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 io»8.iv.juwi,uo&] NOTES AND QUERIES. If the inhabitants, and had threatened to burn Ilfra- combe. This appears to have been denied by Capt. Harris, Commander of H.M.S. Phoenix, stationed in King's Road.atx) inconsequence the Government ordered an enquiry by the Vice-Adniiral, James Perrott, who took the depositions of divers merchant captains, and sent them to the Earl of Pembroke. Among them is a curious one from Nicholas Cullen, • That the Turks had taken out of a church in Cornwall about sixty men, and carried them away S-isouers. They continued in Lundy a fortnight. e saw the Turkish ship lying at Lundy." — Pp. 78-9. T. N. BRUSHFIELD, M.D. Salterton, Devon. That Lundy was, in the seventeenth cen- tury, the rendezvous of Algerine pirates who ravaged the western coasts of England appears to be a fact. In the llev. J. 11. Chanter's monograph 'Lundy Island'(Cassell) it is stated that " in the early part of the reign of James I. continued complaints were made by shipowners and local authorities to Government of the piracies in the Bristol Channel, and in 1608 a commission took the depositions of three persons to the effect that the merchants were daily robbed at sea by pirates who took refuge at Lundy." In 1C10 a commission was issued autho- rizing the town of Barnstaple to send out ships for taking pirates. Mr. Chanter also tells of piratical incur- sions, with Lundy for their headquarters, by the ships of French, Spaniards, and others, not excepting Englishmen, at frequent inter- vals throughout the first half of the seven- teenth century. I may add that the volume I have referred to appears to tell all that is to be told of the island. FRED. C. FROST, F.S.I. Teignmouth. The Algerine pirates in 1635 were "accus- tomed " to use Lundy as a " harbour and shelter," and often "commit spoil" there (see 4 Travels of Sir Win. Brereton,' the _ first volume published by the Chetham Society). This worthy Cestrian was on board the king's •ship which convoyed the fleet bound from Waterford to Bristol Fair, to guard it from these pirates. At Lundy the king's ship shortened sail until the fleet was safely passed, and looked for the enemy, but met them not. HANDFORD. There is no evidence or reason to believe that this island was for any length of time the abode of Algerine pirates in the_ seven- teenth century; out they resorted to it occa- sionally for water or shelter while cruising in the neighbourhood during their piratical •expeditions. This portion of the Bristol Channel was such a happy hunting-ground for pirates and privateers in the seventeenth century that it received the appellation of "The Golden Bay." In the Receivers' Ac- counts, among the Barnstaple records, are numerous entries referring to tho granting of letters of marque to merchants of the port and to the bringing in of captured pirate vessels: while the parish registers throughout North Devon, more than those of most other parts of the kingdom, have entries of collec- tions made in churches to redeem captives from the Turks, as the Algerine and Tunisian sea-robbers were called. THOS. WAINWRIGHT. Barnstaple. The llev. Hudson Qosset Heaven, M.A., is the resident sole owner of Lundy, having succeeded his late father in the inheritance. Hence in the West Country Lundy is known far and wide as " the Kingdom of Heaven." HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. "MAY-DEWING" (10th S. iii. 429, 477).— Many years ago, in the rural districts of Devonshire, 1 May was considered the ortho- dox clay on which to rise earlier than usual and wash the face in the dew. A. J. DAVY. Torquay. VULGATE (10th S. iii. 248, 435).—I possess a compact and useful octavo edition of the Vulgate, published by J. Leroux <fe Jouby, of Paris, in 1855. It may perhaps be well to mention that the eighth edition of an excellent ' Concordance to the Vulgate,1 by F. P. Dutripon, was issued in quarto by Bloud & Barral, of Paris, in 1880. ASTARTE. If a cheap edition of the "authorized" text of the Vulgate is required, probably the most handy and accurate is that which was issued as a volume of Bagster's 'Polyglot Bible.' I do not know whether it is still in print. Criticism has perhaps hardly gone far enough to justify the production of a cheap critical edition as yet, even if (by strange chance) there were enough demand to pay the venture. Q. V. DR. CHAMBERLEN (10th S. iii. 428).-The family of Chamberlen, famous for its phy- sicians and accoucheurs, is, I believe, extinct in the male line. In the female line it is represented as follows : Peter Chamberlen, M.D., Emanuel Coll., Cam., b. 1601, married Jane, daughter of Sir Hugh Myddleton, of Gwawenog, Denbighshire, Bart. Their daughter Elizabeth married Lieut. - Col. William Walker, of Tankardstown, King's Co. There were born of this marriage Admiral