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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 116. 



:0tltiior ^utiiti. 



Gregentius and the Jews in Arabia Felix. — 

 " We have a remarkable instance to this purpose In 

 ecclesiastical history, which is attested by many and 

 great authors. It seems, about 400 years after our 

 Saviours ascension, one Gregentius, a bishop, endea- 

 voured the conversion of those Jews which lived in 

 Arabia Felix. After a tedious disputation of three 

 days' continuance some of the Jews desired the bishop 

 to show them Jesus alive, and it would convince them. 

 Immediately upon this- the earth began to tremble, and 

 the sky to shine and echo with ligiitnings and thunder. 

 After these ceased, the gates of the celestial palace 

 opened, and a bright serene cloud appeared, darting 

 forth beams of an extraordinary lustre. At last our 

 blessed Saviour showed himself walking on this bright 

 cloud, and a voice was heard from this excellent glory 

 saying, ' I am He who was crucified by your fathers.' 

 This glorious appearance cast all the Jews prostrate on 

 the ground, and, beating their breasts, they cried with 

 a loud voice, ' Lord have mercy on us ! ' and after- 

 wards were baptized into the faith of Christ." — Ser- 

 mons by John March, B. D., late Vicar of Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne. 2nd ed. 1699, p. 235. 



Who are the "many and great authors" who 

 have attested this extraordinary apparition ? 



King Street Theatre. — Among a large collection 

 of medallic tickets of admission to theatres, I am 

 unable to fix the precise attribution of the fol- 

 lowing : 



Ob. : A group of dramatic emblems, mask, sword, 

 mirror, scourge, and a legend : 



" Spectas et tu spectabere. King Street Theatre." 



Rev.: 



" Admit Mr. Cooper, or bearer, to any part of the 

 house before the curtain." 



The ticket is of silver, and is evidently of the 

 time of Garrick ; it cannot therefore apply to the 

 theatre in King Street, St. James's, which is of 

 recent erection ; nor am I aware of any other 

 King Street in London which contained a theatre. 

 Its situation will most probably be found in some 

 provincial town. 



If any of your obliging correspondents could 

 furnish information as to its locality, they would 

 confer a favour on the writer, B. N. 



Lesteras and Emencin. — In an old MS. I meet 

 with the following words : — 



" One (a pillar) was made of Lefteras (I do not know 

 whether the tiiird letter is an s or &nf in the original) 

 which would not burn." 



" After they came to the land of Emencin, which is 

 the country of Jerusalem." 



Can any of your readers give me any information 

 as to either of the words Lesteras or Emencin ? 



0. Ogle. 



Oxford. 



Epigram on Franklin and Wedderhum. — Will 

 any of your correspondents acquaint me with the 

 name of the author of the following lines, written 

 shortly after Dr. Franklin's attendance at the 

 Privy Council In January, 1774, in allusion to 

 Wedderburn's severe remarks upon him ? — 

 " Sarcastic Sawney, full of spite and hate, 

 On modest Franklin poured his venal prate ; 

 The calm philosopher without reply 

 Withdrew — and gave his country liberty." 



The lines were repeated to me by the late 

 Francis Maseres, Esq., Cursitor Baron of the 

 Court of Exchequer. AV. S. 



Richmond, Surrey. 



Plenius and his Lyrichord. — May I hope to 

 ascertain, through the medium of your journal, 

 where to look for information on the subject of the 

 " lyricliord of Plenius," referred to in Rees' En- 

 cyclopcedia, art. " Basse Fondaraentale," as having 

 been " tuned by weights instead of tension? " The 

 point left in doubt by this, is whether a single 

 weight was substituted for tension, or whether the 

 different notes in the musical scale were pi'oduced 

 by altering the weight according to the rules for 

 that purpose. 



Was Plenius an ancient, a Middle- Age man, or 

 was he Herr Plen, who latinized his name, as was 

 the fashion a century or two ago ? T. 



EpigJ'am on Burnet. — A friend of mine across 

 the Atlantic wishes to ask, whether any one knows 

 where the following epigram, which he remembers 

 in MS. in an old folio copy of Burnet's History, 

 comes from : — 



•• If Heaven is pleas'd when sinners cease to sin, 

 If Hell is pleas'd when sinners enter in, 

 If men are pleas'd at parting with a knave, 

 Then all are pleas'd — for Burnet's in his grave." 



C.B. 



Dutch Chronicle of the World. — Will any of 

 your readers oblige me with information respecting 

 a Dutch work, professing to be an historical chro- 

 nicle of the world from the creation to the time in 

 which it was printed, which was in the days of 

 Merian, the celebrated engraver, father to the 

 naturalist Madame Merian, who was also an artist 

 of some repute. The work I allude to was illus- 

 trated by numerous spirited engravings (supposed 

 to have been executed on pewter), and of which I 

 possess several hundred, which had been cut out 

 of the letter-press which surrounded the prints, 

 and bought at a stall in London many years back. 

 I question whether there is a copy of the work to 

 be found in England, except it be in the British 

 Museum. John Fenton. 



'■'■ Arborei foetus alibi, atque injussa virescunt 

 Gramina"" {Virgil G. i. 55.). — Amongst my school 

 reminiscences, I retain very distinctly the remem- 

 brance of the surprise we felt in the sixth form, 



