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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

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No. 212.

Saturday, November 19. 1853.

Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.


CONTENTS.

Notes:—

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Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century:—No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. "The Trojan Horse"

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Testimonials to Donkeys, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A.

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Longevity in Cleveland, Yorkshire, by William Durrant Cooper

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Rev. Josiah Pullen

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Folk Lore:—Ancient Custom in Warwickshire—Nottinghamshire Customs

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Minor Notes:—A Centenarian Couple—"Veni, vidi, vici"—Autumnal Tints—Variety is pleasing—Rome and the Number Six—Zend Grammar—The Duke's First Victory—Straw Paper—American Epitaph

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Queries:—

Laurie (?) on Currency, &c.

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"Donatus Redivivus"

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Minor Queries:—Henry Scobell—The Court House—Ash-trees attract Lightning—Symbol of Sow, &c.—Passage in Blackwood—Rathband Family—Encaustic Tiles from Caen—Artificial Drainage—Storms at the Death of Great Men—Motto on Wylcotes' Brass—"Trail through the leaden sky," &c.—Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers—Roman Catholic Bible Society

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