Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 | Page 6

of Cardinal Wolsey. I have looked into the
greater part of the French authors who have written historically on the
reign of François I. without having found any mention of such
personage--_L'Art de vérifier les Dates_, &c., without success. He is
frequently spoken of by English writers, and particularly in the _Union
of the Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke_, by Edward Halle, 1548,
folios 135, 136, 139, 144, and 149.; at folio 144., 17th year of Hen.
VIII., it is stated:--
"There came over as ambassador from France, Jhon Jokyn, now called
M. de Vaux, which, as you have heard in the last year, was kept secret
in Master Lark's house; and when he came into England he was
welcomed of the Cardinal (Wolsey), and there between them were such
communications at the suit of the said Jhon, that a truce was concluded
from the 13th of July for forty days between England and France, both
on the sea, and beyond the sea," &c. &c.
This M. Jokyn, or Joachim, appears to have been a person of
considerable influence, and it appears his purpose on this mission was

to bribe Wolsey; and it seems that the Chancellor Duprat was aware of
this, and was much displeased on the occasion.
AMICUS. Aug 3, 1850.
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SCRIPTURES, ROMAN CATHOLIC TRANSLATIONS OF,
LUTHER'S FAMILIARITY WITH.
The replies I have gained to previous Queries encourage me to trouble
you with the following:--
1. Has the Roman Catholic Church ever published a translation of the
Scriptures, or any part of them, into the vernacular _Irish_? Have their
missionaries in China ever translated anything beyond the Epistles and
Gospels of the Missal? Or, is there any Roman Catholic translation into
any of the vernacular languages of _India_? Or, are there any versions
in any of the American dialects by Roman Catholic authors, besides
those mentioned by Le Long in his Bibliotheca Sacra. And is there any
continuation of his work up to {230} the present day? I am acquainted
with Bishop Marsh's volume, but he seems ill-informed and speaks
vaguely about Roman Catholic versions.
2. What is the authority for the familiar story of a bill being brought
into parliament for the suppression of all vernacular translations in
Richard II.'s reign, and of its being stoutly opposed by John of Gaunt?
"What, are we the dregs of the earth not to hear the Scriptures in our
own tongue?" Usher mentions the circumstance (_Historia Dogmatica_,
&c.), and it is borrowed from him by Fox. But I am so ignorant as not
to know the original and cotemporary authority.
3. Your learned correspondent, DR. MAITLAND, in his _Dark Ages_,
snubs D'Aubigné most unmercifully for repeating an old story about
Luther's stumbling upon a Bible, and pooh-pooh's D'Aubigné's
authority, Mathesius, as no better than a goose. May I ask whether it is
possible to discover the probable foundation of such a story, and
whether Luther has left us in his writings any account of his early
familiarity with Scripture, that would bear upon the alleged incident,
and show how much of it may be true?
C.F.S.
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MINOR QUERIES
_The Lost Tribes._--A list of all the theories and publications

respecting the ten tribes commonly called the Lost tribes, or any
communication concerning them, will much oblige.
JARLTZBERG.
_Partrige Family._--Can any of your readers inform me where I can see
the grant mentioned in the following note taken from Strype's
_Ecclesiastical Memorials_, vol. iii. p. 542: "I find a grant to the Lady
Jane Partrige for life, of the manor of Kenne in Devon, of the yearly
value of 57l. 12s. 0-3/4d., but this not before April, 1553." Can any of
your readers tell me how to obtain access to a private act 1st Mary,
Sessio secunda. cap. 9., anno 1553, intituled, "An Act for the
Restitution in Blood of the Heirs of Sir Miles Partrige, Knight"? Strype
calls it an act for the restitution of the daughters of Sir Miles Partrige,
and I think he must be right, as I have primâ facie proof that Sir Miles
left no son. Were the debates on the acts of parliament recorded in
those days, and if so, how can they be seen?
J. PARTRIGE.
Birmingham.
_Commoner marrying a Peeress._--Formerly, when a commoner
married a peeress in her own right, he assumed her title and dignity.
The right was, I believe, disputed during the reign of Henry VIII., in the
case of the claimant of the barony of Talbois, when it was decided that
no man could take his wife's titles unless he had issue male by her, but,
if there were such issue, he became, as in cases of landed property,
"tenant by curtesy" of her dignities. Can any of your correspondents
inform me whether