Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc   By: Various

{349} NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"WHEN FOUND, MAKE A NOTE OF." CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

No. 180.] SATURDAY, APRIL, 9. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.

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 Passame Sares (mel. Passamezzo) Galliard Swedish Words current in England Gotch Passage in Thomson: "Steaming" The Word "Party" Curious Fact in Natural Philosophy Lowbell Life and Correspondence of S. T. Coleridge Coniger, &c. Cupid Crying Westminster Assembly of Divines, &c. 364

MISCELLANEOUS: Notes on Books, &c. 369 Books and Odd volumes wanted 370 Notices to Correspondents 370 Advertisements 371