NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
| No. 52. | Saturday, October 26, 1850. |
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Notes:— | |
| Address to our Friends | |
| Shakspeare's Use of the Words "Captious" and "Intenible," by S. W. Singer | |
| Oratories of the Nonjurors, by J. Yeowell | |
| Hogarth's Illustrations of Hudibras | |
| Folk Lore:—Overyssel Superstition—Death-bed Superstitions—Popular Rhyme—Death-bed Mystery—Bradshaw Family | |
| Advice to the Editor, and Hints to his Contributors | |
| Minor Notes:—Rollin's Ancient History and History of the Arts and Sciences—Jezebel—Clarendon, Oxford Edition of 1815—Macaulay's Country Squire—Miching Mallecho | |
| Queries:— | |
| The Inquisition: The Bohemian Persecution | |
| Minor Queries:—Osnaburg Bishopric—Meaning of "Farlief"—Margaret Dyneley—Tristan d'Acunha—Production of Fire by Friction—Murderer hanged when pardoned—Passage from Burke—Licensing of Books—Le Bon Gendarme | |
| Replies:— | |
| Tasso translated by Fairfax | |
| Ale-Draper—Eugene Aram | |
| On the Word "Gradely," by B. H. Kennedy and G. J. Cayley | |
| Collar of Esses | |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Symbols of the Evangelists—Becket's Mother—Passage in Lucan—Combs buried with the Dead—The Norfolk Dialect—Conflagration of the Earth—Wraxen | |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | |
| Books and Odd Volumes Wanted | |
| Notices to Correspondents | |
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