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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851

Author: Various

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1851.
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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Old Ballads upon the "Winter's Tale," by J. Payne Collier 1
Crossing Rivers on Skins, by Janus Dousa 3
Folk Lore of South Northamptonshire, No 3. 3
Minor Notes:--Kentish Town in the last Century--
Murray's Hand-book for Devon and Cornwall--Judges'
Walk, Hampstead--Gray's Alcaic Ode--Fleet Marriages 4

QUERIES:--
Histoire des Severambes 4
Origin of present Penny Postage, by E. Venables 6
Red Book of the Irish Exchequer 6
Minor Queries:--Abbey of Shapp, or Hepp--"Talk
not of Love"--Lucy and Colin--Chapel, Printing-office
--Cockade--Suem, Ferling, Grasson--Cranmer's
Descendants--Collections of Pasquinades--
Portraits of Bishops--The Butcher Duke--Rodolph
Gualter--Passage in St. Mark--"Fronte capillata," &c. 7

REPLIES:--
"God speed the Plough" 8
"Defender of the Faith," by Robert Anstruther 9
Beatrix Lady Talbot, by Sir F. Madden 10
Replies to Minor Queries:--Passage in Hamlet--Passage
in Tennyson--Was Quarles pe