Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853

Notes

A PROPHET

FOLK LORE

POPE AND COWPER

SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE

Minor Notes

Queries

SIR THOMAS BUTTON'S VOYAGE, 1612

Minor Queries

Minor Queries with Answers

Replies

"NAMBY-PAMBY," AND OTHER WORDS OF THE SAME FORM

EARL OF OXFORD

PICTS' HOUSES

PRONUNCIATION OF "HUMBLE."

SCHOOL LIBRARIES

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE

Replies to Minor Queries

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY,

NOTICE

CHEAP RE-ISSUE OF EVELYN'S DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE

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What a curious book would be "Our Prophets and Enthusiasts!" The literary and biographical records of the vaticinators, and the heated spirits who, after working upon the fears of the timid, and exciting the imaginations of the weak, have flitted into oblivion! As a specimen of the odd characters such a work would embrace, allow me to introduce to your readers Thomas Newans, a Shropshire farmer, who unhappily took it into his head that his visit to the lower sphere was on a special mission.

Mr. Newans is the author of a book entitled A Key to the Prophecies of the Old and New Testament; showing (among other impending events) "The approaching Invasion of England;" "The Extirpation of Popery and Mahometisme;" "The Restoration of the Jews," and "The Millennium." London: printed for the Author (who attests the genuineness of my copy by his signature), 1747.

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Bottesford Moors.

Portuguese Folk Lore.—

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