NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
| No. 55. | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1850. | Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| NOTES:— | Page |
| Authorship of "Henry VIII." by Samuel Hickson | 401 |
| On Authors and Books, No. IX., by Bolton Corney | 403 |
| Notes on the Second Edition of Mr. Cunningham's Handbook of London, by E.F. Rimbault | 404 |
| Folk-lore:—Laying a Ghost—A Test of Witchcraft | 404 |
| Minor Notes:—Quin's incoherent Story—Touchstone's Dial—America and Tartary—A Deck of Cards—Time when Herodotus wrote—"Dat veniam corvis." &c. | 405 |
| QUERIES:— | |
| Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" | 406 |
| Minor Queries:—The Widow of the Wood—Edward the Confessor's Crucifix and Gold Chain—Cardinal Erskine—Thomas Regiolapidensis—"Her Brow was fair"—Hoods worn by Doctors of Divinity of Aberdeen—Irish Brigade—Doctrine of immaculate Conception—Gospel Oak Tree at Kentish Town—Arminian Nunnery in Huntingdonshire—Ruding's annotated Langbaine—Mrs. Tempest—Sitting cross-legged—Twickenham: Did Elizabeth visit Bacon there?—Burial towards the West—Medal struck by Charles XII.—National Debt—Midwives licensed | 406 |
| REPLIES:— | |
| The Black Rood of Scotland | 409 |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Hæmony—Byron's Birthplace—Modena Family—Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks—Gaudentio di Lucca—Weights for weighing Coins—Mrs. Partington—The East-Anglian Word "Mauther"—Cheshire Cat—"Thompson of Esholt"—Minar's Book of Antiquities—Croziers and Pastoral Staves—Socinian Boast—MSS. of Locke—Sir Wm. Grant—Tristan d'Acunha—Arabic Numerals—Luther's Hymns—Bolton's Ace—Hopkins the Witchfinder—Sir Ric ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |