Vol. IV.—No. 91. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

Richard Rolle of Hampole 49

Notes and Queries MSS. 50

MS. Fragments of Old Poetry 51

Folk Lore:—Medical Use of Mice—Legend of Haydon's Gully—The Crow Charm and the Lady-bird Charm—School Superstitions—The Nightmare—East Norfolk Folk Lore: 1. Cure for Fits; 2. Cure for Ague—Extreme Ignorance and Superstition 52

Minor Notes:—The Word "Repudiate"—The First Panorama—Chaucer and Gray—Burns and Propertius—Shakspeare in Sweden 54

On the Elision of the Letter "v" 55

Anthony Mundy, by Sir F. Madden 55

Minor Queries:—Margaret Maultasch—Arms of Halle—Test of Strength of a Bow—Vox Populi—Meaning of Whig and Tory—"Fortune, Infortune, Fort une"—Unde derivator Stonehenge—Marriage of Bishops—The Sign ¶—Early German Virgil—Fairlight Church—The Leman Baronetcy—Armorial Bearings—History of Magnetical Discovery—George Chalmers—Mistake as to an Eclipse—Statue of Mrs. Jordan—"A Posie of other Men's Flowers"—Sir Edmund Ployden or Plowden—Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace—John Bodley—Dr. Thomas Johnson—"You Friend drink to me Friend"—The Latin Termination "aster"—Portrait of Dryden—Inscription on a Claymore out in 1745 56

De Rebus Septentrionalibus, by W. E. C. Nourse 59

Hugh Holland and his Works, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 62

"Prenzie" in "Measure for Measure" 63

The Ten Commandments 63

The Republic of San Marino, by Walter Montagu 64

Shakespeare's Use of "Eisell" 64

Royal Library 69

The Caxton memorial, by Beriah Botfield 69

Meaning of "Nervous," by W. E. C. Nourse and E. J. Jones 70

The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books, by C. Ross 70

Replies to Minor Queries:—Pope's "honest Factor"—Banks Family—Dies Iræ, Dies Illa—Equestrian Statues—Monumental Symbolism—Organs in Churches—Tennyson: "The Princess"—"Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love"—Sardonic Smiles—Epitaph on Voltaire—Voltaire, where situated—Children at a Birth—Milkmaids—"Heu quanto minus," &c.—The "Passellew" Family—Lady Petre's Monument—Spenser's Age at his Death—Blessing by the hand—Handel's Occasional Oratorio—Moore's Almanack—Kiss the Hare's Foot—Derivation of the World "Bummaree" or "Bumaree"—Sheridan and Vanbrugh—"Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum"—"Alterius Orbis Papa"—Umbrella—To learn by Heart—"Suum cuique tribuere"—Frogs in Ireland—Round Towers—Lines on the Temple—Killigrew Arms—Meaning of Hernshaw—Theory of the Earth's Form—Coke and Cowper, how pronounced—Registry of British Subjects Abroad, &c. 71

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 77

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 78

Notices to Correspondents 79

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