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Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851

CONTENTS.

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Illustrations of Chaucer, No. V. 345

Foreign English—Guide to Amsterdam 346

Seven Children at a Birth three Times following 347

Ramasshed, Meaning of the Term 347

Authors of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, by E. Hawkins 348

Minor Notes:—Egg and Arrow Ornament—Defoe's Project for purifying the English Language—Great Fire of London—Noble or Workhouse Names 349

Queries:—

Passages in the New Testament illustrated from Demosthenes 350

The House of Maillé 351

Minor Queries:— Meaning of "eign"—The Bonny Crayat—What was the Day of the Accession of Richard the Third?—Lucas Family—Watch of Richard Whiting—Laurence Howel, the Original Pilgrim—Churchwardens' Accounts, &c. of St. Mary-de-Castro, Leicester—Aristotle and Pythagoras—When Deans first styled Very Reverend—Form of Prayer at the Healing—West Chester—The Milesians—Round Robbin—Experto credo Roberto—Captain Howe—Bactria 351

Replies:—

The Family of the Tradescants, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 353

Meaning of Venville, by E. Smirke 355

Replies to Minor Queries:—Newburgh Hamilton—Pedigree of Owen Glendower—Mind your P's and Q's—The Sempecta at Croyland—Solid-hoofed Pigs—Porci solide-pedes—Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary—Criston, Somerset—Tradesmen's Signs—Emendation of a Passage in Virgil 356

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 358

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 358

Notices to Correspondents 358

Advertisements 359

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