hat "_Cosmopolis_ was certainly
Amsterdam," and that "Coloniae" signifies "Amstelaedami." And I will take
the liberty of suggesting that it would be an acceptable service
rendered to young students, if your learned correspondents would
occasionally communicate in the pages of your work, the modern names,
&c. of such places as are not easily gathered from the books themselves.

P.H.F.

_Cromwell's Estates._--In Carlyle's edition of _Cromwell's Letters and
Speeches_, there is a note (p. 75. vol. iv. of the 3rd ed. 1850)
containing a list of the estates which the Protector owned at the time
of his death, as follows; there being, besides Newhall, specified as "in
Essex," five, viz.--

"Dalby,
Broughton,
Burleigh,
Oakham, and
Egleton."

of which the editor has ascertained the localities; and six, viz.--

L s. d
"Gower, valued at 479 0 0 per an.
Chepstall valued at 549 7 3
Magore valued at 448 0 0
Sydenham valued at 3121 9 6
Woolaston valued at 664 16 6
Chaulton valued at 500 0 0,"

of which, he say, "he knows nothing."

It would surely be a proper, and, one might hope, an attainable object
of inquiry, to search out these unplaced estates of the great Protector,
and give them a local habitation in modern knowledge. This is precisely
one of the kind of queries which your publication seems best fitted to
aid; and I therefore submit it, in the hope of some discoveries, to your
correspondents.

V.
Belgravia, Feb. 18, 1850.

_What are Depinges?_--In the orders made in 1574 for regulating the
fishery at Yarmouth, the Dutch settlers there are "To provide themselves
with twine and _depinges_ in foreign places." What are Depinges?

J.S.B.

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REPLIES

ORIGIN OF THE JEWS-HARP.

The "Jews-harp," or "Jews-trump," is said by several authors to derive
its name from the nation of the Jews, and is vulgarly believed to be one
of their instruments of music. Dr. Littleton renders Jews-trump by
_Sistrum Judaicum_. But no such musical intrument is spoken of by any of
the old authors that treat of the Jewish music. In fact, the Jews-harp
is a mere boy's plaything, and incapable of in itself of being joined
either with a voice or any other instrument; and its present orthography
is nothing more than a corruption of the French _Jeu-trompe_, literally,
a toy trumpet. It is called _jeu-trompe_ by Bacon, _Jew-trump_ by
Beaumont