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Notes and Queries, Number 217, December 24, 1853
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Notes and Queries, Number 217, December 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."Captain Cuttle.


No. 217.

Saturday, December 24. 1853

Price Fourpence
Stamped Edition 5d.


CONTENTS.

Notes:—

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Folk Lore in the Reign of King James I.

613

The Ballad of Sir Hugh, &c.

614

Pennsylvanian Folk Lore: Christmas

615

County Rhymes

615

Legends of the County Clare: Fuenvicouil (Fingal) and the Giant, by Frances Robert Davies

616

Folk Lore Miscellanies:—Yorkshire Tradition—Custom on St. Thomas's Day—Custom on Innocents' Day—Marriage Custom at Knutsford, Cheshire—Folk Lore in Hampshire—Propitiating the Fairies—Cornish Folk Lore—King Arthur in the Form of a Raven—St. Clement's Apple Feast in Staffordshire—New Year's Eve and New Year's Day

617

Minor Notes:—Carlist Calembourg—Jewish Custom—Lachlan Macleane—German Tree—The late Duke

618

Queries:—

The Story of Crispin and Crispianus, by J. Davies Devlin

619

Minor Queries:—Barrels Regiment—Okey the Regicide—Lady Mason's Third Husband—Creation of Knights—Martyn the Regicide—History of the Nonjurors—Florin and the Royal Arms—A Mistletoe Query

620

Minor Queries With Answers:—Sewell Family—Greek Epigram—Translations from Æschylus—Prince Memnon's Sister—"Oh! for a blast," &c.—Robin Hood's Festival—Church in Suffolk

621

Replies:—

Children called Imps

623

The Divining Rod

623

Change of Meaning in Proverbial Expressions, &c.

624

Sneezing, by Francis John Scott, &c.

624

Books burned by the common Hangman, by W. Fraser, &c.

625

Jews in China, by T.J. Buckton

626

Poetical Tavern Signs

626

The Curfew, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A.

628

Photographic Correspondence:—Photographic Engraving—Collodion Negatives

628

Replies To Minor Queries:—"London Labour and the London Poor"—Felicia Hemans's inedited Lyric—Sir Arthur Aston—Grammar in relation to Logic—Descendants of Milton—Pronunciation of Bible Names—Henry I.'s Tomb—Bells at Berwick-upon-Tweed—Return of Gentry, temp. Henry VI.—Peter Allan—Burial in an erect Posture—The Word "Mob"—Gen. Sir C. Napier—To Come—Passage in Sophocles—Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century—Judges styled Reverend—Veneration for the Oak—Rapping no Novelty

629

Miscellaneous:—

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