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NOTES AND QUERIES:
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| No. 237. | Saturday, May 13. 1854 |
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CONTENTS.
Notes:— | Page |
"Shakspeare's Rime which he made at the Mytre," by Dr. E. F. Rimbault | |
Rous, the Sottish Psalmist, Provost of Eton College: and his Will, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe | |
Original English Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by William Winthrop | |
Disease among Cattle, by Thos. Nimmo | |
Popiana, by Harry Leroy Temple | |
Hampshire Folk Lore, by Eustace W. Jacob | |
The most curious Book in the World | |
Minor Notes:—Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of Geo. III.—Copernicus—First Instance of Bribery amongst Members of Parliament—Richard Brinsley Sheridan—Publican's Invitation—Bishop Burnet again!—Old Custom preserved in Warwickshire—English Diplomacy v. Russian | |
Queries:— | |
Ancient Tenure of Lands, by A. J. Dunkin | |
Owen Rowe the Regicide | |
Writings of the Martyr Bradford, by the Rev. A. Townsend | |
Minor Queries:—Courtney Family—"The Shipwrecked Lovers"—Sir John Bingham—Proclamation for making Mustard—Judges practising at Bar—Celebrated Wagers—"Pay me tribute, or else——"—"A regular Turk"—Benj. Rush—Per Centum Sign—Burial Service Tradition—Jean Bart's Descent on Newcastle—Madame de Staël—Honoria, Daughter of Lord Denny—Hospital of John of Jerusalem—Heiress of Haddon Hall—Monteith—Vandyking—Hiel the Bethelite—Earl of Glencairn—Willow Bark in Ague—"Perturbabantur," &c. | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Seamen's Tickets—Bruce, Robert—Coronation Custom—William Warner—"Isle of Beauty"—Edmund Lodge—King John | |
Replies:— | |
Has Execution by Hanging been survived? by William Bates | |
Coleridge's Christabel, by C. Mansfield Ingleby | |
General Whitelocke | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Gravelly Wax Negatives—Photographic Experience | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—Turkish Language—Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke's Charts of the Black Sea—Aristotle on living Law—Christ's or Cris Cross Row—Titles to the Psalms in the Syriac Version—"Old Rowley"—Wooden Effigies—Abbott Families | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents |