Vol. V.—No. 132.NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

On Sir Robert Peel, and his Claims to be remembered by the Literary Men of England 433

Sitting in Bede's Chair, by Cuthbert Bede 434

Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson 435

On a Passage in "Measure for Measure," Act I. Sc. 1., by S. W. Singer 435

Folk Lore:—Sites of Buildings mysteriously changed—Burning the Bush—Essex Superstition 436

Old Song, "Not long ago I drank a full Pot" 437

Minor Notes:—Boston and Bunker's Hill—Snooks—Last Slave sold in England—Hoax on Sir Walter Scott 438

Irish Queries 439

Minor Queries:—The Azores—Johnny Crapaud—Poems in the "Spectator"—Old John Harries, "Bishop of Wales"—University Hood—Black Rood in Scotland; Cross Neytz—Crown Jewels once kept at Holt Castle—"Cane Decane," &c.—Rev. John Meekins, D.D.—Finsbury Manor—Frebord—The Stature of Queen Elizabeth—Portrait of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough—Inscription by Luther—"O Juvenis frustra," &c.—All-fours—Richard, second Son of the Conqueror—Francis Walkinghame—Optical Phenomenon 439

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Abraham-men—Author of "Le Blason des Couleurs"—Banyan-day—General Urmston—Works of Alexander Neville—Lindisfarne—Index to the Critical Review—"No great shakes" Translation of Richard de Bury—Life of Ken—Wedding Rings—Monasteries, &c. dissolved—Bishops at the Hampton Court Controversy 442