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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 66. |
Saturday, February 1. 1851. |
Price Threepence. |
CONTENTS.
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"Notes and Queries" in Holland |
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Notes:— |
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Sir John Davies and his Biographers, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault |
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A Note on Queen Anne's Farthings by J. Y. Akerman |
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Folk-Lore:—Lammer Beads—On the Lingering of the Spirit—May Cats—Mottos on Warming-pans and Garters |
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Notes on Jesse's "London and its Celebrities," by Henry Campkin |
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Minor Notes:—Verstegan—George Herbert and the Church at Leighton Bromswold—Little Gidding—Etymology of Kobold—Judas Cup—Essleholt Priory—Crossing Rivers on Skins |
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Queries:— |
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Bibliographical Queries |
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Minor Queries:—Bishops' Lands—The Barons of Hugh Lupus—Can the Queen make a Gentleman?—Plafery—St. John's Bridge Fair—Queries on Costume—Cum Grano Salis—Earl of Clarendon's Daughter, Lucretia—Vandyke's Portrait of Lord Aubigny—Foundation Stone of St. Mark's, Venice—Coins of Richard Cromwell—Cataracts of the Nile—Paternoster Tackling—Dancing Trenchmore—Hymns— Camden and Curwen Families—Jartuare |
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John Bunyan and his Portrait.—Did Bunyan know Hobbes? by George Offor |
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The Mother Church of the Saxons by Dr. J. Rawson |
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Replies to Minor Queries:—The Frozen Horn—To Pose—Culprits torn by Horses—The Conquest—Mayors, their correct Prefix—True Blue—Modum Promissionis—Fronte capillatâ &c.—Cross between a Wolf and a Hound—Touching for the Evil—Old Booty—Breeches Bible—Separation of the Sexes—Defender of the Faith—Epigram on the Synod of Dort—Parish Register Tax—Clergy sold for Slaves |
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Miscellaneous:— |
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Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. |
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Books and Odd Volumes wanted |
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Notices to Correspondents |
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Advertisements |
"Notes and Queries" in Holland.
The following extremely interesting, and, we need scarcely add, to us most gratifying, communication reached us at too late a period last week to admit of our then laying it before our friends, readers, and contributors. They will one and all participate in our gratification at the proof which it affords, not merely of that success which they have all combined to secure, but of the good working, and consequent wide extension, of that great principle of literary brotherhood which it has been the great object of "Notes and Queries" to establish.
To the Editor of "Notes and Queries."
Mr. Editor,
We have the pleasure of sending you the prospectus of "De Navorscher," a new Dutch periodical, grounded upon the same principle as its valuable and valiant predecessor "Notes and Queries." The title, when translated into English, would be—"The Searcher; a medium of intellectual exchange and literary intercourse between all who know something, have to ask something, or can solve something." If it be glorious for you to have proposed a good example, we think it honourable for us to follow it.
Though we do not wish to be our own trumpets, we can say that never a Dutch newspaper was greeted, before its appearance, by such favourable prognostics. Your idea, Mr. Editor, was received with universal applause; and Mr. Frederik Muller, by whom "De Navorscher" will be published, is not only a celebrated bookseller, but also one of our most learned bookmen.
Ready to promote by every means in our power the friendly intercourse between your country and our fatherland, we desire of you to lay the following plan before the many readers of "Notes and Queries."
1. Every Query, which, promulgated by our English sister, would perhaps find a solution when meeting the eyes of