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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

Author: Various

Editor: George Bell

Release Date: October 3, 2008 [EBook #26767]

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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. 208.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page

A Prophet 381

FOLK LORE:--Folk Lore in Cambridgeshire--New
Brunswick Folk Lore--North Lincolnshire Folk
Lore--Portuguese Folk Lore 382

Pope and Cowper, By J. Yeowell 383
Shakspeare Correspondence, by Patrick Muirson, &c. 383

MINOR NOTES:--Judicial Families--Derivation of
"Topsy Turvy"--Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias--
"Mary, weep no more for me"--Epitaph at Wood
Ditton--Pictorial Pun 384

QUERIES:--

Sir Thomas Button's Voyage, 1612, by John Petheram 385

MINOR QUERIES:--The Words "Cash" and "Mob"
--"History of Jesus Christ"--Quantity of the Latin
Termination -anus--Webb and Walker Families--
Cawdrey's "Treasure of Similes"--Point of Etiquette
--Napoleon's Spelling--Trench on Proverbs--Rings
formerly