NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION
FOR
LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 31.] SATURDAY, JUNE 1. 1850. { Price Threepence. { Stamped Edition. 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES: —
- Parish Registers — Statistics - ... 1
- The Hudibrastic Verse, by S. W. Singer - - - 3
- Custom of presenting Gloves, by Jas. Crosby - 4
- Folklore: — Exhumation of a Body ominous to Family of the Deceased — Suffolk Folk Lore — Cure for Fits — Bible and Key 4
- Notes on Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ. &c., by J. E. B. Mayor .......5
- Unpublished Epigrams In the British Museum - -6
- On Authors and Books, No. 7., by Bolton Corney - 6
QUERIES: —
- Punishment of Death by Burning - - - 6
- Cornells Dribble ------ 6
- Verses attributed to Charles Yorke - - - 7
- Cultivation of Geometry in Lancashire - - 8
- Asinorum Sepultura by W. B. MacCabe - - - 8
- Minor Queries : — Hansom of an English Nobleman — When does Easter end? — Carucate of Land — Members for Cala's — Members for Durham — Leicrster, and the reputed Poisoners of his Time — Lord John Townshend's Poetical Works — Martello Towers — Mynyddyslwyn — Three Dukes — Bishops and their Precedence — Guineas — Parish Registers Tax — Charade ........9
REPLIES: —
- Howkey or Horkey, by S. W. Singer - - .10
- Charles Martel - . - - - .11
- "Feast" and "Fast" - . - - .11
- Replies to Minor Queries : — The Badger's Legs — Twin Sion Catti — Christian Captives — Cannibals — Symbols of the four Evangelists — Turkish Spy — Dr. Maginn's Miscellanies — Trianon — Pimlico - The Aims of Godin — Title of D. D. — Emancipation of the Jews — Sneck-up or Snick-up - - - - . - 12
MISCELLANEOUS : —
- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. - - - 14
- Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - .15
- Notice to Correspondents - . - . .15
- Advertisements - - . . . .15
OUR SECOND VOLUME.
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"With conscious pride we view the band
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Can join these scattered gems in one;
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NOTES.
PARISH REGISTERS.— STATISTICS.
Among the good services rendered to the public by yourself and your correspondents, few, I think, will be found more important than that of having drawn their attention to Mr. Wyatt Edgell's valuable suggestions on the transcription of Parochial Registers. The supposed impracticability of his plan has perhaps hitherto deterred those most competent to the work from giving it the consideration which it deserves. I believe the scheme to be perfectly practicable; and, as a first move in the work, I send you the result of my own dealings with the registers of my parish.
It is many years since I felt the desideratum which Mr. Edgell has brought before the public;OTES
