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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- veries of Quiros, as his almirante," dated Manila, July 12, 1607. This translation was supplied to him by Alexander Dalrymple, from a Spanish 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. MAJOR.

John Locke. Where are the earliest writings of this great man to be found ?

Were they poetry or prose ?

Is it generally kuown to his biographers which were his maiden attempts ?

Any answers to these Queries, or Notes arising from them, would be learned with pleasure by

JOHN C. HOTTEN.

Piccadilly.

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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 hi 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 B'Miotheca 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. TBEVELYAN.

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 to 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. I 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 as I 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 ferme a- 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 a 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 ? P. H.

[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 hill in the vicinity), I was looking abstractedly on the beautiful Genoa, and, in mind, was about to copy its portrait, when by chance I cast my eyes, without thinking, nor having very pleasant object in my mind, upon the tower of the palace (dro 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."]

Gaunfs "Lucretius." Was a translation of Lucretius, by Rev. J. Gaunt, of Clare Hall, Cam- bridge, advertised in 1796, ever published ?

J. R. 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 man* years before his death in Raglan [Chepstow ?j Castle. E. A. G. 1-

[In Forster's Lives of Eminent British Statesmen, (Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia), will be found the lor, e st biographical notice of Henry Marten ; and some accent of his ancestors, the Martyns of Oakingham, in Berl^'re, in the Gentleman's Magazine for Nov. 1830, p. 403. ^ here are also other notices of him in Wood's Athena:, b obss, vol. iii. p. 1237 ; Regicides no Saints nor Mart^, 8vo. 1700., p. 83. ; and in Coxe's Monmouthshire, part i P; 381., with a portrait of him from a picture in the possum of Charles Lewis, Esq. Wood states that, " durii, l"s ira-