A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
Reading edition
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 191. Saturday, June 25, 1853. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
CONTENTS.
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Witchcraft in Somersetshire 613
"Emblemata Horatiana," by Weld Taylor 614
Shakspeare Criticism, by Thomas Keightley 615
Red Hair a Reproach, by T. Hughes 616
Extracts from Newspapers, 1714, by E. G. Ballard 616
Minor Notes:—Last Suicide buried at a Cross Road.—Andrew's Edition of Freund's Latin Lexicon—Slang Expressions—"Quem Deus vult perdere"—White Roses 617
Queries:— "Merk Lands" and "Ures:" Norwegian Antiquities 618
The Leigh Peerage, and Stoneley Estates, Warwickshire 619
Minor Queries:—Phillips Family—Engine-à-verge—Garrick's Funeral Epigram—The Rosicrucians—Passage in Schiller—Sir John Vanbrugh—Historical Engraving—Hall-close, Silverstone, Northamptonshire—Junius's Letters to Wilkes—The Reformer's Elm—How to take Paint off old Oak 619
Minor Queries with Answers:—Cadenus and Vanessa—Boom—"A Letter to a Member of Parliament"—Ancient Chessmen—Guthryisms 620
Replies:— Correspondence of Cranmer and Calvin, by Henry Walter 621
"Populus vult decipi," by Robert Gibbings, &c. 621
Latin: Latiner 622
Jack 622
Passage in St. James, by T. J. Buckton, &c. 623
Faithfull Teate 624
Parvise 624
The Cœnaculum of Lionardo da Vinci 624
Font Inscriptions, by F. B. Relton, &c. 625
Burn at Croydon 626
Christian Names, by William Bates, &c. 626
Weather Rules 627
Rococo, by Henry H. Breen 627
Descendants of John of Gaunt, by J. S. Warden 628
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem 628
Replies to Minor Queries:—Anticipatory Worship of the Cross—Ennui—"Qui facit per alium, facit per se," &c.—Vincent Family—Judge Smith—"Dimidiation" in Impalements—Worth—"Elementa sex," &c.—"A Diasii 'Salve,'" &c.—Meaning of "Claret"—"The Temple of Truth"—Wellborne Family—Devonianisms—Humbug—George Miller, D.D.—"A Letter to a Convocation Man"—Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire—Ferdinand Mendez Pinto—"Other-some" and "Unneath"—Willow Pattern—Cross and Pile—Old Fogie—Another odd Mistake—Spontaneous Combustion—Erroneous Forms of Speech—Ecclesia Anglicana—Gloves at Fairs—The Sparrows at Lindholme, &c. 629
Miscellaneous:— Books and Odd Volumes wanted 634
Notices to Correspondents 634
Advertisements 634