Vol. IV.—No. 104. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

The Old Countess of Desmond, No. 1. 305

Panslavic Sketches, by Dr. J. Lotsky 306

Monumental Bust of Shakspeare, by J. O. Halliwell 307

Notes on Passages in Virgil, by Dr. Henry 307

Folk Lore:—Superstitions respecting Bees—Bees invited to Funerals—North Side of Churchyards—Ashton Faggot: a Devonshire Custom—Offerings to the Apple-trees: Devonshire Superstition 308

Poetical Imitations 310

Gloucestershire Ballads:—A Gloucester Ditty; George Ridler's Oven 311

The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 312

Minor Notes:—Note on the Duration of Reigns—Cock and Bull Story—"Multa renascentur," &c.—Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words 312

Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell's Confession 313

Minor Queries:—"'Tis Twopence now"—Scythians blind their Slaves—The "Gododin"—Frontispiece to Hobbes's Leviathan—Broad Arrow or Arrow Head—Deep Well near Bansted Downs—Upton Court—Derivation of Prog—Metrical History of England—Finger Pillories in Churches—Stallenge Queries—Ancient MS. History of Scotland—Pharetram de Tutesbit—Inundation at Deptford—Butler's Sermons—Coleridge's Christabel—Epigram ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots 314

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Meaning of Farlieu—"History of Anglesey"—The Word "Rile" 317

Winchester Execution 317

Cockney 318

Sir Edmund Plowden or Ployden 319

General James Wolfe 322

Stanzas in Childe Harold 323

Replies to Minor Queries:—MS. Note in a Copy of Liber Sententiarum—Naturalis Proles—Print cleaning—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Anagrams—Battle of Brunanburgh—Praed's Works—Sir J. Davies—Coins of Constantius Gallus—Passage in Sedley—Buxtorf's Translation of Elias Levita's "Tub Taam"—Stonehenge—Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture—Fortune, infortune, fort une—Matthew Paris's "Historia Minor"—Sanford's "Descensus"—Death of Pitt—History of Hawick—"Prophecies of Nostradamus"—Bourchier Family—William III. at Exeter—Passage in George Herbert—Suicides buried in Cross Roads—Armorial Bearing—"Life of Cromwell"—Harris, Painter in Water Colours—"Son of the Morning"—Grimsdyke or Grimesditch—Cagots—The Serpent represented with a human Head—Fire Unknown—Plant in Texas—Copying Inscriptions—Chantrey's Statue of Mrs. Jordan—Portraits of Burke—Martial's Distribution of Hours 326

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 332

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 333

Notices to Correspondents 333

Advertisements 333