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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

Author: Various

Other: George Bell

Release Date: April 2, 2009 [EBook #28474]

Language: English

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

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No. 192.]
SATURDAY, JULY 2. 1853..
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Oblation of a white Bull 1
Newstead Abbey, by W. S. Hasleden 2
On a celebrated Passage in "Romeo and Juliet,"
Act III. Sc. 2., by S. W. Singer 3
On the Passage from "King Lear" 4
Manners of the Irish, by H. T. Ellacombe, &c. 4

MINOR NOTES:--Burial in an Erect Posture--The
Archbishop of Armagh's Cure for the Gout, 1571--The
last known Survivor of General Wolfe's Army in
Canada--National Methods of applauding--Curious
Posthumous Occurrence 5

QUERIES:--
Did Captain Cook first discover the Sandwich Islands?
by J. S. Warden 6
Superstition of the Cornish Miners 7

MINOR QUERIES:--Clerical Duel--Pistol--Council
of Laodicea, Canon 35.--Pennycomequick, adjoining
Plymouth--Park the Antiquary--Ho