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    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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      Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. - Various Various

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      Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851

             A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,

                    Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.

      Author: Various

      Editor: George Bell

      Release Date: September 27, 2011 [EBook #37548]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, VOL. IV ***

      Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online

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      VOLUME FOURTH.

      JULY—DECEMBER, 1851.

      Vol. IV.—No. 88.

      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

      FOR

      LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

      When found, make a note of.—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

      VOL. IV.—No. 88.

      SATURDAY, JULY 5. 1851.

      Price Threepence.   Stamped Edition 4d.

      CONTENTS.

      Our Fourth Volume 1

      NOTES:—

      The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books, by Sir F. Madden 1

      Folk Lore:—Stanton Drew and its Tradition, by David Stevens 3

      Minor Notes:—The Hon. Spencer Perceval—An Adventurer in 1632—Almanacs 4

      QUERIES:—

      Ghost Stories, by the Rev. Dr. Maitland 5

      A Book of Enzinas, or Dryander, wanted, by Benjamin B. Wiffen 5

      Salting the Bodies of the Dead, by W. B. MacCabe 6

      Minor Queries:—The Star in the East—Meaning of Sinage: Distord: Slander—Miss—Jacques Mabiotte—Registry of British Subjects abroad—Shawls—Figures of Saints—Conceyted Letters, who wrote?—Acta Sanctorum—Pope's honest Factor—Meaning of Nervous—Doomsday Book of Scotland 6

      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Dr. Sacheverell—Princess Wilbrahama—Early Visitations 8

      REPLIES:—

      Written Sermons, by J. Bruce, &c. 8

      Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 9

      Dr. Elrington's Edition of Ussher's Works, by the Rev. Dr. Todd 10

      Replies to Minor Queries:—Mind your P's and Q's— Serius Seriadesque—Catharine Barton—Alterius Orbis Papa—Charles Dodd—Prenzie—In Print —Introduction of Reptiles into Ireland—Ancient Wood Engraving of the Picture of Cebes—The Groves of Blarney—Tennyson's Lord of Burleigh —Bicêtre—On a Passage in Dryden—Derivation of Yankee—Ferrante Pallavicino 11

      MISCELLANEOUS:—

      Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 13

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted 14

      Notices to Correspondents 14

      Advertisements 15

      List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages

      OUR FOURTH VOLUME.

      We cannot permit the present Number, which commences the Fourth Volume of NOTES AND QUERIES, to come into the hands of our Readers without some few words of acknowledgment and thanks to those Friends, Readers, and Correspondents, whose kind encouragement and assistance have raised our paper to its present high position;—

      "and thanks to men

      Of noble mind, is honorable meed."

      To those thanks we will add our promise, that no effort shall be wanting to carry on this paper in the same spirit in which it was commenced, and to add, if possible, to its utility and interest. And by way of setting an example to our correspondents—

      "every word to spare

      That wants of force, or light, or weight or care"—

      we will, with these thanks and this promise, bid our friends fall to on the Banquet of Pleasant Inventions spread out for them in the following pages.

      Notes.

      THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH'S POCKET-BOOKS.

      In NOTES AND QUERIES (Vol. i., p. 198.) is inserted from Chambers' Edinburgh Journal an account of a manuscript volume said to have been found on the person of the Duke of Monmouth at the time of his arrest; which was exhibited by Dr. Anster at a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, November 30, 1849, accompanied by some remarks, which appeared in the Proceedings of the Academy, vol. iv. p. 411., and which furnish the substance of the article in Chambers above mentioned. In a subsequent number of the NOTES AND QUERIES (Vol. i., p. 397.), the authenticity of the volume is somewhat called in question by MR. C. ROSS, on account of certain historical entries not appearing in it, which are printed by Welwood in his Memoirs[1], and stated to have been copied by him from a little pocket-book which was taken with Monmouth, and afterwards delivered to the King. Dr. Anster replied to this in the Dublin University Magazine for June, 1850 (vol. xxxv. p. 673.), and showed by references to the Harleian Miscellany (vol. vi. p. 322., ed. 1810), and Sir John Reresby's Memoirs (p. 121. 4to., 1734), that more than one book was found on the Duke of Monmouth's person when captured. In the former of these authorities, entitled An Account of the Manner of taking the late Duke of Monmouth: by his Majesty's command, printed in 1685, and perhaps compiled from information given by the king himself, the following statement is made:—

      "The papers and books that were found on him are since delivered to his Majesty. One of the books was a manuscript of spells, charms, and conjurations, songs, receipts, and prayers, all written with the said late Duke's own hand. Two others were manuscripts of fortification and the military art. And a fourth book, fairly written, wherein are computes of the yearly expense of his Majesty's navy and land forces."

      [1] Query, what is the date of the first edition of Welwood's work? The earliest in the Museum library is the third edition, printed in 1700.

      It is remarkable that the pocket-book mentioned by Welwood is not here specified, but it is possible that the entries quoted by him may have been written on the pages of one of the other books. Two of the above only are noticed by Mr. Macaulay, namely, a small treatise on fortification, and an album filled with songs, receipts, prayers, and charms; and there can be no reasonable doubt that the latter, which is mentioned by the author of the tract in the Harleian Miscellany,

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