Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853

OUR SHAKSPEARIAN CORRESPONDENCE

Notes

MR. PEPYS AND EAST LONDON TOPOGRAPHY, ETC

PICTS' HOUSES IN ABERDEENSHIRE

FOLK LORE

HERALDIC NOTES

SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE

Minor Notes

Queries

SIR PHILIP WARWICK

SEALS OF THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH

Minor Queries

Minor Queries with Answers

Replies

BOOKS CHAINED TO DESKS IN CHURCHES

EPITAPHS

PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES

"UP, GUARDS, AND AT THEM!"

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY

Отрывок из книги

In "N. & Q." (Vol. i., p. 141.) there appeared an article upon the Isle of Dogs, &c., which spoke of the neglected topography of the east of London, and requested information on one or two points. Having felt much interested in this matter, I have endeavoured to obtain information by personal investigation, and send you the following from among a mass of Notes:—

1. Isle of Dogs. In a map drawn up in 1588 by Robert Adams, engraved in 1738, this name is applied to an islet in the river Thames, still in part existing, at the south-west corner of the peninsula. From this spot the name appears to have extended to the entire marsh.

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2. On the seal of a charter granted by the earl to the monks of Okeburry: a lion rampant crowned. No bordure.

3. On an encaustic tile in the old Singing-school at Worcester: A lion rampant not crowned, with a bordure bezantée. Another tile has the eagle, single-headed, displayed.

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