Notes and Queries
NOTES:-- Folk Lore:--The first Mole in Cornwall--"A whistling Wife," &c.--A Charm for Warts--Hanging out the broom. 225 Lord Plunket and St. Agobard. 226 Notes on Cunningham's Handbook of London, By E.F. Rimbault. 227 Notes on Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, by J.E.B. Mayor. 2...
Notwithstanding all this, it appears to be the case that, both in the Norman and English periods, the common people of this country were often wrapped in a sere-cloth after deat...
1. Chapter 1NOTES:-- Folk Lore:--The first Mole in Cornwall--"A whistling Wife," &c.--A Charm for Warts--Hanging out the broom. 225 Lord Plunket and St. Agobard. 226 Notes on Cunningham's H...
2. Chapter 2"There came over as ambassador from France, Jhon Jokyn, now called M. de Vaux, which, as you have heard in the last year, was kept secret in Master Lark's house; and when he cam...
4. Chapter 4_Ben Johnson_ (Vol. ii., p. 167.)--So the name was spelt by most of his contemporaries. The poem mentioned by N.A.B. is printed in the _Underwoods_, Gifford's edition, ix., 68;...