Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 by Various
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"HAVOCK, _interj_, a word of encouragement to slaughter." _Shakspeare_. "TO HAVOCK, _v. a._, to waste; to destroy; to lay waste." _Spenser_. Jarltzberg. _Schlegel on Church Property in England._--Fr. Schlegel, in his _Philosophy of History_, says, p. 403., "in England and Sweden church property remained inviolate:" what the case may be in Sweden I do not know, but it appears strange that a man of such general knowledge as F. Schlegel should make such an assertion as regards England. S.N. * * * * * QUERIES. P. MATHIEU'S LIFE OF SEJANUS. In a letter from Southey to his friend Bedford, dated Nov. 11, 1821 (_Life and Correspondence_, vol. v. p. 99.), he desires him to inform Gifford that "In a volume of tracts at Lowther, of Charles I.'s time, I found |
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