Jan. 18. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERrES- 



47 



or not they have been anticipated. The following have reached us 

 between the publication of our Nufnber on Sattirday lust and 

 Wednesday. Our future Lists will coinprisc those received in the 

 week ending on the Wednesday previous to publication. 

 Lynch Law — Curse of Scotland — Butcher Willie — Midwives 



— Steam Navigat/an — Fi'uzen Horn — Collar of SS Holland 



Land — Umbrellas — Passage in Tennyson — Sword of the Con- 

 queror — Couplet in Defoe — Thruscross — Earth has no rage — 

 Private Memoirs of Elizabeth — By-the-bye — Swearing by Swans 



— Sir Cloudesley Shovel — Chapel — Diffbrmis — Grasson — 

 Savez — Land Holland — Peter Wilkins — Passage in St. Mark — 

 Cockade and True Blue — Mocker — Mythology of the Stars — 

 Cauking'— Ten Children at a Birth — Stvans. 



W. H. B. will find, on referring 'o ChappelTs National English 

 Airs, that the words oj Rule Britannia were luritten by Tlionison 

 {in the Masque of Alfred), and the music composed by Dr. Arne. 



Tapetia.— W/*s Linwood's Salvator Mundi, after Carlo Dolce, 

 «, we bet-ieve, in one of Her Majesty's private apartments at 

 Windsor Castle, We do not in*^?/ Tapbtia's letter, because we 

 by no yneans agree with the writer in his vieivs of the property of 

 the Crown. 7 he Queen behaved most kindly and liberally on the 

 occasion ofthelate Exhibition of Mediaeval Art : but that is a very 

 different thing from calling for a transfer of the Holbein or Da 

 Yiuci drawings to some public museu^n. 



K. W. E. will find the custom of " Going a Gooding," which 

 appears to prevail on St. T/im/ias's Day in many parts of the 

 country, described in Brand's Popular Antiquities {ed. Ellis). 



S. G. (C.C.C.C.) « thanked for his friendly Note. Had toe 

 been aware of the facts with which he has now furnished aa, of 

 course, the communication to which he rejers would not have been 

 inserted in its present shape. 



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 have preceded that on Stringing Tureen; p. 27. I. 21. for " Cyssus'' 

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