Dr. Owen's Works (Vol. i., p. 276.).-The editor of the Works of John Owen is informed, that in the valuable library of George Offor, Esq., of Hackney, will be found a thick volume in manuscript of unpublished Sermons on the Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah, in the Doctor's own hand-writing, and apparently prepared for publication. The same library also contains two scarce pieces by Dr. Owen, which it is thought have never been reprinted: 1. The Stedfastness of Promises, and the Sinfulness of Staggering, opened in a sermon preached at Margaret's, in Westminster, before the Parliament, Feb. 28, 1649, being a Day set apart for Solemn Humiliation throughout the Nation. By John Owen, Minister of the Gospel. London, 1650. 4to. pp. 54.-2. God's Work in Founding Zion, and his People's Duty thereupon. A Sermon preached in the Abbey Church at Westminster, at the opening of the Parliament, Sept. 17, 1656. By John Owen, a Servant of Jesus Christ in the Work of the Gospel. Oxford, 1656. 4to. pp. 48. J. Y. Hoxton. Bactrian Coins (Vol. iii., p. 353.).-Has your correspondent read the book by Masson On the Coins, &c. of Affghanistan, published by Professor H. H. Wilson ? There are also references to authorities in Humphreys On Ancient Coins and Medals. C. B. Bactria.-BLOWEN will find some trustworthy information respecting Bactria in Professor Lassen's Indische Alterthumskunde, Zweiter Band, pp. 277. et seq. Bonn, 1849; and a list of authorities on the Græco-Bactrian coins in the same work, pp. 282. 283. (notes). C. H. Baldrocks (Vol. iii., p. 328.).-On looking over a vestry book belonging to South Lynn in this town, commencing at 1605, and ending in 1677, I find some Churchwardens' Accounts, and amongst them the two following entries, which may, I trust, assist "A CHURCHWARDEN," and lead to an elucidation of this word: "1610. "Janua. 17. ffor a balledrick to y great Bell, xxid. ❝1618. "Novemb. 22. Item. for mendine of y• baldericke for y' foore bell, vjd.” From these entries it seems that the "baldrock" was something attached to the great bell. In most of the recent English Dictionaries the word is applied to furniture, and to a belt or girdle. But in a Latin Dictionary published at Cambridge in 1693, I find in the Anglo-Latin part the following: English. A bawdrick of a bell clapper. it) to be "pieces of leather," or "thongs of leather" to the bell clapper, but for what purpose used I do not know. JOHN NURSE CHADWICK. P.S. The word "corrigia" is taken from the word "corium,” a skin of leather. [Were not these leather coverings?that for the rope, to prevent its cutting the ringer's hands (as we constantly see), and also to prevent his hand slipping; and that for the clapper, to muffle it — straps of leather girded round them.] Tu Autem (Vol. iii., pp. 265. 308.). The "Tu Autem," still remembered at Oxford and Cambridge, and yet lingering at the public dinners of the canons of Durham, is the last fragment of what was once a daily, or at least an almost daily, religious form or service at those ancient places; and it is rather strange that such a fragment should have remained so long in the collegiate and cathedral refectory without having preserved any remembrance of its real origin and meaning. If Bishop Hendren or Father Holdfast would forego their favourite pursuits for a few minutes, and look into your interesting and improving miscellany, they might inform you that in the Romish Breviary-which, no doubt, has preserved many ancient religious services - there is a form entitled Benedictio mensæ. As the generality of your readers may not have the Breviary suffice for the present purpose. at hand, I send you so much of the service as may "Sacerdos incipit. Confiteantur tibi Domine omnia opera tua. Et Sancti tui benedicant tibi. Gloria Patri, &c. "Posted Sacerdos absolutè dicat: Agimus tibi gratias, omnipotens Deus, pro universis beneficiis tuis, &c. "Deinde alternatim dicitur Psalmus. Miserere mei Deus. "Vel Psalmus 116." (in our version, 117.), &c. &c. &c. The service then proceeds with very much repetition. The performance of the whole would probably occupy twenty minutes. I must note that there are variations in the service depending upon the season, &c. &c. I have indicated the rubric of the Breviary by Italics. J. YALC. Preston, Lanc. Commoner marrying a Peeress (Vol. ii., p.230.). -Your correspondent L. R. N. inquires whether there is any decision subsequent to that in the reign of Henry VIII. on the claim to the Taylboys barony, respecting the right of a Commoner marrying a peeress to assume her title and dignity, he having issue male by her. In reply I beg to inform him that there appears to have been one on the claim of Richard Bertie, in 1580, to the Barony of Willoughby, in right of his wife Catherine Duchess of Suffolk, as tenant by the curtesy, which was rejected, and Peregrine Bertie her son was admitted in the lifetime of his father. It seems, however, from the want of modern instances, as also by the elevation of ladies to the rank of peeresses, with remainders to their children, thus enabling the issue to sit in the lifetime of the father, that the prevailing notion is against curtesy in titles of honour. This subject will be found treated at some length in Cruise's Digest, vol. iii. pp. 187, 188. 198. ed. 1818. O. S. Ancient Wood Engraving (Vol. iii., p. 277.). The subject of THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT'S question is an engraving of the "Pinax" of Cebes, a Theban philosopher, who wrote circa A. M. 3600, and who, in his allegorical work of that name, described human life under the guise of a picture. This information is for the HERMIT's especial benefit, as I suppose it will be old news to most of your correspondents. I have an old Dutch edition of the "Pinax" (Gerard de Jager, 1683), bound in vellum, with the Enchiridion and other works of Epictetus; the frontispiece of which is the fellow to the HERMIT's engraving. F. I. Bradford. Vegetating Insects (Vol. iii., p. 166.). As the Query of MR. MANLEY in No. 70. has not been answered, I beg to say that Vegetating Insects are not uncommon both in New South Wales and New Zealand. The insect is the caterpillar of a large brown moth, and in New South Wales is sometimes found six inches long, buried in the ground, and the plant above ground about the same length: the top, expanded like a flower, has a brown velvety texture. In New Zealand the plant is different, being a single stem from six to ten inches high: its apex, when in a state of fructification, resembles the club-headed bulrush in miniature. When newly dug up, and divided longitudinally, the intestinal canal is distinctly visible, and frequently the hairs, legs, and mandibles. Vegetation invariably proceeds from the nape of the neck; from which it may be inferred, that the insect, in crawling to the place where it inhumes itself, prior to its metamorphosis, while burrowing in the light vegetable soil, gets some of the minute seeds of the fungus between the scales of its neck, from which in its sickening state it is unable to free itself, and which consequently, being nourished by the warmth and moisture of the insect's body then lying motionless, vegetates, and not only impedes the process of change in the chrysalis, but likewise occasions the death of the insect. The New South Wales specimen is called "Sphæria Innominata," that of New Zealand 'Sphæria Robertsii ; " both named, I believe, by Sir W. J. Hooker. In some specimens of the New Zealand kind now before me, the bodies of the insects are in their normal state, but the legs, &c., N. E. R. inquires whether this prayer found a Prayer at the Healing (Vol. iii., p. 352.).place in the prayer-books printed at Oxford or Cambridge. I have it before me in the folio Book of Common Prayer, "Oxford, printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and to the University, MDCCXV." It is placed between the form of prayer for Aug. 1. (the King's Accession) and the King's Declaration preceding the Articles. This form differs from that given by Sparrow, in his Collection, edit. 1684, p. 165., as follows:Sparrow gives two Gospels: Mark, xvi. 14., St. John, i. I., the imposition of the King's hands taking place at the words "they shall lay," &c. in the reading of the first, and the gold being placed at reading the words that light" in the second. In Baskett's form, the first Gospel only is used, with the collect" Prevent us, O Lord," before it. In Baskett's form, the supplicatory versicles and Lord's Prayer, which agree in their own order with the earlier form, follow this first Gospel, and precede the imposition and the suspension of the gold, during which (it is directed) the chaplain that officiates, turning himself to his Majesty, shall say these words following: "God give a blessing to this work, and grant that these sick persons, on whom the king lays his hands, may recover through Jesus Christ our Lord." This does not appear in Sparrow's form of 1684, neither does the following address, at the close, by the "chaplain, standing with his face towards them that come to be healed. "The Almighty God, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in Him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth do bow and obey, be now and evermore your defence, and M. or N. (Vol. i., p. 415.; Vol. ii., p. 61.; Vol. iii., p. 323.).—With reference to the initials or letters M. and N. found in the Catechism and the Marriage Service of our Common Prayer Book, it has struck me that a fancy of mine may satisfy some of those who wish to find more than a mere caprice in the selection of them. It is remarkable that in the Catechism we read N. or M., while in the service for Matrimony M. is for the man, N. for the woman. N. stands (as it constantly did in MS.) for nomen" or name; M. for N. N., "nomina" or names. You will observe that in black letter the forms of N and M are so very similar that by an easy contraction double N would pass into M, and thus the contracted form N. N. for " nomina" might have come into M. Corroborating this is the fact that the answer to What is your name? stands thus: Answer N. or M., and not M. or N. J. F. T. P.S. Throughout the Matrimonial Service I observe M. attached to the man's name, but N. to the woman's. Dancing Trenchmore (Vol. iii., p. 89.). Your correspondent S. G. asks the meaning of this phrase? Trenchmore was a very popular dance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The earliest mention I find of it occurs in 1564, and the latest in 1728. The figure and the musical notes may be seen in the fifth and later editions of The Dancing Master. See also Chappell's National English Airs, vol. ii. p. 181., where some amusing quotations concerning its popularity are given. Trenchmore (the meaning of which we have to seek) was, however, more particularly the name of the dance than the tune. The dance, in fact, was performed to various tunes. In proof of this I give the following quotation from Taylor the water-poet's Navy of Land Ships, 1627 : "Nimble-heel'd mariners (like so many dancers) capring in the pompes and vanities of this sinful world, sometimes a Morisco, or Trenchmore of forty miles long, to the tune of Dusty my deare, Dirty come thou to me, Dun out of the mire, or I waile in woe and plunge in paine: all these dances have no other musicke." EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. Demosthenes and New Testament (Vol. iii., p. 350.).—If your correspondent C. H. P. had referred to the Critici Sacri, he would have found his questions answered. With regard to the quotation from Acts xvii. 21., I beg to inform him that Drusius makes the same reference, but generally only, as Pricæus; while Grotius gives the passages with particular references, in the same St. Matthew xiii. 14, he would have found, had manner as Lagnerius. As to the passage from he consulted the Critici Sacri, that Grotius quotes but, as far as I can see, they are the only commenthe same passage from Demosthenes as Pricæus ; tators in that work who observed the parallel passages. However, the fact of its being "employed as an established proverb by Demosthenes supposes, is not quite correct, as it is mentioned in having been generally overlooked," as C. H. P. the brief notes in Dr. Burton's Greek Testament, Oxon., 1831. H. C. K. F. Webster's American Dictionary, and in the ImpeYankee, Derivation of (Vol. iii., p. 260.). — In tific, J. M. will see the etymology of Yankee, rial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scienwhich M. Philarète Charles supposes not to be given in any work American or English. NORTHMAN. English French (Vol. iii., p. 346.).—I take the liberty to inform C. W. B., for the justification of my countrymen, as well as of his own, that the Guide to Amsterdam was probably written by a British subject born between the tropics, and will point out, not by way of reprisals, but as a curiosity of the same sort, an example of FrenchEnglish to be found in a book just published by Whittaker and Co., entitled What's What in 1851? Let any one who understands French try to read the article, p. 69., headed "Qu'êst que, qu'êst que la veritable luxure en se promenant," and if he can guess at the meaning of the writer, no foreign-English I ever met with will ever give him trouble. G. L. KEPPER. Amsterdam, May 10. 1851. Deans, when styled Very Reverend (Vol. iii., p. 352.).—I cannot answer this question, but I can supply a trace, if not a clue. I find in a long series of old almanacks that the list of deans is invariably given as the Reverend the dean down to 1803 inclusive. I unluckily have not those for the three next years, but in that for 1807 I find "the very Reverend the dean." C. Duchess of Buckingham (Vol. iii., p. 281.). There is one circumstance omitted by P. C. S. S., in his remarks upon the Duchess of Buckingham, which explains why a Phipps, on being called to the peerage, chose the titles of Mulgrave and Normanby. By her second husband-the Duke of Buckingham and Normanby-she had one son, who succeeded to the title and estates; but, dying unmarried during his mother's lifetime, bequeathed to her all the Mulgrave and Normanby property. Her daughter (by her first marriage with James Annesley, third Earl of Anglesey) was then the wife of Mr. W. Phipps, son of Sir Constantine Phipps, Lord Chancellor of Ireland: to their issue, Constantine Phipps, first Lord Mulgrave, the Duchess left by will these estates; thus founding her grandson's fortune, although she did not live to see him created the first Baron Mulgrave. The Sheffield Buckingham family, although extinct in the male line, is represented in the female branch by the Sheffield Dicksons; Mrs. Dickson, the widow of Major Dickson, of the Life-Guards, being in direct descent from the Lady Catherine Darnley's husband, by another wife. Redland, April 13. A. B. much that is obscure in what is called Magic or Witchcraft, "a great part of which appears to have rested in an ignorant age," Dr Gregory suggests, not as a on a knowledge of these phenomena possessed by a few fully developed theory, but simply as a conceivable idea, an explanation of the modus operandi in magnetic phenomena, especially in clairvoyance. The basis of this explanation is the existence of that universally dif fused power or influence, the existence of which, in Dr. Gregory's opinion, Reichenbach has demonstrated. The second Part consists of a large and startling collection of mostly unpublished cases; and Dr. Gregory expresses his conviction that if the evidence is fairly studied, it will be impossible to believe that the alleged facts are the result of imposture or of delusion; or to resist the conviction, which investigation will confirm, that the essential facts, however apparently marvellous, are yet true, and have been faithfully reported. These cases are indeed most extraordinary, and would, at first sight, seem more fitted to fill our Folk Lore columns than to become the subject of scientific enquiry; and most readers, we believe, will rise from their perusal with an inclination to admit that there are more things true than are dreamt of in their philosophy-some with an anxious doubt whether these are not as "forbidden" as they are "curious.” The Society of Arts have opened a reading-room for the gratuitous use of foreign visitors to London during the Great Exhibition. Our readers will be doing kindness to their friends from the Continent by making them acquainted with this act of liberality and good "arts Swearing by the Peacock (Vol. iii., p. 70.).— Swearing in the presence of a peacock, referred to by T. J., from Dr. Lingard's History of England, feeling on the part of the Society of Arts. time of Edward I., is, with the ceremony observed at the Feast of the Peacock, in the thirteenth century, related at full by Mr. Knight in his Old England, pp. 311. and 312.; and the representation of the Feast from the Bran of Robert Braunche, in the choir of St. Margaret's Church at Lynn (a mayor of Lynn), who died October 15, 1364, is given fig. 1088. BLOWEN. 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