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Title: Notes & Queries, No. 50. Saturday, October 12, 1850
A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.

Author: Various

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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

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CONTENTS

NOTES:--Page

A Note on "Small Words". 305
Gray's Elegy, by Bolton Corney. 306
Gray's Elegy in Portuguese. 306
Further Notes on the Authorship of Henry VIII. 306
Queen Elizabeth and Sir Henry Nevill, by Lord
Braybrooke. 307
Minor Notes:--Whales--Bookbinding--Scott's
Waverley--Satyayrata. 307

QUERIES:--
The Black Rood of Scotland. 308
Minor Queries:--Trogus Pompeius--Mortuary
Stanzas--Laird of Grant--Bastille, Records of,--Orkney
under Norwegians--Swift's Works--Pride of the
Morning--Bishop Durdent and the Staffordshire Historians--Pope and
Bishop Burgess--Daniel's Irish New Testament--Ale Draper--Eugene
Aram--Latin Epigram--Couplet in Defoe--Books
wanted to refer to--Watermarks in
Writing-paper--Puzzling Epitaph--Cornish MSS.--Bilderdijk
the Poet--Egyptian MSS.--Scandinavian
Priesthood--Thomas Volusemus. 309

REPLIES:--
Curfew. 311
Engelmann's Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum. 312
Crozier and Pastoral Staff, by Rev. M. Walcott. 313
Parsons, the Staffordshire Giant, by E.F. Rimbault,
L.L.D. 314
Wormwood Wine, by S.W. Singer, &c. 315
Replies to Minor Queries:--Feltham's Works--Harefinder--Fool
or a Physici