NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.
| No. 217. | Saturday, December 24. 1853 |
Price Fourpence Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
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Folk Lore in the Reign of King James I. | |
The Ballad of Sir Hugh, &c. | |
Pennsylvanian Folk Lore: Christmas | |
County Rhymes | |
Legends of the County Clare: Fuenvicouil (Fingal) and the Giant, by Frances Robert Davies | |
Folk Lore Miscellanies:—Yorkshire Tradition—Custom on St. Thomas's Day—Custom on Innocents' Day—Marriage Custom at Knutsford, Cheshire—Folk Lore in Hampshire—Propitiating the Fairies—Cornish Folk Lore—King Arthur in the Form of a Raven—St. Clement's Apple Feast in Staffordshire—New Year's Eve and New Year's Day | |
Minor Notes:—Carlist Calembourg—Jewish Custom—Lachlan Macleane—German Tree—The late Duke | |
Queries:— | |
The Story of Crispin and Crispianus, by J. Davies Devlin | |
Minor Queries:—Barrels Regiment—Okey the Regicide—Lady Mason's Third Husband—Creation of Knights—Martyn the Regicide—History of the Nonjurors—Florin and the Royal Arms—A Mistletoe Query | |
Minor Queries With Answers:—Sewell Family—Greek Epigram—Translations from Æschylus—Prince Memnon's Sister—"Oh! for a blast," &c.—Robin Hood's Festival—Church in Suffolk | |
Replies:— | |
Children called Imps | |
The Divining Rod | |
Change of Meaning in Proverbial Expressions, &c. | |
Sneezing, by Francis John Scott, &c. | |
Books burned by the common Hangman, by W. Fraser, &c. | |
Jews in China, by T.J. Buckton | |
Poetical Tavern Signs | |
The Curfew, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Photographic Engraving—Collodion Negatives | |
Replies To Minor Queries:—"London Labour and the London Poor"—Felicia Hemans's inedited Lyric—Sir Arthur Aston—Grammar in relation to Logic—Descendants of Milton—Pronunciation of Bible Names—Henry I.'s Tomb—Bells at Berwick-upon-Tweed—Return of Gentry, temp. Henry VI.—Peter Allan—Burial in an erect Posture—The Word "Mob"—Gen. Sir C. Napier—To Come—Passage in Sophocles—Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century—Judges styled Reverend—Veneration for the Oak—Rapping no Novelty | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents | |
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