaning-board, a Story of the Days of Charles II., by Dr. E. F. Rimbault[309]
The Etymology of the Word "Awkward"[310]
Inedited Poem—"The Deceitfulness of Love," by Chris. Roberts[311]
Bale MSS., referred to in Tanner's "Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica," by Sir F. Madden[311]
Charles Fox and Gibbon[312]
Samuel Williams[312]
Shakspeare Correspondence, by Samuel Hickson, &c.[313]
Minor Notes:—Doings of the Calf's Head Club—Epitaph by Wordsworth—Tailor's "Cabbage"—Misquotations—The Ducking Stool—Watch-paper Inscription[315]
Queries:—
Birthplace of Gen. Monk, by F. Kyffin Lenthall[316]
Minor Queries:—Harmony of the Four Gospels—The Noel Family—Council of Trent—Roman Catholic Patriarchs—The "Temple Lands" in Scotland—Cottons of Fowey—Draught or Draft of Air—Admiral Sir Thomas Tyddeman—Pedigree Indices—Apparition of the White Lady—Rundlestone—Tottenham—Duval Family—Noses of the Descendants of John of Gaunt—General Wall—John Daniel and Sir Ambrose Nicholas Salter—Edward Bysshe—President Bradshaw and John Milton[316]
Minor Queries with Answers:—Ket the Tanner—"Namby-pamby"[318]
Replies:—
Editions of Books of Common Prayer, by the Rev. Thomas Lathbury, &c.[318]
The Crescent, by J. W. Thomas[319]
Seals of the Borough of Great Yarmouth[321]
Moon Superstitions, by J. N. Radcliffe and G. William Skyring[321]
Latin Riddle, by the Rev. Robert Gibbings[322]
"Hurrah!" by Sir J. E. Tennent and J. Sansom[323]
Photographic Correspondence:—Process for Printing on Albumenized Paper[324]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Anderson's Royal Genealogies—Thomas Wright of Durham—Weather Predictions—Bacon's Essays: Bullaces—Nixon the Prophet—Parochial Libraries—"Ampers and," &c.—The Arms of De Sissonne—St. Patrick's Purgatory—Sir George Carr—Gravestone Inscription—"A Tub to the Whale"—Hour-glasses in Pulpits—Slow-worm Superstition—Sincere—Books chained to Desks in Churches: Seven Candlesticks—D. Ferrand: French Patois—Wood of the Cross—'Ladies' Arms in a Lozenge—Burial in unconsecrated Ground—Table-turning—"Well's a fret"—Tenet for Tenent[326]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[330]
Notices to Correspondents[330]
Advertisements[331]