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{297} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 77.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 19. 1851.
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Latin Drinking Song by Richard Braithwait, by S. W.
Singer 297
Strange Appearances in the Sky, by Rev. A. Gatty 298
"After me the Deluge," by Douglas Jerrold 299
Bishop Thornborough's Monument 299
Minor Notes:--King Richard III.--Shakspeare a
thorough Sailor--"A fellow-feeling." &c.--Early
Instances of the Word "News"--Under the Rose 300
QUERIES:--
Portraits of Spenser 301
The Vendace 301
Minor Queries:--Ex Pede Herculem--"To-day we
purpose"--"God takes those soonest whom He loves
the best"--Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope
--Whychcote of St. John's--Meaning of Rechibus--
Family of Queen Katherine Parr--Skort--Religious
Teaching in the German Universities--Epigram by
Dunbar--Endymion Porter--Sathaniel--The Scoute
Generall--Anthony Pomeroy, Dean of Cork 302
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Civil War Tract--Trisection
of the Circle--Wolsey's Son--Cardinals and
Abbots in the English Church 303
REPLIES:--
Sir Balthazar Gerbier, by J. Crossley 304
The Travels of Baron Munchausen 305
Replies to Minor Queries:--Tobacco in the East--
Captain John Stevens--MS. Catalogue of Norman
Nobility--Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III.--
Comets--Pope Joan--Abbot Euctacius--The
Vellum-bound Junius--Meaning of Waste-book--
Cowdray--Solemnisation of Matrimony--Epitaph
on the Countess of Pembroke--Scandal against
Queen Elizabeth--The Tanthony--The Hippopotamus
--Tu autem--Places called purgatory--Swearing
by Swans, &c.--Edmund Prideaux and the Post-office
--Small Words and "Low" Words--Lord
Howard of Effingham--Obeahism, &c. 306
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 310
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 311
Notices to Correspondents 311
Advertisements 311
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