Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc   By: Various

NOTES AND QUERIES:

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

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

VOL. IX. No. 219.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 7. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Page Our Ninth Volume 3

NOTES: A Strawberry Hill Gem, by Bolton Corney 3 The "Ancren Riwle," by Sir F. Madden 5 Order for the Suppression of Vagrancy, A.D. 1650 51, by John Bruce 6 Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis 7 Burial place of Archbishop Leighton, by Albert Way 8

MINOR NOTES: Grammars, &c. for Public Schools "To captivate" Bohn's Edition of Matthew of Westminster French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex 8

QUERIES: Domestic Letters of Edmund Burke 9

MINOR QUERIES: Farrant's Anthem Ascension Day Custom Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic Collections "The spire whose silent finger points to heaven." Lord Fairfax Tailless Cats Saltcellar Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos Naval Atrocities Turlehydes Foreign Orders: Queen of Bohemia Pickard Family Irish Chieftains General Braddock 9

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS: Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex Motto on old Damask Explanation of the Word "Miser" "Acis and Galatea" Birm bank General Thomas Gage 11

REPLIES: Rapping no Novelty, by Rev. Dr. Maitland 12 Occasional Forms of Prayer, by John Macray 13 Celtic and Latin Languages 14 Geometrical Curiosity, by Professor De Morgan 14 The Black guard, by P. Cunningham 15 The Calves' Head Club, by Edward Peacock 15

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE: The Calotype Process Hockin's Short Sketch Photographic Society's Exhibition 16

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES: "Firm was their faith," &c. Vellum cleaning Wooden Tombs Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263 Lines on Woman Satin "Quid facies," &c. Sotades The Third Part of "Christabel" Attainment of Majority Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton The fifth Lord Byron Burton Family Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus, &c. 17

MISCELLANEOUS: Notes on books, &c. 21 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 21 Notices to Correspondents 22

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Principal GEORGE EDMONDSON.

Mathematics and Natural Philosophy . Dr. Thos. A. Hirst, of the Universities of Marburg and Berlin.

Chemistry Dr. H. Debus, late Assistant in the Laboratory of Professor Bunsen, and Chemical Lecturer in the University of Marburg.

Classics and History. Mr. John S. Mummery, L.C.P.

Modern Languages and Foreign Literature. Mr. John Haas, from M. de Fellenberg's Institution, Hofwyl, Switzerland.

Geodesy. Mr. Richard P. Wright.

Painting and Drawing. Mr. Richard P. Wright.

English, and Junior Mathematics. Frederick Iliff, M.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and M.C.P.

Ditto. Mr. William Singleton.

Music. Mr. William Cornwall.