NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 39.] SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {129} CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Etymology of "Whitsuntide" and "Mass." 129 Folk Lore:--Sympathetic Cures--Cure for Ague--Eating Snakes a Charm for growing young. 130 Long Meg of Westminster, by E.F. Rimbault. 131 A Note on Spelling,--"Sanatory," "Connection." 131 Minor Notes:--Pasquinade on Leo XII.--Shakspeare a Brass-rubber--California--Mayor of Misrule and Masters of the Pastimes--Roland and Oliver. 131 QUERIES:-- The Story of the Three Men and their Bag of Money. 132 The Geometrical Foot, by A. De Morgan. 133 Minor Queries:--Plurima Gemma--Emmote de Hastings--Boozy Grass--Gradely--Hats worn by Females--Queries respecting Feltham's Works--Eikon Basilice--"Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest"--Carpets and Room-paper--Cotton of Finchley--Wood Carving in Snow Hill--Walrond Family--Translations--Bonny Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse--Franz von Sickingen--Blackguard--Meaning of "Pension"--Stars and Stripes of the American Arms--Passages from Shakspeare--Nursery Rhyme--"George" worn by Charles I.--Family of Manning of Norfolk--Salingen a Sword Cutler--Billingsgate--"Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke"--Genealogical Queries--Parson, the Staffordshire Giant--Unicorn in the Royal Arms--The Frog and the Crow of Ennow--"She ne'er with treacherous Kiss," &c. 133 REPLIES:-- A treatise on Equivocation. 136 Further Notes on the Derivation of the Word "News." 137 "News," "Noise," and "Parliament." 138 Shakpeare's Use of the Word "Delighted" by Rev. Dr. Kennedy and J.O. Halliwell. 139 Replies to Minor Queries:--Execution of Charles I.--Sir T. Herbert's Memoir of Charles I.--Simon of Ghent--Chevalier de Cailly--Collar of Esses--Hell paved with good Intentions--The Plant "Hæmony"--Practice of Scalping among the Scythians--Scandinavian Mythology--Cromwell's Estates--Magor--"Incidis in Scyllam"--Dies Iræ--Fabulous Account of the Lion--Caxton's Printing-Office. 140 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 142 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 143 Answers to Correspondents. 143 * * * * * NOTES. ETYMOLOGY OF "WHITSUNTIDE" AND "MASS". Perhaps the following Note and Query on the much-disputed origin of the word _Whitsunday_, as used in our Liturgy, may find a place in your Journal. None of the etymologies of this word at present in vogue is at all satisfactory. They are-- I. _White Sunday_: and this, either--