[Transcriber's note: Original spelling variations have not been standardized. Characters with macrons have been marked in brackets with an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on top; [)u] shows a character with breve. 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. 132. SATURDAY, MAY 8. 1852. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._ CONTENTS. Page On Sir Robert Peel, and his Claims to be remembered by the Literary Men of England 433 NOTES:-- Sitting in Bede's Chair, by Cuthbert Bede 434 Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson 435 On a Passage in "Measure for Measure," Act I. Sc. 1., by S. W. Singer 435 Folk Lore:--Sites of Buildings mysteriously changed--Burning the Bush--Essex Superstition 436 Old Song, "Not long ago I drank a full Pot" 437 Minor Notes:--Boston and Bunker's Hill--Snooks--Last Slave sold in England--Hoax on Sir Walter Scott 438 QUERIES:-- Irish Queries 439 Minor Queries:--The Azores--Johnny Crapaud--Poems in the "Spectator"--Old John Harries, "Bishop of Wales"--University Hood--Black Rood in Scotland; Cross Neytz--Crown Jewels once kept at Holt Castle--"Cane Decane," &c.--Rev. John Meekins, D.D.--Finsbury Manor--Frebord--The Stature of Queen Elizabeth--Portrait of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough--Inscription by Luther--"O Juvenis frustra," &c.--All-fours--Richard, second Son of the Conqueror--Francis Walkinghame--Optical Phenomenon 439 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Abraham-men--Author of "Le Blason des Couleurs"--Banyan-day--General Urmston--Works of Alexander Neville--Lindisfarne--Index to the Critical Review--"No great shakes" Translation of Richard de Bury--Life of Ken--Wedding Rings--Monasteries, &c. dissolved--Bishops at the Hampton Court Controversy 442 REPLIES:-- Scottish Regalia 443 Gospel Oaks, by Professor Theodore Goedes 444 Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger 444 Lords Marchers of Wales, by E. Smirke 445 Doctrine of the Resurrection 446 Can a Clergyman marry himself? 446