Notes and Queries
NOTES:-- The Author of the "Characteristics" by W.D. Christie. 97 Caxton's Printing office, by R.F. Rimbault. 99 Sanatory Laws in other Days. 99 Folk Lore:--Midsummer Fires. 101 Minor Notes:--Borrowed Thoughts--An Infant Prodigy in 1659--Allusion in Peter Martyr--Hogs not Pigs...
[Footnote 3: This view will no doubt be contested on the authority of Stow, who describes the tonne as a "prison for night-walkers," so called from the form in which it was buil...
1. Chapter 1NOTES:-- The Author of the "Characteristics" by W.D. Christie. 97 Caxton's Printing office, by R.F. Rimbault. 99 Sanatory Laws in other Days. 99 Folk Lore:--Midsummer Fires. 101...
3. Chapter 3_Ogden Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 73.).--Perhaps the representatives of the late Thomas Ogden, Esq., and who was a private banker at Salisbury previous to 1810 (presuming he was a me...
4. Chapter 4_Martello Towers_ (Vol. ii., p. 9.).--A misspelling for _Mortella_ towers. They are named after a tower which commands the entrance to the harbour of St. Fiorenzo, in Corsica; b...