NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 45.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {225} CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Folk Lore:--The first Mole in Cornwall--"A whistling Wife," &c.--A Charm for Warts--Hanging out the broom. 225 Lord Plunket and St. Agobard. 226 Notes on Cunningham's Handbook of London, By E.F. Rimbault. 227 Notes on Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, by J.E.B. Mayor. 228 Minor Notes:--Capture of Henry VI.--Notes from Mentmore Register. 228 QUERIES:-- Joachim, the French Ambassador. 229 Roman Catholic Translations of the Scriptures, &c. 229 Minor Queries:--The Lost Tribes--Partrige Family--Commoner marrying a Peeress--The Character "&"--Combs buried with the Dead--Cave's Historia Literaria--Julin--Richardson Family--Arabic Name of Tobacco--Pole Money--Welsh Money--A Skeleton in every House--Whetstone of Reproof--Morganatic Marriages--Gospel of Distaffs. 230 REPLIES:-- Poeta Anglicus. 232 Caxton's Printing-office, by J.G. Nichols. 233 The Use of Coffins, by Rev. A. Gatty. 234 Shakspeare's Use of the Word "Delighted". 234 Ventriloquism. 234 Replies to Minor Queries:--Earl of Oxford's Patent--The Darby Ram--Rotten Row and Stockwell Street--Hornbooks--Passages from Shakspeare--Mildew in Books--Pilgrims' Road to Canterbury--Abbé Strickland--Etymology of Totnes--Ædricus qui Signa fundebat--Fiz-gig--Guineas-- Numismatics--Querela Cantabrigiensis--Ben Johnson--Barclay's "Argenis"--Hockey--Praed's Poetical Works. 235 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 239 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 239 Notices to Correspondents. 239 Advertisements. 240 * * * * * NOTES. FOLK LORE.