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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Vol. IV.—No. 93. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 93.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
Lady Hopton 97
Notes on Newspapers—The Times, by H. M. Bealby 98
Folk Lore: Devonshire Superstitions 98
Minor Notes:—Curious Inscription—Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture—D'Israeli: Pope and Goldsmith 99
QUERIES:—
On a Song in Scott's Pirate—"Fire on the Maintop" 99
Minor Queries:—Was Milton an Anglo-Saxon Scholar?—Tale of a Tub—Cleopatra's Needle—Pair of Curols—Cowper Law—Order of Greenwich—House of Yvery—Entomological Query—Spenser's Portraits—Borrow's Bible in Spain—Dogmatism and Puppyism—A Saxon Bell-house 100
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Cycle of the Moon—Cocker's Arithmetic—Sanskrit Elementary Books—Townley MSS., &c.—"Man is born to trouble," &c. 102
REPLIES:—
Bellarmin's Monstrous Paradox 103
The Gookins of Kent, by Edward Armstrong 103
Curious Monumental Inscription, by S. W. Singer 105
The late Mr. William Hone, by Douglas Allport 105
Plaids and Tartans 107
The Caxton Memorial, by Bolton Corney 107
Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest, by the Marchioness of Bute 108
Replies to Minor Queries:—Inscription on an old Board—Churches decorated at Christmas—Royal Library—Proof a Sword—Dr. Young's "Narcissa"—Circulation of the Blood—Dr. Elrington's Edition of Ussher—Was Stella Swift's Sister?—The Mistletoe—Family of Kyme—The Leman Baronetcy—Cure for Ague 109
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes.
LADY HOPTON.
I have thought that the following old letter, relative to a family once of some distinction, and especially as describing a very remarkable individual, from whom a multitude of living persons are immediately descended, might be of sufficient interest to occupy a place in "NOTES AND QUERIES." It has never, that I am aware of, been published; but it has long been preserved, amongst similar papers, with the accompanying endorsement:—"Though Mr. Ernle's letter relating to Lady Hopton and her family contains some fabulous accounts, and is in some parts a little unintelligible, yet it may be urged in confirmation of the truth of the several descents therein mentioned. He was the son of Sir John Ernle, and could not but have some general knowledge of his grandmother's relations."
This Mr. Ernle, afterwards knighted, died A.D. 1686.
Sir Arthur Hopton lived at Witham Friary, co. Somerset, and the heroine of this document was, according to the pedigree in Sir R. C. Hoare's Monastic Remains of Witham, &c., Rachel, daughter of Edmund Hall of Gretford, co. Lincoln, Esq. The date of Sir Arthur's death is not there given, but he was made a K.B. in 1603.
C. W. B.
"I will give you as good an account as I can remember of our