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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Author: Various

Editor: George Bell

Release Date: October 24, 2008 [EBook #27006]

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. 207.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page

Notes on Midland County Minstrelsy, by C. Clifton Barry 357
Comet Superstitions in 1853 358
The Old English Word "Belike" 358
Druses, by. T. J. Buckton 360
FOLK LORE:--Legends of the County Clare 360
Shakspeare Correspondence, by Thomas Keightley, &c. 361
Death on the Fingers 362

MINOR NOTES:--On a "Custom of y^e Englyshe"--Epitaph
at Crayford--The Font at Islip--"As good
as a Play" 363

QUERIES:--

Lovett of Astwell 363
Oaths 364
The Electric Telegraph 364

MINOR QUERIES:--Queries relating to the Porter
Family--Lord Ball