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 Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's note: Original spelling varieties 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 indicate _italic_ fonts. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] 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. 90. SATURDAY, JULY 19. 1851. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- A Caxton Memorial suggested, by Bolton Corney 33 Supposed Witchcraft 35 The late Sir John Graham Dalyell 35 Appropriation of a Thought, by James Cornish 36 The "Eisell" Controversy, by Samuel Hickson 36 Minor Notes:--"Miserrimus"--The Dog and Duck, St. George's Fields--The Habit of profane Swearing by the English--Tennyson's Use of the Word "Cycle"--A Moiety 37 QUERIES:-- Etymology of Fontainebleau, by H. H. Breen 38 Force of Conscience 38 English Literature in the North, by George Stephens 38 Minor Queries:--Painted Portraits of Overton--Fourth Fare--John Wood, Architect--Derivation of "Spon"--Dell, in what County--Bummaree or Bumaree--Thread the Needle--Proof of a Sword--Shelley's Children--Ackey Trade--Baskerville the Printer--Statue of Charles II.--La Mère Jeanne--Man Of War, why a Ship Of War so called--Secret Service Money of Charles II.--Hampton Court 39 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--De Rebus Hibernicis--Abridgment of the Assizes--Life Of Cromwell 41 REPLIES:-- Written Sermons and Extempore Preaching 41 Fest Sittings 42 Histoire des Sévérambes, by H. H. Breen 43 Salting the Dead 43 Replies to Minor Queries:--Bogatsky--Baronette--Rifles --Miss--Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest--English Sapphics-- Welwood--Bellarmio's Monstrous Paradox--Jonah and the Whale--Book Plates 44 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 46 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 46