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, Lucretia--Vandyke's Portrait of Lord Aubigny--Foundation Stone of St. Mark's, Venice--Coins of Richard Cromwell--Cataracts of the Nile--Paternoster Tackling--Dancing Trenchmore--Hymns-- Camden and Curwen Families--Jartuare 87 REPLIES:-- John Bunyan and his Portrait.--Did Bunyan know Hobbes? by George Offor 89 The Mother Church of the Saxons by Dr. J. Rawson 90 Replies to Minor Queries:--The Frozen Horn--To Pose--Culprits torn by Horses--The Conquest--Mayors, their correct Prefix--True Blue--Modum Promissionis--Fronte capillata &c.--Cross between a Wolf and a Hound--Touching for the Evil--Old Booty--Breeches Bible--Separation of the Sexes--Defender of the Faith--Epigram on the Synod of Dort--Parish Register Tax--Clergy sold for Slaves 91 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 94 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 95 Notices to Correspondents 95 Advertisements 95 * * * * * "NOTES AND QUERIES" IN HOLLAND. The following extremely interesting, and, we need scarcely add, to us most gratifying, communication reached us at too late a period last week to admit of our then laying it before our friends, readers, and contributors. They will one and all participate in our gratification at the proof which it affords, not merely of that success which they have all combined to secure, but of the good working, and consequent wide extension, of that great principle of literary brotherhood which it has been the great object of "NOTES AND QUERIES" to establish. _To the Editor of_ "NOTES AND QUERIES." Mr. Editor, We have the pleasure of sending you the prospectus of "DE NAVORSCHER," a new Dutch periodical, grounded upon the same principle as its valuable and valiant predecessor "NOTES AND QUERIES." The title, when translated into English, would be--"_The Searcher; a medium of intellectual exchange and literary intercourse between all who know something, have to ask something, or can solve something._" If it be glorious for _you_ to have proposed a good example, we think it honourable for _us_ to follow it. Though we do not wish to be our own trumpets, we can say that never a Dutch newspa
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