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. 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. 96. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30. 1851. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._ CONTENTS. Page The Caxton Memorial and Chaucer's Monument 145 NOTES:-- Collar of SS., by Edward Foss 147 Printing 148 Folk Lore:--Bible Divination in Suffolk--Mode of discovering Bodies of the Drowned--Somersetshire Rhyme 148 Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations 149 Minor Notes:--Cocker's Arithmetic--The Duke of Normandy--Anachronisms and Errors of Painters--The Ring Finger--The Od Force--New Costume for Ladies 149 QUERIES:-- Judges styled Reverend, &c. 151 Minor Queries:--Frederick Egmont; Peter (Egmont?)--Unlucky for Pregnant Women to take on Oath--Cockroach--Felton--Date of a Charter--Thomas Tusser the "Husbandman"--Godfrey Higgins' Works--Noctes Templariæ--Commissioners on Officers of Justice in England--Marcus Ælius Antoninus--Derivation of Pic-nic--Sir Thomas More's Knighthood--Portrait of Mandeville--Early History of Dingle--Language of Ancient Egypt--Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe--Names first given to Parishes--German Testament--The Man of Law--The Termination "Ship"--Nullus and Nemo--The noblest Object of the Work of Art--Poulster 151 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Rev. Cæsar de Missy--F. Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor--"Carve out Dials"--Log Book--Lord Clydesdale--"Time is the Stuff of which Life is made"--"Yet forty Days"--The Empress Helena 153 REPLIES:-- Royal Library 154 The "Eisell" Controversy 155 Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 157 "House of Yvery" 158 On "Rack" in the Tempest 158 Richard Rolle of Hampole 159