ns are appointed
_executors_ and another _overseers_. What were the rights and duties of
these latter?

J. K.

_Lepel's Regiment._--Can your correspondent MR. ARTHUR HAMILTON inform me
what is the regiment known in 1707 as _Lepel's Regiment_? It was a cavalry
regiment, I believe.

J. K.

_Vincent Family._--Can any of your correspondents give me any information
respecting the descendants of Francis Vincent, grandson of Augustine
Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant at Arms. His sister Elizabeth has, or had
very lately, a representative in the person of Francis Offley Edmunds of
Worsborough, Yorkshire; but nowhere have I been able to obtain any
information respecting himself. If you could give any information on this
subject, you would much oblige

C. WILSON.

_Passage in the First Part of Faust._--

"_Faust._ Es Klopft? Herein! Wer will mich wieder plagen?
_Mephistopheles._ Ich bin's.
_Faust._ Herein!
_Mephis._ Du musst es dreimal sagen.
_Faust._ Herein denn!
_Mephis._ So gefaellst du mir."

Why must he say it _three_ times? Is this a superstition that can be traced
in other countries than Germany? In Horace we have Diana thus addressed:

"_Ter_ vocata audis, adimisque letho,
Diva triformis."--Lib. iii. Ode 22.

But she is there the benign Diana, not Hecate.

Are we to understand the passage to mean, that the number _three_ has a
magical influence in summoning spirits; or to teach that the power of evil
is so overruled by a higher Power, that he cannot approach to begin his
work of temptation and ruin unless he be, not once merely, or twice, but
_three_ times, called by the free will and act of the individual who is
surrendering himself to his influence? The subject seems worthy of
elucidation.

W. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

_Lady Anne Gray._--Who was the "Lady Anne Gray," or "Lady Gray," who was
one of the attendants on Queen Elizabeth when princess, and is mentioned
first in Sir John Harrington's poem in praise of her ladies?

N. A.

_Continental Brasses._--At a recent meeting of the Archaeological Institute,
Mr. Nesbitt exhibited rubbings of some fine brasses at Bamberg, Naumberg,
Meissen, and Erfurt. Mr. Nesbitt would confer a favour on the readers of
"N. & Q." by stating the names and dates of those sepulchral memorials, and
the churches from which he obtained the rubbings, and thus aid in carrying
out MR. W. SPARROW SIMPSON'S excellent suggestion for obtaining a complete
list of monumen