NOTES AND QUERIES:

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


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


No. 36.SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1850Price Threepence.
Stamped Edition 4d.

CONTENTS

NOTES:—Page
Further Notes on Derivation of the Word "News", by Samuel Hickson[81]
More Borrowed Thoughts, by S. W. Singer[82]
Strangers in the House of Commons, by C. Ross[83]
Folk Lore:—High Spirits considered a Presage of impending Calamity, by C Forbes[84]
The Hydro-Incubator, by H. Kersley[84]
Etymology of the Word "Parliament"[85]
"Incidis in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim," by C. Forbes and T. H. Friswell[85]
A Note of Admiration![86]
The Earl of Norwich and his Son George Lord Goring, by CH. and Lord Braybooke[86]
QUERIES:—Page
James Carkasse's Lucida Intervalla[87]
Minor Queries:—Epigrams on the Universities—Lammas'Day—Mother Grey's Apples—Jewish Music—The Plant "Haemony"—Ventriloquism—Epigram on Statue of French King—Lux fiat-Hiring of Servants—Book of Homilies—Collar of SS.—Rainbow—Passage in Lucan—William of Wykeham—Richard Baxter's Descendants—Passage in St. Peter—Juicecups—Derivation of "Yote" or "Yeot"—Pedigree of Greene Family—Family of Love—Sir Gammer Vans[87]
REPLIES:—Page
Punishment of Death by Burning[90]
To give a Man Horns, by C. Forbes and J.E.B. Mayor[90]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Shipster—Three Dukes—Bishops and their Precedence—Why Moses represented with Horns—Leicester and the reputed Poisoners of his Time—New Edition of Milton—Christian Captives—Borrowed Thoughts—North Sides of Churchyards—Monastery—Churchyards—Epitaphs—Umbrellas—English Translations of Erasmus—Chantrey's Sleeping Children, & c.[91]
MISCELLANIES:—Page
Separation of the Sexes in Time of Divine Service—Error in Winstanley's Loyal Martyrology—Preaching in Nave only[94]
MISCELLANEOUS:—Page
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, & c.[95]
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted[95]
Notices to Correspondents[95]
Advertisements[96]