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NOTES AND QUERIES:
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"WHEN FOUND, MAKE A NOTE OF."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 180.]
SATURDAY, APRIL, 9. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Rigby Correspondence 349
Isthmus of Darien 351
Notes on several misunderstood Words 352
FOLK LORE:--Drills presaging Death--Beltane in
Devonshire--Touching for King's Evil 353
Gaffer or Gammer, &c., by Thos. Keightley 354
MINOR NOTES:--Search for MSS.--Clifton of Normanton
--The Three per Cent. Consols 354
QUERIES:--
Wolves nursing Children, by Gilbert N. Smith 355
"The Luneburg Table"--Queen Elizabeth's Love of
Pearls 355
MINOR QUERIES:--St. Dominic--"Will" and "shall"
--Sir John Fleming--Deal, how to stain--Irish
Characters on the Stage--Arms on King Robert
Bruce's Coffin-plate--Chaucer's Prophetic View of
the Crystal Palace--Magistrates wearing their Hats in
Court--Derby Municipal Seal--Sir Josias Bodley--
Sir Edwin Sadler--The Cross given by Richard I. to
the Patriarch of Antioch--Lister Family--Family of
Abrahall, Eborall, or Ebrall--Eulenspiegel: Murner's
Visit to England--Aged 116--Annuellarius 356
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Boyer's "Great
Theatre of Honour and Nobility"--List of Bishops of
Norwich--"A Letter to a Convocation Man"--
Nicholas Thane--Churchwardens, Qualification of--
Sir John Powell--S. N.'s "Antidote," &c.--Beads 358
REPLIES:--
Broad Arrow 360
English Comedians in the Netherlands 360
The Sweet Singers 361
Edmund Spenser 362
Lamech killing Cain, by Francis Crossley, &c. 362
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Photographic
Notes--On some Difficulties in Photographic Practice
--Mr. Weld Taylor's cheap Iodizing Process 363
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Somersetshire Ballad--
Family of De Thurnham--Major. General Lambert--
Loggerheads--Grafts and the Parent Tree--The
Lisle Family--The Dodo in Ceylon--Thomas Watson,
Bishop of St. David's, 1687 to 1699--Etymology of Fuss
--Palindromical Lines--Nugget--Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores
--The Passame Sares (mel. Passamezzo)
Galliard--Swedish Words current in England--Gotch
--Passage in Thomson: "Steaming"--The Word
"Party"--Curious Fact in Natural Philosophy--Lowbell
--Life and Correspondence of S. T. Coleridge--
Coniger, &c.--Cupid Crying--Westminster Assembly
of Divines, &c. 364
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 369
Books and Odd volumes wanted 370
Notices to Correspondents 370
Advertisements 371
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