Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are indicated by footnotes to the relevant item. * * * * * {125} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 171.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1853 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Jacob Grimm on the Genius and Vocation of the English Language 125 Preservation of valuable Papers from Damp; Drying Closets 126 Position of the Clergy in the Seventeenth Century, by J. Lewelyn Curtis 126 General Wolfe 127 Inscriptions in Books 127 FOLK LORE:--Baptismal Custom--Subterranean Bells-- Leicestershire Custom--Hooping Cough: Hedera Helix 128 MINOR NOTES:--The Aught And Forty Daugh--Alliterative Pasquinade--The Names "Bonaparte" and "Napoleon"--A Parish Kettle--Pepys's Diary; Battle of St. Gothard-- First Folio Shakspeare--An ancient Tombstone 128 QUERIES:-- Excessive Rainfall, by Robert Rawlinson 130 Baptist Vincent Lavall, by William Duane 130 Graves of Mickleton, co. Gloucester, by James Graves 130 Searson's Poems 131 MINOR QUERIES:--Haberdon or Habyrdon--Holles Family--"To lie at the Catch"--Names of Planets: Spade--Arms in painted Glass--The sign of "The Two Chances"-- Consecrators of English Bishops--A nunting Table--John Pictones--Gospel Place--York Mint--Chipchase of Chipchase--Newspapers--On alleged historical Facts-- Costume of Spanish Physicians--Genoveva--Quotation-- "God and the World"--"Solid Men of Boston"--Lost MS. by Alexander Pennecuik--"The Percy Anecdotes"--Norman Song--God's Marks--The Bronze Statue of Charles I., Charing Cross 132 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Hutter's Polyglott--Ethnology of England--Pitt of Pimperne--"The Bottle Department" of the Beer-trade 134 REPLIES:-- Bishop Pursglove (Suffragan) of Hull, by John I. Dredge, &c. 135 The Gregorian Tones by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 136 Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc. 2., by Thos. Keightley 136 Niágara or Niagára, by Robert Wright 137 Drengage, by Wm. Sidney Gibson 137 Chatterton 138