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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

Author: Various

Other: George Bell

Release Date: February 28, 2009 [EBook #28214]

Language: English

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{413} 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. 236.]
SATURDAY, MAY 6. 1854.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
An Encyclopaedia of Ventilation, by Bolton Corney 415
The House of Russell, or Du Rozel, by John Macray 416
Ferdinand Charles III., Duke of Parma 417
Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta,
by William Winthrop 417

MINOR NOTES:--Whipping a Lady--Mother of Thirty
Children--"Ought" and "Aught"--Walton--Salutations--
Good Times for Equity Suitors--The Emperor of Russia
and the Order of the Garter 419

QUERIES:--
Sir Henry Wotton's Verses, "The Character of a Happy
Life," by John Macray 420

MINOR QUERIES:--Plants and Flowers--Quotations
wanted--Griffith, William, Bishop of Ossory--
"Cowperiana"--John Keats's Poems--Holland--Armorial--
Stoke and Upton--Slavery in England--"Go to Bath"--
Mummy Chests--The Blechenden Family--Francklyn
Household Book--Lord R