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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

Author: Various

Editor: George Bell

Release Date: July 5, 2009 [EBook #29318]

Language: English

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

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No. 81.]
SATURDAY, MAY 17. 1851..
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page

Illustrations of Chaucer, No. VI. 385

Dutch Folk-lore 387

Minor Notes:--Verses in Pope: "Bug" or "Bee"--
Rub-a-dub--Quotations--Minnis--Brighton--Voltaire's
Henriade 387

QUERIES:--
The Blake Family, by Hepworth Dixon 389

Minor Queries:--John Holywood the Mathematician--
Essay on the Irony of Sophocles--Meaning of Mosaic
--Stanedge Pole--Names of the Ferret--Colfabias--
School of the Heart--Milton and the Calves-head
Club--David Rizzio's Signature--Lambert Simnel:
Was this his real Name?--Honor of Clare, Norfolk--
Sponge--Babington's Conspiracy--Family of Sir John
Banks--Meaning of Sewell--Abel represented with
Horns 389

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--The Fifteen O's--Meaning
of Pightle--Inscription on a