June 26. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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^atitei ta €axvtipan\fcnti» 



Rrplies Keceived. -0/)//cn/ Phenomenon — The Number Seven 

 Exterior Stoup (several) — Etymulofiy of Fetch and Uitberriasher 



— Passage in " As You Like It " — The Name Charing — Etymo- 

 logy of Carmarthen — Venit ad Euphralem, — Mexican Literature 



— Surname of Devil — Family Likenesses, Sfc. — Toad Eater — 

 Lines on the Crawford Family — Algernon Syiiney — Monody on 

 Death of Sir John Moore — Flanagan on the Round Towers — 

 Use of Slings by Early Britons —Giving the Sack — How the 

 ancie7it Irish crowned their Kings — Papal Seal — Plague Stones 



— Wicliffe, tfc. — Mother Carey's Chickens — Cranes in Storms — 

 Unicorns, SfC. 



3, Smyth (Dublin). The line rtferredto — 



" Fine by degrees, and beautifully less," 

 is from Prior's Henry and Emma. See, for further illustration of 

 it, "N & Q.," No.G9., p. 154. 



L. H. I. T. will find much illustration of the oft-quoted passage 

 from Sterne, "God tempers the wind," «n owr 1st Vol., pp.211. 

 23G. 325. 357. 418. 



W. Cl.'j Query respecting a remarkable experiment in our next. 



Lines on English History. We have forwarded to An En- 

 glish Mother one of the copies so kindly sent by E. C. One we 

 retain for our own use. The lines for warded by Sewarg are very 

 generally knowji : not so those inquired for by Mmris, beginning 

 " William and Williara, and Henry and Stephen, 

 And Henry the Second, to make the first even ; 

 and of which we should be very glad to receive a copy. 



B. B. We shall be very glad to see the Iter to which our Cor' 

 respondent refers. 



H. P.S., who inquires for the author of 



" Temporamutantur," &c., 

 14 rtferred to our 1st Vol., pp. 234. 419. 



S.S.S. Richard II. inherited the White Hart as a badge from 

 his mother Jnan, the Fair Maid of Kent. The lied Hose was the 

 badge of Henry IV. 



SiRNAMES. We have forwarded the curious list sent us by 

 A. CM., and the Notes by Miss Bockbtt and E..H. A., to Mr. 

 Lower. 



Errata. — Page 477. col. 1. 1. 43. and 46. for " Marconcies," read 

 " Marcowcies ;" 1. 51., for " Montagn " read MontagM ;" col. 2 

 1. 1., for " Roberti " read " Roberto." 



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