liam Young, Chandler, within Aldersgate, a
discreet Juryman, and _Barba Longa_, died."

"Fe'r 21., old M'r Lewis, the _Mercenary Preacher_, buried."

Can any of your correspondents explain the meaning of "_Trunck_
Breeches," "_Barba Longa_," and "_Mercenary Preacher_?"

X.Y.Z.

Suffolk, March 4.

_Apposition._--Can any one give me a little information upon the
following passage?--

"Quin age, te incolumi potius (potes omnia quando,
Nec tibi nequiequam pater est qui sidera torquet)
Perficias quodcunque tibi nunc instat agendum."

_Hieronym. Vid. Christ._ lib. i. 67.

I want to know in what case _te incolumi_ is; and, if in the ablative
absolute, can any one bring a parallel construction from the writers
of the Augustan age, where the law of _apposition_ appears to be so
far violated?

A.W.

_Pamphlets respecting Ireland._--"J." wishes to be informed where
copies may be found of the following pamphlets, described in Ware's
_Irish Writers_, under the head "Colonel Richard Laurence," and
"Vincent Gookin, Esq.," son of Sir Vincent Gookin, who, in the year
1634, published "a bitter invective, by way of letter, against the
nation." Vincent Gookin's pamphlet is dated London, 1655, 4to. Any
particulars relative to _his_ family and descendants will oblige.

The title of Col. R. Laurence's book is,--

"The interest of Ireland in the first Transplantation stated;
wherein it set forth the benefit of the Irish Transplantation:
intended as an Answer to the scandalous seditious Pamphlet,
entitled 'The Great Case of Transplantation Discussed.'
London, 1655."

The author of the pamphlet was Vincent Gookin, Esq., Surveyor-General
of Ireland. He did _not_, at first, put his name to it; but when
Laurence's answer appeared, he then owned himself as the author of it,
and published a pamphlet under this title:--

"The Author and Case of Transplanting the Irish into Connaught
Vindicated from the unjust Aspersion of Colonel Richard
Laurence and Vincent Gookin, Esq. London, 1655."

_Portrait of Sir John Poley._--Perhaps some of your numerous
correspondents can answer whether the portrait of Sir John Poley in
Bexstead Hall, alluded to No. 14. p. 214., has been engraved.

J.

February 5.

"_Tace is Latin for a candle._"--Whence is this expression derived,
and what is its meaning? I met with it, many years ago, in a
story-book, and, more lately, in one of the Waver