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{517} 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. 187.]
Saturday, May 28, 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
On Chaucer's Knowledge of Italian 517
The Rebellion of '45: unpublished Letter 519
Oliver St. John, by James Crossley 520
Notes on several misunderstood Words, by the Rev.
W. R. Arrowsmith 520
FOLK LORE:--Weather Rules--Drills presaging Death
--Superstition in Devonshire; Valentine's Day 522
A Note on Gulliver's Travels, by C. Forbes 522
Shakspeare Correspondence 523
The Coenaculum of Lionardo da Vinci, by E. Smirke 524
MINOR NOTES:--Scotter Register (County Lincoln)--
"All my Eye:" "Over the Left"--Curious Marriages
--Child-mother 525
QUERIES:--
Further Queries respecting Bishop Ken 526
The Rev. John Larson and his Mathematical Manuscripts,
by T. T. Wilkinson 526
MINOR QUERIES:--"Wanderings of Memory"--
"Wandering Willie's Tale"--Chapel Sunday--Proud
Salopians--George Miller, D.D.--Members of Parliament
--Taret--Jeroboam of Claret, &c.--William Williams
of Geneva--The First of April and "The Cap
awry"--Sir G. Browne, Bart.--Bishop Butler--Oaken
Tombs--Alleged Bastardy of Elizabeth--"Pugna
Porcorum"--Parviso--Mr. Justice Newton--Mufti
--Ryming and Cuculling--Custom at the Savoy
Church 527
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Faithful Teate--
Kelway Family--Regatta--Coket and Cler-mantyn 529
REPLIES:--
Curfew 530
The "Salt-Peter-Man," by C. H. Cooper 530
Forms of Judicial Oaths, by John Thrupp, &c. 532
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Washing Collodion
Pictures--Test for Lenses--Improvement in
Positives--Cheap Portable Tent--Rev. Mr. Sisson's
New Developing Fluid 533
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Vanes--Loselerius
Villerius--Westminster Parishes--Hevristic--Creole
--General Monk and the University of Cambridge--
Ecclesia Anglicana--Gibbon's Library--Golden Bees
--Passage in Orosius--Names first given to Parishes
--Grafts and the Parent Tree--Lord Cliff and Howell's
Letters--The Bouillon Bible--Rhymes on Places--
Serpents' Tongues--Consecrated Roses, &c. 534
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 537
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 538
Notices to Correspondents 538
Advertisements 538
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