NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 28.] SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {449} CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Etymology of Penniel. 449 Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 450 Original Letter of Peter Le Neve, by E. Hailstone. 451 Folk Lore:--Superstitions of Middle Counties--Rainbow in the Morning. 451 Error in Johnson's Life of Selden. 451 Pope and Petronius, by C. Forbes. 452 QUERIES:-- Purvey of the Apocalypse--Bonner on the Seven Sacraments, by Sir F. Madden. 452 Replies to Minor Queries:--Arrangement of a Monastery--Constantine the Artist--Josias Ibach Stada--Worm of Lambton. 452 REPLIES:-- Luther's Translation, by S.W. Singer. 453 Lines on London Dissenting Ministers. 454 Replies to Minor Queries:--Tracts by Dekker and Nash--Tureen--English Translations of Erasmus--Court of Wards--Scala Coeli--Twm Shawn Cattie--Cheshire Round--Horns to a River--Horns--Coal Brandy--Howkey or Horkey--Luther's Portrait--Symbolism of Flowers, &c.--"Where England's Monarch"--Journeyman--Sydenham or Tidenham--J.B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art--"A Frog he would a-wooing go"--"My Love and I, &c."--Teneber Wednesday--Buckingham Motto--Laerig--Zenobia a Jewess--Temple Stanyan, &c. 454 MISCELLANIES:-- Spur Money--Note Books--Lady Rachael Russell--Byron and Taritus--Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Sir R. Haigh's Letter-Book--A Phonetic Peculiarity. 462 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 463 Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 463 Notices to Correspondents. 463 * * * * * NOTES ETYMOLOGY OF PENNIEL. Some eighteen years ago, the writer of the following sonnets, by the kindness of the proprietors of a pleasant house upon the banks of the Teviot, enjoyed two happy autumns there. The Roman road which runs between the remains of the camp at Chew Green, in Northumberland, and the Eildon Hills (the Trimontium of General Roy), passed hard by. The road is yet distinctly visible in all its course among the Cheviots, and in the uncultivated tracts; and occasionally also, where the plough has spared it, among the agricultural inclosures.