NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 41.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * *{161} CONTENTS. NOTES: Sir William Gascoigne, by Edward Foss An old Guy, by Dr. Bell Folk Lore:--Folk Lore of South Northamptonshire, No. 2 Mice, Snakes, Poultry, Crows, Owls, Cuckoos, &c. Minor Notes:--Hon. A. Erskine--Gloves--Punishment of Death by Burning--India Rubber QUERIES: The "Bar" of Michael Angelo, by S.W. Singer Annotated Copies of Bishop Andrewes' Works Minor Queries:--Robert Innes, a Grub Street Poet--Sicilian Vespers--One Bell--Treasure Trove--Poeta Anglicus--Hornbooks--Ben Jonson, or Ben Johnson--MS. Book of Prayers belonging to Queen Catherine Parr--Waltheolf--De Combre Family--Ilda--"De Male quæsitis"--Westminster Abbey--Haberdasher--Martinet-- "Querela Cantabrigiensis"--Long Lonkin REPLIES: Treatise of Equivocation Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy, by C.H. Cooper Etymological Queries answered, by Albert Way Replies to Minor Queries:--Solingen--Blackguard--The Three Dukes--Bonny Dundee--Was Quarles pensioned?--Collar of Esses--The Story of the Three Men and their Bag of Money--Will. Robertson of Murton--Long Meg of Westminster--Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Antholin's--The Plant "Hæmony"--Mildew in Books--The Carpenter's Maggot--Martello Towers--Highland Kilts--Derivation of Penny--Scarf--Smoke-money--Common, Mutual, and Reciprocal--Juice Cups--Curfew--Derivation of Totnes, &c. MISCELLANEOUS: Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c Books and Odd Volumes Wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements * * * * * NOTES. SIR WILLIAM GASCOIGNE. Although you and I no doubt unite in the admiration, which all our fellow-countrymen profess, and some of them feel, for our immortal bard, yet I do not think that our zeal as Shakspearians will extend so far as to receive him as an unquestionable authority for the facts introduced into his historical plays. The utmost, I apprehend, that we should admit is, that they represent the tradition of the time in which he wrote, and even that admission we should modify by the allowance, to which every poet is entitled, of certain changes adopted for dramatic effect, and with the object of enhancing our interest in the character he is delineating.