Vol. IV.—No. 113.NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

Historical Coincidences: Barclay andPerkins 497

Remains of King James II. 498

Shetland Folk Lore:—The Wresting Thread—Ringworm—Burn—Elfshot 500

Minor Notes:—Names of Places in Normandy and Orkney 501

Minor Queries:—Meaning of Ploydes—Green-eyed Monster—Perpetual Lamp—Family of Butts—Greek Names of Fishes—Drimmnitavichillichatan—Chalk-back Day—Moravian Hymns—Rural and Urban Deans—Ducks and Drakes—Vincent Kidder—House at Welling—Shropshire, Price of Land—Legal Time 501

MINORQUERIESANSWERED:—Thorns of Dauphine—Inscription at Lyons—Turnpikes 502

General James Wolfe 503

"Flemish Account" 504

Pope and Flatman, byHenry H. Breen 505

Derivation of "London," by Francis Crossley, &c. 505

Replies to Minor Queries:—Legend of the RobinRedbreast—Monk and Cromwell—Souling—Clekit House—Peter Talbot—Races in which Children,&c.—Bacon a Poet—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Share of Presbyters in Ordination—Weever's Funeral Monument—Dial Motto atKarlsbad—Cabal—Rectitudines Singularum Personarum—Stanzas in Childe Harold—The Island and Temple of Ægina—Herschel anticipated—WyleCop—Macfarlane Manuscripts 506

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