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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850

Author: Various

Release Date: July 3, 2005 [EBook #16193]

Language: English

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Daniel Defoe and his Ghost Stories 241
Pet Names, by Rev. B.H. Kennedy 242
Lacedaemonian Black Broth 243
A Hint to Intending Editors 243
Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault 244
Folk Lore--Easter Eggs--Buns--Gloucestershire
Custom--Curious Custom 244

QUERIES:--
White Hart Inn, Scole, by C.H. Cooper 245
On Passages in Pope 245
Belvoir Castle 246
Minor Queries:--Dr. Hugh Todd's MSS.--French
Leave--Portugal--Tureen--Military Execution--
Change of Name--Symbolism of Fir Cone--Kentish
Ballad--Monumental Brass--A Tickhill Man--
Bishop Blaize--Vox et praeterea Nihil--Cromwell
Relics--Lines on Woman's Will 246

REPLIES:--
AElfric's Colloquy, by S.W. Singer and C.W.G. 248
Antony Alsop 249
Replies to Minor Queries:--Origin of Snob--Bishop
Burnet--Circulation of the Blood--Genealogy of
European Sovereigns--Sir Stephen Fox--French
Maxim--Shipster--Spars--Cosmopolis--Complutensian
Polyglot--Chris