NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 26.] SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {409} CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Nicholas Breton, by the Rev. T. Corser. 409 Notes upon Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 410 Notes on the Dodo, by H.E. Strickland. 410 Derivation of "Sterling" and "Penny." 411 Hanno's Periplus, by S.W. Singer. 412 Folk Lore:--Cook-eels--Divination by Bible and Key--Weather Proverb. 412 Bibliographical Notes, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 413 Pope, Petronius, and his Translators, by A. Rich, Jun. 414 QUERIES:-- When were Umbrellas introduced into England? by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 414 Minor Queries:--Duke of Marlborough--"M. or N."--Song of the Bees--William Godwin--Regimental Badges--Mother of Thomas à Becket--Swords worn in public--Emblem and National Motto of Ireland--Latin Distich--Verbum Græcum--Pope Felix--"Where England's Monarch." 415 REPLIES:-- Gray's Alcaic Ode. 416 Replies to Minor Queries:--Chapels--Beaver--Poins and Bardolph--God tempers the Wind--Sterne's Koran--Lollius--Bishop Ryder--Brown Study--Seven Champions--Tempora mutantur, &c.--Vox Populi Vox Dei--Cuckoo--Ancient Tiles--Daysman--Safeguard--Finkel--Gourders of Rain--Urbanus Regius--Horns--_The_ or _A_ Temple--Ecclestiastical Year--Paying through the Nose--Quem Deus--Shrew--Zenobia--Cromwell's Estates--Vox et præterea Nihil--Law of Horses--Christ's Hospital--Tickhill, God help me! 417 MISCELLANIES:-- MSS. of Casaubon--Latin Epigram--"Nec pluribus impar"--Close Translation--St. Antholin's Parish Books. 422 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 423 Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 423 Notices to Correspondents. 423 * * * * * NOTES NICHOLAS BRETON.