Notes and Queries
MINOR QUERIES:--Admiral Hopson--"Three cats sat," &c.-- Herbert's "Church Porch"--Ancient Tenure of Lands-- Dramatic Works--Devreux Bowly--"Corruptio optimi," &c. --Lamenther--Sheriff of Somersetshire in 1765--Edward Brerewood--Elizabeth Seymour--Longfellow--Fresick and Freswi...
Consulting Chernoch's _Lives of the Admirals_, I find mention of Admiral Sir Thomas Hopson, a native of Bonchurch; who ran away from his parents, and did not return to his home...
4. Part 4"A ball from their infantry went through my jacket, Took the skin off my side, and made me racket. My sword-belt turned it, otherwise through it must have gone. The stroke was v...
5. Part 5Any free nitric acid in the nitrate of silver can be detected by the smell. The crystals can be freed from {182} it, should they contain any, by fusing them in a porcelain cruci...
2. Part 237. Probatur Bedellum Academicum vero et genuino sensu esse quartum Prædicabile; quippe qui comes adsit Vice-Cancellario omni soli et semper. Doctissimus tamen Higgenbrockius Di...
1. Part 1MINOR QUERIES:--Admiral Hopson--"Three cats sat," &c.-- Herbert's "Church Porch"--Ancient Tenure of Lands-- Dramatic Works--Devreux Bowly--"Corruptio optimi," &c. --Lamenther--S...
6. Part 6_Children by one Mother_ (Vol. v., p. 126.).--In reply to the Query, "If there be any well-authenticated instance of a woman having had more than twenty-five children," I can fu...