NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 44.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {209} CONTENTS NOTES: Gravesend Boats 209 Notes on Cunningham's Handbook of London, by E.F. Rimbault 211 Devotional Tracts belonging to Queen Katherine Parr, by Dr. Charlton 212 Suggestions for cheap Books of Reference 213 Rib, why the first Woman formed from 213 Minor Notes:--Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper--Mistletoe on Oaks--Omnibuses--Havock--Schlegel on Church Property in England 214 QUERIES: P. Mathieu's Life of Sejanus 215 The Antiquity of Smoking 216 Sir Gregory Norton, Bart. 216 Minor Queries:--City Offices--Meaning of Harefinder--Saffron-bag--Bishop Berkley's successful Experiments--Unknown Portrait--Custom of selling Wives--Hepburn Crest and Motto--Concolinel--"One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church"--The Norfolk Dialect--Sir John Perrot--"Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi" 216 REPLIES: Derivation of "News" 218 Replies to Minor Queries:--Swords worn in Public--Quarles' Pension--Franz von Sickingen--"Noll me tangere"--Dr. Bowring's Translations--Countess of Desmond--Yorkshire Dales--Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs--Alarum--Practice of Scalping among the Scythian's--Gospel Tree--Martinet--"Yote" or "Yeot"--Map of London--Woodcarving, Snow Hill--Waltheof--The Dodo--"Under the Rose"--Ergh, Er, or Argh--Royal Supporters--The Frog and the Crow of Ennow 218 MISCELLANEOUS: Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 222 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 223 Notices to Correspondents 223 Advertisements 223 * * * * * NOTES GRAVESEND BOATS. While so much has been said of coaches, in the early numbers of "Notes and Queries" and elsewhere, very little notice has been taken of another mode of conveyance which has now become very important. I think it may amuse some of your readers to compare a modern Gravesend boat and passage with the account given by Daniel Defoe, in the year 1724: and as it is contained in what I believe to be one of his least known works, it may probably be new to most of them. In his _Great Law of Subordination_, after describing the malpractices of hackney coachmen, he proceeds: