Vol. V.—No. 120. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

The Old Countess of Desmond 145

The Imperial Eagle of France 147

Folk Lore:—Valentine's Day—Nottingham Hornblowing—Bee Superstitions; Blessing Apple-trees; "A Neck! a Neck!"—Hooping Cough 148

Note on the Coins of Vabalathus 148

The Agnomen of "Brother Jonathan," of Masonic Origin 149

Minor Notes:—Hippopotamus, Behemoth—Curious Inscription—Coins of Edward III. struck at Antwerp in 1337 149

Is the Walrus found in the Baltic? 150

English Free Towns, by J. H. Parker 150

Minor Queries:—Bishop Hall's Resolutions—Mother Huff and Mother Damnable—Sir Samuel Garth—German's Lips—Richard Leveridge—Thomas Durfey—Audley Family—Ink—Mistletoe excluded from Churches—Blind taught to read—Hyrne, Meaning of—The fairest Attendant of the Scottish Queen—"Soud, soud, soud, soud!"—Key Experiments—Shield of Hercules—"Sum Liber, et non sum," &c. 150

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Whipping a Husband; Hudibras—Aldus—"The last links are broken"—Under Weigh or Way—The Pope's Eye—"History is Philosophy" 152

Coverdale's Bible, by George Offor 153

"As Stars with Trains of Fire," &c., by Samuel Hickson 154

Dials, Dial Mottoes, &c. 155

Can Bishops vacate their Sees? 156

Character of a True Churchman 156

Wearing Gloves in Presence of Royalty 157

Gospel Oaks 157

The Pendulum Demonstration 158

Expurgated Quaker Bible, by Archdeacon Cotton 158

Junius Rumours 159

Wady Mokatteb not mentioned in Num. xi. 26., by Rev. Dr. Todd 159

Replies to Minor Queries:—Rotten Row—"Preached from a Pulpit rather than a Tub"—Olivarius—Slavery in Scotland—Cibber's Lives of the Poets—Theoloneum—John of Padua—Stoke—Eliza Fenning—Ghost Stories—Autographs of Weever and Fuller—Lines on the Bible—Hell-rake—Family Likenesses—Grimsdyke—Portraits of Wolfe, &c. 160

Notes on Books, &c. 166

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 166