"What, are we the dregs of the earth not to hear the Scriptures in our
own tongue?" Usher mentions the circumstance (_Historia Dogmatica_,
&c.), and it is borrowed from him by Fox. But I am so ignorant as not to
know the original and cotemporary authority.

3. Your learned correspondent, DR. MAITLAND, in his _Dark Ages_, snubs
D'Aubigné most unmercifully for repeating an old story about Luther's
stumbling upon a Bible, and pooh-pooh's D'Aubigné's authority,
Mathesius, as no better than a goose. May I ask whether it is possible
to discover the probable foundation of such a story, and whether Luther
has left us in his writings any account of his early familiarity with
Scripture, that would bear upon the alleged incident, and show how much
of it may be true?

C.F.S.

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_The Lost Tribes._--A list of all the theories and publications
respecting the ten tribes commonly called the Lost tribes, or any
communication concerning them, will much oblige.

JARLTZBERG.


_Partrige Family._--Can any of your readers inform me where I can see
the grant mentioned in the following _note_ taken from Strype's
_Ecclesiastical Memorials_, vol. iii. p. 542: "I find a grant to the