Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are indicated by footnotes to the relevant item. * * * * * {1} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 166.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 1. 1853 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. Page Our Seventh Volume 1 NOTES:-- Proclamations of the Society of Antiquaries, and their Value as Historical Evidences, by John Bruce 3 Curiosities of Advertising Literature, by Cuthbert Bede 4 On a Passage in "King Henry VIII.," Act III. Sc. 2., by S. W. Singer 5 Notes on Bacon's Essays, by P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 6 Latin Poems in connexion with Waterloo, by Lord Braybrooke 6 Sir Henry Wotton and Milton, by Bolton Corney 7 FOLK LORE:--Unlucky to sell Eggs after Sunset-- Old Song--Nursery Tale--Legend of Change 7 Passage in Hamlet 8 Volcanic Influence on the Weather, by Rev. Wm. S. Hesledon 9 MINOR NOTES:--Value of MSS.--Robert Hill--English Orthography--Bookselling in Glasgow in 1735--Epitaph on a Sexton 9 QUERIES:-- Eustache de Saint Pierre, by Philip S. King 10 Devizes, Origin of: a Question for the Heralds, by J. Waylen 11 MINOR QUERIES:--Gold Signet Ring--Ecclesia Anglicana--Tangiers: English Army in 1684--Smith-- Termination "-itis"--Loak Hen--Etymological Traces of the Social Position of our Ancestors--Locke's Writings-- Passage in Göthe's "Faust"--Schomberg's Epitaph by Swift--The Burial Service said by Heart--Shaw's Staffordshire MSS.--"Ne'er to these chambers," &c.-- County History Societies--Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter--The English Domestic Novel--Dr. Young--Bishop Hall's Meditations--Chatterton--Passage in Job--Turner's View of Lambeth Palace--Clarke's Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning--"The General Pardon" 12 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Edward the Confessor's Ring--The Bourbons 15 REPLIES:-- Emblems 15 Marriages en Chemise--Mantelkinder--Legitimation, by E. Smirke, &c. 17 Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662, by Archdeacon Cotton 18 Etymology of Pearl, by Sir J. Emerson Tennant, &c. 18