NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
| No. 62. | SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1851. |
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| NOTES:— | Page |
| Old Ballads upon the "Winter's Tale," by J. Payne Collier | [1] |
| Crossing Rivers on Skins, by Janus Dousa | [3] |
| Folk Lore of South Northamptonshire, No 3. | [3] |
| Minor Notes:—Kentish Town in the last Century—Murray's Hand-book for Devon and Cornwall—Judges' Walk, Hampstead—Gray's Alcaic Ode—Fleet Marriages | [4] |
| QUERIES:— | |
| Histoire des Séverambes | [4] |
| Origin of present Penny Postage, by E. Venables | [6] |
| Red Book of the Irish Exchequer | [6] |
| Minor Queries:—Abbey of Shapp, or Hepp—"Talk not of Love"—Lucy and Colin—Chapel, Printing-office —Cockade—Suem, Ferling, Grasson—Cranmer's Descendants—Collections of Pasquinades—Portraits of Bishops—The Butcher Duke—Rodolph Gualter—Passage in St. Mark—"Fronte capillatâ," &c. | [7] |
| REPLIES:— | |
| "God speed the Plough" | [8] |
| "Defender of the Faith," by Robert Anstruther | [9] |
| Beatrix Lady Talbot, by Sir F. Madden | [10] |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Passage in Hamlet—Passage in Tennyson—Was Quarles pensioned?—Old Hewson the Cobbler—The Inquisition—Mrs. Tempest—Cardinal Allen's Declaration—Scandal against Queen Elizabeth—Church of St. Saviour, Canterbury—Pope Ganganelli-Nicholas Ferrar's Digest—Nicholas Ferrar—Cardinal Erskine—The Author of "Peter Wilkins"—"The Toast," by Dr. King—"The Widow of the Wood"—Damasked Linen | [10] |
| MISCELLANEOUS:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | [13] |
| Notices to Correspondents | [14] |
| Books and Odd Volumes Wanted | [14] |
| Advertisements | [15] |