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Title: Notes & Queries, No. 44, Saturday, August 31, 1850
A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.

Author: Various

Release Date: September 10, 2004 [EBook #13426]

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. 44.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS

NOTES:

Gravesend Boats 209
Notes on Cunningham's Handbook of London, by E.F.
Rimbault 211
Devotional Tracts belonging to Queen Katherine Parr,
by Dr. Charlton 212
Suggestions for cheap Books of Reference 213
Rib, why the first Woman formed from 213
Minor Notes:--Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper--Mistletoe
on Oaks--Omnibuses--Havock--Schlegel
on Church Property in England 214

QUERIES:
P. Mathieu's Life of Sejanus 215
The Antiquity of Smoking 216
Sir Gregory Norton, Bart. 216
Minor Queries:--City Offices--Meaning of
Harefinder--Saffron-bag--Bishop Berkley's successful
Experiments--Unknown Portrait--Custom of selling
Wives--Hepburn Crest and Motto--Concolinel--"One
Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church"--The
Norfolk Dialect--Sir John Perrot--"Antiquitas saeculi
juventus mundi" 216

REPLIES:
Derivation of "News" 218
Replies to Minor Queries:--Swor