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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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Vol. IV.—No. 110. 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. 110.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1851.

Price Sixpence. Stamped Edition, 7d.

CONTENTS.

NOTES:—

The Aborigines of St. Domingo, by Henry H. Breen 433

Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger, by Alfred Gatty 434

Passage in Jeremy Taylor 435

Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple 435

Folk Lore:—Death Omen by Bees 436

The Caxton Coffer 436

Minor Notes:—Mental Almanac—Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words—Pasquinade—Epigram on Erasmus—Etymology of London—Verses on Shipmoney—Columbus's Bust, &c. at Havanna 436

QUERIES:—

Additional Queries respecting General James Wolfe 438

Christianity, when first introduced into Orkney 439

The Roman Index Expurgatorius of 1607 440

Minor Queries:—"The Don," a Poem—John Lord Frescheville—Meaning of "Pallant"—Rectitudines Singularum Personarum—Sir Henry Tichborne's Journal—Round Towers at Bhaugulpore—Johannes Trithemius—Races in which Children are named after the Mothers—Foreign Ambassadors, Ministers, Envoys, and Residents from Foreign Courts—Critolaus and the Horatii and Curiatii—Cabal—"Thus said the Ravens black"—Symbols in Painting—Latin Verse on Franklin—General Moyle—Musical Compositions of Matthew Dubourg—Collodion, and its Application to Photography—Engraved Portrait—Lines by Lord Chesterfield on Queen Caroline's supposed Refusal to forgive her Son when on her Death-bed 441

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Kimmeroi, Cimbri, Cymry—Dictionary of Musicians—City of London Charter—St. Alkald 444

REPLIES:—

Plaids and Tartans 445

Religious Statistics 445

Royal Library 446

Damasked Linen 446

Vermin, Payments for Destruction of 447

Was Raleigh in Virginia? 448

Replies to Minor Queries:—Bunting's Irish Melodies—Colonies in England—"History of Anglesey," &c.—The Lowey of Tunbridge—Praed's Works—John à Cumber—Punishment of Prince Edward of Carnarvon—Joceline's Legacy—Bristol Tables—Grimsdyke or Grimesditch—Derivation of "Æra"—Scent of the Bloodhound—Monk and Cromwell Families—"Truth is that which a man troweth"—"Worse than a Crime"—Verses in Classical Prose—Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru—Nolo Episcopari—Hougoumont—Call a Spade, a Spade—"Tace is Latin for a Candle"—Collars of SS.—Locusts of the New Testament—Theodolite—"A Posie of other Men's Flowers"—Voltaire—Sinaïtic Inscriptions—Le Greene at Wrexham—Cross-legged Effigies—The Word Ἀδελφὸς—Finger Pillories—Blackloana Heresis—Quaker Expurgated Bible—"Acu tinali merida" 452

MISCELLANEOUS:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 459

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 460

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