NOTES AND QUERIES:

No. 192.

Saturday, July 2. 1853.

Price Fourpence
Stamped Edition 5d.

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Oblation of a white Bull

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Newstead Abbey, by W. S. Hasleden

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On a celebrated Passage in "Romeo and Juliet," Act III. Sc. 2., by S. W. Singer

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On the Passage from "King Lear"

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Manners of the Irish, by H. T. Ellacombe, &c.

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Minor Notes:—Burial in an Erect Posture—The Archbishop of Armagh's Cure for the Gout, 1571—The last known Survivor of General Wolfe's Army in Canada—National Methods of applauding—Curious Posthumous Occurrence

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Queries:—

Did Captain Cook first discover the Sandwich Islands? by J. S. Warden

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Superstition of the Cornish Miners

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Minor Queries:—Clerical Duel—Pistol—Council of Laodicea, Canon 35.—Pennycomequick, adjoining Plymouth—Park the Antiquary—Honorary D.C.L.'s—Battle of Villers en Couché—Dr. Misaubin—Kemble, Willet, and Forbes—Piccalyly—Post-Office about 1770—"Carefully examined and well-authenticated"—Sir Heister Ryley—Effigies with folded Hands

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Minor Queries with Answers:—Passage in Bishop Horsley—"Marry come up!"—Dover Court—Porter—Dr. Whitaker's ingenious Earl—Dissimulate

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Replies:—

Bishop Ken, by the Rev. J. H. Markland

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Bohn's Edition of Hoveden, by James Graves

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Coleridge's Christabel, by J. S. Warden

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Its

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Family of Milton's Widow, by T. Hughes

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Books of Emblems—Jacob Behmen, by C. Mansfield Ingleby

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Raffaelle's Sposalizio

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Windfall

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Mr. Justice Newton, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe and F. Kyffin Lenthall

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Photographic Correspondence:—Mr. Lyte's Treatment of Positives—Stereoscopic Angles—Query respecting Mr. Pollock's Process—Gallo-nitrate of Silver

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Replies to Minor Queries:—Verney Note decyphered—Emblems by John Bunyan—Mr. Cobb's Diary—"Sat cito si sat bene"—Mythe versus Myth—The Gilbert Family—Alexander Clark—Christ's Cross—The Rebellious Prayer—"To the Lords of Convention"—Wooden Tombs and Effigies—Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman—House-marks—"Amentium haud amantium"—The Megatherium in the British Museum—Pictorial Proverbs—"Hurrah," and other War-cries