Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851

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and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851, by Various

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23225]
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{217} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 73.] SATURDAY, MARCH 22. 1851. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
Page Suggestions for preserving a Record of Existing Monuments 217
NOTES:-- On the Word "Rack" in Shakspeare's Tempest, by Samuel Hickson 218 Ancient inedited Poems, No. III., by K. R. H. Mackenzie 219 Folk-Lore:--Moths called Souls--Holy Water for Hooping Cough--Daffy Down Dilly 220 Dr. Maitland's Illustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism 220 Minor Notes:--Original Warrant--Gloves--Prince Rupert--Inscription on a Gun--Richard III.--Lines by Pope--Origin of St. Andrew's Cross in relation to Scotland--Snail-eating 220
QUERIES:-- Henry Smith, by T. M'Calmont 222 Minor Queries:--Owen Glendower--Meaning of Gig-Hill-- Sir John Vaughan--Quebecca and his Epitaph--A Monumental Inscription--Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I.--Comets--Natural Daughter of James II.--Going the Whole Hog--Innocent Convicts--The San Grail--Meaning of "Slums"-- Bartolus' "Learned Man Defended and Reformed"-- Odour from the Rainbow--Tradesmen's Signs 222 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Supporters borne by Commoners--Answer to Fisher's Relation--"Drink up Eisell" 224
REPLIES:-- Scandal against Queen Elizabeth 225 The Mistletoe on the Oak, by James Buckman, &c. 226 Universality of the Maxim, "Lavor come se tu," &c., by S. W. Singer 226 Replies to Minor Queries:--Tennyson's In Memoriam-- Bishop Hooper's Godly Confession, &c.--Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland-- Oration against Demosthenes--Borrow's Danish Ballads--Head of the Saviour--Lady Bingham-- Shakespeare's Use of Captious--Tanthony--Lama Beads--"Language given to Men," &c.--Daresbury, the White Chapel of England--Holland Land--Passage in the Tempest--Damasked Linen--Straw Necklaces-- Library of the Church of Westminster, &c. 227
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 230 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 231 Notices to Correspondents 231 Advertisements 231
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SUGGESTIONS FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS.
When, in the opening Number of the present Volume (p. 14), we called the attention of our readers to the Monumentarium of Exeter Cathedral, we expressed a hope that the good services which Mr. Hewett had thereby rendered to all genealogical, antiquarian, and historical inquirers would be so obvious as to lead a number of labourers into the same useful field. That hope bids fair to be fully realised. In Vol. iii., p. 116., we printed a letter from MR. PEACOCK, announcing his intention of copying the inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the Hundred of Manley; and we this week present our readers with three fresh communications upon the subject.
We give precedence to MISS BOCKETT'S, inasmuch as it involves no general proposal upon the subject, but is merely expressive of that lady's willingness, in which we have no doubt she will be followed by many of her countrywomen to help forward the good work.
In your Number for Feb. 15th, I find MR. EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun., of Bottesford Moors, Messingham, Kirton Lindsey, wishes to collect church memorials for work he intends to publish. If he would like the accounts of monuments in the immediate neighbourhood of Reading, as far as I am able it would give me pleasure to send some to him.
JULIA R. BOCKETT.
Southcote Lodge, near Reading.
The second makes us acquainted with a plan for the publication of a Monumenta Anglicana by MR. DUNKIN,--a plan which would have our hearty concurrence and recommendation, if it were at all practicable; but which, it will be seen at a glance, must fail from its very vastness. If the Monumentarium of Exeter contains the material for half a moderate-sized octavo volume, in what number of volumes does MR. DUNKIN propose to complete his collection--even if a want of purchasers of the early volumes did not nip in the bud his praiseworthy and well-intentioned scheme?
Your correspondent MR. EDW. PEACOCK, Jun, may be interested in knowing that a work has some time been projected by my friend Mr. Alfred John Dunkin of Dartford (whose industry and antiquarian learning render him well fitted for the task), under the title of Monumenta Anglicana, and which is intended to be a medium for preserving the inscriptions in every church in the kingdom. There can be