Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 by Various
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QUERIES:
P. Mathieu's Life of Sejanus 215 The Antiquity of Smoking 216 Sir Gregory Norton, Bart. 216 Minor Queries:--City Offices--Meaning of Harefinder--Saffron-bag--Bishop Berkley's successful Experiments--Unknown Portrait--Custom of selling Wives--Hepburn Crest and Motto--Concolinel--"One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church"--The Norfolk Dialect--Sir John Perrot--"Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi" 216 REPLIES: Derivation of "News" 218 Replies to Minor Queries:--Swords worn in Public--Quarles' Pension--Franz von Sickingen--"Noll me tangere"--Dr. Bowring's Translations--Countess of Desmond--Yorkshire Dales--Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs--Alarum--Practice of Scalping among the Scythian's--Gospel Tree--Martinet--"Yote" or "Yeot"--Map of London--Woodcarving, Snow Hill--Waltheof--The Dodo--"Under the Rose"--Ergh, Er, or Argh--Royal Supporters--The Frog and the Crow of Ennow 218 MISCELLANEOUS: Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 222 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 223 Notices to Correspondents 223 Advertisements 223 |
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