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Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849

Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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CONTENTS

Page
A few Words of Explanation 81
NOTES:—
Letter from the Earl of Shaftesbury respecting Monmouth's Ash 82
Drayton's Poems 83
On a Passage in Goldsmith 83
Ancient Libraries, by Rev. Dr. Todd 83
Defence of a Bald Head, by J. Payne Collier 84
Royal Household Allowances 85
Adversaria:—Printers' Couplets—Charles Martel 86
Bodenham and Ling 86
Travelling in England 87
Minor Notes:—Ancient Alms Dish—Bishop that Burneth—Ironworks in Sussex, &c.—Order of Minerva, &c. 87
Queries Answered:— 88
Dorne the Bookseller 88
Henno Rusticus 89
Myles Blomefylde 90
Answers to Minor Queries:—Curse of Scotland—Katherine Pegg—Rev. T. Leman—Burnet Prize—Humble Pie, &c. 90
MINOR QUERIES:
Eva, Daughter, &c.—John de Daundelyon—Genealogy of European Sovereigns—Duke of Ashgrove, &c. 92
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 94
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 95
Notices to Correspondents 95
Advertisements 95

A FEW WORDS OF EXPLANATION.

It was in no boastful or puffing spirit that, when thanking a correspondent in our last number for "his endeavour to enlarge our circulation," and requesting all our friends and correspondents "to follow PHILO'S example by bringing 'NOTES AND QUERIES' under the notice of such of their friends as take an interest in literary pursuits," we added "for it is obvious that they will extend the usefulness of our paper in proportion as they increase its circulation." We wished merely to state a plain obvious fact. Such must necessarily be the case, and our experience proves it to be so; for the number of Queries which have been solved in our columns, has gone on increasing in proportion to the gradual increase of our circulation;—a result which fully justifies that passage of our opening address which stated, "that we did not anticipate any holding back by those whose Notes were most worth having."

No sooner is information asked for through our medium, than a host of friendly pens are busied to supply it. From north, south, east, and west,—from quarters the most unlooked for, do we receive Notes and Illustrations of every subject which is mooted in our pages. Many of these replies, too, though subscribed only with an initial or a pseudonyme, we know to be furnished by scholars who have won the foremost rank in their respective branches of study. Such men manifest, by their willingness to afford information to those who need it, and their readiness to receive it from those who have it to bestow, the truthfulness of old Chaucer's portrait of the Scholar:—

"Ful gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."

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