Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.   By: Various

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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

"When found, make a note of." CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

No. 203.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Page

Our Shakspearian Correspondence 261

NOTES:

Mr. Pepys and East London Topography, &c. 263 Picts' Houses in Aberdeenshire 264

FOLK LORE: Legends of the County Clare Devonshire Cures for the Thrush 264

HERALDIC NOTES: Arms of Granville Arms of Richard, King of the Romans 265 Shakspeare Correspondence, by J. O. Halliwell and Thos. Keightley 265

MINOR NOTES: Longfellow's Poetical Works Sir Walter Raleigh Curious Advertisement Gravestone Inscription Monumental Inscription 267

QUERIES:

Sir Philip Warwick 268 Seals of the Borough of Great Yarmouth, by E. S. Taylor 269

MINOR QUERIES: Hand in Bishop Canning's Church "I put a spoke in his wheel" Sir W. Hewit Passage in Virgil Fauntleroy Animal Prefixes descriptive of Size and Quality Punning Devices "Pinece with a stink" Soiled Parchment Deeds Roger Wilbraham, Esq.'s, Cheshire Collection Cambridge and Ireland Derivation of Celt Ancient Superstition against the King of England entering or even beholding the Town of Leicester Burton The Camera Lucida Francis Moore Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle Palace at Enfield "Solamen miseris," &c. Soke Mills Second Wife of Mallet 269

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS: Books burned by the Common Hangman Captain George Cusack Sir Ralph Winwood 272

REPLIES:

Books chained to Desks in Churches, by J. Booker, &c. 273 Epitaphs by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., &c. 273 Parochial Libraries 274 "Up, Guards, and at them!" by Frank Howard 275

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE: Mr. Muller's Process Stereoscopic Angles Ammonio nitrate of Silver 275

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES: Sir Thomas Elyot Judges styled "Reverend" "Hurrah" and other War cries Major André Early Edition of the New Testament Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge Sir William Hankford Maullies, Manillas The Use of the Hour glass in Pulpits Derivation of the Word "Island" A Cob wall Oliver Cromwell's Portrait Manners of the Irish Chronograms and Anagrams "Haul over the Coals," Sheer Hulk The Magnet Fierce Connexion between the Celtic and Latin Languages Acharis, &c. 276

MISCELLANEOUS:

Notes on Books, &c. 282 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 282 Notices to Correspondents 282 Advertisements 283

OUR SHAKSPEARIAN CORRESPONDENCE.

We have received from a valued and kind correspondent (not one of those emphatically good natured friends so wittily described by Sheridan) the following temperate remonstrance against the tone which has distinguished several of our recent articles on Shakspeare: