Vol. III.—No. 87.NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

On the proposed Scheme for preserving a Record of Existing Monuments 513

Illustrations of Chaucer, No. IX.: Astronomical Evidence of True Date of Canterbury Pilgrimage 515

Curious Epigrams on Oliver Cromwell, by J. Friswell 515

Folk Lore:—Popular Superstitions in Lancashire—Folk lore in Lancashire—Lancashire Customs—Od—Pigeons 516

Minor Notes:—Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at Trafalgar—Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots—Jonah and the Whale—Anachronisms of Painters 517

Minor Queries:—Rifles—Stanbridge Earls—Montchesni or Muncey Family—Epitaph on Voltaire—Passage in Coleridge's Table Talk—"Men may live Fools, but Fools they cannot die"—Etymology of Bicêtre—Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott—"Suum cuique tribuere," &c. 518

MINOR QUERIESANSWERED:—Organs first put up in Churches—Ignoramus, Comœdia, &c.—Drake's Historia Anglo-Scotica 518

Corpse passing makes a Right of Way, by C. H. Cooper 519

Dozen of Bread; Baker's Dozen, by J. B. Colman 520

Mosaic 521

Replies to Minor Queries:—Prenzie—Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest—Arches of Pelaga—Engraved Warming-pans—St. Pancras—Pallavicino and Count d'Olivarez—Mind your P's and Q's—Banks Family—National Debts—Monte di Pietà—Registry of Dissenting Baptisms—Eisell—English Sapphics—Mints at Norwich—Joseph Nobbs—Voltaire, where situated—Meaning of Pilcher—Catalogues of Coins of Canute—Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway—The First Panorama—Written Sermons—Bogatsky 522

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 526

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 527

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