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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850

Author: Various

Release Date: August 1, 2005 [EBook #16409]

Language: English

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Alfred's Geography of Europe, by S.W. Singer 313
The First Coffee Houses in England, by E.F.
Rimbault, LL.D. 314
True Tragedy of Richard III. 315
Folk-Lore--Merry Lwyd--Deathbed Superstition 315
Passage in L'Allegro--Milton's Minor Poems 315
Doctor Dobbs--Golden Age of Magazines 316
Use of Beaver Hats in England, by E.F.
Rimbault, LL.D. 317
Extracts from Old Records, by R. Cole 317

QUERIES:--
Queries on Outline 318
Christ's Hospital--Old Songs once popular there 318
Watching the Sepulchre, &c. 318
Minor Queries:--Conrad of Salisbury--Peruse or
Pervise--Cromlech--Meaning of Grummett--Vertue's
MSS.--Loscop--Ormonde House--As Morse caught
the Mare--Dustpot, Forthlot--Tracts attributed to
Eachard--Queen of Hearts--Guildhalls--Vox
Populi--Use of Coffins--Rococo--Howlet the
Engraver--The Bear, &c. 319

REPLIES:--
Letter attributed to Sir R. Walpole 321
College Salting 321
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