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. * * * * * {361} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 80.] SATURDAY, MAY 10. 1851.. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. Page The Great Exhibition, Notes and Queries, and Chaucer's Prophetic View of the Crystal Palace 361 NOTES:-- On "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" 364 Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir Kenelm Digby 367 Folk-Lore:--The Christmas Thorn--Milk-maids--Disease cured by Sheep--Sacramental Wine--"Nettle in Dock out" 367 Metropolitan Improvements, by R. J. King 368 Minor Notes:--Meaning of Luncheon--Charade upon Nothing translated--Giving the Lie--Anachronisms of Painters--Spenser's Faerie Queene--Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots--A small Instance of Warren Hastings' Magnanimity--Richard Baxter--Registry of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches 369 QUERIES:-- Notes and Queries relating to Scandinavia, by W. E. C. Nourse 370 The Rotation of the Earth, by Robert Snow 371 Minor Queries:--William ap Jevan's Descendants-- "Geographers on Afric's Downs"--Irish Brigade--Passage in Oldham--Mont-de-Piete--Poem upon the Grave--When self-striking Clocks first invented--Clarkson's Richmond--Sir Francis Windebank's elder Son--Incised Slab--Etymology of Balsall--St. Olave's Churches-- Sabbatical and Jubilee Years of the Jews--Arms of the Isle of Man--Doctrine of the Resurrection--National Debts--Leicester's Commonwealth 372 REPLIES:-- Histoire des Sevarambes 374 Was there an "Outer Temple" in the Possession of the Knights Templars or Knights of St. John? by Peter Cunningham 375 Obeism, by H. H. Breen 376 San Marino 376 The Bellman and his History, by C. H. Cooper 377