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.) {1} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * VOL. IX.--No. 219.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 7. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. Page Our Ninth Volume 3 NOTES:-- A Strawberry-Hill Gem, by Bolton Corney 3 The "Ancren Riwle," by Sir F. Madden 5 Order for the Suppression of Vagrancy, A.D. 1650-51, by John Bruce 6 Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis 7 Burial-place of Archbishop Leighton, by Albert Way 8 MINOR NOTES:--Grammars, &c. for Public Schools--"To captivate"--Bohn's Edition of Matthew of Westminster--French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes--Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex 8 QUERIES:-- Domestic Letters of Edmund Burke 9 MINOR QUERIES:--Farrant's Anthem--Ascension Day Custom--Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic Collections--"The spire whose silent finger points to heaven."--Lord Fairfax--Tailless Cats-- Saltcellar--Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos--Naval Atrocities--Turlehydes--Foreign Orders: Queen of Bohemia--Pickard Family--Irish Chieftains-- General Braddock 9 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex--Motto on old Damask--Explanation of the Word "Miser"--"Acis and Galatea"--Birm-bank-- General Thomas Gage 11 REPLIES:-- Rapping no Novelty, by Rev. Dr. Maitland 12 Occasional Forms of Prayer, by John Macray 13 Celtic and Latin Languages 14 Geometrical Curiosity, by Professor De Morgan 14 The Black-guard, by P. Cunningham 15 The Calves' Head Club, by Edward Peacock 15 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:-- The Calotype Process--Hockin's Short Sketch-- Photographic Society's Exhibition 16 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--"Firm was their faith," &c.--Vellum-cleaning--Wooden Tombs--Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263--Lines on Woman--Satin-- "Quid facies," &c.--Sotades--The Third Part of "Christabel"--Attainment of Majority--Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton--The fifth Lord Byron--Burton Family--Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus, &c. 17