NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
| No. 73. | Saturday, March 22. 1851. |
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Suggestions for preserving a Record of Existing Monuments | |
| Notes:— | |
| On the Word "Rack" in Shakspeare's Tempest, by Samuel Hickson | |
| Ancient inedited Poems, No. III., by K. R. H. Mackenzie | |
| Folk-Lore:—Moths called Souls—Holy Water for Hooping Cough—Daffy Down Dilly | |
| Dr. Maitland's Illustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism | |
| Minor Notes:—Original Warrant—Gloves—Prince Rupert—Inscription on a Gun—Richard III.—Lines by Pope—Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in relation to Scotland—Snail-eating | |
| Queries:— Henry Smith, by T. McCalmont | |
| Minor Queries:—Owen Glendower—Meaning of Gig-Hill—Sir John Vaughan—Quebecca and his Epitaph—A Monumental Inscription—Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I.—Comets—Natural Daughter of James II.—Going the Whole Hog—Innocent Convicts—The San Grail—Meaning of "Slums"—Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended and Reformed"—Odour from the Rainbow—Tradesmen's Signs | |
| Minor Queries Answered:—Supporters borne by Commoners—Answer to Fisher's Relation—"Drink up Eisell" | |
| Replies:— | |
| Scandal against Queen Elizabeth | |
| The Mistletoe on the Oak, by James Buckman, &c. | |
| Universality of the Maxim, "Lavor come se tu," &c., by S. W. Singer | |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Tennyson's In Memoriam—Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c.—Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland—Oration against Demosthenes—Borrow's Danish Ballads—Head of the Saviour—Lady Bingham—Shakespeare's Use of Captious—Tanthony—Lama Beads—"Language given to Men," &c.—Daresbury, the White Chapel of England—Holland Land—Passage in the Tempest—Damasked Linen—Straw Necklaces—Library of the Church of Westminster, &c. | |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
| Notices to Correspondents | |
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