Pocket Dictionary of the English and Dutch
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DICTIONNAIRE Hollandais et Francais. 16mo. Leipzig, 4s.

HOLLANDISCH u. deutsches Taschen-woerterbuch. 16mo. 4s.]

"_Salting._"--Salt is said by all writers upon magic to be particularly
disagreeable to evil spirits; and it is owing to this noxious substance
being dissolved in holy water, that it has such power in scaring them
away. Query, did not salt acquire this high character, and its use in
all sacrifices, from its powers of resisting corruption?

Salt is used emblematically in many of our foreign universities. There
is a book published at Strasburg as late as 1666, containing twenty
plates, illustrating the several strange ceremonies of the "Depositio."
The last represents _the giving of the salt_, which a person is on a
plate in his left hand; and, with his right hand, about to put _a pinch
of it_ upon the tongue of each _Becanus_ or Freshman. A glass, probably
holding wine, is standing near him. Underneath is the following
couplet:--

"_Sal Sophiae gustate_, bibatis vinaque laeta,
Augeat immensus vos in utrisque Deus!"

A copy of this rare book was sold in the Rev. John Brand's collection. I
have never seen it, and know it only from a MS. note in one of Brand's
Common Place Books now in my possession.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Vincent Gookin_ (No. 24. p. 385.).--Your querist "J." is referred to
Berry's _Kentish Pedigrees_, where, at pp. 60. 195. 202. 207. and 113.,
he will find notices and a pedigree of the family _Gookin_; and therein
it is shown that Vincent Gookin was the fourth son of John Gookin of
Replecourt, co. Kent, by Katherine, dau. of William Dene of Kingston.

In the early part of the 7th century, Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt. (why was
he knighted?) was living at Highfield House, in the parish of Bitton,
Gloucestershire. It appears by the register, that in 1635, Mary Gookin,
Gentleman, and Samuel, son of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., were buried at
Bitton.

In 1637, John Gookin of Highfield, age 11 years, was buried in the
Mayor's Chapel, Bristol.

1637, Frances, dau. of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., and the Lady Judith,
was baptized at Bitton.

1637, Feb. 13. "Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., was buryed" at Bitton.

1642, May 2. "Judith, the Lady Gookin, was buryed" at Bitton.

There are no monuments remaining.

Highfield, with the manor of Upt