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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850

Author: Various

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page

The First Paper-mill in England, by Dr. E.F. Rimbault 473
Specimens of Foreign English 474
Folk Lore:--May-dew--Piskies--The Dun Cow--
Lady Godiva--"Can du plera meleor cera" 474
Minor Notes--Circulation of the Blood--Origin of
the Word "Culprit"--Collar of SS.--The Singing of
Swans--Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs--Portraits
of Stevens and Cotton and Bunyan--Sonnet: Attempting
to prove that Black is White--Nicholas
Bretons Fantasticks 475

QUERIES:--
The Wise Men of Gotham 476
Herstmonceux Castle 477
Minor Queries:--Yorkshire Ballads--Ringing a Hand-bell
before a Corpse--Church of St. Savior, Canterbury--
Mock Beggar's Hall--Beatrix Lady Talbot--
English Prize Essays--Rev. Joseph Blanco White--
History of the Inquisition--Lady Deloraine--Speke
Family--Pope's Villa--Armorial Bearings--Passage
From Tennyson--Meaning of "Sauenap"--Hoods
worn by Doctors of the University of Cambridge--
Euclid and Aristotle--Ventriloquism--Fanningus,
the