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{113} 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. 68.]
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1851.
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Defence of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, by
J. Payne Collier 113
"De Navorscher," by Bolton Corney 114
A Bidding at Weddings in Wales, by W. Spurrell 114
Coleridge's "Religious Musings" 115
Folk Lore:--Lammer Beads--Engraved Warming-pans--Queen
Elizabeth's Christening Cloth 115
Minor Notes:--The Breeches Bible--Origin of the
present Race of English--True Blue--"By Hook or
by Crook"--Record of Existing Monuments 115
QUERIES:--
Five Queries and Notes on Books, Men, and Authors 117
Minor Queries:--The Witches' Prayer--Water-buckets
given to Sheriffs--A Cracow Pike--Meaning
of Waste-book--Machell's MS. Collections for
Westmoreland and Cumberland--Decking Churches at
Christmas--Coinage of Germany--Titles of Peers
who are Bishops--At Sixes and Sevens--Shaking
Hands--George Steevens--Extradition--Singing of
Metrical Psalms and Hymns in Churches--Ormonde
Portraits--Tradescant--Arthur's Seat and Salisbury
Craigs--Lincoln Missal 118
REPLIES:--
Meaning of Eisell, by Samuel Hickson and S. W. Singer 119
Descent of Henry IV. 120
Fossil Elk of Ireland 121
Replies to Minor Queries:--Coverdale Bible--Epitaph--
Probabilism--Old Hewson the Cobbler--Rodolph
Gualter--Burning the Hill--"Fronte capillata," &c.--Time
when Herodotus wrote--Herstmonceux Castle--Camden
and Curwen Families--Joan Sanderson, or the Cushion
Dance--North Sides of Churchyards--"Antiquitas
Saeculi Juventus Mundi"--Umbrella--Form
of Prayer at the Healing 122
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 126
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 127
Notices to Correspondents 127
Advertisements 127
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