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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

Author: Various

Editor: George Bell

Release Date: October 12, 2008 [EBook #26899]

Language: English

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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

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

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SATURDAY, MAY 3. 1851.
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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Illustrations of Chaucer, No. V. 345
Foreign English--Guide to Amsterdam 346
Seven Children at a Birth three Times following 347
Ramasshed, Meaning of the Term 347
Authors of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, by E. Hawkins 348
Minor Notes:--Egg and Arrow Ornament--Defoe's
Project for purifying the English Language--Great
Fire of London--Noble or Workhouse Names 349

QUERIES:--
Passages in the New Testament illustrated from Demosthenes 350
The House of Maille 351
Minor Queries:-- Meaning of "eign"--The Bonny
Crayat--What was the Day of the Accession of Richard
the Third?--Lucas Family--Watch of Richard
Whiting--Laurence Howel, the Original Pilgrim--Churchwardens'