1846; but some
"Specimens of Gypsy dialects" are added. Our correspondent may also be
referred to the two following works, which appear in the current number
of Quarritch's Catalogue: "Pott, Die Zigeuner in Europa und Asien, vol.
i. Einleitung und Grammatik, ii. Ueber Gaunersprachen, Woerterbuch and
Sprachproben, 2 vols. 8vo. sewed, 15s. Halle, 1844-45." "Rotwellsche
Grammatik oder Sprachkunst; Woerterbuch der Zigeuner-Sprache, 2 parts in
1, 12mo. half-bound morocco, 7s. 6d. Frankfurt, 1755."]

_Sir Robert Coke._--Of what family was Sir Robert Coke, referred to in
_Granger_, vol. iii. p. 212., ed. 1779, as having collected a valuable
library bestowed by George, first Earl of Berkeley, on Sion College,
London, the letter of thanks for which is in Collins?

T. P. L.

Manchester.

[Sir Robert Coke was son and heir to Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief
Justice of the Kings Bench. The Cokes had been settled for many
generations in the county of Norfolk. Camden has traced the pedigree of
the family to William Coke of Doddington in Norfolk, in the reign of
King John. They had risen to considerable distinction under Edward
III., when Sir Thomas Coke was made Seneschal of Gascoigne. From him,
in the right male line, was descended Robert Coke, the father of Sir
Edward. See Campbell's _Lives of Chief Justices_, vol. i. p. 240.]

_Regium Donum._--What is the origin and history of the "Regium Donum?"

HENRI VAN LAUN.

King William's College, Isle of Man.

[In the year 1672, Charles II. gave to Sir Arthur Forbes the sum of
600l., to be applied to the use of the Presbyterian ministers in
Ireland. He professed not to know how to bestow it in a better manner,
as he had learnt that these ministers had been loyal, and had even
suffered on his account; and as that sum remained undisposed of in "the
settlement of the revenue of Ireland," he gave it in his charity to
them. This was the origin of the _Regum donum_. As the dissenters
approved themselves strong friends to the House of Brunswick, George
I., in 1723, wished too to reward them for their loyalty, and, by a
retaining fee, preserve them stedfast. A considerable sum, therefore,
was annually lodged with the heads of the Presbyterians, Independents,
and Baptists, to be distributed among the necessitous ministers of
their congregations.]

_Who was the Author of "Jerningham"