Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's note: Irish characters have been marked in braces, as {f} for an Irish letter f; characters with macrons have been marked in brackets with an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on top. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. Original spelling varieties have not been standardized. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. VOL. III.--No. 85. SATURDAY, JUNE 14. 1851. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._ CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Illustrations of Chaucer, No. VIII.: The Armorican Word "Menez" 473 Folk Talk: "Eysell," "Captious" 474 An Old Man whose Father lived in the Time of Oliver Cromwell 475 Minor Notes:--On a Passage in Sedley--On a Passage in "Romeo and Juliet"--Inscription on a Tablet in Limerick Cathedral 476 QUERIES:-- Princesses of Wales 477 Minor Queries:--Lady Mary Cavendish--Covey--Book wanted to purchase--The Devil's Bit--Corpse passing makes a Right of Way--Nao, a Ship--William Hone--Hand giving the Blessing--Tinsell, a Meaning of--Arches of Pelaga--Emiott Arms--Well Chapels--Davy Jones's Locker--Æsopus Epulans--Written Sermons--Pallavicino and the Conte d'Olivares 477 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Athelney Castle, Somersetshire--Legend of St. Molaisse--Bogatzky 478 REPLIES:-- Greene's Groatsworth of Witte, by Rev. Thos. Corser 479 The Dutch Martyrology 479 Replies to Minor Queries:--Spick and Span New--Under the Rose--Handel's Occasional Oratorio--Stone Chalice--Thanksgiving Book--Carved Ceiling in Dorsetshire--"Felix quem faciunt," &c.--The Saint Graal--Skeletons at Egyptian Banquet--Sewell-- Col-fabias--Poem from the Digby MS.--Umbrella--The Curse of Scotland--Bawn--Catacombs and Bone-houses--Bacon and Fagan--To learn by heart--Auriga--Vineyards in England--Barker--The Tanthony, &c. 480 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 487 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 487 Notices to Correspondents 487