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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Author: Various

Editor: George Bell

Release Date: January 21, 2007 [EBook #20410]

Language: English

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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. 187.]
Saturday, May 28, 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
On Chaucer's Knowledge of Italian 517
The Rebellion of '45: unpublished Letter 519
Oliver St. John, by James Crossley 520
Notes on several misunderstood Words, by the Rev.
W. R. Arrowsmith 520
FOLK LORE:--Weather Rules--Drills presaging Death
--Superstition in Devonshire; Valentine's Day 522
A Note on Gulliver's Travels, by C. Forbes 522
Shakspeare Correspondence 523
The Coenaculum of Lionardo da Vinci, by E. Smirke 524
MINOR NOTES:--Scotter Register (County Lincoln)--
"All my Eye:" "Over the Left"--Curious Marriages
--Child-mother 525

QUERIES:--
Further Queries respecting Bishop Ken 526
The Rev. John Larson and his Mathematical Manuscripts,