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Title: Notes and Queries 1850.04.06

Author: Various

Release Date: June 3, 2004 [EBook #12505]

Language: English

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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. 23.] SATURDAY, APRIL 6. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Periplus of Hanno, by R.T. Hampson 361
Pope Vindicated 362
The Supper of the Lorde 362
Folk Lore:--Palm Sunday Wind--Curious Symbolical Custom--The Wild
Huntsman 363
On Authors and Books, No. VI, by Bolton Corney 363

QUERIES:--
Nicholas Breton's Crossing of Proverbs, by J.P. Collier 364
Sword called Curtana, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 364
Is the Dombec the Domesday of Alfred? by George Munford 365
Minor Queries:--Wickliffite Versions of the Scriptures--Gloves--Law
Courts at St. Alban's--Milton Pedigree--Sapcote Motto--Scala Coeli,
&c. 366

REPLIES:--
The Arabic Numerals and Cipher 367
Replies to Minor Queries, by Sir W.C. Trevelyan 368
Derivation of "News" 369
Replies to Minor Queries:--Swot--Pokership--Vox Populi--Living Dog better
than dead Lion--Curious Monumental Brasses--Chapels--Forthlot--Loscop--
Smelling of the Lamp--Anglo-Saxon MS. of Orosius--Golden Frog--Sword
of Charles I.--John Bull--Vertue MSS.--Lines attributed to Tom Brown,
&c. 369

MISCELLANIES:--
Epigram by La Monnoye--Spur Money--Minimum de Malls--Epigram on Louis
XIV.--Macaulay's Young Levite--St. Martin's Lane--Charles Deering,
M.D. 373

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 375
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 375
Notices to Correspondents 375
Advertisements 376