Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851, page 1 by Various Authors
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Illustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism 220 Minor Notes:--Original Warrant--Gloves--Prince Rupert--Inscription on a Gun--Richard III.--Lines by Pope--Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in relation to Scotland--Snail-eating 220
QUERIES:-- Henry Smith, by T. M'Calmont 222 Minor Queries:--Owen Glendower--Meaning of Gig-Hill-- Sir John Vaughan--Quebecca and his Epitaph--A Monumental Inscription--Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I.--Comets--Natural Daughter of James II.--Going the Whole Hog--Innocent Convicts--The San Grail--Meaning of "Slums"-- Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended and Reformed"-- Odour from the Rainbow--Tradesmen's Signs 222 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Supporters borne by Commoners--Answer to Fisher's Relation--"Drink up Eisell" 224
REPLIES:-- Scandal against Queen Elizabeth 225 The Mistletoe on the Oak, by James Buckman, &c. 226 Universality of the Maxim, "Lavor come se tu," &c., by S. W. Singer 226 Replies to Minor Queries:--Tennyson's In Memoriam-- Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c.--Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland-- Oration against Demosthenes--Borrow's Danish Ballads--Head of the Saviour--Lady Bingham-- Shakespeare's Use of Captious--Tanthony--Lama Beads--"Language given to Men," &c.--Daresbury, the White Chapel of England--Holland Land--Passage in the Tempest--Damasked Linen--Straw Necklaces-- Library of the Church of Westminster, &c. 227
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 230 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 231 Notices to Correspondents 231 Advertisements 231
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SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS.
When, in the opening Number of the present Volume (p. 14), we called the attention of our readers to the Monumentarium of Exeter Cathedral, we expressed a hope that the good services which Mr. Hewett had thereby rendered to all genealogical, antiquarian, and historical inquirers would be so obvious as to lead a number of labourers into the sa