Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram 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: Original spelling variations have not been standardized. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. Tentative expansions of Latin scribal abbreviations include dimi[d=] for dimidio, ann' for anno, Dñs for Dominus, Dñi for Domini, Dño for Domino, [p=] for pro, [=p] for pre, and [q=] for que. Greek letters have been retained as printed. The spelling of νόμεσθαι, as taken over from Stolbergius, seems to be a typographical error for νέμεσθαι.] 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. 105. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1851. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ CONTENTS. Page The Claims of Literature 337 NOTES:-- Daniel Defoe and the "Mercator," by James Crossley 388 Punishment of Edward Prince of Wales, by King Edward I., for Disrespect to a Judge, by William Sidney Gibson 338 Notes on the Word: "Αδελφος," by T. R. Brown 339 Lambert, the "Arch-Rebell," by Richard John King 339 The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 340 Minor Notes:--A Hint to Catalogue Makers--Virgil and Goldsmith--Mental Almanac--Merlin and the Electric Telegraph 340 QUERIES:-- Bishop Bramhall and Milton 341 The Sempills of Beltrus: Robert Sempill 343 Descendants of John of Gaunt 343 Minor Queries:--Rocky Chasm near Gaëta: Earthquake at the Crucifixion--Cavalcade--A Sept of Hibernians--Yankee Doodle--Seventeenth of November: Custom--Chatter-box--Printing in 1449, and Shakspeare--Texts before Sermons--Paradyse, Hell, Purgatory--Dead Letter--Dominus Bathurst, &c.--Grammar Schools--Fermilodum--Lord Hungerford--Consecration of Bishops in Sweden 343 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Effigy of a Pilgrim--"Modern Universal History"--Origin of Evil--Nolo Episcopari--Authors of the Homilies--Family of Hotham of Yorkshire--Vogelweide--Meaning of Skeatta 345 REPLIES:-- Marriage of Ecclesiastics, by Henry Walter, &c. 346 Lord Strafford and Archbishop Ussher 349 Sculptured Stones in the North of Scotland 350