[Transcriber's note: Original spelling variations have not been standardized. Old English-style letters have been marked with braces, as in {j}; characters with macrons have been marked in brackets with an equal sign, as in [=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. V.--No. 131. SATURDAY, MAY 1. 1852. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- Sterne at Sutton on the Forest, by the Rev. A. Gatty 409 Readings in Shakspeare, No. IV. 410 Presentiment 411 Curious Bill of Fare, and Storm, in 1739, by Edward Hawkins 412 Peculiar Attributes of the Seventh Son 412 Folk Lore:--Game-feathers protracting the Agony of Death--Charm for Ague--Old Shoes thrown for Luck--Folk Lore of the Kacouss People 413 Burials in Woollen, by the Rev. E. S. Taylor 414 Minor Notes:--Unacknowledged Quotations from the Scriptures--Latin Hexameters on the Bible--Epigram on La Bruyère--Cock And Bull Story--Mary Queen of Scots; her Monument and Head 414 QUERIES:-- The Book of Jasher 415 Minor Queries:--Old China--Pagoda, Joss House, Fetiche--"And Eva stood and wept alone"--Hearne's Confirmation; Baxter's Heavy Shove; Old Ballad--Gunpowder Mills--Macfarlane of that Ilk--Armorial Bearings --Scologlandis and Scologi--Ednowain ap Bradwen--Mummy Wheat--The Trusty Servant at Winchester--Anecdote--St. Augustine--Ghost, Evidence of one not received--Roman and Saxon Cambridge--Queries on the Mistletoe--Portrait of Mesmer 415 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Saint Richard--"Coming Events cast their Shadows before"--St. Christopher--Cuddy, the Ass--Toady--Mother Shipton 418 REPLIES:-- Ralph Winterton 419 Meaning and Origin of "Era," by S. W. Singer 420 Lady Arabella Stuart, by A. Grayan 421 Newton, Cicero, and Gravitation 422 Deferred Executions, by Ambrose Florence, &c. 422 Duchess of Lancaster 423 Surnames 424