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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. 209.]
Saturday, October 29. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
The Scottish National Records 405
Patrick Carey 406
Inedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans, by Weld Taylor 407
"Green Eyes," by Harry Leroy Temple 407
Shakspeare Correspondence, by Samuel Hickson, &c. 408
MINOR NOTES:--Monumental Inscriptions--Marlborough
at Blenheim--Etymology of "till," "until"
--Dog-whipping Day in Hull--State 408
QUERIES:--
Polarised Light. 409
MINOR QUERIES:--"Salus Populi," &c.--Dramatic
Representations by the Hour-glass--John Campbell
of Jamaica--Hodgkins's Tree, Warwick--The
Doctor--English Clergyman in Spain--Caldecott's
Translation of the New Testament--Westhumble
Chapel--Perfect Tense--La Fleur des Saints--
Oasis--Book Reviews, their Origin--Martyr of
Collet Well--Black as a Mourning Colour--The
Word "Mardel," or "Mardle," whence derived?--
Analogy between the Genitive and Plural--Ballina
Castle--Henry I.'s Tomb--"For man proposes, but
God disposes"--Garrick Street, May Fair--The
Forlorn Hope--Mitred Abbot in Wroughton Church,
Wilts--Reynolds' Portrait of Barretti--Crosses on
Stoles--Temporalities of the Church--Etymology
of "The Lizard"--Worm in Books 410
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Siller Gun of Dumfries
--Margery Trussell--Caves at Settle, Yorkshire--
The Morrow of a Feast--Hotchpot--High and Low
Dutch--"A Wilderness of Monkies"--Splitting
Paper--The Devil on Two Sticks in England 412
REPLIES:--
Stone Pillar Worship and Idol Worship, by William
Blood, &c. 413
"Blagueur" and "Blackguard" by Philarète Chasles 414
Harmony of the Four Gospels by C. Hardwick, T. J.
Buckton, Chris. Roberts, &c. 415
Small Words and Low Words, by Harry Leroy Temple 416
A Chapter on Rings 416
Anticipatory Use of the Cross.--Ringing Bells for the
Dead 417