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. * * * * * {509} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 213.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page The State Prison in the Tower, by William Sidney Gibson 509 Inedited Letter from Henry VIII. of England to James V. of Scotland, by Thos. Nimmo 510 Handbook to the Library of the British Museum, by Bolton Corney 511 FOLK LORE:--Derbyshire Folk Lore--Weather Superstitions --Weather Rhymes, &c.--Folk Lore in Cambridgeshire 512 Rapping no Novelty, by D. Jardine 512 MINOR NOTES:--Bond a Poet--The late Harvest --Misquotation--Epitaph in Ireland--Reynolds (Sir Joshua's) Baptism--Tradescant 513 QUERIES:-- Grammar in relation to Logic, by C. Mansfield Ingleby 514 The Coronet [Crown] of Llewelyn ap Griffith, Prince of Wales 514 MINOR QUERIES:--Monumental Brass at Wanlip, co. Leicester, and Sepulchral Inscriptions in English --Influence of Politics on Fashion--Rev. W. Rondall --Henry, third Earl of Northumberland--"When we survey," &c.--Turnbull's Continuation of Robertson --An Heraldic Query--Osborn filius Herfasti-- Jews in China--Derivation of "Mammet"--Non-recurring Diseases--Warville--Dr. Doddridge-- Pelasgi--Huc's Travels--The Mousehunt--Lockwood, the Court Jester--Right of redeeming Property 515 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Dictionary of Zingari --Sir Robert Coke--Regium Donum--Who was the Author of "Jerningham" and "Doveton?" --Alma Mater 517 REPLIES:-- Alexander Clark 517 Amcotts Pedigree, by W. S. Hesleden 518 Sir Ralph Winwood, by the Rev. W. Sneyd 519 Trench on Proverbs, by the Rev. M. Margollouth, &c. 519 On Palindromes, by Charles Reed, &c. 520