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Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 By: Various |
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A MEDIUM OF INTER COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of." CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 57.]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1850.
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
CONTENTS. NOTES:
Portrait of Cardinal Beaton 433
On the Pointing of a Passage in "All's Well that Ends
Well" by A. Roffe 434
Folk Lore: The bigger the Ring, the nearer the Wet
Power of prophesying before Death Change in the
Appearance of the Dead Strange Remedies Mice
as a Medicine Omens from Birds 434
Mode of computing Interest 435
On the Cultivation of Geometry in Lancashire 436
Minor Notes. Sermon's Pills An Infant Prodigy
A Hint for Publishers "He who runs may read"
The Rolliad The Conquest 438 QUERIES:
Bibliographical Queries 440
Minor Queries. Dr. Timothy Thruscross Echo
Song Meaning of Thwaites Deus Justificatus
Death by Burning Irish Bull Farquharson's
Observations on Auroræ Defender of the Faith
Calendar of Sundays in Greek and Roman Churches
Dandridge the Painter Chaucer's Portrait by Occleve
John o'Groat's House Dancing the Bride to
Bed Duke and Earl of Albermarle 441 REPLIES:
Julin, the Drowned City 443
Nicholas Ferrar and the so called Arminian Nunnery of
Little Gidding 444
Vineyards 446
Treatise of Equivocation, by J. Sansom 446
Riots in London 446
Replies to Minor Queries: Osnaburg Bishoprick
Death of Richard II. Scottish Prisoners sold to
Plantations Lachrymatories Querela Cantabrigiensis
"Then" for "than." Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception
Letters of Horning Dr. Euseby Cleaver Mrs. Partington "Never
did Cardinal bring good to England" Florentine Edition of the
Pandects Master John Shorne "Her Brow was
Fair" Dodd's Church History Blackwall Docks
Wives of Ecclesiastics Stephens' Sermons Saying
of Montaigne Scala Coeli Red Hand 447 MISCELLANEOUS:
Notes on Books, Sales Catalogues, &c. 453
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 453
Notices to Correspondents 454
Advertisements 454
NOTES PORTRAIT OF CARDINAL BEATON. A portrait of this eminent Man was engraved by Pennant, from a picture at
Holyrood House, in Part II. of his Tour in Scotland , p. 243. 4to. Lond.
1776. Lodge has an engraving from the same portrait in his collection of
Illustrious Personages . This is a strange circumstance; because, when
Pinkerton was about to include this portrait in his collection, Pennant
wrote to him, on 30th April, 1796, as follows: "Give me leave to say, that I suspect the authenticity of my Cardinal
Beaton. I fear it is Cardinal Falconer or Falconieri. I think there is
a genuine one somewhere in Scotland. It will be worth your while to
inquire if there be one, and engrave it, and add my suspicions, which
induce you do it." Pinkerton's Correspondence , vol. i. p. 402. 8vo.
Lond. 1830. Pinkerton made inquiry, and on Dec. 1st, 1797, writes to the Earl of
Buchan: "Mr. Pennant informs me the Cardinal Beaton is false. It is, indeed,
too modern. A real Beaton is said to exist in Fife." Pinkerton's
Correspondence , vol. ii. p... Continue reading book >>
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