NOTES AND QUERIES A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * +"When found, make a note of."+--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 31.] Saturday, June 1. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * *{1} CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Parish Registers--Statistics 1 The Hudibrastic Verse, by S.W. Singer 3 Custom of presenting Gloves, by Jas. Crosby 4 Folk Lore: Exhumation of Body ominous to Family of the Deceased--Suffolk Folk Lore--Cure for Fits--Bible and Key 4 Notes on Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ, &c., by J.E.B. Mayor 5 Unpublished Epigrams in the British Museum 6 On Authors and Books, No. 7., by Bolton Corney 6 QUERIES:-- Punishment of Death by Burning 6 Cornelis Drebble 6 Verses attributed to Charles Yorke 7 Cultivation of Geometry in Lancashire 8 Asinorum Sepultura by W.B. MacCabe 8 Minor Queries:--Ransom of an English Nobleman--When does Easter end?--Carucate of Land--Members for Calais--Members for Durham--Leicester and the reputed Poisoners of his Time--Lord John Townshend's Poetical Works--Martello Towers--Mynyddyslwyn--Three Dukes--Bishops and their Precedence--Guineas--Parish Registers Tax--Charade 9 REPLIES:-- Howkey or Horkey, by S.W. Singer 10 Charles Martel 11 "Feast" and "Fast" 11 Replies to Minor Queries:--The Badger's Legs--Twm Sion Catti--Christian Captives--Cannibals--Symbols of the four Evangelists--Turkish Spy--Dr. Maginn's Miscellanies--Trianon--Pimlico--The Arms of Godin--Title of D.D.--Emancipation of the Jews--Sneck-up or Snick-up 12 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 14 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 15 Notice to Correspondents 15 Advertisements 15 * * * * * OUR SECOND VOLUME.