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Title: Notes & Queries, No. 26. Saturday, April 27, 1850
A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.

Author: Various

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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
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No. 26.] SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:--
Nicholas Breton, by the Rev. T. Corser. 409
Notes upon Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault,
LL.D. 410
Notes on the Dodo, by H.E. Strickland. 410
Derivation of "Sterling" and "Penny." 411
Hanno's Periplus, by S.W. Singer. 412
Folk Lore:--Cook-eels--Divination by Bible and Key--Weather
Proverb. 412
Bibliographical Notes, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 413
Pope, Petronius, and his Translators, by A. Rich, Jun. 414

QUERIES:--
When were Umbrellas introduced into England? by
E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 414
Minor Queries:--Duke of Marlborough--"M. or N."--Song
of the Bees--William Godwin--Regimental
Badges--Mother of Thomas a Becket--Swords worn
in public--Emblem and National Motto of Ireland--Latin
Distich--Verbum Graecum--Pope Felix--"Where England's
Monarch." 415

REPLIES:--
Gray's Alcaic Ode. 416
Replies to Minor Queries:--Chapels--Beaver--Poins
and Bardolph--God tempers the Wind--Sterne's
Koran--Lollius--Bishop Ryder--Brown Study--Seven
Champions--Tempora mutantur, &c.--Vox Populi Vox
Dei--Cuckoo--Ancient Tiles--Daysman--Safeguard--Finkel--Gourders
of Rain--Urbanus Regius--Horns--_The_ or _A_ Temple--Ecclestiastical