[Transcriber's note: Original spelling variations 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. V.--No. 121. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1852. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- Readings in Shakspeare, No. II. 169 National Defences 171 Notes on Homer, No. II., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie 171 Folk Lore:--Fernseed--Cornish Folk Lore 172 Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words 173 The Last of the Palæologi 173 The last Lay of Petrarch's Cat 174 Minor Notes:--Sobriquet--Origin of Paper--Persistency of Proper Names--Cheap Maps 174 QUERIES:-- Did St. Paul quote Aristotle? by Thomas H. Gill 175 Minor Queries:--Silver Royal Font--L'Homme de 1400 Ans--Llandudno, on the Great Orme's Head--Johnson's House, Bolt Court--Bishop Mossom--Orlando Gibbons--Portraits --Barnard's Church Music--The Nelson Family--Letters to the Clergy--Margaret Burr--Northern Ballads--"Blamed be the man," &c.--"Quid est Episcopus"--Henry Isaac--German Poet quoted by Camden--American Degrees--Derivation of News--Passage in Troilus and Cressida--Bachelor's Buttons--Princes of Wales and Earls of Chester, eldest Sons of the Kings of England--Authenticated Instances of Longevity 175 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Laud's Letters and Papers--Scot's Philomythie--Robin of Doncaster--Horæ Belgicæ--Dulcarnon 179 REPLIES:-- Number of the Children of Israel 180 Serjeants' Rings and Mottoes, by J. B. Colman, &c. 181 Learned Men of the Name of Bacon 181 Collar of SS. 182 The Königsmarks 183 Boiling Criminals to Death, by J. B. Colman, &c. 184 "Admonition to the Parliament" 184 "Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative," by W. H. Lammin, &c. 185 General Wolfe 185