Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: September 16, 2007 [EBook #22624]
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{353} 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. 52.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
CONTENTS.
Page
NOTES:--
Address to our Friends 353
Shakspeare's Use of the Words "Captious" and "Intenible," by S. W. Singer 354
Oratories of the Nonjurors, by J. Yeowell 354
Hogarth's Illustrations of Hudibras 355
Folk Lore:--Overyssel Superstition--Death-bed Superstitions--Popular Rhyme--Death-bed Mystery--Bradshaw Family 356
Advice to the Editor, and Hints to his Contributors 357
Minor Notes:--Rollin's Ancient History and History of the Arts and Sciences--Jezebel--Clarendon, Oxford Edition of 1815--Macaulay's Country Squire--Miching Mallecho 357
QUERIES:--
The Inquisition: The Bohemian Persecution 358
Minor Queries:--Osnaburg Bishopric--Meaning of "Farlief"--Margaret Dyneley--Tristan d'Acunha--Production of Fire by Friction--Murderer hanged when pardoned--Passage from Burke--Licensing of Books--Le Bon Gendarme 358
REPLIES:--
Tasso translated by Fairfax 359
Ale-Draper--Eugene Aram 360
On the Word "Gradely," by B. H. Kennedy and G. J. Cayley 361
Collar of Esses 362
Replies to Minor Queries:--Symbols of the Evangelists--Becket's Mother--Passage in Lucan--Combs buried with the Dead--The Norfolk Dialect--Conflagration of the Earth--Wraxen 363
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 366
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 367
Notices to Correspondents 367
Advertisements 367
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NOTES.
ADDRESS TO OUR FRIENDS.
We this day publish our fifty-second Number. Every Saturday, for twelve months, have we presented to our subscribers our weekly budget of "NOTES," "QUERIES," and "REPLIES;" and in so doing, we trust, we have accomplished some important ends. We have both amused and instructed the general reader; we have stored up much curious knowledge for the use of future writers; we have procured for scholars now engaged in works of learning and research, many valuable pieces of information which had evaded their own immediate pursuit; and, lastly, in doing all this, we have powerfully helped forward the great cause of literary truth.
In our Prospectus and opening address we made no great promise of what our paper should be. That, we knew, must depend upon how far the medium of intercommunication we had prepared should be approved and adopted by those for whose special use it had been projected. We laid down a literary railway: it remained to be seen whether the world of letters would travel by it. They have done so: we have been especially patronised by first-class passengers, and in such numbers that we were obliged last week to run an extra train.
It is obvious that the use of a paper like "NOTES AND QUERIES" bears a direct proportion to the extent of its circulation. What it aims at doing is, to reach the learning which lies scattered not only throughout every part of our own country, but all over the literary world, and to bring it all to bear upon the pursuits of the scholar; to enable, in short, men of letters all over the world to give a helping hand to one another. To a certain extent, we have accomplished this end. Our last number contains communications not only from all parts of the metropolis, and from almost every county in England, but also from Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and even from Demerara. This looks well. It seems as if we were in a fair way to accomplish our design. But much yet remains to be done. We have recently been told of whole districts in England so benighted as never to have heard of "NOTES AND QUERIES;" and after an interesting question has been discussed for weeks in our columns, we are informed of some one who could have answered it immediately if he had seen it. So long as this is the case the advantage we may confer upon literature and literary men is necessarily imperfect. We do what we can to make known our existence through the customary modes of announcement, and we gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance and encouragement we derive from our brethren of the public press; but we would respectfully solicit {354} the assistance of our friends this particular point. Our purpose is aided, and our usefulness increased by every introduction which can