DELLA TENAGLIA, M.DC.LXXXI."

I should like to know something of the authorship of these volumes, and of
the circumstances under which they were published.

"The Slaughter-House, or a brief description of the Spanish
Inquisition, &c., gathered together by the pains and study of James
Salgado." N.D.

The biographical dictionaries within my reach give no account of Salgado.
Who was he?

"Historia Persecutionium Ecclesiae Bohemicae jam inde a primordiis
Conversionis suae ad Christianismum hoc est, 894, ad annum usque 1632,
Ferdinando Secundo Austriaco regnante, &c., anno Domini M D CXLVIII." 1
vol. 32mo.

I have an English translation of this small work, published in 1650. Can
any of your readers inform me who were the authors? (The preface concludes,
"In our banishment in the year 1632. N. N. N., &c.")

IOTA.

Liverpool, October, 1850.

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Minor Queries.

_Osnaburg Bishopric._--Can any of your correspondents inform me who
succeeded the late Duke of York as Bishop of Osnaburg? how the Duke of York
attained it? and whether there were any ecclesiastical duties attached to
it? or whether the appointment was a lay one?

B. M.

_Meaning of "Farlief"._--May I ask for a definition of the word "farlief",
used in Devonshire to designate some service or payment to the lord of the
manor by his copyholders, apparently analogous to the old feudal "relief"?

V. J. S.

_Margaret Dyneley._--In Stanford Dingley Church, Berkshire, there is a
"brass" of _Margaret Dyneley_, from whose family, I presume, the parish has
received its appellation of _Dingley_. As, however, I have not yet
succeeded in obtaining any account as to this lady or her ancestors, I
should feel obliged by any information which your learned correspondents
only be able to afford.

J. H. K.

_Tristan d'Acunha._--COSMOPOLITE will be glad to have references to any
authentic sources of information respecting the island of Tristan d'Acunha.

_Production of Fire by Friction._--In most of the accounts written by
persons who have visited the South Sea Islands, we meet with descriptions
of the method adopted by the natives to produce fire by the rapid attrition
of two bits of wood. Now I wish to ask whether any person has ever seen the
same effect produced in this country by similar means? If not, to what
cause is the difficulty--if such difficulty really exists--attributable?

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