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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850

Author: Various

Release Date: June 6, 2005 [EBook #15996]

Language: English

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:--
Presence of Strangers in the House of Commons 17
The Agapemone, by Richard Greene 17
London Irish Registers, by Robert Cole 18
Folk Lore--Divination by Bible and Key--Charm for Warts--Boy or Girl 19
QUERIES:--
Poet Laureates 20
Minor Queries:--Wood Paper--Latin Line--New Edition of Milton--Barum
and Sarum--Roman Roads--John Dutton, of Dutton--Rome--Prolocutor of
Convocation--Language of Queen Mary's Days--Vault Interments--Archbishop
Williams' Persecutor, R.K.--The Sun feminine in English--Construe and
translate--Men but Children of a Larger Growth--Clerical Costume--Ergh,
Er, or Argh--Burial Service--Gaol Chaplains--Hanging out the
Broom--George Lord Goring--Bands 21
REPLIES:--
Derivation of "News" and "Noise" by Samuel Hickson 23
The Dodo Queries, by H.E. Strickland 24
Bohn's Edition of Milton 24
Umbrellas 25
Emancipation of the Jews 25
Replies to Minor Queries:--Wellington, Wyrwast and Cokam--Sir William
Skipwyth--Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton--Worm of Lambton--Shakspeare's
Will--Josias Ibach Stada--The Temple or a Temple--Bawn--"Heigh ho!
says Rowley"--Arabic Numerals--Pusan--"I'd preach as though"--"Fools
rush in"--Allusion in Friar Brackley's Sermon--Earwig--Sir R. Haigh's
Letter-book--Marescautia--Memoirs of an American Lady--Poem by Sir