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ehesne. P. and M. John Baildon. Imprinted at London 

 bv Thomas Vautrouillier, dwelling in the Blacke Frieres. 

 1570." Oblong 8°. 



" Le tresor d'eacriture, avqvel est contenu tout ce qui 

 est requis et necessaire k tons amateurs dudict art. Par 

 Jehan de Beavchesne Parisien. Avec priuilege dv roy. 

 Ilz se vendent par I'autheur, en rue Merciere h I'enseigne 

 de la Trinite a Lyon. 1580." Oblong 8°. 



" A book containing the true portraiture of the coun- 

 tenances and attires of the kings of England, from Wil- 

 liam the Conqueror vnto our soueraigne lady queene 

 Elizabeth, now raigning. Together with a briefe reporte, 

 etc., collected by T. T. London: printed by John de 

 Beauchesne, dwelling in Black Fryers. [1597]." 4°. 



The first and second of the above works have 

 been sufficiently examined. The existence of the 

 third, rests on the evidence of the Typographical 

 antiquities. 



The John de Beav-chesne of 1570 was certainly 

 a Parisien. The P. affixed to his name admits of 

 no other interpretation. But, what means the 

 phrase set forth 9 I conceive that Beauchesne 

 and Baildon furnished the manuscript from which 

 the plates were engraved. 



The Jehan de Beavchesne of 1580 was avowedly 

 a Parisien, and he is styled in the privilege 

 " maistre, escriuain." He states in a dedication 

 to messire Frantjois de Mandelot, that he had seen 

 the greatest part of Italy, and had fixed his resi- 

 dence at Lyon in order to cultivate " lejardin des 

 carracteres." 



The John de Beauchesne of 1597 appears as a 

 prifiter. I believe it is a solitary instance. 



Were there three members of the literary fra- 

 ternity named John de Beauchesne ? Were there 

 two members of the literary fraternity named John 

 de Beauchesne? Was there only one John de 

 Beauchesne ? Bolton Cobney. 



Dieppe. 



LOCUSTS IN ENGLAND. 



A paragraph a short time since in The Times, 

 headed " A Strange Visitor," narrated the finding 

 of a locust " in a field at Gortrush near Tyrone, 

 Ireland, on the day succeeding the late fearful 

 thunderstorm there." The editor of the Tyrone 

 Constitution (from which the account was taken) 

 pronounced it "clearly a locust, {Gryllus migra- 

 torius,') " and after giving a description of the in- 

 sect, and remarking on the ravages committed by 

 them, asks, " has a locust been found in this 

 country before ? " Strangely enough this was 

 followed by an account in the next impression of 

 a similar discovery in Lambeth by a correspond- 

 ent who sent the insect to T'he Times Office, 

 where I presume it may now be seen. As to the 

 appearance of locusts in England, I believe it will 

 be found that they have more than once previously 

 visited our coasts in large numbers. Dr. Gregory 

 (Diet. Arts and Sciences') speaks of their appear- 



ance in the neighbourhood of the metropolis in 

 1748 : 



" Having been probably driven out of their intended 

 course and weakened by the coolness of our climate. . . . 

 From a paper published in the Philos. Trans., we find 

 that in 1693 swarms of locusts settled in some parts of 

 Wales." 



My Query is, Is it not unusual to find them 

 thus singly ? and may not the subject of this 

 Note have been a variation of the species, pro- 

 bably the G. gryllotalpa, or mole cricket ? 



Henbt W. S. Taylor. 



Southampton. 



P. S. — The Morning Post, of Sept. 7, has the 

 following : 



" On Saturday afternoon Mr. Holloway (Engineer of 

 the Waterloo Road Fire Brigade), whilst on duty at the 

 ruins of the fire in Lambeth Walk, discovered in the back 

 garden a very large locust, which he succeeded in taking 

 alive. This it is understood makes the third locust that 

 has been found in this country during the present hot 

 weather." 



Minav cattmriS. 



Mohammedan Prophecy respecting 1857. — In the 

 Record of Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1857, is a letter 

 bearing the signature " E. A. W. of Haselbury 

 Bryan, Dorset," in which the writer states that, 

 " for upwards of fifty years, the Mohammedans 

 have been looking forward to the year 1857 as 

 the year in which they were to regain their do- 

 minion in the ancient Mogul empire," and cites a 

 passage from the Journals and Letters of the Rev. 

 Henry Martyn (2 vols.), edited by S. Wilberforce, 

 1837, to prove this assertion. It occurs vol. ii. 

 p. 2., Jan. 8, 1807: — 



" Pundit was telling me to-day that there was a pro- 

 phecy in their books that the English should remain one 

 hundred years in India, and that forty years were now 

 elapsed of that period. (This is a mistake, it should 

 have been said fifty years since 1757, the year of the 

 battle of Plassy.) That there should be a great change, 

 and the}' should be driven out by a king's son who should 

 then be born. Telling this to Moonshee, he said that 

 about the same time the Mussulmans expected some 

 great events, and the spread of Islamism over the earth." 



Now this is so remarkable a statement that I 

 offer no apology for reproducing it in the " N. & 

 Q.," thereby hoping to give a wider circulation 

 to the question proposed by " E. A. W." : — 



" Could some oriental scholar find out, and give a 

 translation of the passage alluded to by the Pundit out 

 of the Mohammedan books ? " 



w. s. 



Hastings. 



" Brahm,'^ Derivation of. — The Brahmans, 

 though not '■'■ Abraham's children" certainly, have 

 adopted that patriarch as their great parent, 

 called by them in the native tongue Brachman, 

 or Brahman, Query, Has the name of Brahm, 



