Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://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. * * * * * {117} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 197.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 6. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page High Church and Low Church 117 Concluding Notes on several misunderstood Words, by the Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith 120 Sneezing an Omen and a Deity, by T. J. Buckton 121 Abuses of Hackney Coaches 122 Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, Thomas Falconer, &c. 123 MINOR NOTES:--Falsified Gravestone in Stratford Churchyard--Barnacles in the River Thames--Note for London Topographers--The Aliases and Initials of Authors--Pure--Darling's "Cyclopaedia Bibliographica" 124 QUERIES:-- Delft Manufacture, by O. Morgan 125 MINOR QUERIES:--The Withered Hand and Motto "Utinam"--History of York--"Hauling over the coals"--Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury--Washington--Norman of Winster--Sir Arthur Aston--"Jamieson the Piper"--"Keiser Glomer"--Tieck's "Comoedia Divina"--Fossil Trees between Cairo and Suez: Stream like that in Bay of Argastoli--Presbyterian Titles--Mayors and Sheriffs--The Beauty of Buttermere--Sheer Hulk--The Lapwing or Peewitt (Vanellus cristatus)--"Could we with ink," &c.--Launching Query--Manliness 125 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Pues or Pews--"Jerningham" and "Doveton" 127 REPLIES:-- Battle of Villers en Couche, by T. C. Smith, &c. 127 Snail-eating, by John Timbs, &c. 128 Inscription near Cirencester, by P. H. Fisher, &c. 129 Curious Custom of ringing Bells for the Dead, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe and R. W. Elliot 130 Who first thought of Table-turning? by John Macray 131 Scotchmen in Poland 131 Anticipatory Use of the Cross, by Eden Warwick 132 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Glass Chambers for Photography--Dr. Diamond's Replies--Trial of Lenses--Is it dangerous to use the Ammonio-Nitrate of Silver? 133