NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
| No. 75. | Saturday, April 5. 1851. |
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Two Chancellors, by Edward Foss | |
| Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III. | |
| Folk Lore:—Cure of Hooping Cough—Charms from Devonshire—Lent Lilies—Oak Webs, &c. | |
| The Threnodia Carolina of Sir Thomas Herbert, by Bolton Corney | |
| Minor Notes:—Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis—Moorfields in Charles II.'s Time—Derivation of Yankee—A Word to Literary Men | |
| Queries: | |
| Poems of John Seguard of Norwich, by Sir F. Madden | |
| Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke | |
| Minor Queries:—The Vellum-bound Junius—What is a Tye?—"Marriage is such a Rabble Rout"—Arms of Robert Nelson—Knebsend or Nebsend, co. York —Moore's Almanack—Archbishop Loftus—Matrix of Monastic Seal—Syriac Scriptures and Lexicon— Villiers Duke of Buckingham—Porci solidi-pedes— The Heywood Family—Was Charles II. ever in Wales?—Dog's Head in the Pot—"Poor Alinda's growing old" | |
| Minor Queries Answered:—Who was the Author of "The Modest Enquiry, &c."?—William Penn's Family —Deal, Dover, and Harwich—Author of Broad Stone of Honour—Pope Joan—The Well o' the World's End—Sides and Angles—Meaning of Ratche —"Feast of Reason," &c.—Tu autem | |
| Replies:— | |
| Barons of Hugh Lupus | |
| Edmund Prideaux and the First Post-office | |
| Lady Jane of Westmoreland | |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Ulm Manuscript—Father Maximilian Hell—Meaning of "strained" as used by Shakspeare—Headings of Chapters in English Bibles | |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
| Notices to Correspondents | |
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