Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://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. * * * * * {557} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 215.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by William Winthrop 557 Penny Sights and Exhibitions in the Reign of James I., by A. Grayan 558 The Impossibilities of our Forefathers 559 Parallel Passages, by the Rev. John Booker 560 Astrology in America 561 MINOR NOTES:--"Hierosolyma est perdita"--Quaint Inscription in a Belfry--The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and Judah--The Using a Circumstance as a "Peg," or "Nail," to hang an Argument on, &c.--Turkish and Russian Grammars-- Chronograms in Sicily--Stone Pulpits--Advertisements and Prospectuses 561 Queries:-- English Refugees at Ypenstein 562 MINOR QUERIES:--Petrarch's Laura--"Epitaphium Lucretiæ"-- McDowall Family--Arms of Geneva--Webb of Monckton Farleigh-- Translation Wanted--Latin Translation from Sheridan, &c.-- Gale of Rent--Arms of Sir Richard de Loges--Gentile Names of the Jews--Henry, Earl of Wotton--Kicker-eating--Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancashire--George, first Viscount Lanesborough, and Sir Charles Cotterell--"Firm was their faith," &c.--The Mother of William the Conqueror--Pedigree of Sir Francis Bryan 562 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS--"The Whole Duty of Man"--"It rained cats and dogs and little pitchforks:" Helter-skelter-- Father Traves--Precise Dates of Births and Deaths of the Pretenders--Clarence 564 REPLIES:-- Mackey's "Theory of the Earth" 565 Sincere, Simple, Singular 567 Poetical Tavern Signs 568 Homo Unius Libri 569 The Forlorn Hope, by W. R. Wilde 569 Tieck's "Comoedia Divina" 570 Liveries worn by Gentlemen 571