Notes and Queries Vol. IV., No. 104, Saturday, October 25. 1851

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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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38926

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February 18, 2012

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Contents

1. 1.Vol. IV.—No. 104. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.Notes. — THE OLD COUNTESS OF DESMOND, NO. 1. — PANSLAVIC SKETCHES. — THE LORD'S PRAYER. — Old Prussian. — Lithuanian. — Letton (Lettish.) — MONUMENTAL BUST OF SHAKSPEARE. — NOTES ON PASSAGES IN VIRGIL. — FOLK LORE. — Superstitions respecting Bees. — Bees invited to Funerals.—North Side of Churchyards. — Ashton Faggot: A Devonshire Custom. — Offerings to the Apple-trees: Devonshire Superstition. — POETICAL IMITATION. — A GLOUCESTER DITTY. ( From an Old Broadside without date. ) — GEORGE RIDLER'S OVEN. ( From a Broadside. ) — THE CAXTON COFFER. — Minor Notes. — Note on the Duration of Reigns. — Cock and Bull Story. — " Multa renascentur ," &c. — Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words.
4. 4.Queries. — MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND BOTHWELL'S CONFESSION. — Minor Queries. — 229. " 'Tis Twopence now," &c. — 230. Scythians blind their Slaves. — 231. The "Gododin." — 232. Frontispiece to Hobbes's Leviathan. — 233. Broad Arrow or Arrow Head. — 234. Deep Well near Bansted Downs. — 235. Upton Court. — 236. Derivation of Prog. — 237. Metrical History of England. — 238. Finger Pillories in Churches. — 239. Stallenge Queries. — 240. Ancient MS. History of Scotland. — 241. Pharetram de Tutesbit. — 242. Inundation at Deptford. — 243. Butler's Sermons. — 244. Coleridge's Christabel. — 245. Epigram ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots. — Minor Queries Answered. — Meaning of Farlieu. — " History of Anglesey. " — The Word "Rile."
5. 5.Replies. — WINCHESTER EXECUTION. (Vol. iv., pp. 191. 243. 284.) — COCKNEY. (Vol. iv., p. 237.) — SIR EDMUND PLOWDEN OR PLOYDEN. (Vol. iv., p. 58.) — GENERAL JAMES WOLFE. (Vol. iv., p. 271.) — STANZAS IN CHILDE HAROLD. (Vol. iv., pp. 223. 285.) — Replies to Minor Queries. — MS. Note in a Copy of Liber Sententiarum (Vol. iv., pp. 188. 282.). — Naturalis proles (Vol. iv., p. 161.). — Print cleaning (Vol. iv., p. 175.). — Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor (Vol. iv., pp. 208. 262.). — Anagrams (Vol. iv., pp. 226. 297.). — Battle of Brunanburgh (Vol. iv., p. 249.). — Praed's Works (Vol. iv., p. 256.). — Sir J. Davies (Vol. iv., p. 256.). — Coins of Constantius Gallus (Vol. iv., p. 238.). — Passage in Sedley (Vol. iii., p. 476.).— — Buxtorf's Translation of Elias Levita's "Tub Taam" (Vol. iv., p. 272.). — Stonehenge (Vol. iv., p. 57.). — Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture (Vol. iv., p. 99.). — Fortune, infortune, fort une (Vol. iv., pp. 57. 142.). — Matthew Paris's "Historia Minor" (Vol. iv., p. 209.). — Sanford's "Descensus" (Vol. iv., p. 232.). — Death of Pitt (Vol. iv., p. 232.). — History of Hawick (Vol iv., p. 233.). — " Prophecies of Nostradamus " (Vol. iv., pp. 86. 140. 258.). — Bourchier Family (Vol. iv., p. 233.). — William III. at Exeter (Vol. iv., p. 233.). — Passage in George Herbert (Vol. iv., p. 231.). — Suicides buried in Cross Roads (Vol. iv., pp. 116. 212.). — Armorial Bearings (Vol. iv., p. 58.). — " Life of Cromwell " (Vol. iv., p. 117.). — Harris, Painter in Water Colours (Vol. iii., p. 329.). — " Son of the Morning " (Vol. iv., p. 209.). — Grimsdyke or Grimesditch (Vol. iv., p. 192.). — Cagots (Vol. iv., p. 190.). — The Serpent represented with a human Head (Vol. iv., p. 191.). — Fire Unknown (Vol. iv., pp. 209. 283.). — Plant in Texas (Vol. iv., p. 208.). — Copying Inscriptions (Vol. iv., p. 266.). — Chantrey's Statue of Mrs. Jordan (Vol. iv., p. 58.). — Portraits of Burke (Vol. iv., p. 271.). — Martial's Distribution of Hours (Vol. iv., p. 273.).
6. 6.Miscellaneous. — NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. — BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. — Notices to Correspondents.

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