Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850, page 1 by Various Authors
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Illustrations of Hudibras 355
Folk Lore:--Overyssel Superstition--Death-bed Superstitions--Popular Rhyme--Death-bed Mystery--Bradshaw Family 356
Advice to the Editor, and Hints to his Contributors 357
Minor Notes:--Rollin's Ancient History and History of the Arts and Sciences--Jezebel--Clarendon, Oxford Edition of 1815--Macaulay's Country Squire--Miching Mallecho 357
QUERIES:--
The Inquisition: The Bohemian Persecution 358
Minor Queries:--Osnaburg Bishopric--Meaning of "Farlief"--Margaret Dyneley--Tristan d'Acunha--Production of Fire by Friction--Murderer hanged when pardoned--Passage from Burke--Licensing of Books--Le Bon Gendarme 358
REPLIES:--
Tasso translated by Fairfax 359
Ale-Draper--Eugene Aram 360
On the Word "Gradely," by B. H. Kennedy and G. J. Cayley 361
Collar of Esses 362
Replies to Minor Queries:--Symbols of the Evangelists--Becket's Mother--Passage in Lucan--Combs buried with the Dead--The Norfolk Dialect--Conflagration of the Earth--Wraxen 363
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 366
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 367
Notices to Correspondents 367
Advertisements 367
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NOTES.
ADDRESS TO OUR FRIENDS.
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