{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. 242.] SATURDAY, JUNE 17. 1854 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Political Predictions, by Henry H. Breen 559 Derivation of the Word "Bigot" 560 "Book of Almanacs," by Professor De Morgan 561 MINOR NOTES:--Distances at which Sounds have been heard--Anagram--Logan or Rocking Stones 561 QUERIES:-- A Rubens Query 561 The Paxs Pennies of William the Conqueror 562 MINOR QUERIES:--Peculiar Customs at Preston, in Lancashire--Obsolete Statutes--Sale of Offices and Salaries in the Seventeenth Century--Board of Trade--Sacheverell's and Charles Lamb's Residences in the Temple--Braddock and Orme 562 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Cromwell's Bible--Canne's Bible--Dryden and Luke Milbourne--Portrait Painters of the last Century--Ætna--Sir Adam, or Sir Ambrose, Brown 563 REPLIES:-- Norwich, Kirkpatrick Collection of MSS. for the History of, by B. B. Woodward, &c. 564 Early German Coloured Engravings 565 The Bellman at Newgate, by J. W Farrer 565 Herbert's "Church Porch" 566 Ancient Usages of the Church 566 Popiana, by R. Carruthers 568 Catholic Floral Directories 568 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Lyte's New Instantaneous Process--Photographs, &c. of the Crystal Palace--Soluble Cotton--Cameras 570 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Shakspeare Portrait-- "Aches"--"Waestart"--Willow Bark in Ague--Lord Fairfax--The Young Pretender--Dobney's Bowling-green; Wildman; Sampson--Palæologus--Children by one Mother-- Robert Brown the Separatist--Hero of the "Spanish Lady's Love"--Niagara--Hymn attributed to Handel--Marquis of Granby--Convocation and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel--Cassie--"Three cats sat," &c.--Tailless Cats--Francklyn Household Book--"Violet-crowned" Athens--Smith of Nevis and St. Kitt's--Hydropathy-- Leslie and Dr. Middleton--Lord Brougham and Horne Tooke--Irish Rhymes--Cabbages--Sir William "Usher," not "Upton"--"Buckle"--Cornwall Family--John of Gaunt-- "Wellesley" or "Wesley"--Mantel-piece--"Perturbabantur," &c.--Edition of "Othello"--Perspective--"Go to Bath," &c. 571 MISCELLANEOUS:--