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NOTES and QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

FOR

LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

VOL. IV.--No. 96. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30. 1851.

Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4_d._




CONTENTS.

                                                                Page


      The Caxton Memorial and Chaucer's Monument                 145

      NOTES:--

      Collar of SS., by Edward Foss                              147

      Printing                                                   148

      Folk Lore:--Bible Divination in Suffolk--Mode of
      discovering Bodies of the Drowned--Somersetshire Rhyme     148

      Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations                         149

      Minor Notes:--Cocker's Arithmetic--The Duke of
      Normandy--Anachronisms and Errors of Painters--The Ring
      Finger--The Od Force--New Costume for Ladies               149

      QUERIES:--

      Judges styled Reverend, &c.                                151

      Minor Queries:--Frederick Egmont; Peter (Egmont?)--Unlucky
      for Pregnant Women to take on Oath--Cockroach--Felton--Date
      of a Charter--Thomas Tusser the "Husbandman"--Godfrey
      Higgins' Works--Noctes Templariae--Commissioners on Officers
      of Justice in England--Marcus AElius Antoninus--Derivation
      of Pic-nic--Sir Thomas More's Knighthood--Portrait of
      Mandeville--Early History of Dingle--Language of Ancient
      Egypt--Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe--Names first given to
      Parishes--German Testament--The Man of Law--The
      Termination "Ship"--Nullus and Nemo--The noblest Object
      of the Work of Art--Poulster                               151

      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Rev. Caesar de Missy--F. Beaumont
      and Jeremy Taylor--"Carve out Dials"--Log Book--Lord
      Clydesdale--"Time is the Stuff of which Life is
      made"--"Yet forty Days"--The Empress Helena                153

      REPLIES:--

      Royal Library                                              154

      The "Eisell" Controversy                                   155

      Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor                          157

      "House of Yvery"                                           158

      On "Rack" in the Tempest                                   158

      Richard Rolle of Hampole                                   159

      Replies to Minor Queries:--Lady Flora Hastings'
      Bequest--"The Right divine of Kings to govern
      wrong"--Fairlight Church--Dogmatism and Puppyism--Was
      Stella Swift's Sister?--Charles Lamb's Epitaph--Meaning of
      Carnaby--Scandinavian Mythology, &c.                       160

      MISCELLANEOUS:--

      Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                     165

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted                               166

      Notices to Correspondents                                  166

      Advertisements                                             167




THE CAXTON MEMORIAL AND CHAUCER'S MONUMENT.

  The result of the appeals which have recently been made to the
  sympathies of the present age for the purpose of erecting a
  Memorial to our first Printer, and of restoring the crumbling tomb
  of one of our earliest and greatest Poets, has gone near to prove
  that the admirers of Caxton and Chaucer are disposed to yield to
  the objects of their hero-worship little more than lip service. In
  short, the plan for the Caxton Memorial, and that for the
  restoration of Chaucer's Monument, have well nigh failed.

  The projectors of the former had, indeed, in the necessity of
  settling what the Caxton Memorial should be, to encounter, at the
  very outset of their undertaking, one difficulty from