Oct. 2. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The imprint of the Dutch work is merely Ge- 

 druckt in den Jaere 1646. Under what sanction 

 was it produced ? By whom was it edited ? 

 Where was it printed ? These are important 

 questions with regard to all historical works ; and 

 which, in this instance, I can nowhere find 

 answered. The volumes appear in the Bibliotheca 

 exquilissima of Pierre Vander Aa, which was pub- 

 lished at Ley den in 1729, but the catalogue affords 

 no information beyond the title of the work. It 

 could not have been a surreptitious publication, as 

 it contains about 220 plates. 



Doubtless the editor of the Dutch work availed 

 himself of the folio narratives which were edited 

 by Girard de Veer, G. — M. — A. — W. — L. and 

 others, and printed at Amsterdam by Cornille 

 Nicolas; but I conceive he had also access to 

 official documents. Bolton Cornet. 



Church Bells. — I have seen it stated that Frater 

 Johannes Drabicius, in his book De Ccelo et Ca- 

 lesti Statu, printed at Mentz in 1718, employs 425 

 pages to prove that the employment of the blest 

 in heaven will be in the continual ringing of bells. 

 Is this a fact ? and can any of your readers give 

 any information respecting the book and its 

 writer ? E. A. H. L. 



The Irish Convocation. — When were the last 

 meetings of the Irish Convocation held? What 

 was the nature and constitution of the Irish Con- 

 vocation ? and where can I find any record of 

 their transactions ? W. Fkasee. 



Marriage of Greeks in England. — Many re- 

 spectable Greek merchants have, within the last 

 twenty years, settled in England ; and several 

 marriages have taken place amongst them. 



The marriage ceremony having been performed 

 in their own dwellings, and, as I understand, 

 without any licence or previous ceremony, either 

 in a church or before a registrar — 



Query, how is the issue of such marriages legi- 

 timised in England, the Greeks being neither Jews 

 nor Quakers ? P. P. 



Walter Haddon. — He was one of the masters of 

 the Court of Requests in the time of Queen Eliza- 

 beth. Are there any more particulars extant con- 

 cerning him ? and what is the date of his death ? 

 His widow became the wife of Sir Henry Cobham : 

 what is the date of this marriage? Sir Henry 

 died, leaving her surviving : what is the date of 

 his death ? and was he any branch of the Cobham 

 family mentioned in Dugdale ? W. H. Hart. 



Catching a Tartar. — What is the earliest in- 

 stance of the use of this expression ? It is of such 



frequent occurrence that I need cite but a single 

 passage from a recent publication : 



" When we accommodate Christianity to corrupt 

 human nature, instead of gaining those whom we strive 

 to conciliate, we are in danger of losing our own faith. 

 We are like the man who boasted of having ' caught 

 a Tartar,' when the fact was that the Tartar caught 

 him." — Cautions for the Times, p. 83., by Professor 

 Fitzgerald, under the superintendence and revision of 

 Archbishop Whately. 



EiRIONNACH. 



[Grose says, " This saying originated from a story 

 of an Irish soldier in the Imperial service, who, in a 

 battle against the Turks, called out to his comrade 

 that he had caught a Tartar. ' Bring him along, then,' 

 said he. ' He won't come,' answered Paddy. ' Then 

 come along yourself,' replied his comrade. ' Arrah,' 

 cried he, ' but he won't let me.' "3 



Derivation of '■'■Huguenot.^'' — What is the deri- 

 vation of the term Huguenot; and has the follow- 

 ing circumstance any bearing on it ? 



In the Vita S. Irencei, Op.,, ed. Lutet. (Paris), 

 1675, in describing the infamous desecration of him 

 who was the great assailant of the Gnostic heresies, 

 the writer says : 



" Qui Gnosticos represserat, ejus reliquife Hu- 

 Gnosticorum cruentatas jam pridem sanguine bonorura 

 ac barbaras manus, efFugere non potuerunt." 



And this term Hu-Gnostici'is deliberately retained 

 in the notes through the edition above named. 



M.A. 

 [An interesting article on the derivation of Hugue- 

 not will be found in the Enci/clopcedia Metropolitana, 

 vol. XX. p. 381. Pasquier, in his Recherckes de la 

 France, vol. viii. p. 53., has an entire chapter on the 

 origin of the name.] 



Rev. Peter Layng. — I have a quarto volume 

 entitled Several Pieces in Prose and Verse, by Mr. 

 Layng, 1748. It is marked rare, and priced 

 highly by Lowndes and others. There is also, in 

 the British Museum, a pamphlet entitled The 

 Judgment of Hercules, &c., by Rev. Peter Layng, 

 4to.: Eton, 1748; but I have in vain sought there 

 and elsewhere for a curious satirical poem by the 

 same author, called The Rod. Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me where this may be seen, 

 and also communicate some particulars of its 

 author ? He was M.A. and rector of Everton, 

 Northamptonshire. E. D. 



[The Rod, a Poem, 4to., Oxford, 1754, is in the 

 Douce Collection. In the catalogue it is attributed 

 to the Rev. Henry Layng, of New College, Oxford. 

 There appears to have been another Henry Layng, of 

 Balliol College, and rector of Paulerspiiry in North- 

 amptonshire, who flourished about this time, and pro- 

 jected a translation of Tasso, and translated a part of 

 Homer for Pope. Consult Baker's Northamptonshire, 

 vol. ii. part v. p. 205., and Gent. Mag., vol. Ixiii. 



