Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. * * * * * {297} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 77.] SATURDAY, APRIL 19. 1851. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Latin Drinking Song by Richard Braithwait, by S. W. Singer 297 Strange Appearances in the Sky, by Rev. A. Gatty 298 "After me the Deluge," by Douglas Jerrold 299 Bishop Thornborough's Monument 299 Minor Notes:--King Richard III.--Shakspeare a thorough Sailor--"A fellow-feeling." &c.--Early Instances of the Word "News"--Under the Rose 300 QUERIES:-- Portraits of Spenser 301 The Vendace 301 Minor Queries:--Ex Pede Herculem--"To-day we purpose"--"God takes those soonest whom He loves the best"--Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope --Whychcote of St. John's--Meaning of Rechibus-- Family of Queen Katherine Parr--Skort--Religious Teaching in the German Universities--Epigram by Dunbar--Endymion Porter--Sathaniel--The Scoute Generall--Anthony Pomeroy, Dean of Cork 302 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Civil War Tract--Trisection of the Circle--Wolsey's Son--Cardinals and Abbots in the English Church 303 REPLIES:-- Sir Balthazar Gerbier, by J. Crossley 304 The Travels of Baron Munchausen 305 Replies to Minor Queries:--Tobacco in the East-- Captain John Stevens--MS. Catalogue of Norman Nobility--Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III.-- Comets--Pope Joan--Abbot Euctacius--The Vellum-bound Junius--Meaning of Waste-book-- Cowdray--Solemnisation of Matrimony--Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke--Scandal against Queen Elizabeth--The Tanthony--The Hippopotamus --Tu autem--Places called purgatory--Swearing by Swans, &c.--Edmund Prideaux and the Post-office --Small Words and "Low" Words--Lord Howard of Effingham--Obeahism, &c. 306