NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 53.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {369} CONTENTS. NOTES:--Page Shakspeare and Marlowe, by Samuel Hickson. 369 A Plan for a Church-History Society. 371 Burnet as a Historian. 372 Epigrams from Buchanan. 372 Mistakes about George Chapman the Poet. 372 Minor Notes:--Shakspeare and George Herbert--Old Dan Tucker--Lord John Townsend--Croker's Boswell--Misquotation--Tindal's New Testament--The Term "Organ-blower"--"Singular" and "Unique". 373 QUERIES:-- Early Poetry, &c., Five Bibliographical Queries respecting. 374 Minor Queries:--History of Newspapers--Steele's Burial place--Socinian Boast--Descent of Edward IV.--Viscount Castlecomer--Judge Cradock, afterwards Newton--Totness Church--Meaning of "Harissers"--Ringelbergius: Drinking To Excess--Langue Pandras--The Coptic Language--Cheshire Cat--Mrs. Partington--Cognation of the Jews and Lacedemonians. 375 REPLIES:-- Fairfax's Translation of Tasso. 377 Small Words. 377 Replies to Minor Queries:--Concolinel-Wife of the Poet Bilderdijk--Schweickhardt the Artist--Noli me tangere--Chimney Money--Passage from Burke--Nicholas Assheton's Journal--Scotch Prisoners--Long Friday--Bradshaw Family--Julin, the Drowned City--Dodsley's Poems--Shunamitis Poema--Jeremy Taylor's Works--D[au]ctor Dubitantium--Aërostation--Gwyn's London and Westminster--"Regis ad Exemplum totus compositur Orbis"--St. Uncumber, &c. 378 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 382 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 382 Notices to Correspondents. 382 Advertisements. 383 * * * * * NOTES SHAKSPEARE AND MARLOWE.