Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
M. D.
_Names of Planets--Spade._--Would any of your correspondents give me some
information respecting the _names_ of the different planets of our system,
whether their titles are coeval with the apotheosis of the various denizens
of Olympus whose names they bear; or whether such names were bestowed upon
the heavenly bodies at some later date in honour of those divinities?
I should also like to hear explained, how the word _spade_, which from its
affinities in other languages would appear to have originally meant
_sword_, ever came to be transferred from a weapon of war to the useful and
harmless implement it now designates.
[Greek: Ouden].
_Arms in painted Glass._--The following arms have recently been found in
some decorated windows of the early part of the fourteenth century.
Information as to whom belonging would be esteemed a favour.
1. Gules, a chevron, or.
2. Quarterly, first and fourth gules, a mullet, or, second and third sable,
a cross, or.
3. Argent, on a chevron, or, three bucks' heads caboshed, tincture
indistinct, probably sable.
QUÆRENS.
_The Sign of "The Two Chances."_--An inn, at Clun, in this county, bears
the unusual sign of "The Two Chances." What can this mean? Mine host is
also Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district. Does it refer to
_these two chances_?
GEORGE S. MASTER.
Welsh-Hampton, Salop.
_Consecrators of English Bishops._--It may appear a waste of space to
insert in your columns my Queries on this subject, but when you consider
that I have been an exile in India for the last eleven years, and
consequently unable to refer, in this country, to authorities, which are
easily accessible at home, I venture to hope that you will not only give a
place to this, but also that you, or some clerical reader of "N. & Q.,"
will afford me the required information.
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