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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 71.] SATURDAY, MARCH 8. 1851. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
On Two Passages in "All's Well that Ends Well," by S. W. Singer 177
George Herbert and the Church of Leighton Bromswold 178
Folk Lore:--Sacramental Wine--"Snail, Snail, come out of your Hole"--Nievie-nick-nack 179
On an Ancient MS. of "Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica" 180
Minor Queries:--The Potter's and Shepherd's Keepsakes-- Writing-paper--Little Casterton (Rutland) Church--The Hippopotamus--Specimens of Foreign English--St. Clare--Dr. Dodd--Hats of Cardinals and Notaries Apostolic--Baron Munchausen's Frozen Horn--Contracted Names of Places 181
Minor Queries:--Was Lord Howard of Effingham a Protestant or a Papist?--Lord Bexley: how descended from Cromwell--Earl of Shaftesbury--Family of Peyton--"La Rose nait en un Moment"--John Collard the Logician--Traherne's Sheriffs of Glamorgan-- Haybands in Seals--Edmund Prideaux, and the First Post-office--William Tell Legend--Arms of Cottons buried in Landwade Church--Sir George Buc's Treatise on the Stage--A Cracowe Pike--St. Thomas of Trunnions--Paper mill near Stevenage-- Mounds, Munts, Mounts--Church Chests--The Cross-bill--Iovanni Volpe--Auriga--To speak in Lutestring--"Lavora, come se tu," &c.--Tomb of Chaucer--Family of Clench 185
Dutch Popular Song-book, by J. H. van Lennep 189
Replies to Minor Queries:--Ulm Manuscript--Harrison's Chronology--Mistletoe on Oaks--Swearing by Swans--Jurare ad caput animalium--Ten Children at a Birth--Richard Standfast--"Jurat, crede minus"-- Rab Surdam--The Scaligers--Lincoln Missal-- By-and-bye--Gregory the Great--True Blue-- Drachmarus--The Brownes of Cowdray, Sussex-- Red Hand--Anticipations of Modern Ideas by Defoe-- Meaning of Waste-book--Deus Justificatus-- Touchstone's Dial--Ring Dials--Cockade--Rudbeck's Atlantica, &c. 191
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 198