Vol. IV.—No. 96. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

The Caxton Memorial and Chaucer's Monument 145

Collar of SS., by Edward Foss 147

Printing 148

Folk Lore:—Bible Divination in Suffolk—Mode of discovering Bodies of the Drowned—Somersetshire Rhyme 148

Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations 149

Minor Notes:—Cocker's Arithmetic—The Duke of Normandy—Anachronisms and Errors of Painters—The Ring Finger—The Od Force—New Costume for Ladies 149

Judges styled Reverend, &c. 151

Minor Queries:—Frederick Egmont; Peter (Egmont?)—Unlucky for Pregnant Women to take on Oath—Cockroach—Felton—Date of a Charter—Thomas Tusser the "Husbandman"—Godfrey Higgins' Works—Noctes Templariæ—Commissioners on Officers of Justice in England—Marcus Ælius Antoninus—Derivation of Pic-nic—Sir Thomas More's Knighthood—Portrait of Mandeville—Early History of Dingle—Language of Ancient Egypt—Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe—Names first given to Parishes—German Testament—The Man of Law—The Termination "Ship"—Nullus and Nemo—The noblest Object of the Work of Art—Poulster 151

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Rev. Cæsar de Missy—F. Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor—"Carve out Dials"—Log Book—Lord Clydesdale—"Time is the Stuff of which Life is made"—"Yet forty Days"—The Empress Helena 153

Royal Library 154

The "Eisell" Controversy 155

Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 157

"House of Yvery" 158

On "Rack" in the Tempest 158

Richard Rolle of Hampole 159

Replies to Minor Queries:—Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest—"The Right divine of Kings to govern wrong"—Fairlight Church—Dogmatism and Puppyism—Was Stella Swift's Sister?—Charles Lamb's Epitaph—Meaning of Carnaby—Scandinavian Mythology, &c. 160

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 165

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 166

Notices to Correspondents 166

Advertisements 167

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