NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
| No. 71. | Saturday, March 8. 1851. |
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| Notes:— | Page |
| On Two Passages in "All's Well that Ends Well," by S. W. Singer | |
| George Herbert and the Church of Leighton Bromswold | |
| Folk Lore:—Sacramental Wine—"Snail, Snail, come out of your Hole"—Nievie-nick-nack | |
| Records at Malta | |
| On an Ancient MS. of "Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica" | |
| Minor Queries:—The Potter's and Shepherd's Keepsakes—Writing-paper—Little Casterton (Rutland) Church—The Hippopotamus—Specimens of Foreign English—St. Clare—Dr. Dodd—Hats of Cardinals and Notaries Apostolic—Baron Munchausen's Frozen Horn—Contracted Names of Places | |
| Queries:— | |
| Bibliographical Queries | |
| Enigmatical Epitaph | |
| Shakspeare's "Merchant of Venice" | |
| Minor Queries:—Was Lord Howard of Effingham a Protestant or a Papist?—Lord Bexley: how descended from Cromwell—Earl of Shaftesbury—Family of Peyton—"La Rose nait en un Moment"—John Collard the Logician—Traherne's Sheriffs of Glamorgan—Haybands in Seals—Edmund Prideaux, and the First Post-office—William Tell Legend—Arms of Cottons buried in Landwade Church—Sir George Buc's Treatise on the Stage—A Cracowe Pike—St. Thomas of Trunnions—Paper mill near Stevenage—Mounds, Munts, Mounts—Church Chests—The Cross-bill—Iovanni Volpe—Auriga—To speak in Lutestring—"Lavora, come se tu," &c.—Tomb of Chaucer—Family of Clench | |
| Replies:— | |
| Cranmer's Descendants | |
| Dutch Popular Song-book, by J. H. van Lennep | |
| Barons of Hugh Lupus | |
| Shakspeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" | |
| "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon!" | |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Ulm Manuscript—Harrison's Chronology—Mistletoe on Oaks—Swearing by Swans—Jurare ad caput animalium—Ten Children at a Birth—Richard Standfast—"Jurat, crede minus"—Rab Surdam—The Scaligers—Lincoln Missal—By-and-bye—Gregory the Great—True Blue—Drachmarus—The Brownes of Cowdray, Sussex—Red Hand—Anticipations of Modern Ideas by Defoe—Meaning of Waste-book—Deus Justificatus—Touchstone's Dial—Ring Dials—Cockade—Rudbeck's Atlantica, &c. | |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
| Notices to Correspondents | |
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