Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. {1} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 62.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1851. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Old Ballads upon the "Winter's Tale," by J. Payne Collier 1 Crossing Rivers on Skins, by Janus Dousa 3 Folk Lore of South Northamptonshire, No 3. 3 Minor Notes:--Kentish Town in the last Century-- Murray's Hand-book for Devon and Cornwall--Judges' Walk, Hampstead--Gray's Alcaic Ode--Fleet Marriages 4 QUERIES:-- Histoire des Severambes 4 Origin of present Penny Postage, by E. Venables 6 Red Book of the Irish Exchequer 6 Minor Queries:--Abbey of Shapp, or Hepp--"Talk not of Love"--Lucy and Colin--Chapel, Printing-office --Cockade--Suem, Ferling, Grasson--Cranmer's Descendants--Collections of Pasquinades-- Portraits of Bishops--The Butcher Duke--Rodolph Gualter--Passage in St. Mark--"Fronte capillata," &c. 7 REPLIES:-- "God speed the Plough" 8 "Defender of the Faith," by Robert Anstruther 9 Beatrix Lady Talbot, by Sir F. Madden 10 Replies to Minor Queries:--Passage in Hamlet--Passage in Tennyson--Was Quarles pensioned?--Old Hewson the Cobbler--The Inquisition--Mrs. Tempest--Cardinal Allen's Declaration--Scandal against Queen Elizabeth--Church of St. Saviour, Canterbury--Pope Ganganelli-Nicholas Ferrar's Digest--Nicholas Ferrar-- Cardinal Erskine--The Author of "Peter Wilkins" --"The Toast," by Dr. King--"The Widow of the Wood"--Damasked Linen 10 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 13 Notices to Correspondents 14 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 14 Advertisements 15 * * * * * OUR THIRD VOLUME.