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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 239, May 27, 1854
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

Author: Various

Other: George Bell

Release Date: March 18, 2010 [EBook #31690]

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. 239.]
SATURDAY, MAY 27. 1854.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Reprints of Early Bibles, by the Rev. R. Hooper, M.A. 487
Marriage Licence of John Gower, the Poet, by W. H. Gunner 487
Aska or Asca 488
Legends of the County Clare, by Francis Robert Davies 490
Archaic Words 491

MINOR NOTES:--Inscriptions on Buildings--Epitaphs--Numbers--
Celtic Language--Illustration of Longfellow: "God's Acre" 492

QUERIES:--
John Locke 493

MINOR QUERIES:--"The Village Lawyer"--Richard Plantagenet,
Earl of Cambridge--Highland Regiment--Ominous Storms--Edward
Fitzgerald--Boyle Family--Inn Signs--Demoniacal Descent of
the Plantagenets--Anglo-Saxon Graves--Robert Brown the
Separatist--Commissions issued by Charles I. at Oxford 493

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Hogmanay--Longfellow's
"Hyperion"