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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 113, December 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 113, December 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Vol. IV.—No. 113. 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. 113.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
Historical Coincidences: Barclay and Perkins 497
Remains of King James II. 498
Shetland Folk Lore:—The Wresting Thread—Ringworm—Burn—Elfshot 500
Minor Notes:—Names of Places in Normandy and Orkney 501
QUERIES:—
Minor Queries:—Meaning of Ploydes—Green-eyed Monster—Perpetual Lamp—Family of Butts—Greek Names of Fishes—Drimmnitavichillichatan—Chalk-back Day—Moravian Hymns—Rural and Urban Deans—Ducks and Drakes—Vincent Kidder—House at Welling—Shropshire, Price of Land—Legal Time 501
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Thorns of Dauphine—Inscription at Lyons—Turnpikes 502
REPLIES:—
General James Wolfe 503
"Flemish Account" 504
Pope and Flatman, by Henry H. Breen 505
Derivation of "London," by Francis Crossley, &c. 505
Replies to Minor Queries:—Legend of the Robin Redbreast—Monk and Cromwell—Souling—Clekit House—Peter Talbot—Races in which Children, &c.—Bacon a Poet—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Share of Presbyters in Ordination—Weever's Funeral Monument—Dial Motto at Karlsbad—Cabal—Rectitudines Singularum Personarum—Stanzas in Childe Harold—The Island and Temple of Ægina—Herschel anticipated—Wyle Cop—Macfarlane Manuscripts 506
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 509
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 510
Notices to Correspondents 510
Advertisements 510
Notes.
HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES.
Barclay and Perkins.
Have you ever amused yourself by tracing historical parallels? did you ever note how often one age reflects the character of another, so that the stage of real life seems to us at intervals as a theatre on which we see represented the passions of the past, its political tendencies, and monied speculations; the only change being that of costume, and a wider but more modified method of action? So true it is that men change, institutions vary, and that human nature is always the same. The church reproduces its Laud, the railway exchange its Law, the bench has its Mansfield, the Horse Guards its greater Marlborough, and Newgate its Mrs. Brownrigg. We have giants as great as King Charles's porter, and a Tom Thumb who would have frightened the very ghosts of all departed Jeffery Hudsons,—a class not generally accused of fear, except at daybreak,—by his unequalled diminutiveness. Take the great questions which agitate the church and the senate-house, which agitated them in the sixteenth, during much of the two following centuries, and you will find the same theological, political, commercial, and sanitary questions debated with equal honesty, equal truth, and similar prospects of satisfactory solution. I confess, however, that for one historical coincidence I was unprepared; and that "Barclay and Perkins," in the case of assault upon a noted public character, should have an historical antecedent in the seventeenth century, has caused me some surprise. It is not necessary for me to recall to your attention how Barclay and Perkins were noised about on the occasion of the attack on General Haynau. The name of the firm was as familiar to our lips as their porter:
"Never came reformation in a flood
With such a heady currance."
There had been no similar émeute, as I was told by a civic wit, since the days of "Vat Tyler." Now let me remind you of the Barclay and Perkins and the other Turnham Green men's plot, who conspired to assault and