Vol. V.—No. 128. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

Unpublished Song by Thomas Otway, by Dr. Rimbault 337

Shakspeare's "We three," by the Rev. Arthur Hussey 338

Cowley's Prose Works 339

Note on Coleridge's Christabel 339

Convertibility of the Words "Grin" and "Gin" 340

Folk Lore:—Game Feathers—Isle of Man Folk Lore 341

Minor Notes:—Epitaph at King Stanley—Monuments of De la Beche Family—Cousinship—Borrowing Days—Monumental Plate at Lewes Castle—Junius and the Quarterly Review—Handwriting 341

Dutch Manufactories of Porcelain 343

Salmon Fisheries 343

Thomas Crawford 344

Minor Queries:—The Chronologic Institute—Mother Carey's Chickens—Suwich Priory—Anthony Babington—Sir Isaac Newton, Cicero, and Gravitation—Diotrophes—Grisly—Birthplace of St. Patrick—Motto on Chimney-piece—Curious Bequest—Wilkie's Blind Fiddler—Lode—Ballad quoted by Sir Walter Scott—Ann Stewart, Wife of Christopher Hall—Moveable Organs and Pulpits—Nobleman alluded to by Bishop Berkeley—Chelwoldesbury—Swallows' Nests—Quotation from Arthur Hopton—Group at Prague—Cards prohibited to Apprentices—Cursitor Barons—Phelps's Gloucestershire Collections—Huant Le Puisné—Arms of Roberson 344

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Winterton—Emblems of a Saint—Quack—Dr. Hieron Mercurialis—The Book of Sports 346

Meaning of Groom 347

Ballad of Lord Delaware, by Dr. Rimbault 348

Family Likenesses 349

Earl of Erroll 350

The Bowyer Bible 350

Replies to Minor Queries:—Exeter Controversy—Coleridge's "Friend"—Praying to the Devil—The Word "shunt"—St. Paul's Quotation of Heathen Writers—Rex Lucifer—Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative—Spanish Verses on the Invasion of England—Templars—Story of the Greek referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Emaciated Monumental Effigies—Deaths from Fasting—London Genealogical Society—Martinique—"The Delicate Investigation"—Miserrimus—Cynthia's Dragon-yoke—Cromwell's Skull—Almas-Cliffe—Artificial Memory—Punishment of Boiling to Death—Barnard's Church Music—Portrait of Baskerville—Autograph Music by Handel—Dr. Fell—Fern-seed—Longevity and Rejuvenescency—Indignities on the Bodies of Suicides—Large Families: Twenty-seven Children—The last of the Palæologi 351

Notes on books, &c. 357

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 358

Notices to Correspondents 358

Advertisements 358