NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 49.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {289} CONTENTS. NOTES:--Page Stray Notes on Cunningham's London. 289 Satirical Song upon Villiers Duke of Buckingham, by Dr. Rimbault. 291 Baker's Notes on Author of "Whole Duty of Man," by Rev. J.E.B. Mayor. 292 Mistake about George Wither, by Dr. Rimbault. 293 Useful _v._ Useless Learning. 293 Minor Notes:--Numerals--Junius and Sir P. Francis--Jews under the Commonwealth--"Is any thing but," &c.--Fastitocalon. 294 QUERIES:-- Bishop Cosin's Conference. 295 Engleman's "Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum," by Professor De Morgan. 296 Minor Queries:--Portrait of Sir P. Sidney--Confession--Scotch Prisoners at Worcester--Adamson's Edward II.--Sir Thomas Moore--Dr. E. Cleaver--Gwyan's London--Coronet--Cinderella--Judas' Bell--Dozen of Bread--Kings Skuggsia--Coins of Gandophares--Satirical Medals. 296 REPLIES:-- Gaudentio di Lucca. 298 On a Passage in the Tempest, by J. Payne Collier. 299 Gray's Elegy. 300 Bishops and their Precedence. 301 Replies to Minor Queries:--Leicester and the reputed Poisoners of his Time--What is the correct Prefix of Mayors--Marks of Cadency. 302 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 303 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 303 Notices to Correspondents. 303 Advertisments. 304 * * * * * NOTES. STRAY NOTES ON CUNNINGHAM'S LONDON. The following notes are so trivial, that I should have scrupled to send them on any other ground than that so well-conceived and labouriously-executed a work should have its most minute and unimportant details as correct as possible. This, in such a work, can only be effected by each reader pointing out the circumstances that he has reason to believe are not quite correctly or completely given in it. Page 24. _Astronomical Society._--The library has been recently augmented by the incorporation with it of the books and documents (as well as the members) of the _Mathematical Society of London_ (Spitalfields). It contains the most complete collection of the English mathematical works of the last century known to exist. A friend, who has examined them with some care, specifies particularly some of the tracts published in the controversy raised by Bishop Berkeley respecting "the ghosts of departed quantities," of which he did before know the existence.