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CONTENTS. Page 



Our Hundredtli Number . - - . . 217 

 Notes : — 



Notes on the Calendar, by Professor de Morgan - 218 



Inedited Letters ol Swift - - - - - 218 



Nineveli Inscriptions, bv T. J. Buckton - - - 220 



Inedittd Letter of AlSeri - - - - - 222 



Stanzas in Childe Harold ----- 223 



Notes on Oxford Edition of Jewel ... 225 



Anagrams, by Henry H. Breen - - - - 226 

 Folk Lore : — Cure for Hoopinj Cough' — Cure for the 



Toothache — Medical Use ot Pigeons — Obeisni - 227 

 Notes on Julin, No. II., by K. R. H. Mackenzie - 228 

 Minor Notes : — Curious Epitaph in Dalkeith Church- 

 yard — Device of SS Lord Edward Fitzgerald — 



The Michaelmas Goose — Gravesend Boats — Scull- 

 cups ----- . - 230 



Queries : — 



Minor Queries: — Equesfrian Figure of Elizabeth — . 

 Indian Ants— Passau'p in GeorgeHerbert — T he King's- 

 way, Wilts — .Marriages within ruined Churches — 

 Fees for Inoculation—" Born in the Eighth Climate" 



. Aubrey de Montdidier's Dog — Sanford's Descensus 



Parish Registers — Rriels for Collections — Early 



Printing Presses — Bootikins — Pi'iuters' Privilege — 

 Death of Pitt — " A Little Bird told me " — Baroner 

 — William 111. at Exeter — History of Hawick — . 

 Johannes Lychtenlierger — Lestourgeon the Horolo- 

 gist — Physiniogic.il Query — He Grammont's Memoirs 

 — '* Frightened out of his Seven Senses " — Fides Car. 

 bonaria— Bourchier Family — Warnings to Scotland — 

 Herschel anticipated— Duke of Wellington . 

 Minor QuEnits .Answered: — .An Early Printer — 

 "Nimble Ninepence" — Prince Rupert's Balls — 

 Knock under — Freemasons .... 



Replies : — 



Conquest of Scotland - . - - . 



Borough-English --..-. 



Pendulum Demonstration - - . - . 



Lord .Mayor not a Privy Councillor ... 



Collars of SS. 



Written Sermons ...... 



Replies to Minor Queries :— Authoress of "A Resi- 

 dence on the Shores of the B.iltlc" — Winifreda— . 

 Querelle d' Alleman — Coins of Constantius II. —Pro- 

 vert), what constitutes one? — Dr. Matthew Sutclifie 

 — Popo's Translations of Horace — M. Lominus, Theo- 

 Ingus — Corpse passing makes a Right Way — Horo- 

 logy — Curlew — "Going the whole Hog" — John 

 Bodley — Language of Ancient Egyyit — Williairj 

 Hone — Bensley — John Lilburne — School of the 

 Heart — Sir W. Raleigh in Virginia — Siege of Lon. 

 donderry — Cowpcr Law — Dicretorum Doctor — 

 Nightingale and Thorn — Carli the Kconomist — Tale 

 of a Tul) — Wyle Cop — Visiting Cards — Absalom's 

 Hair — MS. Hook (»f Sentences — The Winchester 

 Execution — Locke's MSS. — Peal of Bells — Pope's 

 "honest Factor" — Bells in ('hiirches — Passage 

 from Virgil — Duke of Berwick^ NuUtis and Nemo 

 — Grimsdykc— Coke, how pruiiuunced— Marcus ^'Elius 

 Aiituniuut ...... 



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Uiscei.lani^oiih: — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, 4c. 

 Hooks and Odd Vidiiines wanted . 

 Notices to Crirrespondeiits - 

 Advertltcmentt • ■, , 



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OUR HUNDREDTH NUMBER. 



It is the privilege of age to be garrulous ; and as we 



have this week reached our Hundredth Number an 



age to which comparatively few Periodicals ever at- 

 taiu — we may be pardoned if, on thus completing our 

 first Centnry of hiventions, we borrow a few words 

 from the noble author of that well-known work, and 

 beg you, Gentle Reader, " to cast your gracious eye 

 over this summary collection and there to pick and 

 choose:" and when you have done so, to admit that, 

 thanks to the kind assistance of our friends and corre- 

 spondents, we have not only (like Master Lupton) 

 presented you with A Thousand Notable Things, hut 

 fulfilled the objects which we proposed in the publica- 

 tion of " Notes and Queries." 



During the hundred weeks our paper has existed 

 we have received from Sweden, Denmark, Germany, 

 Holland, Belgium, and France — from the United 

 States — from India — from Australia — from the West 



Indies — from almost every one of oiir Colonies letters 



expressive of the pleasure which the writers (many of 

 them obviously scholars " ripe and good," though far, 

 removed from the busy world of letters), derive from 

 the perusal of " Notes and Queries ; " and it is surely 

 a good work to put to students so situated, 



" — all the learning that our time 

 Can make them the receivers of." 

 And, on the other hand, our readers cannot but have 

 noticed how many a pertinent Note, suggestive Query, 

 and apt Reply have reached us from the same remote 

 quarters. 



Our columns have, however, not only thus adniinis. 

 tered to the intellectual enjoyment of our brethren 

 abroad, but they have rendered good service to men of 

 letters here at home : and We could set forth a goodly 

 list of works of learning and research — from Mr. Cun. 

 ningham's Handbook of London Past and Present, pub- 

 lished when we had been hut a few months in existence, 

 down to Wyclyd'o's Three Treatises on the Church, re- 

 cently edited by the Rev, Dr. Todd — in which the 

 utility of " Notes and Queries" is publicly recognised 

 in terms which are highly gratifying to us. 



