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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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Vol. IV.—No. 101. 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. 101.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1851.

Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.

CONTENTS.

NOTES:—

The Battle of Brunanburgh, by Dr. Thurnam 249

The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 250

Accuracy Of Printing 250

Folk Lore:—Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned—Tom Chipperfeild—East Norfolk Folk Lore 251

Sermon of Bishop Jeremy Taylor, by James Crossley 251

Cowley and Gray, No. 11. 252

Minor Notes:—Remains of Sir Hugh Montgomery—Westminster Hall—Meaning of "Log-ship"—Locusts of the New Testament 254

QUERIES:—

Coinage of Vabalathus, Prince of Palmyra, by the Rev. E. S. Taylor 255

Minor Queries:—Chaucer, how pronounced—The Island of Ægina—Statute of Limitations Abroad—Tapestry Story of Justinian—Praed's Works—Folietani—Berlin Mean Time—Defoe's House at Stoke Newington—Oxford Fellowships—Leonard Fell and Judge Fell—"Cleanliness is next to Godliness"—Davies Queries 255

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Poet referred to by Bacon—The Violin—Sir Thomas Malory, Knt.—Archbishop of Spalatro—Play of "The Spaniards in Peru"—Selion 257

REPLIES:—

Prophecies of Nostradamus 258

Borough-English 259

Passage in Virgil 260

Replies to Minor Queries:—Ell-rake—Freedom from Serpents—Nao, for Naw, for Ship—De Grammont—The Termination "-ship"—The Five Fingers—Marriages within ruined Churches—Death of Cervantes—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Gray's Obligations to Jeremy Taylor—Blessing by the Hand—Sacre Cheveux—Pope and Flatman—Linteamina and Surplices 260

MISCELLANEOUS:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 263

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 263

Notices to Correspondents 263

Advertisements 264

List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages

Notes.

BATTLE OF BRUNANBURGH.

It is remarkable that the site of this great battle, the effects of which were so important to the Anglo-Saxon power, remains to this day undetermined.

The several chroniclers who describe it give various names to the locality, though modern authors generally adopt the name of Brunanburgh or "Town of the Fountains." Not however to insist on such variations in the name as Brunandune, Bruneberik, Bruneford, and Brumby, Simeon of Durham describes the battle as occurring at a place named Wendune, otherwise Weondune, to which moreover he assigns the further name of Ethrunnanwerch. The locality has been sought for in most improbable places,—in Northumberland and Cheshire. There can, however, be little or no doubt that this Waterloo of the Anglo-Saxons, as it has been called, is really to be found in the immediate neighbourhood of the Humber; though, whether on the northern or southern bank of that river seems quite uncertain: so far at least as the evidence hitherto adduced affords us the means of judging. In the Winchester volume of the British Archæological Association, MR. HESLEDEN states his belief that he has traced the site of this battle on the south of the Humber, near Barton in Lincolnshire; but the evidence on which he

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