Chapter I: Front Matter

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

FOR

LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

Vol IV.--No. 93. Saturday, August 9. 1851.

Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._

CONTENTS.

Page

NOTES:--

Lady Hopton 97

Notes on Newspapers--The Times, by H. M. Bealby 98

Folk Lore: Devonshire Superstitions 98

Minor Notes:--Curious Inscription--Glass in Windows
formerly not a Fixture--D'Israeli: Pope and Goldsmith 99

QUERIES:--

On a Song in Scott's Pirate--"Fire on the Maintop" 99

Minor Queries:--Was Milton an Anglo-Saxon Scholar?--Tale
of a Tub--Cleopatra's Needle--Pair of Curols--Cowper
Law--Order of Greenwich--House of Yvery--Entomological
Query--Spenser's Portraits--Borrow's Bible in
Spain--Dogmatism and Puppyism--A Saxon Bell-house 100

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Cycle of the Moon--Cocker's
Arithmetic--Sanskrit Elementary Books--Townley MSS.,
&c.--"Man is born to trouble," &c. 102

REPLIES:--

Bellarmin's Monstrous Paradox 103

The Gookins of Kent, by Edward Armstrong 103

Curious Monumental Inscription, by S. W. Singer 105

The late Mr. William Hone, by Douglas Allport 105

Plaids and Tartans 107

The Caxton Memorial, by Bolton Corney 107

Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest, by the Marchioness of Bute 108

Replies to Minor Queries:--Inscription on an old
Board--Churches decorated at Christmas--Royal Library
--Proof a Sword--Dr. Young's "Narcissa"--Circulation
of the Blood--Dr. Elrington's Edition of Ussher--Was Stella
Swift's Sister?--The Mistletoe--Family of Kyme--The Leman
Baronetcy--Cure for Ague 109

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 111

Notices to Correspondents 111

Advertisements 112

Notes.

LADY HOPTON.

I have thought that the following old letter, relative to a family once of some distinction, and especially as describing a very remarkable individual, from whom a multitude of living persons are immediately descended, might be of sufficient interest to occupy a place in "NOTES AND QUERIES." It has never, that I am aware of, been published; but it has long been preserved, amongst similar papers, with the accompanying endorsement:--"Though Mr. Ernle's letter relating to Lady Hopton and her family contains some fabulous accounts, and is in some parts a little unintelligible, yet it may be urged in confirmation of the truth of the several descents therein mentioned. He was the son of Sir John Ernle, and could not but have some general knowledge of his grandmother's relations."

This Mr. Ernle, afterwards knighted, died A.D. 1686.

Sir Arthur Hopton lived at Witham Friary, co. Somerset, and the heroine of this document was, according to the pedigree in Sir R. C. Hoare's _Monastic Remains of Witham_, &c., Rachel, daughter of Edmund Hall of Gretford, co. Lincoln, Esq. The date of Sir Arthur's death is not there given, but he was made a K.B. in 1603.