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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Author: Various

Editor: George Bell

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page

Notes on Grammont, by G. Steinman Steinman 461
Change of Meaning in Proverbial Expressions, by Thos.
Keightley 464
Extracts from Colchester Corporation Records, by Jas.
Whishaw 464
Convocation in the Reign of George II., by W. Fraser 465
Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple 465
Shakspeare Correspondence, by J. O. Halliwell 466

MINOR NOTES:--Local Rhymes, Kent--Samuel
Pepys's Grammar--Roman Remains--To grab--
Curfew at Sandwich--Ecclesiastical Censure--The
Natural History of Balmoral--Shirt Collars 466

QUERIES:--

"Days of my Youth" 467

MINOR QUERIES:--Randall Minshull and his Cheshire
Collections--Mackey's "Theory of the Earth"--
Birthplace of King Edward V.--Name of Infants--
Geometrical Curiosity--Denison Family--"Came"
--Montmartre--Law of Copyright: Bri