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    Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
    Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
    Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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    Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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      Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. - George Bell

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      Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851

      A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,

      Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

      Author: Various

      Editor: George Bell

      Release Date: September 23, 2011 [EBook #37516]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, JUNE 28, 1851 ***

      Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online

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      Vol. III.—No. 87.

      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

      FOR

      LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

      When found, make a note of.—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

      VOL. III.—No. 87.

      SATURDAY, JUNE 28. 1851.

      Price Threepence.   Stamped Edition 4d.

      CONTENTS.

      On the proposed Scheme for preserving a Record of Existing Monuments 513

      NOTES:—

      Illustrations of Chaucer, No. IX.: Astronomical Evidence of True Date of Canterbury Pilgrimage 515

      Curious Epigrams on Oliver Cromwell, by J. Friswell 515

      Folk Lore:—Popular Superstitions in Lancashire—Folk lore in Lancashire—Lancashire Customs—Od—Pigeons 516

      Minor Notes:—Lord Nelson's Dress and Sword at Trafalgar—Crucifix of Mary Queen of Scots—Jonah and the Whale—Anachronisms of Painters 517

      QUERIES:—

      Minor Queries:—Rifles—Stanbridge Earls—Montchesni or Muncey Family—Epitaph on Voltaire—Passage in Coleridge's Table Talk—Men may live Fools, but Fools they cannot die—Etymology of Bicêtre—Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott—Suum cuique tribuere, &c. 518

      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Organs first put up in Churches—Ignoramus, Comœdia, &c.—Drake's Historia Anglo-Scotica 518

      REPLIES:—

      Corpse passing makes a Right of Way, by C. H. Cooper 519

      Dozen of Bread; Baker's Dozen, by J. B. Colman 520

      Mosaic 521

      Replies to Minor Queries:—Prenzie—Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest—Arches of Pelaga—Engraved Warming-pans—St. Pancras—Pallavicino and Count d'Olivarez—Mind your P's and Q's—Banks Family—National Debts—Monte di Pietà—Registry of Dissenting Baptisms—Eisell—English Sapphics—Mints at Norwich—Joseph Nobbs—Voltaire, where situated—Meaning of Pilcher—Catalogues of Coins of Canute—Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway—The First Panorama—Written Sermons—Bogatsky 522

      MISCELLANEOUS:—

      Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 526

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted 527

      Notices to Correspondents 527

      Advertisements 527

      List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages

      ON THE PROPOSED SCHEME FOR PRESERVING A RECORD OF EXISTING MONUMENTS.

      The following letters, which we have received since we last brought the proposed scheme for preserving a record of existing monuments under the notice of our readers, afford a striking proof how widely the interest in the subject is extending.

      We print them now, partly because the Number of NOTES AND QUERIES now in the reader's hands completes the present volume, and it is desirable that the various communications upon this point should, as far as possible, be found together; and partly because the time is at hand when many of our readers may have the opportunity, during their summer excursions, of following out the plan described by our valued correspondent YORK HERALD in the following letter:—

      References to this subject having appeared in your valuable miscellany, I am unwilling to lose an opportunity it affords me of throwing in my mite of contribution towards the means of preserving monumental inscriptions. It may be better perhaps, to state the humble method I adopt in attempting to rescue from oblivion those memorials of the dead, than to suggest any. I avail myself of occasions, whenever I visit the country, to take notes of monumental inscriptions in churches and other places of sepulture; generally of all within the walls of the sacred edifice, and those of the principal tombs in the surrounding graveyard. Time very often will not allow me to take verbatim copies of inscriptions; so I merely transcribe faithfully every date, genealogical note, and prominent event recorded upon monuments; omitting all circumlocution and mere eulogistical epitaphs. By this means, much time and labour are saved, and much useful and valuable information is secured. I should prefer taking exact copies, or even drawings of the most remarkable monuments; but this would occupy much time, and narrow the means of collecting; and by which I should have lost much that is valuable and interesting; copies, howsoever much they would have been desirable, would not possess the character of legal evidence. Thus, upon mere incidental occasions, I have collected sepulchral memorials from many churches in various parts of the country; and, in some instances, all contained in the village church, and the adjacent burying-ground. I have frequently found also that preserving an account of the relative positions of gravestones is important; especially when groups of family memorials occur in the same locality. I need scarcely add that I preserve memoranda of all armorial insignia found upon tombs and hatchments, forming a collection of arms borne by various families; and whether they stand the test of authority or not, at all events such information is useful.

      What store of information might be obtained, by persons having leisure and inclination to pursue such an object, by the simple means of an ordinary pocket-memorandum-book!

      T

      HOMAS

      W

      ILLIAM

      K

      ING

      .

      Our next communication, from the REV. CANON RAINES, is valuable, as showing that unless some limit is placed to the antiquarian ardour of those who would collect and record every existing monumental inscription, the historical and genealogical inquirer will be embarrassed by a mass of materials in which, like Gratiano's reasons, the two grains of wheat will be hid in two bushels of chaff—a mass, indeed, which, from its extent, would require to be deposited with the Registrar-General, and arranged by the practised hands of his official staff.

      MR. DUNKIN'S proposed record of existing monuments will be, if carried into effect, a very useful contribution to genealogists. Many years since I transcribed all the inscriptions inside the parish church of Rochdale, in Lancashire; but

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