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Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850

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Notes:—

Address to our Friends 353

Shakspeare's Use of the Words "Captious" and "Intenible," by S. W. Singer 354

Oratories of the Nonjurors, by J. Yeowell 354

Hogarth's Illustrations of Hudibras 355

Folk Lore:—Overyssel Superstition—Death-bed Superstitions—Popular Rhyme—Death-bed Mystery—Bradshaw Family 356

Advice to the Editor, and Hints to his Contributors 357

Minor Notes:—Rollin's Ancient History and History of the Arts and Sciences—Jezebel—Clarendon, Oxford Edition of 1815—Macaulay's Country Squire—Miching Mallecho 357

Queries:—

The Inquisition: The Bohemian Persecution 358

Minor Queries:—Osnaburg Bishopric—Meaning of "Farlief"—Margaret Dyneley—Tristan d'Acunha—Production of Fire by Friction—Murderer hanged when pardoned—Passage from Burke—Licensing of Books—Le Bon Gendarme 358

Replies:—

Tasso translated by Fairfax 359

Ale-Draper—Eugene Aram 360

On the Word "Gradely," by B. H. Kennedy and G. J. Cayley 361

Collar of Esses 362

Replies to Minor Queries:—Symbols of the Evangelists—Becket's Mother—Passage in Lucan—Combs buried with the Dead—The Norfolk Dialect—Conflagration of the Earth—Wraxen 363

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 366

Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 367

Notices to Correspondents 367

Advertisements 367

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