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

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'Aubign�� most unmercifully for repeating an old story about Luther's stumbling upon a Bible, and pooh-pooh's D'Aubign��'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 prima 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 any subsequent decision has deprived of this right a commoner marrying a peeress and having issue male by her?
L.R.N.
_The Character "&."_--What is the correct name of the character "&?" I have heard it called _ample-se-and_, _ampuzz��nd_, _empuz��d_, _amp��ssy_, and _apples-and_,--all evident corruptions of one and the same word. What is that word?
M.A. LOWER.
_Combs buried with the Dead._--When the corpse of St. Cuthbert was disinterred in the cathedral of Durham, there was found upon his breast a plain simple Saxon comb. A similar relique has been also discovered in other sepulchres of the same sanctuary.
Can any of your learned contributors inform me (for I am totally ignorant) the origin and intent of this strange accompaniment of the burial of the ancient dead.