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Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853

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Proclamation of Henry VIII. against the Possession of Religious Books, by Joseph Burtt 421

Latin: Latiner 423

Inedited Poems, by W. Honeycombe 424

Round Towers of the Cyclades 425

Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, &c. 426

General Monk and the University of Cambridge 427

Minor Notes:—Curiosities of Railway Literature—Cromwell's Seal—Rhymes upon Places—Tom Track's Ghost 427

Queries:—

Jacob Bobart and his Dragon, &c., By H. T. Bobart 428

Bishop Berkeley's Portrait, by Dr. J. H. Todd 428

Minor Queries:—Life—"The Boy of Heaven"—Bells—Captain Ayloff—Robert Johnson—Selling a Wife—Jock of Arden—Inigo Jones—Dean Boyle—Euphormio—Optical Query—Archbishop King—Neal's Manuscripts—Whence the Word "Cossack?"—Picts' Houses and Argils—The Drummer's Letter—The Cardinal Spider—New England Genealogical Society, &c. 429

Minor Queries With Answers:—Dr. John Harcliffe, Dr. Wm. Cokayne, Dr. Samuel Kettilby—"Haulf Naked" 431

Replies:—

The Legend of Lamech: Hebrew Etymology, by H. Walter, T. J. Buckton, and Joseph Rix 432

Lord Coke's Charge to the Jury 433

White Roses, by James Crossley 434

Burial of Unclaimed Corpse 435

Psalmanazar, by James Crossley 435

Grafts and the Parent Tree 436

Photographic Correspondence:—Glass Baths—Securing Calotype Negatives 437

Replies To Minor Queries:—Wood of the Cross—Bishops' Lawn Sleeves—Inscriptions in Books—Lines quoted by Charles Lamb—Parochial Libraries—Huet's Navigations of Solomon—Derby Municipal Seal—Annueller—Rev. Richard Midgley, Vicar of Rochdale—Nose of Wax—Canongate Marriages—Sculptured Emaciated Figures—Do the Sun's Rays put out the Fire?—Spontaneous Combustion—Ecclesia Anglicana—Wyle Cop—Chaucer—Campvere, Privileges of—Sir Gilbert Gerard—Mistletoe—Wild Plants and their Names—Coninger or Coningry 437

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, &c. 441

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 442

Notices to Correspondents 442

Advertisements 442

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