Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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NOTES and QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION
FOR
LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.--No. 103. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._
CONTENTS.
Page
NOTES:--
The Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield 289
Lord Strafford and Archbishop Ussher 290
Poetical Coincidences, by T. C. Smith 291
Folk Lore:--Medical Use of Pigeons--Michaelmas
Goose; St. Martin's Cock--Surrey Folk Lore 291
The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 292
Minor Notes:--"They that touch pitch"--Pasquinade--Two
Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final 292
QUERIES:--
Can Bishops vacate their Sees? 293
Sanderson and Taylor 293
Minor Queries:--"Vox verè Anglorum"--"Sacro
Sancta Regum Majestas"--Translator of Horrebow's
"Iceland"--"Kings have their Conquests"--Dryden;
Illustrations by T. Holt White--Pauper's
Badge, Meaning of--The Landing of William Prince
of Orange in Torbay, painted by J. Northcote, R.A.--The
Lowy of Tunbridge--Bones of Birds--"Malvina,
a Tragedy"--Rinuccini Gallery 293
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Meaning of Aneroid--Fox's
Cunning 295
REPLIES:--
Archbishop of Spalatro, by Rev. J. Sansom, &c. 295
Anagrams 297
Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned, by Rev. A. Gatty,
&c. 297
Marriage of Ecclesiastics 298
Replies to Minor Queries:--Robert Douglas--The Leman
Baronetcy--Cachecope Bell--"Dieu et mon Droit"--Defoe's
House at Stoke Newington--Study of Geometry in
Lancashire--Coke, how pronounced--Quistourne--Seneca's
Medea--The Editor of Jewel's Works in
Folio--Poetaster--Post Pascha--Linteamina and
Surplices--Climate--Ancient Language of Egypt--Welwood's
Memoirs 299
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 302
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