[Transcriber's Note: Original spelling variations have not been standardized. Characters with macrons are shown in brackets with an equal sign, e.g. [=u] for a letter u with a macron on top. Some scribal abbreviations may be tentatively expanded: e.g. read "que" for q; and "verbum" for v'b[=u]. Underscores have been used to indicate italic fonts. A list of numbers 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. 125. SATURDAY, MARCH 20. 1852. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 265 John Tradescant the Younger, an Englishman 266 Cowley and his Monument, by Henry Campkin 267 Count Königsmark and the Duchess of Somerset, by D. Jardine 269 Folk Lore, by C. D. Lamont 270 London Street Characters, by Alfred Gatty 270 Minor Notes:--Dean Swift on Herbert's Travels--Joe Miller--Hints to Book-buyers--Birmingham Antiquities--Buchanan and Voltaire--Indignities on the Bodies of Suicides 271 QUERIES:-- "God's Love," &c., and other Poems 272 Praying to the Devil 273 Minor Queries:--John Ap Rice's Register--Prideaux's Doctrine of Conscience--John Adair, Geographer for Scotland (alive in 1715)--Clergymen first styled Reverend--Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes--Meaning of the word "Elvan"--Wiclif--Showing the White Feather--Gray and Locke--Horses and Sheep, Remains of in Churches--Archæologia Cambrensis, Vol. I., Reprint--Presbyterian Oath--"A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Box"--Cromwell's Skull--Guy, Thomas, Founder of Guy's Hospital, and M.P. for the Borough for Tamworth, d. s. p. 1724--Episcopal Mitre--John Lord Berkeley, Bishop of Ely--Palace of Lucifer--Ecclesiastical Geography--History of Commerce--Merchant Adventurers to Spain--King's College Chapel Windows--The King's Standard--James Wilson, M.D. 273 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Prestwich's Respublica--Instance of Longevity--Solidus Gallicus, &c.--Sept--Essay towards Catholic Communion--Bigot 276 REPLIES:-- Age of Trees; Tilford Oak 277 St. Paul's Quotation of Heathen Writers; St. Paul and Plato 278