Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are indicated by footnotes to the relevant item. * * * * * {77} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 169.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 22. 1853 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Blackguard, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent 77 Predictions of the Fire and Plague of London, No. I., by T. Sternberg 79 Notes and Queries on Bacon's Essays, No. II., by, P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 80 FOLK LORE:--Irish Superstitious Customs--Charm for, Warts--The Devil--"Winter Thunder," &c. 81 Malta the Burial-place of Hannibal 81 MINOR NOTES:--Waterloo--"Tuch"--The Dodo--Francis I. 82 QUERIES:-- Dr. Anthony Marshall 83 Lindis, Meaning of 83 MINOR QUERIES:--Smock Marriage in New York--The broken Astragalus--Penardo and Laissa--St. Adulph--St. Botulph-- Tennyson--"Ma Ninette," &c.--Astronomical Query--Chaplains to Noblemen--"More" Queries--Heraldic Query--"By Prudence guided," &c.--Lawyers' Bags--Master Family--Passage in Wordsworth--Govett Family--Sir Kenelm Digby--Riddles-- Straw Bail--Wages in the West in 1642--Literary Frauds of Modern Times 84 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"Very like a Whale"--Wednesday a Litany Day--"Thy Spirit, Independence," &c.--"Hob and nob," Meaning of 86 REPLIES:-- Wellesley Pedigree, by John D'Alton 87 Consecrated Rings for Epilepsy 88 Turner's View of Lambeth Palace, by J. Walter, &c. 89 Etymological Traces of the social Position of our Ancestors, by C. Forbes, &c. 90 Goldsmiths' Year-marks, by W. Chaffers, Jun., and H. T. Ellacombe 90 Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 91 PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Originator of the Collodion Process--Mr. Weld Taylor's Process--Dr. Diamond's Services to Photography--Simplification of the Wax-paper Process 92 The Burial Service said by Heart, by Mackenzie Wallcott, M.A., &c. 94