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Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849 by Various
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Queen Elizabeth's Domestic Establishment ................. 41
Register of East Peckham Church, Kent .................... 41
Pawnbrokers' Golden Balls ................................ 42
Lions in the Tower ....................................... 42
Notes on Authors and Books, No. 1, by Belton Corney ...... 42

QUERIES:--
Form of Petition ......................................... 43
Query as to Notes--Greene of Green's Norton .............. 43
Busts of Charles I. and James I.--Ancient Tapestry ....... 43
Origin of the term "Factotum" ............................ 43
Inscriptions on ancient Church Plate ..................... 44

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes of Book-Sales, Catalogues, &c. ..................... 44
Queries still on our List ................................ 45
Books and Odd Volumes wanted ............................. 46
Notices to Correspondents ................................ 46
Advertisements ........................................... 46

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TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND.

I suppose that the history of travelling in this country, from the
Creation to the present time, may be divided into four periods--those
of no coaches, slow coaches, fast coaches, railways. Whether balloons,
or rockets, or some new mode which as yet has no name, because it has
no existence, may come next, I cannot tell, and it is hardly worth
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