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Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 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. 80.

Saturday, May 10. 1851.

Price Threepence
Stamped Edition 4d.


CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

Page

The Great Exhibition, Notes and Queries, and Chaucer's Prophetic View of the Crystal Palace

361

Notes:—

On "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"

364

Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir Kenelm Digby

367

Folk-Lore:—The Christmas Thorn—Milk-maids—Disease cured by Sheep—Sacramental Wine—"Nettle in Dock out"

367

Metropolitan Improvements, by R. J. King

368

Minor Notes:—Meaning of Luncheon—Charade upon Nothing translated—Giving the Lie—Anachronisms of Painters—Spenser's Faerie Queene—Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots—A small Instance of Warren Hastings' Magnanimity—Richard Baxter—Registry of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches

369

Queries:—

Notes and Queries relating to Scandinavia, by W. E. C. Nourse

370

The Rotation of the Earth, by Robert Snow

371

Minor Queries:—William ap Jevan's Descendants—"Geographers on Afric's Downs"—Irish Brigade—Passage in Oldham—Mont-de-Piété—Poem upon the Grave—When self-striking Clocks first invented—Clarkson's Richmond—Sir Francis Windebank's elder Son—Incised Slab—Etymology of Balsall—St. Olave's Churches—Sabbatical and Jubilee Years of the Jews—Arms of the Isle of Man—Doctrine of the Resurrection—National Debts—Leicester's Commonwealth

372

Replies:—

Histoire des Sévarambes

374

Was there an "Outer Temple" in the Possession of the Knights Templars or Knights of St. John? by Peter Cunningham

375

Obeism, by H. H. Breen

376

San Marino

376

The Bellman and his History, by C. H. Cooper

377

Replies to Minor Queries:—"God takes those soonest," &c.—Disinterment for Heresy—The Vellum-bound Junius—Pursuits of Literature—Dutch Books—Engilbert, Archbishop of Treves—Charles Lamb's Epitaph—Charles II. in Wales—"Ex Pede Herculem"—God's Acre—Abbot Eustacius—Vox Populi Vox Dei—Francis Moore and his Almanack

377

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.

381

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

382

Notices to Correspondents

382

Advertisements

382


THE GREAT EXHIBITION, NOTES AND QUERIES, AND CHAUCER'S PROPHETIC VIEW OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

The first of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, will be remembered in the Calendar for centuries after those who witnessed its glories shall have passed away. Its memory will endure with our language; and the Macaulays and Hallams of the time to come will

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