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"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 187. Saturday, May 28, 1853. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
CONTENTS.
Notes:— Page
On Chaucer's Knowledge of Italian 517
The Rebellion of '45: unpublished Letter 519
Oliver St. John, by James Crossley 520
Notes on several misunderstood Words, by the Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith 520
Folk Lore:—Weather Rules—Drills presaging Death —Superstition in Devonshire; Valentine's Day 522
A Note on Gulliver's Travels, by C. Forbes 522
Shakspeare Correspondence 523
The Cœnaculum of Lionardo da Vinci, by E. Smirke 524
Minor Notes:—Scotter Register (County Lincoln)— "All my Eye:" "Over the Left"—Curious Marriages —Child-mother 525
Queries:—
Further Queries respecting Bishop Ken 526
The Rev. John Larson and his Mathematical Manuscripts, by T. T. Wilkinson 526
Minor Queries:—"Wanderings of Memory"—"Wandering Willie's Tale"—Chapel Sunday—Proud Salopians—George Miller, D.D.—Members of Parliament—Taret—Jeroboam of Claret, &c.—William Williams of Geneva—The First of April and "The Cap awry"—Sir G. Browne, Bart.—Bishop Butler—Oaken Tombs—Alleged Bastardy of Elizabeth—"Pugna Porcorum"—Parviso—Mr. Justice Newton—Mufti—Ryming and Cuculling—Custom at the Savoy Church 527
Minor Queries with Answers:—Faithful Teate—Kelway Family—Regatta—Coket and Cler-mantyn 529
Replies:—
Curfew 530
The "Salt-Peter-Man," by C. H. Cooper 530
Forms of Judicial Oaths, by John Thrupp, &c. 532
Photographic Correspondence:—Washing Collodion Pictures—Test for Lenses—Improvement in Positives—Cheap Portable Tent—Rev. Mr. Sisson's New Developing Fluid 533
Replies To Minor Queries:—Vanes—Loselerius Villerius—Westminster Parishes—Hevristic—Creole—General Monk and the University of Cambridge—Ecclesia Anglicana—Gibbon's Library—Golden Bees—Passage in Orosius—Names first given to Parishes—Grafts and the Parent Tree—Lord Cliff and Howell's Letters—The Bouillon Bible—Rhymes on Places—Serpents' Tongues—Consecrated Roses, &c. 534
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c. 537
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 538
Notices to Correspondents 538
Advertisements 538