ts
and churchwardens of the livings in those counties.

W.M. KINGSMILL.

Westminster, December 1849.

_Mars de Saham--Portum Pusillum._

The first appears to be Soham, in Cambridgeshire; described in _Liber
Eliensis_ as "terra de Saham, quae est ad stagnum juxta Ely." Does "mare"
stand for "stagnum," "palus," "mariscus," or our English "mere?" Can
Portum Pusillum be Littleport, in the same country?

J.F.M.

_Reinerius--Inquisition in France._

Sir,--Faber, in his work on the Waldenses, quotes _Reinerius_, _in
Biblio. Patrum_. I have in vain looked in modern biographical
dictionaries for any account of Reinerius, so am constrained to inquire
of some of your readers, who and what he was, or to beg the favour of a
reference to some accessible account of him. I think Faber says he was
an inquisitor; and this is the extent of the information which I have
been able to collect respecting him.

I wish also to inquire whether his work on Heretics (his only work, I
presume) has been published in any other and more accessible form than
that in which it was referred to by Faber; and, particularly, whether it
has ever been translated into English.

I have often wished to know whether the tribunal of the Inquisition was
ever established elsewhere in France than at Toulouse. Can any of your
correspondents enlighten me on the point, and give me references in
proof?

D.

[The work of Reinerius Saccho was first published by the Jesuit
Gretser in 1613, and has since been reprinted in the different
editions of the _Bibliotheca Patrum_. It has never been translated
into English.]

_Whelps._

The following extracts from the _Travels of Sir William Brereton_ may
answer the inquiry respecting the ships called "Whelps":--

"Waterford, 25 July, 1635. About six hour I went aboard one of the
kings ships, called the ninth _whelp_, which is in the king's books
215 ton and tonnage in kings books. She carries sixteen pieces of
ordinance, two brass rakers, six iron demiculverin drakes, four
iron whole culverin drakes, and four iron demicannon drakes. They
are called drakes. They are taper-bored in the camber, and are
tempered with extraordinary metal to carry that shot; these are
narrower where the powder is put in, and wider where the shot is
put in, and with this kind of ordinance his majesty is much
affected. This ship is manned with sixty men."--p.