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. * * * * * {293} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 231.] SATURDAY, APRIL 1. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Kennington Common, by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson 295 Life and Death 296 Battle of Trafalgar and Death of Nelson 297 Heraldic Anomaly 298 FOLK LORE:--Three Maids--Mother Russel's Post--Shrove Tuesday Custom 299 Stornello 299 MINOR NOTES:--Perspective--"That"--Corporation Enactments--Jacobite Club--Dean Nowell's first Wife-- "Oxoniana"--An Epigram falsely ascribed to George Herbert--Ingulph: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library" 300 QUERIES:-- Quotations wanted 301 Sir Edmund Plowden, by S. F. Streeter 301 Ancient Clock, and Odevaere's History of it, by Octavius Morgan 302 MINOR QUERIES:--Spielberg, when built?--"Ded. Pavli"-- Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantleboard: Mantell and Brace--Passage in Job--Provincial Glossaries-- Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancaster--A marvellous Combat of Birds--Battle of the Gnats--Sandford of Thorpe Salvine, co. York--"Outlines of the History of Theology"--"Mawkin"--"Plain Dealer"--Hymn attributed to Handel--Degrees in Arts--"Goloshes:" "Kutchin-kutchu"--Cornwalls of London--Flasks for Wine-bottles--Froxhalmi, Prolectricus, Phytacus, Tuleus, Candos, Gracianus, and Tounu or Tonnu 302 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Postmaster at Merton College--"Lyra Apostolica"--East Dereham Manor-- Quakers executed in North America--Inscription in Fulham Church--Hero of the "Spanish Lady's Love"-- "Bothy"--"Children in the Wood" 304 REPLIES:-- Brydone the Tourist, by John Macray 305 "The Red Cow"--Cromwell's Carriages, &c. 306 Fox-hunting, by F. M. Middleton 307 Weather Rules, by E. MacCulloch, &c. 307 Bingham's Antiquities 308 Ancient Tenure of Lands 309