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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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his Discoveries in the South Sea, Lond. 1806, 4to., 
gives a nearly literal translation of the “ Relation 
of Luis Vaez de Torres, concerning the disco- 
yeries of Quiros, as his almirante,” dated Manila, 
July 12, 1607. This translation was supplied to 
him by Alexander Dalrymple, from a Spanis 
manuscript in his possession. Can any of your 
readers inform me in whose possession this manu- 
script at present is, or who was the purchaser of 
it at the sale of Dalrymple’s Library in 1809. 
R. H, Masor. 
John Locke. — Where are the earliest writings 
of this great man to be found ? 
Were they poetry or prose ? 
Is it generally known to his biographers which 
were his maiden attempts ? 
Any answers to these Queries, or Notes arising 
from them, would be learned with pleasure by 
Joun C, Horren. 
Piccadilly. 
SHinar Queries Mtth Answers. 
Dr. Du Veil. — Who was C. M. Du Veil, D.D., 
who wrote in Latin a Literal Explanation of the 
Acts of the Holy Apostles, and who translated it 
into English? The English translation was pub- 
lished in London, 1685, by Francis Pearse, at the 
Blew Anchor, west end of St. Paul’s. J. R.R. 
{Charles Marie de Veil was a learned convert from 
Judaism’ to Christianity, born in Louvain, and died in 
England about the beginning of the last century. He 
was well acquainted with Hebrew and rabbinical learning. 
The English translation of his work on The Acts of the 
Holy Apostles is by himself, and very inferior to the ele- 
gance of the Latin original. His history is rather sin- 
gular. From a Jew he became a Romanist; afterwards 
joined the Church of England; but subsequently united 
himself with the Baptists, among whom he preached till 
he died. The work on the Acts was written after he had 
joined the Baptists, and contains his sentiments on that 
subject at considerable length. See Orme’s Bibliotheca 
Biblica for a list of his other works. ] 
Turky-gowns. — Fuller's Church History of 
Britain, cent. xvii. book x. In the account of a 
conference between the king (James I.) and the 
advocates for and against conformity, Dr. Rey- 
nolds and his “ sociates” (the nonconformists) are 
charged by Bancroft, Bishop of London, with 
“appearing before his Majesty in Turky-gownes, 
not in your scholastick habits, according to the 
order of the Universities,’ Query, What were 
Turky-gowns ? W, C. Treyeryan, 
Wallington. 
[Dr. Peter Heylin (Hist. of the Presbyterians, p. 368. 
edit. 1672) thus notices these Turkey gowns: “There 
appeared [at the Hampton Court Conference] in the be- 
half of the millenaries, Dr. John Reynolds and others, 
apparell’d neither in priests’ gowns or canonical coats; 
but in such gowns as were then commonly worn (in 
reference ta the form and fashion of them) by the Turkey 
| merchants, as if they had subscribed to the opinion of 
| old T. C. [Cartwright ?], that we ought rather to conform 
| in all outward ceremonies to the Turks than the pa: 
| pists.” ] 
Old Mezzotinto Engraving. —TI have an old 
mezzotinto engraving, which represents a city 
with churches and large buildings, mostly in the 
Palladian style. On the right is the setting sun, 
and on the left a considerable number of masts 
and flags are visible, beyond a grove of trees. It 
is inscribed “ G. Negris, mo. and Sc.” Below are 
the following lines, as nearly asI can decipher 
them, as that portion of the print is much defaced ; 
“Da Montesan stava mirando astracto 
La bella Zena, e in mente 
Me ne andava copiando lo retracto 
Quando fermé 4 caxo 
Ri Oeggi, senza pensa, ni aver presente 
Qualche ameno oggetto, 
In drittura a la torre dro paraxo 
Tutt’ in un mentre veddo alcasa un netto 
Caero sorve ri teiti dro contorno 
Come quando & le levante esce lo giorno.” 
Can any of your correspondents tell me the sub- 
ject of the engraving, and in what dialect of Italy 
are the verses ? Po 
[The subject of the engraving is the city of Genoa. 
The dialect is the Genoese. We have corrected the ver- 
sion sent to us by our correspondent. The lines may be 
thus rendered : “ From Montasan (a hili in the vieinity), 
I was looking abstractedly on the beautiful Genoa, and, 
in mind, was about to copy its portrait, when by chance 
Icast my eyes, without thinking, nor having very pleasant 
object in my mind, upon the tower of the palace (dre 
paraxo), whereupon, of a sudden, I saw a bright light 
arising above the roofs of the neighbourhood, like that of 
the day coming out of the East.” ] 
Gaunt’s “ Lucretius.’ — Was a translation of 
Lucretius, by Rev. J. Gaunt, of Clare Hall, Cam- 
bridge, advertised in 1796, ever published ? 
J. BR. R. 
[ This translation does not appear in any of the standard 
bibliographical catalogues. Mr. Gaunt died in the prime 
of life at Louth, in August, 1804. ] 
Henry Marten the Regicide.— Where can I 
learn all the history of Colonel Marten the regi- 
cide ; how many children he had, if any, and to 
whom they were married ? and if he had no issue, 
who were his collateral descendants, and where 
they may be found? He was confined for many 
years before his death in Raglan [Chepstow ?] 
Castle. KE. A, G, K. 
{In Forster’s Lives of Eminent British Statesmen, vol. iv. 
(Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopedia), will be found the longest 
biographical notice of Henry Marten; and some account 
of his ancestors, the Martyns of Oakingham, in Berkshire, 
in the Gentleman’s Magazine for Noy. 1830, p. 403. There 
are also other notices of him in Wood’s Athena, by Bliss, 
vol. iii. p. 1237 ; Regicides no Saints nor Martyrs, 8vo. 
1700., p. 83. ; and in Coxe’s Monmouthshire, part il. p. 381., 
with a portrait of him from a picture in the possession of 
Charles Lewis, Esq. Wood states that, “during his im- 
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