Vol. V.—No. 121. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

Readings in Shakspeare, No. II. 169

National Defences 171

Notes on Homer, No. II., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie 171

Folk Lore:—Fernseed—Cornish Folk Lore 172

Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words 173

The Last of the Palæologi 173

The last Lay of Petrarch's Cat 174

Minor Notes:—Sobriquet—Origin of Paper—Persistency of Proper Names—Cheap Maps 174

Did St. Paul quote Aristotle? by Thomas H. Gill 175

Minor Queries:—Silver Royal Font—L'Homme de 1400 Ans—Llandudno, on the Great Orme's Head—Johnson's House, Bolt Court—Bishop Mossom—Orlando Gibbons—Portraits—Barnard's Church Music—The Nelson Family—Letters to the Clergy—Margaret Burr—Northern Ballads—"Blamed be the man," &c.—"Quid est Episcopus"—Henry Isaac—German Poet quoted by Camden—American Degrees—Derivation of News—Passage in Troilus and Cressida—Bachelor's Buttons—Princes of Wales and Earls of Chester, eldest Sons of the Kings of England—Authenticated Instances of Longevity 175

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Laud's Letters and Papers—Scot's Philomythie—Robin of Doncaster—Horæ Belgicæ—Dulcarnon 179

Number of the Children of Israel 180

Serjeants' Rings and Mottoes, by J. B. Colman, &c. 181

Learned Men of the Name of Bacon 181

Collar of SS. 182

The Königsmarks 183

Boiling Criminals to Death, by J. B. Colman, &c. 184

"Admonition to the Parliament" 184

"Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative," by W. H. Lammin, &c. 185

General Wolfe 185

Replies to Minor Queries:—Commemoration of Benefactors—King Robert Bruce's Watch—Hornchurch—Buzz—Melody of the Dying Swan—"From the Sublime to the Ridiculous is but a Step"—"Carmen perpetuum," &c.—Sterne at Paris—The Paper of the present Day—Cimmerii, Cimbri—Rents of Assize—Monastic Establishments in Scotland—History of Brittany—Marches of Wales, and Lords Marchers—The Broad Arrow—Miniature of Cromwell—The Sinaïtic Inscriptions—Why cold Pudding settles One's Love—Covines—"Arborei fœtus alibi," &c.—Poniatowski Gems 186

Notes on Books, &c. 190

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 190

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