NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
| No. 66. | Saturday, February 1. 1851. |
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| "Notes and Queries" in Holland | |
| Notes:— | |
| Sir John Davies and his Biographers, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault | |
| A Note on Queen Anne's Farthings by J. Y. Akerman | |
| Folk-Lore:—Lammer Beads—On the Lingering of the Spirit—May Cats—Mottos on Warming-pans and Garters | |
| Notes on Jesse's "London and its Celebrities," by Henry Campkin | |
| Minor Notes:—Verstegan—George Herbert and the Church at Leighton Bromswold—Little Gidding—Etymology of Kobold—Judas Cup—Essleholt Priory—Crossing Rivers on Skins | |
| Queries:— | |
| Bibliographical Queries | |
| Minor Queries:—Bishops' Lands—The Barons of Hugh Lupus—Can the Queen make a Gentleman?—Plafery—St. John's Bridge Fair—Queries on Costume—Cum Grano Salis—Earl of Clarendon's Daughter, Lucretia—Vandyke's Portrait of Lord Aubigny—Foundation Stone of St. Mark's, Venice—Coins of Richard Cromwell—Cataracts of the Nile—Paternoster Tackling—Dancing Trenchmore—Hymns— Camden and Curwen Families—Jartuare | |
| Replies:— | |
| John Bunyan and his Portrait.—Did Bunyan know Hobbes? by George Offor | |
| The Mother Church of the Saxons by Dr. J. Rawson | |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—The Frozen Horn—To Pose—Culprits torn by Horses—The Conquest—Mayors, their correct Prefix—True Blue—Modum Promissionis—Fronte capillatâ &c.—Cross between a Wolf and a Hound—Touching for the Evil—Old Booty—Breeches Bible—Separation of the Sexes—Defender of the Faith—Epigram on the Synod of Dort—Parish Register Tax—Clergy sold for Slaves | |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
| Notices to Correspondents | |
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