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. In footnote 4, ἐστιᾶν, as taken over from Byron's text, seems to be a typographical error for ἑστιᾶν. 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. 92. Saturday, August 2. 1851 Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- Proverbial Philosophy 81 Paraphrase on the 137th Psalm by Churchill 82 On the Description of the Medicean Venus in Childe Harold 83 Minor Notes:--On the Word "raised" as used by the Americans--Contradiction: D'Israeli and Hume--A Ship's Berth 83 QUERIES:-- John a Kent and John a Cumber, by J. Payne Collier 83 Swearing on the Horns at Highgate 84 Minor Queries:--Proverb of James I.--Mrs. Hutchinson --Early Translation of Amadis de Gaule--Hogarth and Cowper--Latin Translation of Butler's Analogy--"Non quid responderent," &c.--"The Worm in the Bud of Youth," &c.--Queen Brunéhaut--Sculptured Stones in the North of Scotland--Prophecies of Nostradamus--Quaker Expurgated Bible--Salmon Fishery in the Thames--Cromwell Grants of Land in Monaghan--Siege of Londonderry 85 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--The Twentieth of the Thirty-nine Articles--Exons of the Guard--Curious Monumental Inscription--Meaning of Deal--La Mer des Histoires--"The noiseless Foot of Time" 87 REPLIES:-- Passage in Virgil, by T. Henry, &c. 88 The Vine of St. Francis 89 "Jusjurandum per Canem;" "Sedem Animæ in Digitis ponunt;" "Fiat Justitia, ruat Coelum" 90 Hugh Holland and his Works, by Bolton Corney 91 Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest 92 Replies to Minor Queries:--Coke and Cowper--Dunmore Castle--Gooseberry Fool--Dryden and Oldham--Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott--Penn Family--Bummaree--Miss or Mistress--Book Plates 93 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 94