Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853, page 1 by Various Authors
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"WHEN FOUND, MAKE A NOTE OF."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 180.] SATURDAY, APRIL, 9. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page Rigby Correspondence 349 Isthmus of Darien 351 Notes on several misunderstood Words 352
FOLK LORE:--Drills presaging Death--Beltane in Devonshire--Touching for King's Evil 353 Gaffer or Gammer, &c., by Thos. Keightley 354
MINOR NOTES:--Search for MSS.--Clifton of Normanton --The Three per Cent. Consols 354
QUERIES:-- Wolves nursing Children, by Gilbert N. Smith 355 "The Luneburg Table"--Queen Elizabeth's Love of Pearls 355
MINOR QUERIES:--St. Dominic--"Will" and "shall" --Sir John Fleming--Deal, how to stain--Irish Characters on the Stage--Arms on King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate--Chaucer's Prophetic View of the Crystal Palace--Magistrates wearing their Hats in Court--Derby Municipal Seal--Sir Josias Bodley-- Sir Edwin Sadler--The Cross given by Richard I. to the Patriarch of Antioch--Lister Family--Family of Abrahall, Eborall, or Ebrall--Eulenspiegel: Murner's Visit to England--Aged 116--Annuellarius 356
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Boyer's "Great Theatre of Honour and Nobility"--List of Bishops of Norwich--"A Letter to a Convocation Man"-- Nicholas Thane--Churchwardens, Qualification of-- Sir John Powell--S. N.'s "Antidote," &c.--Beads 358
REPLIES:-- Broad Arrow 360 English Comedians in the Netherlands 360 The Sweet Singers 361 Edmund Spenser 362 Lamech killing Cain, by Francis Crossley, &c. 362
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Photographic Notes--On some Difficulties in Photographic Practice --Mr. Weld Taylor's cheap Iodizing Process 363
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Somersetshire Ballad-- Family of De Thurnham--Major. General Lambert-- Loggerheads--Grafts and the Parent Tree--The Lisle Family--The Dodo in Ceylon--Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David's, 1687 to 1699--Etymology of Fuss --Palindromical Lines--Nugget--Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores --The