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EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NO. 31 ***
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NOTES AND QUERIES
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS,
ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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+"When found, make a note of."+--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 31.] Saturday, June 1. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:--
Parish Registers--Statistics 1
The Hudibrastic Verse, by S.W. Singer 3
Custom of presenting Gloves, by Jas. Crosby 4
Folk Lore: Exhumation of Body ominous to Family
of the Deceased--Suffolk Folk Lore--Cure for Fits--Bible and Key 4
Notes on Jeremy Taylor's Life of Christ, &c., by J.E.B. Mayor 5
Unpublished Epigrams in the British Museum 6
On Authors and Books, No. 7., by Bolton Corney 6
QUERIES:--
Punishment of Death by Burning 6
Cornelis Drebble 6
Verses attributed to Charles Yorke 7
Cultivation of Geometry in Lancashire 8
Asinorum Sepultura by W.B. MacCabe 8
Minor Queries:--Ransom of an English Nobleman--When
does Easter end?--Carucate of Land--Members
for Calais--Members for Durham--Leicester
and the reputed Poisoners of his Time--Lord John
Townshend's Poetical Works--Martello
Towers--Mynyddyslwyn--Three Dukes--Bishops and their
Precedence--Guineas--Parish Registers Tax--Charade 9
REPLIES:--
Howkey or Horkey, by S.
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