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Vol. V. — No. 114.] . Saturday, January 3. 1852. 



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CONTENTS. 



Our Fifth Volume 



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Notes : — 



Stops, when first introduced, by Sir Henry Ellis - 

 Preaching from Texts in Cornwall, by E. Smirke 

 On the Expression " Richly deserved," by D. Jardine - 

 The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney, &c. 

 Admonition to the Parliament, by J. Payne Collier 

 Folk Lore : — New Year's Rain ; Saxon Spell — Fisher- 

 men's Superstitions . . . - . 

 The Author of Hudibras at Ludlow Castle, by Peter 

 Cunningham .-__.. 

 Dr. Franklin's Tract on Liberty and Necessity, by Jas. 

 Crossley ..-.-.- 

 Early Flemish Illustrations of Early Engli.-h Literature, 

 by William J. Thorns . . - - . 

 Minor Notes : — Family Likenesses — Bloomerism in the 

 Sixteenth Century — Inscriptions at Much Wenlock 

 and on Statue of Queen Anne at Windsor 

 Queries : — 



The Age of Trees — The Great; Elm at Hampstead, by 

 John Bruce - - - 



Minor Queries: — " Inveni portum ; " " For they, 'twas 

 they " — Matthew Walker — Aleclenegate — Smother- 

 ing Hydrophobic Patients — Philip Twisden, Bishop of 

 iUphoe — " Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative," edited 

 by Miss Jane Porter— Clerical Members of Parliament- 

 Aliens of RossuU— Number of the Children of Israel — 

 Computatio Hccles. Anglic — Martinique, &C. - 



Minor Queries Answered: — Mutabilitie of France — 

 Caldoriana Societas — Millers of Meath — Kissing 

 under the Mistletoe — Trinity Chapel, Knightsbridge 



— "Please the Pigs " — Meaning of Barnacles — The 

 Game of Curling --.-.. 



Replies : — . 



Saint Irene and the Island of Santorin, by Sir J. E. 



Tennent - - . . .. 



The Old Countess of Desmond— "Who was she ? No. II. 

 Collar of SS., by Edward Foss, &c. . - . 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Tregonwell Frampton — 



Longueville MSS. — Cooper's Miniature of Cromwell 



— Pope and Flatman —Voltaire — Tudur Aled— Latin 

 Verse on Franklin - 



Miscellaneous : 



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

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements ... 



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OUB FIFTH VOLUME. 



Although We cannot commence our Fifth Volume, 

 and the First of our enlarged Series, without some re- 

 ference to so important an event in the history of 

 " Notes and Queries," our address shall be as " brief 

 as the posey of a ring." We heartily and earnestly 

 express our thanks to all our friends, whether Con- 

 tributors or Readers, for the favour they have shown 

 us, and the encouragement and support which have 

 rendered the enlargement of our paper necessary. We 

 Vol. v. — N'o.lH. 



entered upon our course with the support of many dis- 

 tinguished friends, whose varied acquirements stamped 

 an immediate value on " Notes and Queries," and 

 gave it a character which raised it to its present po- 

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 present number bears witness for us, that whilst we 

 have retained our old friends, which we acknowledge 

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 ever continue to strive, to unite them together into one 

 goodly band, feeling assured that by that union we 

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 our heartiest wishes that we may pass together many 

 happy new years ! 



STOPS, WHEN FIRST INTRODUCED. 



In casually looking into a little work entitled 

 The Tablet of Memory, I found an entry which 

 informed me that " stops in literature Avere intro- 

 duced in 1520: the colon, 1580; semicolon, 1599." 



Upon what authority the dates here quoted may 

 have been supposed to rest, I have no notion. 



The comma, beyond question I believe, has been 

 derived from the short oblique line which, both in 

 manuscripts and in early printed books, is con- 

 tinually seen to divide portions of sentences. 



The colon is of very old date, derived from the 

 KoiXoif of the Greeks, the part of a period. In 

 printing, we find it in the Mazarine Bible soon 

 after 1450 ; and in the block books, believed to be 

 of still earlier date. 



Herbert, in his edition of Ames's Typographical 

 Antiquities, p, 512., notices the first semicolon 

 he had met with in an edition of Myles Cover- 

 dale's New Testament, printed in 1538 by 

 Richard Grafton, It was in the Dedication, and, 

 he says, a solitary instance in the book. The only 



