Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
199. _Praed's Works._--Can any reader of "NOTES AND QUERIES" inform me
if there be a collected edition of the works of Praed? Many of your
readers are familiar with his fugitive pieces published in Knight's
_Quarterly Magazine_, _The Etonian_, and other periodicals. And all, I
am sure, who are acquainted with him, would be glad to see his graceful
and elegant productions published in a collected form.
K. S.
200. _Folietani._--Who founded the order of _Folietani_, or leaf-eaters
(to the exclusion of all grain and meat)? where and when? What Pope
dissolved the order, and is the Bull extant?
A. N.
201. _Berlin Mean Time._--In the _Nautical Almanac_ the day is supposed
to commence at noon according to the custom of English astronomers.
Foreigners, however, ordinarily commence the astronomical day at
midnight, at least those of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain do. But
can you or any of your correspondents tell me whether it is from the
midnight succeeding, or the midnight preceding our noon of the same
number? For instance, taking the longitude of Berlin to be 0h 53m 35s .5
East, would the present moment, which is September 17, 3h 40m 30s
Greenwich mean time, if expressed in Berlin mean time, be September 17,
16h 34m 5s .5, or would it be September 16, 16h 34m 5s .5? (I have
reckoned to days by ordinals, as, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, &c., without a 0-day,
which, however, the foreigners generally use, employing a cardinal
number, the hours minutes, and seconds being considered as a fraction to
be added.) I ask this question because so many things now are announced
in Berlin mean time.
DX.
202. _De Foe's House at Stoke Newington._--About the year 1722 De Foe
built here a large and handsome house for his own residence. Is it still
standing, and where? Many mansions in the neighbourhood appear to have
been erected about that time.
SPERIEND.
203. _Oxford Fellowships._--
"Upon this occasion I might repeat what I have observed before,
page 33. of these _Annals_, where the highest fellowships in
Oxford in 1534 or 1535 did not exceed 6_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._, nor the
lowest fall under 3_l._, and that was in Brazen Nose College; at
which time New College fellowships were but rated at 3_l._ 9_s._
4_d._, nor any of Magdalen fellowships (_except two for Yorkshire
that were obliged to go and preach in the countries abroad_) above
3_l._ 15_s._ 4_d._, as may be found in Mr. Twine's MS."--Smith's
_Annals of Univ. Coll._ p. 372.
Can any of your correspondents throw any light upon the parenthetical
clause printed in Italics?
E. H. A.
204. _Leonard Fell and Judge Fell._--Mr. Josiah Marsh, in _A popular
Life of George Fox_, 8vo., London, 1847, p. 83., mentions "Leonard Fell
of Becliff, a brother of the judge."
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