Notes and Queries
NOTES:-- Roger Bacon, Hints for a New Edition of. 393 Craik's Romance of the Peerage. 394 Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 395 Pope's Revision of Spence, by W.S. Singer. 396 Folk Lore:--Charm for the Toothache--Easter Eggs--Cure for Hooping-cough--Gootet....
_Cure for the Hooping-cough._--"I know," said one of my parishioners, "what would cure him, but m'appen you woudent believe me." "What is it, Mary?" I asked. "Why, I did every t...
3. Chapter 3_Emancipation of the Jews._--In Francis' _History of the Bank of English_, p. 24., mention is made of an offer on the part of the Jews to pay 500,000l. to the state on the follo...
1. Chapter 1NOTES:-- Roger Bacon, Hints for a New Edition of. 393 Craik's Romance of the Peerage. 394 Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault, LL.D. 395 Pope's Revision of Spence, by...
4. Chapter 4_Welsh Ambassador._--The origin of the word "Welsh," from the Saxon "Wealh," a stranger, and the use of it in this sense by our old writers (see Brady's _Introd._, p. 5.: Sir T....