Notes and Queries Summary

SAMUEL HICKSON St. John’s Wood, Jan. 12. 1850      [We trust our correspondent will favour us with the further      communications he proposes o... Read more

NOTES. Etymology of “Whitsuntide” And “Mass”. Perhaps the following Note and Query on the much-disputed origin of the word Whitsunday, as used in our Liturgy, may find a place ... Read more

NOTES. Riots of London. Seventy years having passed away since the riots of London, there cannot be many living who remember them, and still fewer who were personally in contact with the tumultuous th... Read more

NOTES. Authorship of Henry viii. In my last communication on the subject of Henry VIII., I referred to certain characteristic tricks of Fletcher’s style of frequent occurrence in that play, and ... Read more

NOTES Latin epigram against Luther and Erasmus. Mr. Editor,—­Your correspondent “Roterodamus” (pp. 27, 28) asks, I hope, for the author of the epigram which he quotes, with a vie... Read more

NOTES. Roberd the robber. In the Vision of Piers Ploughman are two remarkable passages in which mention is made of “Roberd the robber,” and of “Roberdes knaves.”   &l... Read more

LORD CHATHAM—­QUEEN CHARLOTTE.     Original Letter, written on the Resignation of Mr. Pitt, in     1761—­Public Feeling on the Subject, and ... Read more

OUR PROGRESS Although very unwilling to encroach upon the enlarged space which we have this week afforded to our numerous and increasing contributors, we may be permitted to refer to the fact of our h... Read more

NOTES. What is the meaning of “Delighted,” As sometimes used by Shakspeare. I wish to call attention to the peculiar use of a word, or rather to a peculiar word, in Shakspeare, which I do ... Read more

OLIVER CROMWELL AS A FEOFFEE OF PARSON’S CHARITY, ELY There is in Ely, where Cromwell for some years resided, an extensive charity known as Parson’s Charity, of which he was a feoffee or g... Read more

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. In two former communications on a subject incidental to that to which I now beg leave to call your attention, I hinted at a result far more important than the discovery of the... Read more

NOTES. The Oldenburg horn. The highly interesting collection of pictures at Combe Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Craven, in Warwickshire, was, for the most part, bequeathed by Elizabeth, Queen of Bohe... Read more

T.H.T Let me refer Mr. P. Cunningham to “Stow’s Survey, p. 27. 92.  Thoms’ Edition,” for a full answer to his query.  The passages are too long to cite, but Mr. C. wi... Read more

NOTES The author of the “Characteristics.” Lord Shaftesbury’s Letters to a young Man at the University, on which Mr. Singer has addressed to you an interesting communication (Vol. ii... Read more

QUERIES. NICHOLAS BRETON’S “CROSSING OF PROVERBS.” Although my query respecting William Basse and his poem, “Great Britain’s Sun’s Set,” (No. 13. p. 200), pro... Read more

NOTES Further notes on derivation of the word “News”. Without being what the Germans would call a purist, I cannot deem it an object of secondary importance to defend the principles of the... Read more

NOTES Shakspeare and Marlowe. A special use of, a use, indeed, that gives a special value to your publication, is the communication through its means of facts and conclusions for the information or as... Read more

NOTES. Sir William Gascoigne. Although you and I no doubt unite in the admiration, which all our fellow-countrymen profess, and some of them feel, for our immortal bard, yet I do not think that our ze... Read more