Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are indicated by footnotes to the relevant item. * * * * * {577} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * Vol. V.--No. 138.] SATURDAY, JUNE 19. 1852 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Defoe's Pamphlet on the Septennial Bill, by James Crossley 577 Arthur O'Connor 579 Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson 580 Folk Lore:--Lancashire May-day Custom--Hair cut off, an Antidote--Weather Prophecy--The Oak Tree and the Ash 581 The Diphthong "ai" 581 Minor Notes:--A Bit o' fine Writin'--Custom of Cranes in Storms--Aldress--How the ancient Irish used to crown their King--One of Junius's Correspondents identified 581 QUERIES:-- Old Music 582 Treasury of St. Mark's; Record at Tiberius 583 Unicorn 583 Flanagan on the Round Towers of Ireland 584 Minor Queries:--St. Augustine's Six Treatises on Music--Bishop Merriman--The Escubierto--J. Scandret--Mary Horton--Biblicus on the Apocalypse--Cleopatra playing at Billiards--"Then comes the reckoning"--Giving the Sack--Scotch Provincial Tokens of the Seventeenth Century--Burial of Sir John Moore--Mexican, &c. Grammar--Foundation Stones--Mary Faun--Tonson and the Westminsters 584 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Lady Farewell's Funeral Sermon-- Sir E. K. Williams--Order of the Cockle--Waller Family-- Life of St. Werburgh--Blindman's Holiday--Ab. Seller-- Martin-drunk--Bagster's English Version 585 REPLIES:-- Reply to Mr. Hickson's Objections 587 The Term "Milesian," by John D'Alton 588 Ben. Jonson's adopted Sons, by C. H. Cooper 588 Shakspeare's Seal 589 Reason and Understanding according to Coleridge 590 General Wolfe 590 "The Miller's Melody," an old Ballad, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 591 Surnames 592 Sir John Trenchard, by Sydney Walton 593 Papal Seal 593 Market Crosses 594