{173} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 173.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1853 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Predictions of the Fire and Plague of London, No. II., by Vincent T. Sternberg 173 Examples of the French Sizain, by W. Pinkerton 174 Epigrams 174 "Goe, soule, the bodies guest," by George Daniel 175 Petitions from the County of Nottingham 175 FOLK LORE:--Lancashire Fairy Tale--Teeth, Superstition respecting--New Moon Divination--The Hyena an Ingredient in Love Potions--The Elder Tree 177 MINOR NOTES:--The Word "Party"--Epitaphs--Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope"--Palindromical Lines--"Derrick" and "Ship's Painter"--Lord Reay's Country 177 QUERIES:-- Unanswered Queries 178 Mr. John Munro, by Dan. Wilson 179 MINOR QUERIES:--Song in Praise of the Marquess of Granby--Venda--The Georgiad--R. S. Townshend of Manchester--"Mala malæ malo"--"Dimidium Scientiæ"-- Portrait Painters--"An Impartial Inquiry," &c.--"As poor as Job's Turkey"--Fuss--Suicide encouraged in Marseilles--Fabulous Bird--Segantiorum Portus--Stamping on Current Coinage--Rhymes: Dryden--The Cadenham Oak--St. Mary's Church, Beverley--The Rev. Joshua Marsden--Bentley's Examination--Derivation of "Lowbell"--Meaning of Assassin--Punishment for exercising the Roman Catholic Religion--Hogarth's Pictures--Lines in a Snuff-box--Rosa Mystica--Old-Shoe throwing at Weddings--Herbé's Costumes Français 179 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Humphry Smith--Meaning and Etymology of "Conyngers" or "Connigries"--Letters U, V, W, and St. Ives 182 REPLIES:-- The Orkney Islands in Pawn 183 The Passage in King Henry VIII., Act. III. Sc. 2, by S. W. Singer 183 Miniature Ring of Charles I., by C. Ley 184 Chantry Chapels 185 PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--The Collodion Process--Mr. Weld Taylor's Iodizing Process--Sir William Newton's Process: Further Explanations 185