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Title: Notes and Queries 1850.03.23

Author: Various

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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.

No. 21.] Saturday, March 23. 1850.
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.

CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Early Statistics--Chart, Kent 329
"Bis dat qui cito dat" 330
Parallel Passages 330
Errors corrected 331
Direct and Indirect Etymology 331
Error in Pope's Homer's Odyssey 331
Proverbial Sayings and their Origins, &c. 332

QUERIES:--
"The Supper of the Lorde" 332
What is a Chapel, by Rev. A. Gatty 333
Who translated the "Turkish Spy," by E.F. Rimbault, L.L.D. 334
Philalethes Cestriensis--Stephens' Sermons 334
Minor Queries:--Smelling of the Lamp--Gourders of Rain--The
Temple--Family of Steward, of Bristol--Paying through the
Nose--Memoirs of an American Lady--Bernicia--John Bull 335

REPLIES:--
Letter attributed to Sir R. Walpole, by Lord Braybrooke 336
Portraits of Ulrich of Hutten 336
Change of Names 337
Queries answered, No. 6., by Bolton Corney 337
Beaver Hats 338
Replies to Minor Queries:--Anecdote of the Civil Wars--Mousetrap
Dante--Cromwell's Estates--Genealogy of European Sovereigns--
Shipster--Kentish Ballad--Bess of Hardwick--Trophee--Emerald--
Ancient Motto: Barnacles--Tureen--Hudibrastic Couplet--Dr. Hugh
Todd's MSS. 338

MISCELLANIES:--
Burnet--Translation from Vinny Bourne--Prince Madoc--Mistake in
Gibbon--Jew's Harp--Havior, &c. 341

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 342
Notices to Correspondents 343
Advertisements 343

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EARLY STATISTICS.--CHART, KENT.

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