NOTES AND QUERIES: 



A MEJ)IU1 OF INTER-COMIUNICATION 



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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ATsTIUUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



"■WTi,en found, make a noto of." — Captain Cuttle. 



No. 52.] 



Saturday, October 26. 1850. 



C Price Tiirpppcnce 

 I Stampeil Editinn A.d. 



CONTENTS. Page 



Notes : — 



Address to our Friends ----- 353 

 Shaksneare's Use "f the Words " Captious" and " In- 



tenible," by S. W. Singer - . - - 354 



Oratories of the Nonjiirors, b,v J. Yeowell - - SSi 



Hosartli's IUus(ratirms of Hudiliras - - - 355 



Folk Lore: — Overyssel Superstition — Death^bed Su- 



p-r-titions — Popular Rliyme — Death- lied Mystery — 



Bradshaw Family ----- 356 



Advice to the Editor, and Hints to his Contributors - 357 

 Minor Nnte^ : — Rollin's Ancient History and History 

 of the *rts and Sciences _ Jezebel — Clarendon, Ox- 

 ford Edition of 1815— Macaulay's Country Squire — 

 Miching Mallecho. - - - - - 357 



Queries : — 



The Inquisition : The Boliemian Persecution - - 358 



Minor Queries; — Osnabiir? Bishopric — Cleaning of 

 " Farlief" — Margaret Dyneley —Tristan d'Acunha — 

 Pri'duction of Fire by Friction — Murderer hanged 

 when pardoned — Passage from Burke — Licensing of 

 Books — Le Bon Gendarme .... 358 



Replies : — 



Tasso translated by Fairfax .... 359 



Ale-Draper — Eugene Aram - - - - 360 



On the Word " Gradely," by B. H. Kennedy and 



G. J. Cayley --..-- 36) 



Collar of Esses - - - - - - 362 



Replies to Alinor Queries : — Symbols of the Evangelists 

 — Becket's Mother — Pass.\'_'e i" I-iiran — Combs buried 

 with the Dead — The Norfolk Dialect — Conflagration 

 of the Earth — Wraxen ----- 363 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books. Sales, Cabalogiies, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements 



. 366 



. 367 



. 367 



- 307 



jJatCiS. 



ADDRESS TO OUR FRIENDS. 



We this, day publish our fifty.second Number. 

 Every .Siitiird.-iy, for twelve months, have we presented 

 to our subscribers our weekly budget of " Notes," 

 "QuEiiiEs," and "Replies;" and in so doing, we 

 trust, we have iiccoinplished some important ends. We 

 have botli amused and instructed the guueial reader; 

 we have stored up much curious knowledj^e for the use 

 of future writers; we have jirocured for scholars now 

 engaged in works of learning and research many valu- 



able pieces of information which had evaded their own 

 immediate^ pursuit; and, lastly, in doing all this, we 

 have powerfully helped forward the great cause of 

 literary truth. 



In our Prospectus and opening address we made no 

 great promise of what our paper shoul.l be. That, we 

 knew, must depend upon how far the medium of inter- 

 communication we had prepared should be approved 

 and adopted by those for whose special use it had been 

 projected. We laid down a literary railway : it re- 

 mained to be seen whether the world of letters would 

 travel by it. They have done so : we have been 

 especially patronised by first-class passengers, and in 

 such numbers that we were obliged last week to run an 

 extra train. 



It is obvious that the use of a paper like " Notes 

 AND QuEKiEs" bears a direct proportion to the extent 

 of its circulation. What it aims at doing is, to reach 

 the learning which lies scattered not only throughout 

 every part of our own country, but all over the literary 

 world, and to bring it all to bear upon the pursuits of 

 the scholar; to enable, in short, men of letters all over 

 the world to give a helping hand to one another. To 

 a certain extent, we have accomplished tiiis end. Our 

 last number contaitis communications not only from all 

 parts of the metropolis, and from almost every county 

 in England, but ako from Scotland, Ireland, IIolLind, 

 and even from Demerara. This looks well. It seems 

 as if we were in a fair way to accomplish our design. 

 But much yet remains to be done. We have recently 

 been told of whole districts in England so benighted as 

 never to have heard of " Notes and Queries;" and 

 after an interesting question has been discussed for 

 weeks in our cohnnns, we are informed of some one who 

 could have answered it immediately if he had seen it. 

 So long as this is the case the advantage we may con- 

 fer upon literature and literary men is necessarily im- 

 perfect. We do what we can to make known our 

 existence through the customary modes of announce- 

 mcnt, and we gratefully acknowledge the kind assist- 

 ance and encouragement we derive from our brethren 

 of the public press; but we would respectfully solicit 



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