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{233} 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. 74.]
SATURDAY, MARCH 29. 1851.
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
On Portraits of Distinguished Men, by Lord Braybrooke 233
Story of a Relic 234
Illustration of Chaucer, No. II: Complaint of Mars
and Venus 235
Charles the First and Bartolomeo della Nave's Collection
of Pictures, by Sir F. Madden 236
Minor Notes:--Nonsuch Palace--Ferrar and Benlowes--
Traditions from remote Periods through few Links--
Longevity--Emendation of a Passage in Virgil--Poems
discovered among the Papers of Sir K. Digby--
Matter-of-Fact Epitaph 236
QUERIES:--
Ancient Danish Itinerary: Prol in Angliam, by R. J.
King 238
Chiming, Tolling, and Peal-ringing of Bells, by Rev.
A. Gatty 238
Mazer Wood: Gutta Percha, by W. Pinkerton 239
Minor Queries:--Paul Pitcher Night--Disinterment
for Heresy--"Just Notions," &c.--Pursuits of Literature--
Satirical Medal--Matthew's Mediterranean
Passage--Inscription on an Oak Board--Expressions
in Milton--Saints' Days--Chepstow Castle--The
Wilkes MSS. and "North Briton"--"O wearisome
Condition of Humanity!"--Epitaph in Hall's "Discovery" 239
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Canon and Prebendary--
What Amount of Property constitutes an Esquire?--
Cromwell Family--Daughters of the Sixth Earl of
Lennox--Wife of Joseph Nicholson--Six Abeiles--
Southey--Epigram against Burke--Knight's Hospitallers 242
REPLIES:--
Mesmerism, by Dr. Maitland 243
Lord Howard of Effingham 244
Iovanni Volpe, by William Hughes 244
Replies to Minor Queries:--Sir Andrew Chadwick--
Manuscript of Bede--Closing of Rooms on account
of Death--Enigmatical Epitaph on Rev. J. Mawer--
Haybands in Seals--Notes on Newspapers--Duncan
Campbell--Christmas-day--MS. Sermons by Jeremy
Taylor--Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel--Rev.
W. Adams--Duchess of Buckingham--"Go the
whole Hog"--Lord Bexley's Descent from Cromwell--
Morse and Ireton Families--The Countess of Desmond--
Aristophanes on the Modern Stage--Denarius
Philosophorum--On a Passage in the Tempest--
Meaning of Waste-book--Arthur's Seat and Salisbury
Craigs--Meaning of "Harrisers" &c. 247
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 253
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 254
Notices to Correspondents 254
Advertisements 255
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