Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries, Number 223, February 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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and Medway came "Yar, soft washing Norwitch walls;" and farther on, that he brought with him a present of fish for the banquet called _ruffins_, "whose like none else could show." Was this description of fish peculiar to the Yare? and is there any record of its having been est...

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and Medway came "Yar, soft washing Norwitch walls;" and farther on, that he brought with him a present of fish for the banquet called _ruffins_, "whose like none else could show...