NOTES AND QUERIES:

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


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


No. 44.SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1850Price Threepence.
Stamped Edition 4d.

CONTENTS

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Gravesend Boats[209]
Notes on Cunningham's Handbook of London, by E.F. Rimbault[211]
Devotional Tracts belonging to Queen Katherine Parr, by Dr. Charlton[212]
Suggestions for cheap Books of Reference[213]
Rib, why the first Woman formed from[213]
Minor Notes:—Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper—Mistletoe on Oaks—Omnibuses—Havock—Schlegel on Church Property in England[214]
QUERIES:
P. Mathieu's Life of Sejanus[215]
The Antiquity of Smoking[216]
Sir Gregory Norton, Bart.[216]
Minor Queries:—City Offices—Meaning of Harefinder—Saffron-bag—Bishop Berkley's successful Experiments—Unknown Portrait—Custom of selling Wives—Hepburn Crest and Motto—Concolinel—"One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church"—The Norfolk Dialect—Sir John Perrot—"Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi"[216]
REPLIES:
Derivation of "News"[218]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Swords worn in Public—Quarles' Pension—Franz von Sickingen—"Noll me tangere"—Dr. Bowring's Translations—Countess of Desmond—Yorkshire Dales—Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs—Alarum—Practice of Scalping among the Scythian's—Gospel Tree—Martinet—"Yote" or "Yeot"—Map of London—Woodcarving, Snow Hill—Waltheof—The Dodo—"Under the Rose"—Ergh, Er, or Argh—Royal Supporters—The Frog and the Crow of Ennow[218]
MISCELLANEOUS:
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.[222]
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted[223]
Notices to Correspondents[223]
Advertisements[223]