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. 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 mark _italic_ fonts; emphasis by =letter spacing= or =bold= text have been marked with =equal= signs. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM FOR INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. VOL. IV.--No. 113. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1851. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- Historical Coincidences: Barclay and Perkins 497 Remains of King James II. 498 Shetland Folk Lore:--The Wresting Thread--Ringworm--Burn--Elfshot 500 Minor Notes:--Names of Places in Normandy and Orkney 501 QUERIES:-- Minor Queries:--Meaning of Ploydes--Green-eyed Monster--Perpetual Lamp--Family of Butts--Greek Names of Fishes--Drimmnitavichillichatan--Chalk-back Day--Moravian Hymns--Rural and Urban Deans--Ducks and Drakes--Vincent Kidder--House at Welling--Shropshire, Price of Land--Legal Time 501 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Thorns of Dauphine--Inscription at Lyons--Turnpikes 502 REPLIES:-- General James Wolfe 503 "Flemish Account" 504 Pope and Flatman, by Henry H. Breen 505 Derivation of "London," by Francis Crossley, &c. 505 Replies to Minor Queries:--Legend of the Robin Redbreast--Monk and Cromwell--Souling--Clekit House--Peter Talbot--Races in which Children, &c.--Bacon a Poet--Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor--Share of Presbyters in Ordination--Weever's Funeral Monument--Dial Motto at Karlsbad--Cabal--Rectitudines Singularum Personarum--Stanzas in Childe Harold--The Island and Temple of Ægina--Herschel anticipated--Wyle Cop--Macfarlane Manuscripts 506 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 509 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 510 Notices to Correspondents 510 Advertisements 510 Notes. HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES.