Notes and Queries/Series 7/Volume 5/Number 112

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Notes and Queries, Series 7, Volume 5

Number 112

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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1888.

CONTENTS.—№ 112.

NOTES:—Valentine’s Day, 121—John Lilburne, 122—Douce’s ‘Dance of Death,’ 123—Cobbler’s Pedigree—The Florin—Royal Portraits, 124—Baronetcy in Blank—Unemployed Substantives—Practical Jokes in Comedy—Anglo-Hindustani Words, 125—Death of Wolfe—Pepys—Chapter Coffee-House—To Morse, 126.

QUERIES:—The ‘Brussels Gazette’—Monuments in Westminster Abbey—Albemarle Street—Ranken—‘The Cigar’—Hibgame: Thnrlow, 127—Kearney—Balk—Regicides—Old Tune—Joseph Wright—Assarabaca—Mary Blandy—Burleigh House—Coquilles, 128—French Numerals—Spanish Wrecks—Sheriffs—Rempston—Hyde—Dog’s Tooth Ornament, 129.

REPLIES:—Attack on Jersey, 129—Man-of-War ‘Dictionary of National Biography,’ 130—Level-Coil—‘Murray’s Magazine’—Charles—Vismes Family—Sturt’s Illustrations, 131—Toie: Duos le Cross-clothes—Poets’ Corner—Monntjoy—‘Biographical Dictionary of the Stage,’ 132—Baptismal Folklore—Annas—Griming—Smollett—“Fabricavit in feros curiosis,” 133—Thorlakson—Écarté, 134—Car-goose—Sir W. Grant—‘Diversions of Bruxelles’—Laura Matilda, 135—Pountefreit on Thamis—Prayer-Book Version of Psalms—Singing-cakes, 136—Female Sailors—Source of Phrase—Curatage—Glorious First of June, 137—“Sapiens qui assiduus”—Earlings: Early, 138.

NOTES ON BOOKS:—Phillimore’s ‘How to Write the History of a Family’—‘Sussex Archæological Collections’—Hope’s ‘Inventory of the Chnrch Plate in Rutland’—‘Life of Mrs. Abington.’

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