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d that "pige" in Norse signifies a little maid, a damsel. G. M. Guernsey. _The Baptized Turk_.--Your correspondent CH. (Vol. ii., p. 120.), who inquired about Lord Richard Christophilus (_al._ Isuf Bassa), a converted Turk, may be interested in a curious account of another convert to Christianity, which has lately fallen in my way, if he be not already in possession of the (almost legendary) narrative. I allude to a small 8vo. volume, entitled: "The Baptized Turk; or, A Narrative of the happy conversion of Signior Rigep Dandulo, the onely son of a silk merchant in the isle of Tsio, from the delusions of that great Impostor Mahomet, unto the Christian Religion; and of his admission unto Baptism, by Mr. Gunning at Excester-house Chappel, the 8th of November, 1657. Drawn up by Tho. Warmstry, D.D., Lond. 1658." Dr. Warmstry was Dean of Worcester. His conversion of the Turk Dandulo is mentioned in the _Lansdowne MSS._ (986., p. 67.), and also in the _Athenae Oxonienses_. The narrative is dedicated to "The Right Honourable the Countess of Dorset, the Honourable the Lord George, and the Worshipful Philip Warwick, Esq., _witnesses_ at the baptism of Signior Dandulo the convert." There appears to have been "a picture of the said Dandulo in a Turkish habit put before it;" {462} but this has been abstracted from the only copy I have seen. This conversion appears to have been effected by the instrumentality of a dream; and the Narrative contains an interesting essay of some length on the subject of visions, and gives an interpretation of the dream in question. J. SANSOM. [Footnote 1: On Elizabeth Williams, youngest daughter of Miles (Smith), and wife of John Williams, Esq., died in child-bed at the age of seventeen. The above Miles Smith, was Bishop of Gloster during the latter part of Henry VIII. and part of Elizabeth's reign.] * * * * * Queries. GRAY.--DRYDEN.--PLAYING CARDS. Although my question regarding Gray and Dodsley's _Collection of Poems_ has only been half answered, and my two Queries respecting Dryden's _Absolom and Achitophel_ and _Essay on Satire_ not answered at all, I am not discouraged from putting interrogatories on other matters, in the hope that I may be more fortunate hereafter. On each of my former inquiries I have still a word or two to say, and I do not know why I should not say them now. First, as to Gr
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