Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853

Notes

NOTES ON GRAMMONT

CHANGE OF MEANING IN PROVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS

EXTRACTS FROM COLCHESTER CORPORATION RECORDS

CONVOCATION IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE II

PARALLEL PASSAGES

SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE

Minor Notes

Queries

"DAYS OF MY YOUTH."

Minor Queries

Minor Queries with Answers

Replies

MILTON'S WIDOW

OATHS

COMMINATORY INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS

LIVERIES WORN, AND MENIAL SERVICES PERFORMED, BY GENTLEMEN

FEMALE PARISH CLERKS

POETICAL EPITHETS OF THE NIGHTINGALE

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY

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Agreeing with Mr. Peter Cunningham (vide History of Nell Gwyn), that a new edition of Grammont is much wanted, I beg to avail myself of your pages, and to offer a few remarks and notes which I have made in reference to that very entertaining work for the consideration of a future annotator.

Of the several maids of honour mentioned therein I will begin with those of the queen. They are Miss Stewart, Miss "Warminster," Miss Bellenden, Miss Bardon, Miss de la Garde, Miss Wells, Miss Livingston, Miss Fielding, and Miss Boynton.

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The following curious extract from one of the Heber MSS. at Hodnet has been kindly furnished me by Charles Cholmondeley, Esq., of the Ivy House, Wisbeach, co. Cambridge, to whom the MS. belongs:

It is not certain whether it is to "Mistris Kirke," Lady Vernon's mother, that Charles I. refers in his letter addressed to Colonel Whaley on the day of his escape from Hampton Court, November 11, 1647, but it is very likely to have been so. There was a Mistress (Anne) Kirke, sworn in a dresser to Queen Henrietta Maria in Easter week, 1637 (vide Strafford Papers, vol. ii. p. 73.), whose full-length portrait by Vandyke has been frequently engraved, by Browne, Garwood, Hollar, Beckett, &c.; and this lady may be the "Mrs. Anne Kirke, unfortunately drowned near London Bridge," who was buried in Westminster Abbey, July 9, 1641.

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