NOTES AND QUERIES:

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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

VOL. IV.--No. 100. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1851.

Price Sixpence. Stamped Edition 7_d._

CONTENTS.

Page

Our Hundredth Number 217

NOTES:--

Notes on the Calendar, by Professor de Morgan 218

Inedited Letters of Swift 218

Nineveh Inscriptions, by T. J. Buckton 220

Inedited Letter of Alfieri 222

Stanzas in Childe Harold 223

Notes on Oxford Edition of Jewel 225

Anagrams, by Henry H. Breen 226

Folk Lore:--Cure for Hooping Cough--Cure for the Toothache--Medical Use of Pigeons--Obeism 227

Notes on Julin, No. II., by K. R. H. Mackenzie 228

Minor Notes:--Curious Epitaph in Dalkeith Churchyard--Device of SS.--Lord Edward Fitzgerald--The Michaelmas Goose--Gravesend Boats--Scullcups 230

QUERIES:--

Minor Queries:--Equestrian Figure of Elizabeth--Indian Ants--Passage in George Herbert--The King's-way, Wilts--Marriages within ruined Churches--Fees for Inoculation--"Born in the Eighth Climate"--Aubrey de Montdidier's Dog--Sanford's Descensus--Parish Registers--Briefs for Collections--Early Printing Presses--Bootikins--Printers' Privilege--Death of Pitt--"A Little Bird told me"--Baroner--William III. at Exeter--History of Hawick--Johannes Lychtenberger --Lestourgeon the Horologist--Physiological Query--De Grammont's Memoirs--"Frightened out of his Seven Senses"--Fides Carbonaria--Bourchier Family--Warnings to Scotland--Herschel anticipated--Duke of Wellington 231

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--An Early Printer--"Nimble Ninepence"--Prince Rupert's Balls--Knock under--Freemasons 234

REPLIES:--

Conquest of Scotland 234

Borough-English 235

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• 2: Matthew Sutcliffe Pope's Translations of Horace M
• 3: We either leave Easter day unaltered
• 4: And wife of Sir Robert Worsley
• 5: The Dean's Obedient humble Servant
• 6: Whereas my escritoire never stirrs out of my closet
• 7: I know not where my old friend Harry Worsley is
• 8: Calling out to them each letter as it occurred in Onkelos
• 9: But which are in fact not Hebrew but Chaldee
• 10: E mandai la mia lettera al Banchiere de Douvres
• 11: Je ne doute point que la sensibilite du votre
• 12: If the semicolon after since be removed
• 13: How inimitable is young barbarians
• 14: Was misprinted in the editions of 1609 and 1611
• 15: But the colophon appended to that reprint
• 16: Anagrams being literary curiosities
• 17: And the author himself calls it une ineptie
• 18: De Pixerecourt might have quoted some better samples
• 19: When him set Obeah for somebody him catch dem shadow
• 20: Still Vineta was much mightier
• 21: Indistinct and wavering is Kantzow in his account
• 22: I must myself totally deny the existence of Vineta
• 23: Then in the custody of Sir Christopher Hatton
• 24: Marriages within ruined Churches
• 25: Which I cured with the bootikins
• 26: The lapwing sets off to Ethiopia
• 27: William the Third at Exeter History of Hawick
• 28: Can one of your correspondents mention the name
• 29: Oliver's Antiquities of Freemasonry
• 30: All Frenchmen were naturalised in that country
• 31: In the manors of Lambeth and Kennington
• 32: With the plane of oscillation E
• 33: He was created Earl of Westmorland by Richard II
• 34: I am induced to observe that in Ferrarius de Ritu Sac
• 35: On the Agriculture of Framingham and Holkham
• 36: Item ea in quibus CONSTANTIVS
• 37: Rem manifestam obscuritate tegens
• 38: Olim in Pelagio et Manichaeis damnatae
• 39: The father of the celebrated Sir Thomas Bodley
• 40: Or ideas hieroglyphics could convey
• 41: The Bensley tragedy was no doubt the sudden death
• 42: Or Jedburgh justice 17 See JEDDART JUSTICE
• 43: Mais il n'avait pas su lui plaire Travaillez
• 44: 040 grandsire triples in three hours and fourteen minutes
• 45: Transferred this Spanish title of Liria to his son James
• 46: Quaerendus puero pater est Nemo obtigit
• 47: Is a volume of pleasant gossip
• 48: Omnes georgii macropedii fabulae comicae
• 49: A CATALOGUE of a large Collection of Autograph Letters
• 50: The hand atlas of physical geography
• 51: Sussex Archaeology with Engravings
• 52: The Scotish Antiquary and Naturalist
• 53: Sharp's new and complete gazetteer
• 54: 1850 145 160 PG Vol