Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851   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.

No. 65.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1851. [Price Sixpence. Stamped Edition 7d.

CONTENTS.

NOTES: Page Traditional English Ballads, by Dr. E.F. Rimbault 49 The Father of Philip Massinger 52 Touchstone's Dial, by George Stephens 52 Discrepancies in Dugdale's Account of Sir Ralph de Cobham, by W. Hastings Kelke 53 Henry Chettle 54 Coverdale's Bible 54 Answer to Cowley 55 Folk Lore of Lancashire, No. 1., by T.T. Wilkinson 55 Minor Notes: Proclamation of Langholme Fair Seats in Churches Flemish Account Use of Monosyllables Specimen of Foreign English Epitaph 56

QUERIES: The Tale of the Wardstaff, by S.W. Singer 57 Ballad ascribed to Sir C. Hanbury Williams, by G.H. Barker 59 Minor Queries: Book called Tartuare William Wallace in London Obeism Aged Monks Lady Alice Carmichael "A Verse may find him" Daresbury, the White Chapel of England Ulm Manuscript Merrick and Tattersall Dr. Trusler's memoirs Life of Bishop Frampton Probabilism Sir Henry Chauncy's Observations on Wilfred Entwysel Theological Tracts Lady Bingham Gregory the Great John Hill's Penny Post in 1659 Andrea Ferrara Imputed Letter of Sallustius Thomas Rogers of Horninger Tandem D.O.M. The Episcopal Mitre 59

REPLIES: The Passage in Troilus and Cressida, by John Taylor 62 Black Images of the Virgin, by J.B. Litchfield 63 Outline in Painting 63 Ten Children at a Birth 64 Shakspeare's Use of "Captious" 65 Sword of William the Conqueror 66 Meaning of Eisell 66 Altar Lights, &c. 68 Replies to Minor Queries: Handbell before a Corpse Sir George Downing Hulls, the Inventor of Steamboats "Clarum et venerabile Nomen" Occult Transposition of Letters Darby and Joan Did Bunyan know Hobbes? Mythology of the Stars Dodo Queries Holland Land Swearing by Swans The Frozen Horn Cockade and True Blue The Vavasours of Hazlewood "Breeches" Bible Histoire des Sévarambes Verses attributed to Charles Yorke Archbishop Bolton of Cashel Erasmus and Farel Early Culture of the Imagination William Chilcot By and bye Mocker Was Colonel Hewson a Cobbler? Mole Pillgarlick A recent Novel Tablet to Napoleon North Sides of Churchyards Wisby Singing of Swans Dacre Monument at Herstmoneux Herstmoneux Castle Suem; Ferling; Grasson Portrait of Archbishop Williams Swans hatched during Thunder Etymology of Apricot "Plurima gemma latet circa tellure sepulta" Time when Herodotus wrote Lucy and Colin Translations of Apuleius, &c. Etymology of "Grasson" Lynch Law "Talk not of Love" The Butcher Duke Curfew Robertson Struan 68

MISCELLANEOUS: Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 77 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 78 Notices to Correspondents 78 Advertisements 78