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{581} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 216.]
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Teaching a Dog French, by Arthur Paget 581
The Religion of the Russians 582
Leicestershire Epitaphs, by William Kelly 582
Longfellow's "Reaper and the Flowers" 583
MINOR NOTES:--"Receipt" or "Recipe"--Death of Philip III.
of Spain--Churchwardens--Epigram--Oxford Commemoration Squib,
1849--Professor Macgillivray--Manifesto of the Emperor
Nicholas 583
QUERIES:--
William Cookworthy, the Inventor of British Porcelain,
by J. Prideaux 585
Catholic Floral Directories, &c. 585
George Alsop 585
MINOR QUERIES:--B. L. M.--Member of Parliament electing
himself--"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re"--Jacobite Garters
--Daughters taking their Mothers' Names--General Fraser--A
Punning Divine--Contango--Pedigree to the Time of Alfred--
"Service is no inheritance"--Antiquity of Fire-irons--
General Wolfe at Nantwich--"Corporations have no Souls,"
&c.--Leeming Family--MS. Poems and Songs--Bishop Watson 585
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Herbert's "Memoirs of the Last
Years of Charles I."--"Liturgy of the Ancients"--"Ancient
hallowed Dee"--Who was True Blue?--Charge of Plagiarism
against Paley--Weber's "Cecilia"--Andrew Johnson--MS. by
Glover--Gurney's Short-hand--Spurious Don Quixote 587