Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 eBook

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Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 74 pages of information about Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850.

    P. 51.  Cowel, Dr., charge against, and defence of his
    Antisanderus. Brit.  Mag. Aug. 1849, p. 184.

    Cranmer, extract from C.C.C.  MS. concerning. Brit.  Mag. Aug.
    1849, p. 169, seq.

    Cranmer, life of, xxxi. 1-3. Brit.  Mag. Aug. 1849, p. 165.

    P. 57.  Convocation, subscribers to the judgment of, xxxi. 9.
    British Magazine, Sept. 1849, p. 317.

    P. 68.  Ely, Altars, suppression of, 1550, xxx. 213. Brit.  Mag.
    Oct. 1849, p. 401.

    P. 77.  Several of the papers relating to Bishop Fisher will be
    found in Dr. Hymers’ edition of The Funeral Sermon on Lady
    Margaret
.

    P. 80.  Gloucester, Abbey of, &c., a Poem by Malvern, v. 285-7.
    Brit.  Mag. xxi. 377.; Caius Coll.  MSS.  No. 391. art 13.

    Goodman, Declaration concerning the articles in his book. 
    Strype’s Annals, I. i. 184.

    P. 89.  Henry VII., Letter to Lady Margaret, xix. 262.  See Dr.
    Hymers, as above, p. 160.

    P. 91.  Henry VIII., Letter to, giving an account of the death of
    Wyngfield, &c.  See Sir H. Ellis, Ser.  III. No. 134.

    P. 94.  Humphrey, Bishop, Account, &c., xxxv. 1-19.  Rend xxvi.
    1-19.

    Humphrey, Bishop, Images and Relics, &c., xxx. 133-4. Brit. 
    Mag.
Sept. 1849, p. 300.

    P. 121-2.  Lady Margaret.  Several of the articles relating to
    Lady Margaret have been printed by Dr. Hymers (ut sup.).

    P. 137.  Pole Card.  Oratio Johannis Stoyks, &c., v. 310-312.  Dr.
    Lamb, p. 177.

    P. 143.  Redman, Dr., Particulars of, xxxii. 495.—­Brit.  Mag.
    Oct. 1849, p. 402.

    P. 151.  Spelman’s Proposition concerning the Saxon Lecture, &c. 
    Sir H. Ellis Letters of Eminent Literary Men, Camd.  Soc.  No.
    59.

    P. 169.  Noy’s Will, xxxvi. 375., read 379.

Many of the articles relating to Cambridge in the MSS. have been printed by Mr. Cooper in his Annals of Cambridge:  some relating to Cromwell are to be found in Mr. Carlyle’s work; and several, besides those which I have named, are contained in Dr. Lamb’s Documents.

J.E.B.  MAYOR.

Marlborough Coll., March 30.

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ARABIC NUMERALS AND CIPHER.

Will you suffer me to add some further remarks on the subject of the Arabic numerals and cipher; as neither the querists nor respondents seem to have duly appreciated the immense importance of the step taken by introducing the use of a cipher.  I would commence with observing, that we know of no people tolerably advanced in civilisation, whose system of notation had made such little progress, beyond that of the mere savage, as the Romans.  The rudest

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