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Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.   By:

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Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text.

{293} NOTES AND QUERIES:

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

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

No. 231.] SATURDAY, APRIL 1. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

NOTES: Page Kennington Common, by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson 295 Life and Death 296 Battle of Trafalgar and Death of Nelson 297 Heraldic Anomaly 298 FOLK LORE: Three Maids Mother Russel's Post Shrove Tuesday Custom 299 Stornello 299

MINOR NOTES: Perspective "That" Corporation Enactments Jacobite Club Dean Nowell's first Wife "Oxoniana" An Epigram falsely ascribed to George Herbert Ingulph: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library" 300

QUERIES: Quotations wanted 301 Sir Edmund Plowden, by S. F. Streeter 301 Ancient Clock, and Odevaere's History of it, by Octavius Morgan 302

MINOR QUERIES: Spielberg, when built? "Ded. Pavli" Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantleboard: Mantell and Brace Passage in Job Provincial Glossaries Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancaster A marvellous Combat of Birds Battle of the Gnats Sandford of Thorpe Salvine, co. York "Outlines of the History of Theology" "Mawkin" "Plain Dealer" Hymn attributed to Handel Degrees in Arts "Goloshes:" "Kutchin kutchu" Cornwalls of London Flasks for Wine bottles Froxhalmi, Prolectricus, Phytacus, Tuleus, Candos, Gracianus, and Tounu or Tonnu 302

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS: Postmaster at Merton College "Lyra Apostolica" East Dereham Manor Quakers executed in North America Inscription in Fulham Church Hero of the "Spanish Lady's Love" "Bothy" "Children in the Wood" 304

REPLIES: Brydone the Tourist, by John Macray 305 "The Red Cow" Cromwell's Carriages, &c. 306 Fox hunting, by F. M. Middleton 307 Weather Rules, by E. MacCulloch, &c. 307 Bingham's Antiquities 308 Ancient Tenure of Lands 309

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE: Spots on Collodion Pictures, &c. The Double Iodide Solution Mounting Photographs 310 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES: Books on Bells Medal in Honour of Chevalier St. George Dean Swift's Suspension "Vanitatem observare" Ballina Castle, Mayo Dorset Judicial Rank hereditary Tolling the Bell on leaving Church Archpriest in the Diocese of Exeter Dogs in Monumental Brasses The Last of the Palæologi Long Names, &c. 310

MISCELLANEOUS: Notes on Books, &c. 313 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 314 Notices to Correspondents 314

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NOTES ON AQUATIC MICROSCOPIC SUBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY, selected from the "Microscopic Cabinet." By ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I.

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A HISTORY OF INFUSORIAL ANIMALCULES, Living and Fossil, containing Descriptions of every species, British and Foreign, the methods of procuring and viewing them, &c., illustrated by numerous Engravings. By ANDREW PRITCHARD, M.R.I.

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