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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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

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Vol. V.—No. 138.Saturday, June 19. 1852.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Defoe's Pamphlet on the Septennial Bill, by James Crossley577
Arthur O'Connor579
Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson580
Folk Lore:—Lancashire May-day Custom—Hair cut off, an Antidote—Weather Prophecy—The Oak Tree and the Ash581
The Diphthong "ai"581
Minor Notes:—A Bit o' fine Writin'—Custom of Cranes in Storms—Aldress—How the ancient Irish used to crown their King—One of Junius's Correspondents identified581
Queries:—
Old Music582
Treasury of St. Mark's; Record at Tiberius583
Unicorn583
Flanagan on the Round Towers of Ireland584
Minor Queries:—St. Augustine's Six Treatises on Music—Bishop Merriman—The Escubierto—J. Scandret—Mary Horton—Biblicus on the Apocalypse—Cleopatra playing at Billiards—"Then comes the reckoning"—Giving the Sack—Scotch Provincial Tokens of the Seventeenth Century—Burial of Sir John Moore—Mexican, &c. Grammar—Foundation Stones—Mary Faun—Tonson and the Westminsters584
Minor Queries Answered:—Lady Farewell's Funeral Sermon—Sir E. K. Williams—Order of the Cockle—Waller Family—Life of St. Werburgh—Blindman's Holiday—Ab. Seller—Martin-drunk—Bagster's English Version585
Replies:—
Reply to Mr. Hickson's Objections587
The Term "Milesian," by John D'Alton588
Ben. Jonson's adopted Sons, by C. H. Coope
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