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. * * * * * {345} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 79.] SATURDAY, MAY 3. 1851. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Illustrations of Chaucer, No. V. 345 Foreign English--Guide to Amsterdam 346 Seven Children at a Birth three Times following 347 Ramasshed, Meaning of the Term 347 Authors of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, by E. Hawkins 348 Minor Notes:--Egg and Arrow Ornament--Defoe's Project for purifying the English Language--Great Fire of London--Noble or Workhouse Names 349 QUERIES:-- Passages in the New Testament illustrated from Demosthenes 350 The House of Maille 351 Minor Queries:-- Meaning of "eign"--The Bonny Crayat--What was the Day of the Accession of Richard the Third?--Lucas Family--Watch of Richard Whiting--Laurence Howel, the Original Pilgrim--Churchwardens' Accounts, &c. of St. Mary-de-Castro, Leicester--Aristotle and Pythagoras--When Deans first styled Very Reverend--Form of Prayer at the Healing--West Chester--The Milesians--Round Robbin--Experto credo Roberto--Captain Howe--Bactria 351 REPLIES:-- The Family of the Tradescants, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 353 Meaning of Venville, by E. Smirke 355 Replies to Minor Queries:--Newburgh Hamilton--Pedigree of Owen Glendower--Mind your P's and Q's--The Sempecta at Croyland--Solid-hoofed Pigs--Porci solide-pedes--Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary--Criston, Somerset--Tradesmen's Signs--Emendation of a Passage in Virgil 356 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 358 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 358 Notices to Correspondents 358 Advertisements 359 * * * * * Notes. ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER NO. V. _The Arke of Artificial Day_.