| Transcriber's note: | A few typographical errors have been corrected. Theyappear in the text like this, and theexplanation will appear when the mouse pointer is moved over the markedpassage. |
NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.
| No. 170. | Saturday, January 29. 1853. | Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
| Notes:— | Page |
| Robertson's "Index of Charters" | 101 |
| Cowper or Cooper, by George Daniel | 102 |
| Yankee, its Origin and Meaning, by Dr. William Bell | 103 |
| Shakspeare's Bedside, or the Doctors enumerated: a new Ballad, by James Cornish | 104 |
| Folk Lore:—Cures for the Hooping Cough: Rubus fruticosus, Gryphea incurva, Donkey | 104 |
| Minor Notes:—Epitaphs—Nostradamus on the Gold-diggings—Whimsical Bequest—The Orkneys in Pawn—Lord Duff's Toast | 105 |
| Queries:— | |
| The Meteoric Stone of the Thracian Chersonesus, by W. S. Gibson | 105 |
| Banbury Cakes and Zeal | 106 |
| Minor Queries:—Richardson or Murphy—Legend attached to Creeper in the Samoan Isles—Shearman Family—American Fisheries—Grindle—A Gentleman executed for whipping a Slave to Death—Brydone—"Clear the Decks for Bognie's Carriage"—London Queries—Scarf worn by Clergyman—Life of Queen Anne—Erasmus Smith—Croxton or Crostin of Lancashire—Grub Street Journal—Chaplain to the Princess Elizabeth—"The Snow-flake" | 107 |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—Leamhuil or Lahoel—Orte's Maps, Edition of 1570—Prayer for the Recovery of George III. | 108 |
| Replies:— | |
| Mrs. Mackey's Poems | 109 |
| Map of Ceylon, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent | 110 |
| "Am, have, and will be:" Henry VIII., Act III. Sc. 2. | 111 |
| Sir Henry Wotton's Letter to Milton | 11 ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |