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.) {461} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 211.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Notes on Grammont, by G. Steinman Steinman 461 Change of Meaning in Proverbial Expressions, by Thos. Keightley 464 Extracts from Colchester Corporation Records, by Jas. Whishaw 464 Convocation in the Reign of George II., by W. Fraser 465 Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple 465 Shakspeare Correspondence, by J. O. Halliwell 466 MINOR NOTES:--Local Rhymes, Kent--Samuel Pepys's Grammar--Roman Remains--To grab-- Curfew at Sandwich--Ecclesiastical Censure--The Natural History of Balmoral--Shirt Collars 466 QUERIES:-- "Days of my Youth" 467 MINOR QUERIES:--Randall Minshull and his Cheshire Collections--Mackey's "Theory of the Earth"-- Birthplace of King Edward V.--Name of Infants-- Geometrical Curiosity--Denison Family--"Came" --Montmartre--Law of Copyright: British Museum --Veneration for the Oak--Father Matthew's Chickens--Pronunciation of Bible and Prayer Book proper Names--MSS. of Anthony Bave--Return of Gentry, temp. Hen. VI.--Taylor's "Holy Living"-- Captain Jan Dimmeson--Greek and Roman Fortification --The Queen at Chess--Vida on Chess 467 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Thornton Abbey-- Bishop Wilson's "Sacra Privata"--Derivation of "Chemistry"--Burning for Witchcraft--The small City Companies--Rousseau and Boileau--Bishop Kennett's MS. Diary 469 REPLIES:-- Milton's Widow, by S. W. Singer 471 Oaths, by Honore de Mareville, &c. 471 Comminatory Inscriptions in Books, by Philarete Chasles 472 Liveries Worn, and Menial Services performed, by Gentlemen, by J. Lewelyn Curtis 473 Female Parish Clerks 474 Poetical Epithets of the Nightingale, by W. Pinkerton 475