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 Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's note: 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 indicate _italic_ fonts. Original spelling varieties have not been standardized. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] NOTES and QUERIES: VOLUME FOURTH. JULY-DECEMBER 1851. 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. 88. SATURDAY, JULY 5. 1851. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ CONTENTS. Page Our Fourth Volume 1 NOTES:-- The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books, by Sir F. Madden 1 Folk Lore:--Stanton Drew and its Tradition, by David Stevens 3 Minor Notes:--The Hon. Spencer Perceval--An Adventurer in 1632--Almanacs 4 QUERIES:-- Ghost Stories, by the Rev. Dr. Maitland 5 A Book of Enzinas, or Dryander, wanted, by Benjamin B. Wiffen 5 Salting the Bodies of the Dead, by W. B. MacCabe 6 Minor Queries:--The Star in the East--Meaning of Sinage: Distord: Slander--Miss--Jacques Mabiotte--Registry of British Subjects abroad--Shawls--Figures of Saints--Conceyted Letters, who wrote?--Acta Sanctorum--Pope's "honest Factor"--Meaning of "Nervous"--Doomsday Book of Scotland 6 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Dr. Sacheverell--Princess Wilbrahama--Early Visitations 8 REPLIES:-- Written Sermons, by J. Bruce, &c. 8 Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 9 Dr. Elrington's Edition of Ussher's Works, by the Rev. Dr. Todd 10 Replies to Minor Queries:--Mind your P's and Q's--Serius Seriadesque--Catharine Barton--Alterius Orbis Papa--Charles Dodd--"Prenzie"--"In Print"--Introduction of Reptiles into Ireland--Ancient Wood Engraving of the Picture of Cebes--"The Groves of Blarney"--Tennyson's Lord of Burleigh--Bicêtre--On a Passage in Dryden--Derivation of Yankee--Ferrante Pallavicino 11 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 13 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 14