Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 by Various
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C.B. _Milton, New Edition of_.--I observe in Mr. Mayor's communication (Vol. i. p. 427.), that some one is engaged in editing Milton. May I ask who, and whether the contemplated edition includes prose and poetry? CH. _Barum and Sarum_.--By what theory, rule, or analogy, if any, can the contractions be accounted for of two names so dissimilar, into words terminating so much alike, as those of Salisbury into Sarum--Barnstaple into Barum? S.S.S. _Roman Roads_.--Can you inform me in whose possession is the MS. essay on "Roman Roads," written by the late Dr. Charles Mason, to which I find allusion in a MS. letter of Mr. North's? BURIENSIS. _John Dutton, of Dutton_.--In the Vagrant Act, 17 George II., c. 5., the heir and assigns of John Dutton, of Dutton, co. Chester, deceased, |
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