Notes and Queries, No. 181, April 16, 1853

and Queries, No. 181, April 16, 1853, by Various

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Title: Notes and Queries, No. 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21445]
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{373} 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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No. 181.] SATURDAY, APRIL 16. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page "The Shepherd of Banbury's Weather-Rules," by W. B. Rye 373 Notes on several misunderstood Words, by the Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith 375 Lord Coke 376 Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, &c. 377
MINOR NOTES:--Alleged Cure for Hydrophobia--Epitaph at Mickleton--Charade attributed to Sheridan-- Suggested Reprint of Hearne--Suggestions of Books worthy of being reprinted--Epigram all the Way from Belgium--Derivation of "Canada"--Railway Signals --A Centenarian Trading Vessel 379 QUERIES:-- Bishop Ken 380 MINOR QUERIES:--Canute's Reproof to his Courtiers --The Sign of the Cross in the Greek Church--Rev. Richard Midgley, Vicar of Rochdale, temp. Eliz.-- Huet's Navigations of Solomon--Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1781--Tree of the Thousand Images--De Burgh Family--Witchcraft Sermons at Huntingdon-- Consort--Creole--Shearman Family--Traitors' Ford --"Your most obedient humble Servant"--Version of a Proverb--Ellis Walker--"The Northerne Castle" --Prayer-Book in French--"Navita Erythr?um," &c. --Edmund Burke--Plan of London--Minchin 380
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Leapor's "Unhappy Father"--Meaning of "the Litten" or "Litton" --St. James' Market House 382
REPLIES:-- Grub Street Journal, by James Crossley 383 Stone Pillar Worship 383 Autographs in Books 384 Grindle 384 Roger Outlawe, by Dr. J. H. Todd, &c. 385 Prospectus to Cibber's "Lives of the Poets," by James Crossley 386 Pic-nic, by John Anthony, M.D., and Henry H. Breen 387 Peter Sterry and Jeremiah White, by James Crossley 388
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Colouring Collodion Portraits--On some Points in the Collodion Process--Economical Iodizing Process 388
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Bishop Juxon's Account of Vendible Books in England--Dutensiana--Vicars-Apostolic --Tombstone in Churchyard--"Her face is like," &c.--Annuellarius--Ship's Painter--True Blue --"Quod fuit esse"--Subterranean Bells--Spontaneous Combustion--Muffs worn by Gentlemen-- Crescent--The Author of "The Family Journal"-- Parochial Libraries--Sidney as a Christian Name-- "Rather"--Lady High Sheriff--Nugget--Epigrams --Editions of the Prayer-Book--Portrait of Pope-- Passage in Coleridge--Lowbell--Burn at Croydon 390
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 394 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 394 Notices to Correspondents 394 Advertisements 395
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NOTES.
"THE SHEPHERD OF BANBURY'S WEATHER-RULES."
The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to judge of the Changes of the Weather, first printed in 1670, was long a favourite book with the country gentleman, the farmer, and the peasant. They were accustomed to regard it with the consideration and confidence which were due to the authority of so experienced a master of the art of prognostication, and dismissing every sceptical thought, received his maxims with the same implicit faith as led them to believe that if their cat chanced to wash her face, rainy weather would be the certain and inevitable result. Moreover, this valuable little manual instructed them how to keep their horses, sheep, and oxen sound, and prescribed cures for them when distempered. No wonder, then, if it has passed through many editions. Yet it has been invariably stated that The Banbury Shepherd in fact had no existence; was purely an imaginary creation; and that the work which passes under his name, "John Claridge," was written by Dr. John Campbell, the Scottish historian, who died in 1775. The statements made in connexion with this book are curious enough; and it is with a view of placing the matter in a clear and correct light that I now trouble you with a Note, which will, I hope, tend to restore to this poor weather-wise old shepherd his long-lost rank and station among the rural authors of England.
I believe that the source of the error is to be traced to the second edition of the Biographia Britannica, in a memoir of Dr. Campbell by Kippis, in which, when enumerating the works of the learned