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.) {429} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 210.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- Lord Halifax and Mrs. Catherine Barton, by Professor De Morgan 429 Dr. Parr on Milton 433 Parts of MSS., by John Macray 434 William Blake 435 FOLK LORE:--Legends of the County Clare--The Seven Whisperers 436 Italian-English, German-English, and the Refugee Style, by Philarete Chasles 436 Shakspeare Correspondence, by Thos. Keightley, &c. 437 MINOR NOTES:--Decomposed Cloth--First and Last --Cucumber Time--MS. Sermons of the Eighteenth Century--Boswell's "Johnson"--Stage Coaches-- Antecedents--The Letter X--A Crow-bar 438 QUERIES:-- MINOR QUERIES:--Bishop Grehan--Doxology-- Arrow-mark--Gabriel Poyntz--Queen Elizabeth's and Queen Anne's Motto, "Semper eadem"--Bees --Nelly O'Brien and Kitty Fisher--"Homo unius libri"--"Now the fierce bear," &c.--Prejudice against Holy Confirmation--Epigram on MacAdam --Jane Scrimshaw--The Word "Quadrille"--The Hungarians in Paules--Ferns Wanted--Craton the Philosopher--The Solar Annual Eclipse in the Year 1263--D'Israeli: how spelt?--Richard Oswald-- Cromwell's Descendants--Letter of Archbishop Curwen to Archbishop Parker 440 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Margaret Patten-- Etymology of "Coin"--Inscription at Aylesbury-- "Guardian Angels, now protect me," &c.--K. C. B.'s --Danish and Swedish Ballads--Etymology of "Conger"--"Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum tibi" 442