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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.
| No. 80. | Saturday, May 10. 1851. |
Price Threepence Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
CONTENTS. | Page |
The Great Exhibition, Notes and Queries, and Chaucer's Prophetic View of the Crystal Palace | |
Notes:— | |
On "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" | |
Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir Kenelm Digby | |
Folk-Lore:—The Christmas Thorn—Milk-maids—Disease cured by Sheep—Sacramental Wine—"Nettle in Dock out" | |
Metropolitan Improvements, by R. J. King | |
Minor Notes:—Meaning of Luncheon—Charade upon Nothing translated—Giving the Lie—Anachronisms of Painters—Spenser's Faerie Queene—Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots—A small Instance of Warren Hastings' Magnanimity—Richard Baxter—Registry of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches | |
Queries:— | |
Notes and Queries relating to Scandinavia, by W. E. C. Nourse | |
The Rotation of the Earth, by Robert Snow | |
Minor Queries:—William ap Jevan's Descendants—"Geographers on Afric's Downs"—Irish Brigade—Passage in Oldham—Mont-de-Piété—Poem upon the Grave—When self-striking Clocks first invented—Clarkson's Richmond—Sir Francis Windebank's elder Son—Incised Slab—Etymology of Balsall—St. Olave's Churches—Sabbatical and Jubilee Years of the Jews—Arms of the Isle of Man—Doctrine of the Resurrection—National Debts—Leicester's Commonwealth | |
Replies:— | |
Histoire des Sévarambes | |
Was there an "Outer Temple" in the Possession of the Knights Templars or Knights of St. John? by Peter Cunningham | |
Obeism, by H. H. Breen | |
San Marino | |
The Bellman and his History, by C. H. Cooper | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—"God takes those soonest," &c.—Disinterment for Heresy—The Vellum-bound Junius—Pursuits of Literature—Dutch Books—Engilbert, Archbishop of Treves—Charles Lamb's Epitaph—Charles II. in Wales—"Ex Pede Herculem"—God's Acre—Abbot Eustacius—Vox Populi Vox Dei—Francis Moore and his Almanack | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents | |
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