Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. {445} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 184.] Saturday, May 7, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Old Popular Poetry: "Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Clowdesly," by J. Payne Collier 445 Witchcraft, by Rev. H. T. Ellacombe 446 Spring, &c., by Thomas Keightley 448 Notes and Queries on Bacon's Essays, No. III., by P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 448 Shakspeare Correspondence, by S. W. Singer, Cecil Harbottle, &c. 449 MINOR NOTES:--Local Rhymes, Norfolk--"Hobson's Choice"--Khond Fable--Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart.--Anagrams 452 QUERIES:-- Seal of William d'Albini 452 Forms of Judicial Oath, by Henry H. Breen 453 MINOR QUERIES:--Passage in Boerhaave--Story of Ezzelin--The Duke--General Sir Dennis Pack--Haveringemere--Old Pictures of the Spanish Armada--Bell Inscription--Loselerius Villerius, &c.--The Vinegar Plant--Westminster Parishes--Harley Family--Lord Cliff--Enough--Archbishop Magee--Carpets at Rome--Nursery Rhymes--Gloves at Fairs--Mr. Caryl or Caryll--Early Reaping-machines 453 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"Diary of a Self-Observer"--Jockey--Boyle Lectures 456