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 Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. * * * * * {237} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 229.] SATURDAY, MARCH 18. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Gossiping History 239 Works on Bells, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe 240 Inedited Letter of Lord Nelson, by E. W. Jacob 241 FOLK LORE:--Herefordshire Folk Lore--Greenock Fair--Dragons' Blood--Charm for the Ague 242 Psalms for the Chief Musician: Hebrew Music, by T. J. Buckton 242 MINOR NOTES:--"Garble"--Deaths in the Society of Friends--The Eastern Question--Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin--English Literature--Irish Legislation --Anecdote of George IV. and the Duke of York 243 QUERIES:-- Anonymous Works: "Posthumous Parodies," "Adventures in the Moon," &c. 244 Blind Mackerel 245 MINOR QUERIES:--Original Words of old Scotch Airs-- Royal Salutes--"The Negro's Complaint"--"The Cow Doctor"-- Soomarokoff's "Demetrius"--Polygamy--Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Longobardic, and Old English Letters--Description of Battles --Do Martyrs always feel Pain?--Carronade--Darcy, of Platten, co. Meath--Dorset--"Vanitatem observare"--King's Prerogative --Quotations in Cowper--Cawley the Regicide 245 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Dr. John Pocklington --Last Marquis of Annandale--Heralds' College--Teddy the Tiler--Duchess of Mazarin's Monument--Halcyon Days 247 REPLIES:-- Dogs in Monumental Brasses, by the Rev. W. S. Simpson, &c. 249 Sneezing, by C. W. Bingham 250 Sir John de Morant 250 Inn Signs 251 "Concilium Delectorum Cardinalium" 252 Pulpit Hour-glasses, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, &c. 253 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--A Prize for the best Collodion--Double Iodide of Silver and Potassium-- Albumenized Paper--Cyanide of Potassium 254