Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850, page 1 by Various Authors
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QUERIES:-- Queries concerning Old MSS., by E. F. Rimbault 70 Minor Queries:--Chantrey's Sleeping Children in Lichfield Cathedral--Viscount Dundee's Ring--Kilkenny Cats--Robert de Welle--Lady Slingsby--God save the Queen--Meaning of "Steyne"--Origin of "Adur"--Colonel Lilburn--French Verses--Our World--Porson's Imposition--Alice Rolle--The Meaning of "Race" in Ship-building--The Battle of Death--Execution of Charles I.--Morganitic Marriage-- Lord Bacon's Palace and Gardens--"Dies Iræ, Dies Illa"--Aubrey Family--Ogden Family 70
REPLIES:-- Sir George Buc, by E. F. Rimbault and Cecil Monro 73 "A frog he would a-wooing go" 74 Replies to Minor Queries;--Carucate of Land-- Golden Frog and Sir John Poley--The Poley Frog-- Bands--Bishops and their Precedence--"Imprest" and "Debenture"--Charade--"Laus tua, non tua Fraus"--Dutch Language--"Construe" and "translate"-- Dutton Family--Mother of Thomas à Becket-- Medal of Stukeley--Dulcarnon--Practice of Scalping-- Derivation of Penny 75
MISCELLANIES:-- "By Hook or by Crook"--Burning dead Bodies-- Etymology of "Barbarian"--Royal and distinguished Disinterments 78
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 79 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 79 Notices to Correspondents 79 Advertisements 79
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Notes.
GEORGE GORING, EARL OF NORWICH, AND HIS SON GEORGE, LORD GORING.
G.'s inquiry (Vol. i., p. 22.) about the two Gorings of the Civil War--a period of our history in which I am much interested--has led me to look into some of the sources of original information for that time, in the hope that I might be enabled to answer his Queries. I regret I cannot yet answer his precise questions, when Lord Goring the son was married, and when and where he died? but I think the following references to notices of the father and the son will be acceptable to him; and I venture to think that the working out in this way of neglected biographies, is one of the many uses to which your excelle