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. * * * * * {333} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 206.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Notes on Newspapers: "The Times," Daily Press &c., by H. M. Bealby 333 "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength," by Joshua G. Fitch 335 Binders of the Volumes in the Harleian Library 335 French Verse, by Thos. Keightley 336 A Spanish Play-bill, by William Robson 336 Shakspeare Correspondence, by Robert Rawlinson, C. Mansfield Ingleby, &c. 336 MINOR NOTES:--Injustice, its Origin--Two Brothers of the same Christian Name--Female Parish Clerk 338 QUERIES:-- Descendants of Milton 339 An anxious Query from the Hymmalayas 339 MINOR QUERIES:--"De la Schola de Sclavoni"--Mineral Acids--Richard Geering--Stipendiary Curates--Our Lady of Rounceval--Roden's Colt--Sir Christopher Wren and the Young Carver--Vellum Cleaning--Dionysia in Boeotia--Poll Tax in 1641--Thomas Chester Bishop Of Elphin, 1580--Rev. Urban Vigors--Early English MSS.--Curing of Henry IV.--Standard of Weights and Measures--Parish Clerks' Company--Orange Blossom--Mr. Pepys his Queries--Foreign Medical Education 339 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Chandler, Bishop of Durham--Huggins and Muggins--Balderdash--Lovell, Sculptor--St. Werenfrid and Butler's "Lives of the Saints" 341 REPLIES:-- Sir W. Hankford--Gascoigne's Tomb, by Mr. Foss, &c. 342 Translation of the Prayer Book into French 343 Praying to the West 343 Jacob Bobart, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 344 Early Use of Tin.--Derivation of the Name of Britain, by the Rev. Dr. Hincks and Fras. Crossley 344 Yew-trees in Churchyards, by J. G. Cumming, Wm. W. King, &c. 346 Stars are the Flowers of Heaven, by W. Fraser 346 Books burned by the common Hangman, by John S. Burn, &c. 346