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[No. 7. 
Betterton, and returned to London. I was pleased 
with his story,” &c. 
My copy is dedicated to Richard Steele, Esq , 
by Charles Gildon, and has prefixed to it the 
beautiful portrait, of Betterton, engraved by Van- 
der Gucht, from Kneller’s picture, and, at its close 
(but separately paged), ‘‘ The Amorous Widow or 
the Wanton Wife, now first printed from the ori- 
ginal copy,” 1710. 
Incumbents of Church Livings. 
A correspondent, in Number 4., writes to in- 
quire for information relative to the “names and 
birthplaces of incumbents of church livings prior 
to 1680, and the patrons of them.” 
It may slightly help his investigations to know 
that there is a Latin MS. in the British Museum, 
numbered Additional MSS. 12,483, with the title 
“ Ecclesiastical Visitation of Hampshire and the 
Isle of Wight, held in March and April, 1543, by 
Nicholas Harpisfelde, Official of the Archdeacon 
of Winchester,” folio, containing the names of the 
incumbents and churchwardens ef the livings in 
those counties. W. M. Kinesmint. 
Westminster, December 1849. 
Mare de Saham — Portum Pusillum. 
The first appears to be Soham, in Cambridge- 
shire; described in Liber Eliensis as “ terra de 
Saham, que est ad stagnum juxta Ely.” Does 
“mare” stand for “stagnum,” “ palus,” ‘ maris- 
cus,” or our English “mere ?” Can Portum Pusil- 
lum be Littleport, in the same county? J. F.M. 
Reinerius — Inquisition in France. 
Sir, — Faber, in his work on the Waldenses, 
quotes Reinerius, in Biblio. Patrum. I have in 
vain looked in modern biographical dictionaries 
for any account of Reinerius, so am constrained 
to inquire of some of your readers, who and what 
he was, or to beg the favour of a reference to 
some accessible account of him. I think Faber 
says he was an inquisitor; and this is the extent 
of the information which I have been able to col- 
lect respecting him. , 
I wish also to inquire whether his work on 
Heretics (his only work, I presume) has been 
published in any other and more accessible form 
than that in which it was referred to by Faber; 
and, particularly, whether it has ever been trans- 
lated into English. 
I have often wished to know whether the tri- 
bunal of the Inquisition was ever established else- 
where in France than at Toulouse. Can any of 
your correspondents enlighten me on the point, 
and give me references in proof ? 
[The work of Reinerius Saccho was first published 
by the Jesuit Gretser in 1613, and has since been re- 
printed in the different editions of the Bibliotheca Pa- 
trum. It has never been translated into English.] 
Whelps. 
The following extracts from the Travels of Sir 
William Brereton may answer the inquiry respect- 
ing the ships called “ Whelps”: — 
“ Waterford, 25 July, 1635. About six hour I went 
aboard one of the kings ships, called the ninth whelp, 
which is in the king’s books 215 ton and tonnage in 
kings books. She carries sixteen pieces of ordinance, 
two brass rakers, six iron demiculverin drakes, four 
iron whole culverin drakes, and four iron demicannon 
drakes, ‘They are called drakes. They are taper-bored 
in the chamber, and are tempered with extraordinary 
metal to carry that shot; these are narrower where 
the powder is put in, and wider where the shot is put 
in, and with this kind of ordinance his majesty is much 
affected. This ship is manned with sixty men,”— 
p- 164. 
“1627. This 26th of February, attending the 
officers of the navy at Sir Sackville Crowes house by 
Charing Cross, Sir John Pennington came thither to 
acquaint them with a warrant from the Lord Duke 
(of Buckingham) direeted to him and myself, for pre- 
sent bargaining with the yard keepers of the river for 
the building of ten small vessels, for the enterprise of 
Rochel, of some 120 tons a piece, with one deck and 
quarter only, to row as well as sail. The 28th of the 
same month we concluded our bargains with the gene- 
ral yard keepers, and drew covenants between us, and 
delivered to them accordingly. In this business I was 
employed till the latter end of July that the ships set 
sail to Portsmouth. My son John was placed captain 
in the sixth whelp, built by my kinsman Peter Pett. 
Having liberty from my lord Duke to make choice 
from among them all, 1 chose that pinnace before the 
rest, supposing she would have proved the best, which 
fell out afterwards cleane contrary. The 4th September 
my son John took leave of me in the evening, and went 
on board his ship, whom I never saw after, being un- 
fortunately cast away in the return from Rochel. 
“1628. In this interim I received certain intelli- 
gence of the great loss of my son John, his ship and 
all his company, who foundered in the sea about the 
Seames in a great storm, about the beginning of No- 
vember; not one man saved to bring the doleful news, 
nor no ship near them to deliver the certainty but a 
small pinnace belonging to the fleet that was within 
ken of her, and saw her shoot nine pieces of ordinance 
hoping of succour.”— Journal of Phineas Pett. MSS, in 
Brit. Mus, 9298. 
“At the return of this fleet (from Rochel) two of 
the whelps were cast away, and three ships more, and 
some five ships who bad some of those great stones, 
that were brought to build Pauls, for ballast and for 
other uses within them, which could promise no good 
success, for I never heard of any thing that prospered 
which being once designed for the honour of God was 
alienated from that use.”—  Howel’s Letters, sect. v. 
lett. 9. ; 
The name whelp was probably given them face- 
tiously in reference to their designation as barks. 
Epw. Hawkins. 
