Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://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. {49} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 34.] SATURDAY, JUNE 22. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page The Agapemone of the Sixteenth Century, by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. 49 Punishment of Death by Burning, by C. Ross and Rev. A. Gatty 50 Folk Lore:--Death-bed Mystery--Easter Eggs--May Marriages--"Trash" or "Skriker" 51 Notes on Milton 53 Colvil's Whigg's Supplication 53 QUERIES:-- Hubert le Soeur's Six Brass Statues by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. 54 Bishop Jewell's Library 54 The Low Window 55 Minor Queries:--North Sides of Churchyards--Hatfield--Ulrich von Hutten--Simon of Ghent--Boetius--Gloucestershire Gospel Tree--Churchyards--Epitaphs--Anthony Warton--Cardinal's Hat--Maps of London--Griffith of Penrhyn--Mariner's Compass--Pontefract on the Thames 55 REPLIES:-- Study of Geometry in Lancashire by T. T. Wilkinson 57 Queries Answered, No. 8., by Bolton Corney 60 Meaning of Bawn 60 Replies to Minor Queries:--Births, Marriages, &c.--M. or N.--Arabic Numerals--Comment in Apocalypsin--Robert Deverell--Hippopotamus--Ashes to Ashes--Dr. Maginn's Miscellanies--Living Dog better than a Dead Lion--Gaol Chaplains--Rome, Ancient and Modern--Trianon 60 MISCELLANIES:-- Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Mistake in Conybeare and Howson's Life of St. Paul 62 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 63 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 63 Notices to Correspondents 63 Advertisements 64 * * * * * Notes. THE "AGAPEMONE" OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.