NOTES AND QUERIES:

Vol. IX.—No. 219.

Saturday, January 7. 1854

Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

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Our Ninth Volume

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Notes:—

A Strawberry-Hill Gem, by Bolton Corney

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The "Ancren Riwle," by Sir F. Madden

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Order for the Suppression of Vagrancy, A.D. 1650-51, by John Bruce

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Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis

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Burial-place of Archbishop Leighton, by Albert Way

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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

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Queries:—

Domestic Letters of Edmund Burke

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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

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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

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Replies:—

Rapping no Novelty, by Rev. Dr. Maitland

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Occasional Forms of Prayer, by John Macray

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Celtic and Latin Languages

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Geometrical Curiosity, by Professor De Morgan

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The Black-guard, by P. Cunningham

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The Calves' Head Club, by Edward Peacock

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Photographic Correspondence:— The Calotype Process—Hockin's Short Sketch—Photographic Society's Exhibition

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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.

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Miscellaneous:—

Notes on books, &c.

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Books and Odd Volumes wanted

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Notices to Correspondents

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