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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. 239. | Saturday, May 27. 1854 |
Price Fourpence Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
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Reprints of Early Bibles, by the Rev. R. Hooper, M.A. | |
Marriage Licence of John Gower, the Poet, by W. H. Gunner | |
Aska or Asca | |
Legends of the County Clare, by Francis Robert Davies | |
Archaic Words | |
Minor Notes:—Inscriptions on Buildings—Epitaphs—Numbers—Celtic Language—Illustration of Longfellow: "God's Acre" | |
Queries:— | |
John Locke | |
Minor Queries:—"The Village Lawyer"—Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge—Highland Regiment—Ominous Storms—Edward Fitzgerald—Boyle Family—Inn Signs—Demoniacal Descent of the Plantagenets—Anglo-Saxon Graves—Robert Brown the Separatist—Commissions issued by Charles I. at Oxford | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Hogmanay—Longfellow's "Hyperion"—Sir Hugh Myddelton—Sangarede—Salubrity of Hallsal, near Ormskirk, Lancashire—Athens—James Miller | |
Replies:— | |
Brydone, by Lord Monson | |
Coleridge's Unpublished MSS., by C. Mansfield Ingleby | |
Mr. Justice Talfourd and Dr. Beattie | |
Russian "Te Deum," by T. J. Buckton, &c. | |
Artesian Wells, by Henry Stephens, &c. | |
Dog-whippers | |
Cephas, a Binder, and not a Rock, by T. J. Buckton, &c. | |
Whittington's Stone | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Photographic Experience—Conversion of Calotype Negatives into Positives—Albumenized Paper | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—Table-turning—Female Dress—Office of Sexton held by one Family—Lyra's Commentary—Blackguard—"Atonement"—Bible of 1527—Shrove Tuesday—Milton's Correspondence—"Verbatim et literatim"—Epigrams | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents |