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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. 81. | Saturday, May 17. 1851. |
Price Threepence Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
Notes:— | Page |
Illustrations of Chaucer, No. VI. | |
Dutch Folk-lore | |
Minor Notes:—Verses in Pope: "Bug" or "Bee"—Rub-a-dub—Quotations—Minnis—Brighton—Voltaire's Henriade | |
Queries:— | |
The Blake Family, by Hepworth Dixon | |
Minor Queries:—John Holywood the Mathematician—Essay on the Irony of Sophocles—Meaning of Mosaic —Stanedge Pole—Names of the Ferret—Colfabias—School of the Heart—Milton and the Calves-head Club—David Rizzio's Signature—Lambert Simnel: Was this his real Name?—Honor of Clare, Norfolk—Sponge—Babington's Conspiracy—Family of Sir John Banks—Meaning of Sewell—Abel represented with Horns | |
Minor Queries Answered:—The Fifteen O's—Meaning of Pightle—Inscription on a Guinea of George III. —Meaning of Crambo | |
Replies:— | |
John Tradescant probably an Englishman, and his Voyage to Russia in 1618, by S. W. Singer | |
The Family of the Tradescants, by W. Pinkerton | |
Pope Joan | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—Robert Burton's Birthplace—Barlaam and Josaphat—Witte van Haemstede—The Dutch Church in Norwich—Fest Sittings—Quaker's Attempt to convert the Pope—The Anti-Jacobin—Mistletoe—Verbum Græcum—"Après moi le Déluge"—Eisell—"To-day we purpose"—Modern Paper—St. Pancras—Joseph Nicolson's Family—Demosthenes and New Testament—Crossing Rivers on Skins—Curious Facts in Natural History—Prideaux | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents | |
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