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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. 179.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 2. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Jack, by John Jackson 325
Mythe _versus_ Myth, by Thomas Keightley 326
Witchcraft in 1638 326
St. Augustin and Baxter, by E. Smirke 327
FOLK LORE:--Subterranean Bells--Welsh Legend of
the Redbreast 328
Johnsoniana 328
MINOR NOTES:--White Roses--Fifeshire Pronunciation
--Original Letter--Erroneous Forms of Speech 329
QUERIES:--
Eustache de Saint Pierre, by Henry H. Breen 329
Passage in Coleridge 330
MINOR QUERIES:--Cann Family--Landholders in
Lonsdale South of the Sands--Rotation of the Earth
--Nelson and Wellington--Are White Cats deaf?--
Arms in Dugdale's "Warwickshire," &c.--Tombstone
in Churchyard--Argot and Slang--Priests'
Surplices--John, Brother German to David II.--
Scott, Nelson's Secretary--The Axe which beheaded
Anne Boleyn--Roger Outlawe--"Berte au Grand
Pied"--Lying by the Walls--Constables of France--
St. John's Church, Shoreditch 330
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Sir John Thompson
--Ring, the Marriage--Amusive--Belfry Towers
separate from the Body of the Church--An Easter-day
Sun 332
REPLIES:--
Hamilton Queries, by Lord Braybrooke, &c. 333
The Wood of the Cross 334
Edmund Chaloner, by T. Hughes 334
"Anywhen" and "Seldom-when:" unobserved Instances
of Shakespeare's Use of the latter, S. W.
Singer 335
Chichester: Lavant, by W. L. Nichols 335
Scarfs worn by Clergymen, by Rev. John Jebb, &c. 337
Inscriptions in Books, by Russell Gole, George S. Master,
&c. 337
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Head-rests--
Sir W. Newton's Explanations of his Process--Talc
for Collodion Pictures 338
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Portrait of the Duke
of Gloucester--Key to Dibdin's "Bibliomania"--High
Spirits a Presage of Evil--Hogarth's Works--Town
Plough--Shoreditch Cross and the painted Window in
Shoreditch Church--Race for Canterbury--Lady High
Sheriff--Burial of an unclaimed Corpse--Surname of
Allan--The Patronymic Mac--Cibber's "Lives of
the Poets"--Parallel Passages, No. 2.: Stars and
Flowers--Schomberg's Epitaph--Pilgrimages to the
Holy Land--Album--Gesmas and Desmas--"Quod
fuit esse"--Straw Bail--Pearl--Sermons by Parliamentary
Chaplains, &c. 338
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 345
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 346
Notices to Correspondents 346
Advertisements 346
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