"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 95.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
NOTES:—
The Pendulum Demonstration of the Earth's Rotation 129
Minor Notes:—The Day of the Month—Foreign English—Birds' Care for the Dead—Snake's Antipathy to Fire—Aldgate, London—Erroneous Scripture Quotations 130
QUERIES:—
The Lady Elizabeth Horner or Montgomery 131
Pope and Flatman, by W. Barton 132
Minor Queries:—Southampton Brasses—Borough-English—Passage in St. Bernard—Spenser's Faerie Queene—Broad Halfpenny Down—Roll Pedigree of Howard—Rev. John Paget, of Amsterdam—Visiting Cards—Duke de Berwick and Alva—The Earl of Derwentwater—"But very few have seen the Devil"—Aulus Gellius' Description of a Dimple—Forgotten Authors of the 17th Century 132
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Sundays, on what Days of the Month?—John Lilburne 134
REPLIES:—
"Lay of the Last Minstrel" 134
Meaning of "Prenzie," by Samuel Hickson 135
House of Yvery 136
Queen Brunéhaut 136
Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 137
Cowper or Cooper 137
Replies to Minor Queries:—Voce Populi Halfpenny—Dog's Head in the Pot—"O wearisome Condition of Humanity"—Bunyan and the "Visions of Heaven and Hell"—Pope's Translations of Imitations of Horace—Prophecies of Nostradamus—Thread the Needle—Salmon Fishery in the Thames—Entomological Query—School of the Heart—Fortu