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CONTENTS. Page 



Our Fourth Volume - » - - - ' 



Nqt«s : — 



Ttie Duke of Monmouth's Poclcet-boolu, by Sir F. Mad- 



. Stanton Drew and its Tradition, by David 



den - 



Folic Lore : . . 



Stevens - - - - - - -3 



Minor Notes: — Tlie Hon. Spencer Perceval— An Ad- 

 venturer in 1632 — Almanacs - - - - 4 



Queries : — 



Ghost Stories, by the Rev. Dr. Maitland - - - 5 

 A Book of Enziuas, or Dryander, wanted, by Benjamin 

 B. Wiffen 5 



Salting the Bodies of the Dead, by W. B. MaeCabe - 6 

 Minor Qucrie? : — The Star in the East — Me.-uiing of 

 Sinage : Distord : Slander — Miss — Jacques Mabiotte 



— Registry of British Subjects abroad — Shawls — 

 Fi'jures of Saints — Conceyted Letters, who wrote? — . 

 Aeta Sanctorum — Pope's " honest Factor" — Meaning 



of "Nervous" — Doomsday Book of Scotland - - 6 



Minor Qceries Answered : — Dr. Sacheverell — Prin- 

 cess Wilbrabama^ Early Visitations - - - 8 



Replies : — 



Written Sermons, by J. Bruce, &c. - - - 8 



Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor - - - 9 



Dr. Elringtou's Edition of Ussher's Works, by the Rev. 



Dr. Todd - - . . - - -TO 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Mind your P's and Q's — 

 Serius Seriadesqne— Catharine Barton — Alterius Or- 

 bis Papa — Charles Dodd — " Prenzie" — " In Print " 



— Introduction of Reptiles into Ireland — Ancient 

 Wood Engraving of the Picture of Cebes — "The 

 Groves of Blarney" — Tennyson's Lord of Burleigh 



— Bicetre — On a Passage in Dryden — Derivation of 

 Yankee — Ferrante Pallavicino - . - - 11 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sec. - - - 13 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 14 



Notice! to Correspondents - - - - - 14 



Advertisemeati - - . - - - 15 



OUa FOURTH VOLUME. 



We cannot permit the present Number, which com- 

 mences the Fourth Volume of" Notes and Queries," 

 to come into the hands of our Readers without some 

 few words of acknowledgment and thanks to those 

 Friends, Readers, and Correspondents, whose kind 

 encouragement and assistance have raised our paper to 

 its present I)igh position; — 



"and thanks to men 

 Of noble mind, is honorable meed," 



To those thanks we will add our promise, tliat no 

 effort shall be wanting to carry on this paper in the 

 same spirit in which it was commenced, and to add, if 

 possible, to its utility and interest. And by way of 

 setting an example to our correspondents — 



" every word to spare 

 Tliat wants or force, or light, or weight or care " 



we will, with these thanks and this promise, bid our 

 friends fall to on the Banquet of Pleasant Inventions, 

 spread out for them in the following pages. 



di2fltc^. 



THE DUKE or MONMOUTh's POCKET-BOOKS. 



la "Notes and Queries" (Vol. i., p. 198.) is 

 inserted from Chambers' Edinburgh Journal an 

 account of a manuscript volume said to have been 

 found on the person of the Duke of Monmouth at 

 the time of his arrest; which was exhibited by Dr. 

 Anster at a meeting of the lloyal Irish Academy, 

 November 30, 1 849, accompanied by some remarks, 

 which appeared in the Proceedings of the Academy, 

 vol. iv. p. 411., and which furnish the substance of 

 the article in Chambers above mentioned. In a 

 subsequent number of the " Notes and Queries " 

 (Vol. i., p. 397.), the authenticity of the volume is 

 somewhat called in question by Mr. G. Ross, on. 

 account of certain historical entries not appearin"- 

 in it, which are printed by Welwood in his Me- 

 moirs*, and stated to have been copied by him 

 from " a little pocket-book " which was taken with 

 Monmouth, and afterwards delivered to the King. 

 Dr. Anster replied to this in the Dublin Univers'dy 

 Magazine for June, 1850 (vol. xxxv. p. 673.), and 

 showed by references to the Harleian Miscellany 

 (vol. vi. p. 322., ed. 1810), and Sii- John Reresby's 

 Memoirs (p. 121. 4to., 1734), that more than one 

 book was found on the Duke of Monmouth's 

 person when captured. In the former of these 

 authorities, entitled An Account of the Manner of 

 taking the late Duke of Monmouth : by his Majesty's 



* Query, what is the date of the first edition of 

 Welwood's work ? The earliest in the Museum library 

 is the third edition, printed in 1700. 



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