NOTES AND QUEIIIES: 



A MEDIU]I OF INTER-COJDIUNICATION 



FOB. 



LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTiaUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



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



No. 80.] 



Saturday, May 10. 1851. 



f Price, ThrerpenCP. 

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CONTENTS. Page 



The Great Exhibition, Notes and Queries, and Chaucer's 

 Prophetic View of the CrysWl Palace - - .361 



Notes : — 



On "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" - - - 364 



Poems discovered among tiw Papers of Sir Kenehn 



Did;by 367 



Folk-Lore: — The Christmas Thorn — Milk-maids — 

 Disease cured by Sheep — Sacramental Wine—" Nettle 

 in Dork nut" - - - - - - 367 



Metropolitan Improvements, by R. J. Kinp: - - 36S 



Minor Notes : — Meaninff of Luncheon — Charade upon 

 Nothing translated — Giving the Lie — Anachronisms 

 of Painters — Siienser's Faerie Qaeene — Prayer of 

 Mary Queen of Scots — A small Instance of VVarren 

 Hastings' Majrianiniity — Richard Baxter — Registry 

 of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches - . • 369 



QUEKIES : — 



Notes and Queries relating to Scandinavia, by W. E. C. 

 Notirse ---__-- 

 Tlie Rotation of the Earth, hy Robert S:inw 

 Minor Queries: — William ap Jevan's Descendants — 

 " Geo>;raphers on Afric's Downs " — Irish IJrifjade — 

 P. .sage in Oldham^Mont-de-Picte — Poem upon the 

 Grave — When self-striking Clocks first invented — 

 Clarkson's Kiclimnnd — Sir Francis Winilebank's 

 elder Son — Inci.-ed Slab — Etymology of Balsall — 

 St. f>lave's Churches — Sabl).uical and Jubilee Years 

 of the Jews — Arms of the Isle of Man — Doctrine of 

 the Resurrection— Natior.al Dehts —Leicester's Com- 

 monwealth - - - - - - 



Repucs : — 



Histoire des .Sevarambes - - , . - 



Was there an " Outer Temple" in the Possession of the 



Knights 'I'empiars or Knii^hts of St. John ? by Peter 



Cunningham - . - _ _ - 



Obeism, by II. II. Breen - . - . - 



S<in Marino ----- . - 



The Be!lni.an and his History, by C. H. Cooper - 



Replies to Minor Queries :— '* God takes those soonest," 



Kc. — Disinterment for Heresy — Tiie \'ellum-biiuud 



Junuis — Pursuits of Literature — Dtitch Books ^ 



Engllbert, Arclibishop oi Treves — Charles Lamb's 



Epitaph — diaries II. in Wales — " Ex Pede Ilercu- 



lem " — God's Acre — Abbot Kustacius — Vox PopuU 



Vox Dei — Francis Moore and liis Almanack - 



MlSCRI.L\NEO[fS : — 



Notes on Books, S.iles, Cat.ilogues, &c. - . - 



Books and Odd Volumes warned - - - 



Notices to Correspondents .... 



AdvcrtisemcJiCs ...... 



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THE CIIF..\T EXIIIBITIOX, NOTES .\ND QUERIES, AND 

 CHAUCEll's PllOI'llETIC VIEW OF TIIE CKYSTAL VALACE. 



The first of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, 

 will be reineinbcred in t!ie Calendar for centuriL-s after 

 those who witnessed its glories shall have ]>assed away. 

 Us memory will endure with our language ; and the 



Macaulays and Hallams of the time to come will add 

 brilliancy to their pages by recounting the gorgeous 

 yet touching ceremonial of this great Apotheosis of 

 Peace. Peace has occasionally received some foretaste 

 of that day's glory ; but only at times, when the sense 

 of its value had been purchased by the horrors which 

 accompany even the most glorious warfare. But never 

 until the reign of Victoria were its blessings thus 

 recognised and thus celebrated, after they had been 

 uninterruptedly enjoyed for upwards, of a quarter of a 

 century. Who then, among the thousands assembled 

 around our Sovereign in that even.tful scene, but felt 

 his joy heightened by gratitude, that his lot had been 

 cast in these happy days. 



It was a proud day for Queen Victoria, for her 11- 

 lustrious Consort, for all who had had " art or part " 

 in the great work so happily conceived, so admirably 

 executed. And we would add (even at the risk of 

 reminding our readers of Dennis' energetic claim, 

 " That's my Thunder ! ") that it was also a proud day 

 for all who, like ourselves, desire to promote intercom- 

 municarion between men of the same pursuits, — to 

 bring them together in a .spirit, not of envious rivalry, 

 but of generous emulation, — to. make their powers, 

 faculties, and genius subservient to the common welfare 

 of mankind. In our humble way we have striven 

 earnestly to perform our share in this great mission ; 

 and although in the Crystal Palace cottons may take 

 tlie place of comments, steam-engines of Shakspeare, 

 the palpable creations of the sculptor of the super- 

 sensual imaginings of the poet, the real of the ideal, — . 



still the GREAT EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF ALL 



NATIONS is, in more senses than one, merely a monster. 

 NUMBER OF " NoTES AND QuERiEs." So palpable, indeed, 

 is this similarity, that, if the long-talkcd-of Order of 

 Civil Merit should be instituted, (and certainly there 

 was never a more fitting moment than the present for 

 so honouring the cultivators of the peaceful arts), we 

 make no doubt that " Notes and Queries" will not 

 be forgotten. Should our prophecy be fulfilled, we 

 need scarcely remind our readers of Captain Cuttle's 

 injunction and our Motto. 



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