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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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which one set of persons are appointed executors 

 and another overseers. What were the rights and 

 duties of these latter ? J. K. 



LepeVs Itegiment. — Can your correspondent 

 Mr. Arthur Hamilton inform me what is the 

 regiment known in 1707 as LepeVs Regiment? It 

 was a cavalry regiment, I believe. J. K. 



Vincent Family, — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents give me any information respecting the 

 descendants of Francis Vincent, grandson of Au- 

 gustine Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant at Arms. 

 His sister Elizabeth has, or had very lately, a 

 representative in the person of Francis Offley 

 Edmunds of Worsborough, Yorkshire ; but no- 

 where have I been able to obtain any information 

 respecting himself. If you could give any inform- 

 ation on this subject, you would much oblige 



C. Wilson. 



Passage in the First Part of Faust. — 



•' Faust. Es klopft ? llerein ! Wer will mich 



wieder plagen ? 

 Mephistopheles. Ich bin's. 

 Fauft. Herein ! 



Mephis. Du musst es dreimal sagen. 



Faust. Herein denn ! 

 Mephis. So gefallst du mir." 



Why must he say it three times? Is this a 

 superstition that can be traced in other countries 

 than Germany ? In Horace we have Diana thus 

 addressed : 



" Ter vocata audls, adimisque letho, 

 Diva triformis." — Lib. iii. Ode 22. 



But she is there the benign Diana, not Hecate. 



Are we to understand the passage to mean, 

 that the number three has a magical influence in 

 summoning spirits ; or to teach that the power of 

 evil is so overruled by a higher Power, that he 

 cannot approach to begin his work of temptation 

 and ruin unless he be, not once merely, or twice, 

 but three times, called by the free will and act of 

 the individual who is surrendering himself to his 

 influence ? The subject seems worthy of elucid- 

 ation. W. Eraser. 



Tor-Mohun. 



Lady Anne Gray. — Who was the " Lady Anne 

 Gray," or " Lady Gray," who was one of the at- 

 tendants on Queen Elizabeth when princess, and 

 is mentioned first in Sir John Harrington's poem 

 in praise of her ladies ? N. A. 



Continental Bi-asses. — At a recent meeting of 

 the Archaeological Institute, Mr, Nesbitt exhibited 

 rubbings of some fine brasses at Bamberg, Naum- 

 berg, Meissen, and Erfurt. Mr. Nesbitt would 

 confer a favour on the readers of " N, & Q." by 

 stating the names and dates of those sepulchral 



memorials, and the churches from which he ob- 

 tained the rubbings, and thus aid in carrying out 

 Mr. W. Sparrow Simpson's excellent suggestion 

 for obtaining a complete list of monumental brasses 

 on the Continent. Wiu-iam W. King. 



Peter Beaver. — In the early part of the last 

 century, a gentleman named Peter Beaver, whose 

 daughter was married in 1739 to Latham Blacker, 

 Esq., of Rathescar, lived in the old and fashionable 

 town of Drogheda. Can any one inform me as to 

 the year of his death, and whether he left a son ? 

 The name has disappeared in Drogheda. I would 

 likewise be glad to know the origin of the name ; 

 and, if it be a corruption of Beauvoir, at what time, 

 and for what reason, was it changed ? The crest 

 is the animal of the same name. Abhba. 



Cremonas. — Can any of your numerous corre- 

 spondents kindly supply me with a list of the 

 earliest and the latest of the instruments of each, 

 of the famous cremona makers ? Such a list would 

 be a valuable contribution to " N. & Q." 



Mr. Dubourg's work on the Violin., excellent as" 

 it is in many respects, contains but a meagre ac- 

 count of the instrument itself, and Is sadly deficient 

 on the subject of my Query, May I ask him, and 

 I have reason for so doing, on what authority he 

 gives 1664 as the year of the birth of Autonius 

 Stradivarius, in his last edition ? H. C. K. 



Cranmer and Calvin. — In the Christian Observer 

 for March 1827 (No. 303. p. 150.) it is stated that 

 the late Rev. T. Brock, of Guernsey, had been, 

 assured by an eminent scholar of Geneva, after- 

 wards a clergyman in our church, that he had met 

 with, in a public library at Geneva, a printed cor- 

 respondence in Latin between Archbishop Cran^ 

 mer and Calvin, in which the latter forewarned 

 the former, that though he perfectly understood 

 the meaning of the baptismal service, yet " the time 

 would come when" it "would be misconceived, and . 

 received as implying that baptism absolutely con- 

 veyed regeneration;" and that Cranmer replied, 

 " that It Is not possible such a construction can be 

 put upon the passage, the church having sufli- 

 ciently explained her meaning In the Articles and 

 elsewhere." I have heard that search was made 

 for these documents by M. D'Aubigne and others, 

 but without success ; one of the reports being, that 

 " the documents had been apparently cut out." 

 Mr. Brock's informant, I hear, was a Rev. Marc 

 De Joux, who afterwards became an Irvingite, left 

 Guernsey, and went to the Mauritius, where it is 

 believed he still resides. With the theological 

 question I wish not here to meddle, or to express 

 an opinion. But I should be glad if you will 

 kindly permit me to inquire whether any of your 

 readers can give any information as to the existence 

 of the supposed "printed" correspondence re- 



