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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

Author: Various

Editor: George Bell

Release Date: April 2, 2009 [EBook #28478]

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. 196.]
SATURDAY, JULY 30. 1853..
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Books chained to Desks in Churches: Font Inscription:
Parochial Libraries, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 93
Real Signatures _versus_ Pseudo-names, by the Rev.
James Graves 94
Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, by Vincent
T. Sternberg 94
Shakspeare Correspondence, by Cecil Harbottle, &c. 95
Epitaph and Monuments in Wingfield Church, Suffolk 98
Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta 99

MINOR NOTES:--Meaning of "Clipper"--Anathema,
Maran-atha--Convocation and the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts--Pigs said
to see the Wind--Anecdote of the Duke of Gloucester 100

QUERIES:--
Lord William Russell 100
Ancient Furniture--Prie-Dieu 101

MINOR QUERIES:--Reynolds' Nephew--Sir Isaac
Newton--Limerick, Dublin, and Cork--Praying to the
West--Mulciber--Captain Booth of Stockport--"A saint
in crape"--French Abbes--What Day is it at our
Antipod