Volume 4 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
Our Hundredth Number 217
NOTES:—
Notes on the Calendar, by Professor de Morgan 218
Inedited Letters of Swift 218
Nineveh Inscriptions, by T. J. Buckton 220
Inedited Letter of Alfieri 222
Stanzas in Childe Harold 223
Notes on Oxford Edition of Jewel 225
Anagrams, by Henry H. Breen 226
Folk Lore:—Cure for Hooping Cough—Cure for the Toothache—Medical Use of Pigeons—Obeism 227
Notes on Julin, No. II., by K. R. H. Mackenzie 228
Minor Notes:—Curious Epitaph in Dalkeith Churchyard—Device of SS.—Lord Edward Fitzgerald—The Michaelmas Goose—Gravesend Boats—Scullcups 230
QUERIES:—
Minor Queries:—Equestrian Figure of Elizabeth—Indian Ants—Passage in George Herbert—The King's-way, Wilts—Marriages within ruined Churches—Fees for Inoculation—"Born in the Eighth Climate"—Aubrey de Montdidier's Dog—Sanford's Descensus—Parish Registers—Briefs for Collections—Early Printing Presses—Bootikins—Printers' Privilege—Death of Pitt—"A Little Bird told me"—Baroner—William III. at Exeter—History of Hawick—Johannes Lychtenberger—Lestourgeon the Horologist—Physiological Query—De Grammont's Memoirs—"Frightened out of his Seven Senses"—Fides Carbonaria—Bourchier Family—Warnings to Scotland—Herschel anticipated—Duke of Wellington 231
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—An Early Printer—"Nimble Ninepence"—Prince Rupert's Balls—Knock under—Freemasons 234
REPLIES:—
Conquest of Scotland 234
Borough-English 235
Pendulum Demonstration 235
Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 235
Collars of SS. 236
Written Sermons 237
Replies to Minor Queries:—Authoress of "A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic"—Winifreda—Querelle d'Alleman—Coins of Constantius II.—Proverb, what constitutes one?—Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe—Pope's Translations of Horace—M. Lominus, Theologus—Corpse passing makes a Right Way—Horology—Curfew—"Going the whole Hog"—John Bodley—Language of Ancient Egypt—William Hone—Bensley—John Lilburne—School of the Heart—Sir W. Raleigh in Virginia—Siege of Londonderry—Cowper Law—Decretorum Doctor—Nightingale and Thorn—Carli the Economist—Tale of a Tub—Wyle Cop—Visiting Cards—Absalom's Hair—MS. Book of Sentences—The Winchester Execution—Locke's MSS.—Peal of Bells—Pope's "honest Factor"—Bells in Churches—Passage from Virgil—Duke of Berwick—Nullus and Nemo—Grimsdyke—Coke, how pronounced—Marcus Ælius Antoninus 237
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 245
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 245
Notices to Correspondents 246
Advertisements 246
OUR HUNDREDTH NUMBER.
It is the privilege of age to be garrulous; and as we have this week reached our Hundredth Number—an age to which comparatively few Periodicals ever attain—we may be pardoned if, on thus completing our first Century of Inventions, we borrow a few words from the noble author of that well-known work, and beg you, Gentle Reader, "to cast your gracious eye over this summary collection and there to pick and choose:" and when you have done so, to admit that, thanks to the kind assistance of our friends and correspondents, we have not only (like Master Lupton) presented you with A Thousand Notable Things, but fulfilled the objects which we proposed in the publication of "NOTES AND QUERIES."
During the hundred weeks our paper has existed we have received from Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France—from the United States—from India—from Australia—from the West Indies—from almost every one of our Colonies—letters expressive of the pleasure which the writers (many of them obviously scholars "ripe and good," though far removed from the busy world of letters), derive from the perusal of "Notes and Queries;" and it is surely a good work to put to students so situated,
"—— all the learning that our time Can make them the receivers of."
And, on the other hand, our readers cannot but have noticed how many a pertinent Note, suggestive Query, and apt Reply have reached us from the same remote quarters.
Our columns have, however, not only thus administered to the intellectual enjoyment of our brethren abroad, but they have rendered good service to men of letters here at home: and We could set forth a goodly list of works of learning and research—from Mr. Cunningham's Handbook of London Past and Present, published when we had been but a few months in existence, down to Wyclyffe's Three Treatises on the Church, recently edited by the Rev. Dr. Todd—in which the utility of "NOTES AND QUERIES" is publicly recognised in terms which are highly gratifying to us.
We do not make these statements in any vainglorious spirit. We believe our success is due to the manner in which, thanks to the ready assistance of zealous and learned Friends and Correspondents, we have been enabled to supply a want which all literary men have felt more or less: and believing that the more we are known, and the wider our circulation, the greater will be our usefulness, and the better shall we be enabled to serve the cause we seek to promote. We feel we may fairly invite increased support for "NOTES AND QUERIES" on the grounds of what it has already accomplished.
And so, wishing ourselves many happy returns of this Centenary—and that you, Gentle Reader, may be spared to enjoy them, We bid you heartily Farewell!