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Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853.
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A GENERAL HISTORY OF ANIMALCULES, with 500 Engravings.
Also, price 8s. 6d.,
MICROGRAPHIA, or Practical Essays on Microscopes.
London: WHITTAKER & CO., Ave Maria Lane.
notes
1
Jack and Gill were measures. "Wherefore," says Grumio, "be the Jacks fair within and the Gills fair without," meaning the leathern jacks clean within, and the metal gills polished without.
2
His character has suffered by antiquarian research, which tells us that the song was made on a Colonel Horner, intrusted by the last Abbot of Wells with a pie, containing the title-deeds of the abbey, which he was to deliver to Henry VIII., and that he abstracted one for his own purposes, whereupon the abbot was hanged.
3
The old name for pancakes. Slap-jacks is their present name in America.
4
The figure which struck the hour, as on the old clocks of St. Dunstan's, and of Carfax in Oxford.
5
Bron-rhuddyn = "breast-burnt," or "breast-scorched."
6
Dr. Jamieson has a note on King David II., brother, in his edition, of Barbour's Bruce; but does not quote the words of the charter so fully as they are here given.—The Bruce and Wallace, 4to., Edin. 1820, vol. i. p. 485.
7
See also p. 315.; and 1819, part i. p. 593.
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