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. * * * * * {357} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 207.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Notes on Midland County Minstrelsy, by C. Clifton Barry 357 Comet Superstitions in 1853 358 The Old English Word "Belike" 358 Druses, by. T. J. Buckton 360 FOLK LORE:--Legends of the County Clare 360 Shakspeare Correspondence, by Thomas Keightley, &c. 361 Death on the Fingers 362 MINOR NOTES:--On a "Custom of y^e Englyshe"--Epitaph at Crayford--The Font at Islip--"As good as a Play" 363 QUERIES:-- Lovett of Astwell 363 Oaths 364 The Electric Telegraph 364 MINOR QUERIES:--Queries relating to the Porter Family--Lord Ball of Bagshot--Marcarnes--The Claymore--Sir William Chester, Kt.--Canning on the Treaty of 1824 between the Netherlands and Great Britain--Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant--Memorial Lines by Thomas Aquinas--"Johnson's turgid style"--Meaning of "Lane," &c.--Theobald le Botiller--William, fifth Lord Harrington--Singular Discovery of a Cannon-ball--Scottish Castles--Sneezing-- Spenser's "Fairy Queen"--Poema del Cid--The Brazen Head 364 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"The Basilics"--Fire at Houlton--Michaelmas Goose 367 REPLIES:-- Portraits of Hobbes and Letters of Hollar, by S. W. Singer 368 Parochial Libraries, by the Rev. Thos. Corser 369 Battle of Villers en Couche, by H. L. Mansel, B.D., &c. 370 Attainment of Majority, by Russell Gole and Professor De Morgan 371 Similarity of Idea in St. Luke and Juvenal 372 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Sisson's developing Fluid--Dr. Diamond's Process for Albumenized Paper--Mr. Lyte's New Process 373