NOTES AND QUEIIIES: 



A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION 



FOR 



LITERAllY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



" vnien found, make a note of." — Captain Cuttle. 



No. 31.1 



Satukday, June 1. 1850. 



f Price Threepence. 

 i Stamped Edition 4^. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Notes : — 



Parish Registers — Stiitistics - - - - ' 



Tlie Hudibrastic Verse, by S. W. Singer - - - 3 



Custom of presenting Gloves, by Jas. Crosby - - 4 



Folk Lore : — Exhiim:\tion of a Body ominous to Family 

 of the Deceased — Siiil'alk Folk Lore— Cure for Fits — 



Bible and Key ....-- 4 

 Notes on Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ, &c., by J. E. B. 



Mayor ...--.- 5 



Unpublished Episrams in the British Museum - - fi 



On Authors and Books, No. 7., by Bolton Coruey - G 



Ql'ERIES : — 



Punishment nf Death by Burning . - - - 6 



Cornolis Orebble - - - - - - 6 



Verses attributed to Charles Yorke - - - 7 

 Cultivation of Geometry in Lancashire - • - 8 

 Asinorum Sepultura. by W. B. MacCabe - - - 8 

 Minor Queries: — Ransom of an English Nobleman — 

 When does Easter end? — Carucafe of Land — Mem- 

 bers for Calais — Members for Durham — Leicester, 

 and the reputed Poisoners of his Time — Lord John 

 Townshend's Poetical Woiks — Martello Towers — 

 Mynyddyslwyn — Three Dukes — Bishops and their 

 Precedence— Guineas — Parish Registers Tax — Cha- 

 rade 9 



Replies: — 



Houkey or Horkey, by S. W. Singer - - - 10 



Charles Martel - - - - - -11 



" Fe.ist" and " Fast" - - - - - 11 



Replies to ;Minor Queries: — The Badger's Legs — Twm 

 Sion Catti — Christi ni Captives— Cannibals — Symbols 

 of the four Evangelists — Turkish Spv — Dr. JIaginn's 

 Miscellanies — Trianon — Pimlico — The Arms of Godin 

 — Title of D.D. — Emancipation of the Jews — Saeck- 

 up or S[iick-up - - - - - - 12 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books. Catalogues, Sales, &e. 

 Books anil Odd Volumes wanted 

 Notice to Correspondents 

 Advertisements . - - 



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OUB SECOND VOLUME. 



We cannot resist the opportunity wliicli the com- 

 mencement of our SecoMfi Volume afford-s us, of ad- 

 dressing a few words of acknowledgment to our friends, 

 both contributors and readers. In tlie sliort space of 

 seven months, we have been enabled by tlieir support 

 to win for " Notks and Qiteries" no unimportant po- 

 sition among the literary journals of this country. We 

 came forward for the purpose of allbrding the literary 

 brotherhood of this great nation an organ through 

 which they might announce their difficulties and re- 



quirements, through which such difficulties might find 

 solution, and such requirements bo supplied. The 

 little band of kind friends who first rallied round us 

 has been reinforced by a host of earnest men, who, at 

 once recognising the utility of our purpose, and seeing 

 in our growing prosperity how much love of letters 

 existed among us, have joined us heart and hand in 

 the great object we proposed to ourselves in our Pro- 

 spectus; namely, that of making "Notes and Queries" 

 by mutual intercommunication, " a most useful sup- 

 plement to works already in existence — a treasury for 

 enriching future editions of them — and an important 

 contribution towards a more perfect history than we 

 yet possess of our language, our literature, and those to 

 whom we owe them." 



Thanks, again and again, to the friends and corre- 

 spondents, who, by their labours, are enabling us to 

 accomplish this great end. To them be the honour of 

 the work. We are content to say with the Arabian 

 poet : 



" With conscious pride we view the band 

 Of faithful friends that round us stand ; 

 With pride exult, that we alone 

 Can join these scattered gems in one; 

 Rejoiced to be the silken line 

 On which these pearls united shine." 



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PARISH REGISTERS — STATISTICS. 



Among the good services rendered to the public 

 by yourself and your correspondents, few, I think, 

 will be found more important than tiiat of having 

 drawn their atteutiou to Mr. U'yatt EdgeU's valu- 

 able suggestions on the transcription of Parochial 

 Registers. The supposed iinpracticabiiity of his 

 plan has perhajis hitlierto deterred those most 

 coui{)otent to the work from giving it the consider- 

 ation which it deserves. 1 believe the scheme to 

 be jierfectly practicable ; and, as a first move in 

 the work, 1 send you the result of my own deal- 

 ings with the registers of my parish. 



It is many years siiurc 1 Iclt the desideratum 

 which Mr. Edgell has brought before the public ; 



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