Vol. IV.—No. 94.NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

Traditions from remote Periods through few Hands113

Minor notes:—Nelson's Coat—Strange Reason for keeping a Public-house—Superstitions with regard to Glastonbury Thorn—dash;The miraculous Walnut-tree at Glastonbury—The Three Estates of the Realm114

Bensleys of Norwich115

Minor Queries:—Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge Castle—English Translation of Nonnus—Of Prayer in One Tongue—Inscription in Ely Cathedral—Cervantes: what was the Date of his Death?—Meaning of "Agla"—Murderers buried in Cross Roads—Wyle Cop—The Devil's Knell—Queries on Poem of Richard Rolle—Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of Cromwell?—English Translation of Alcon115

John Bodley, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault and R. J. King117

Wither's "Hallelujah"118

First Panorama118

John a Kent119

The British Sidanen120

Petty Cury120

The Word "Rack" in the Tempest.—The Nebular Theory121

Replies to Minor Queries:—Pseudo MSS.: The Devil, Cromwell and his Amours—Anonymous Ravennas—Margaret Maultasch—Pope's Translation or Imitations of Horace—Brother Jonathan—Cromwell's Grants of Land in Monaghan—Stanedge Pole—Baskerville the Printer—Inscription on a Claymore—Burton Family—Notation by Coalwhippers—Statue of Charles II.—Serius, where situated?—Corpse passing makes a Right of Way—The Petworth Register—Holland's "Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. Pauli"—Mistake as to an Eclipse—"A Posie of other Men's Flowers," &c.122

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.126

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