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 Library of Early Journals.) [Transcriber's note: Original spelling varieties have not been standardized. Old English-style letters have been marked with braces {d}; characters with macrons have been marked in brackets with an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on top, or [q=] for a letter q with a horizontal bar in the descender. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts.] 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. 104. Saturday, October 25. 1851. Price Sixpence. Stamped Edition, 7_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- The Old Countess of Desmond, No. 1. 305 Panslavic Sketches, by Dr. J. Lotsky 306 Monumental Bust of Shakspeare, by J. O. Halliwell 307 Notes on Passages in Virgil, by Dr. Henry 307 Folk Lore:--Superstitions respecting Bees--Bees invited to Funerals--North Side of Churchyards--Ashton Faggot: a Devonshire Custom--Offerings to the Apple-trees: Devonshire Superstition 308 Poetical Imitations 310 Gloucestershire Ballads:--A Gloucester Ditty; George Ridler's Oven 311 The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 312 Minor Notes:--Note on the Duration of Reigns--Cock and Bull Story--"Multa renascentur," &c.--Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words 312 QUERIES:-- Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell's Confession 313 Minor Queries:--"'Tis Twopence now"--Scythians blind their Slaves--The "Gododin"--Frontispiece to Hobbes's Leviathan--Broad Arrow or Arrow Head--Deep Well near Bansted Downs--Upton Court--Derivation of Prog--Metrical History of England--Finger Pillories in Churches--Stallenge Queries--Ancient MS. History of Scotland--Pharetram de Tutesbit--Inundation at Deptford--Butler's Sermons--Coleridge's Christabel--Epigram ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots 314 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Meaning of Farlieu--"History of Anglesey"--The Word "Rile" 317 REPLIES:-- Winchester Execution 317 Cockney 318 Sir Edmund Plowden or Ployden 319 General James Wolfe 322