NOTES AND QUERIES:
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| No. 64. | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1851. |
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CONTENTS.
| NOTES:— | Page |
| Authorship of Henry VIII., by Samuel Hickson | [33] |
| The Cavalier's Farewell, by F.H. | [34] |
| Gray's Elegy, by Henry H. Breen | [35] |
| The "Nineveh" Monuments and Milton's Nativity Ode illustrated from Lucian | [35] |
| Minor Notes:—Gaudentia di Lucca—George Wither the Poet, a Printer—"Preached as a dying man to dying Men"—Authors of Anonymous Works—Umbrellas | [36] |
| QUERIES:— | |
| Sonnet (query, by Milton) on the Library at Cambridge, by C. Howard Kenyon | [37] |
| Burying in Church Walls | [37] |
| Minor Queries:—Meaning of Venwell or Venville—Erasmus and Farel—Early Culture of the Imagination—Sir Thomas Bullen's Drinking Horn—Peter Sterry—"Words are Men's Daughters," &c.—Robert Henryson—Gawyn Douglas—Darby and Joan—William Chilcot—Benj. Wheeler's Theological Lectures—Sir Alexander Cumming—Cross between a Wolf and Hound—Landwade Church, and Moated Grange—Dr. Bolton, Archbishop of Cashel—Genealogy of the Talbots, &c. &c. | [38] |
| REPLIES:— | |
| Dragons | [40] |
| Origin of the Family Name of Bacon, by ProBa ConScientia | [41] |
Replies to Minor Queries:—Cockade—Form of Prayer for King's Evil—"Aver," Hogs not Pigs—Pilgarlic —Collar of Esses—Filthy Gingram—The Life and Death of Clancie—"Rab. Surdam"—"Fronte Capillatâ"—Taylor's Holy Living—Portrait of Bishop Henchman—Lines attributed to Charles Yorke—Rodolph Gualter—"Annoy" used as a Noun—Culprit, Origin of the Word—Passage in Bishop Butler—Wat the Hare—The Letter  —Did Elizabeth visit Bacon in Twickenham Park—Mock-Beggar—Cardinal Chalmers—Binsey, God help me!—Midwives Licensed—Dr. Timothy Thristcross—History of the Bohemian persecution—"Earth has no Rage"—Couplet in De Foe—Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth—Abbot's House at Bucksden—Bab in the Bowster—Sir Cloudesley Shovel—Noli me tangere—Cad | [42] |
| MISCELLANEOUS:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | [46] |
| Notices to Correspondents | [46] |
| Advertisements | [47] |