AREDJID KOOEZ.

    [Messrs. Williams and Norgate have also obligingly answered this
    Query, by the following list:—­

    PYL (R. van der), A practical Grammar of the Dutch Language,
    8vo.  Rotterd. 1826, 8s.

    AHN (F.) Neue hollaendische Sprachlehre nebst Lesestucke, 12mo. 
    Cref. 1841, 2s.

    AHN (F) hollaendische Umgangsprache, 12mo. 1846, 1s. 6d.

    PICARD (H.) A new Pocket Dictionary of the English and Dutch
    Languages, remodelled and corrected from the best Authorities. 
    Zalt-bommel, 1848, 10s. 6d.

    DICTIONNAIRE Hollandais et Francais. 16mo.  Leipzig, 4s.

    HOLLANDISCH u. deutsches Taschen-woerterbuch. 16mo. 4s.]

“Salting.”—­Salt is said by all writers upon magic to be particularly disagreeable to evil spirits; and it is owing to this noxious substance being dissolved in holy water, that it has such power in scaring them away.  Query, did not salt acquire this high character, and its use in all sacrifices, from its powers of resisting corruption?

Salt is used emblematically in many of our foreign universities.  There is a book published at Strasburg as late as 1666, containing twenty plates, illustrating the several strange ceremonies of the “Depositio.”  The last represents the giving of the salt, which a person is on a plate in his left hand; and, with his right hand, about to put a pinch of it upon the tongue of each Becanus or Freshman.  A glass, probably holding wine, is standing near him.  Underneath is the following couplet:—­

  “Sal Sophiae gustate, bibatis vinaque laeta,
  Augeat immensus vos in utrisque Deus!”

A copy of this rare book was sold in the Rev. John Brand’s collection.  I have never seen it, and know it only from a MS. note in one of Brand’s Common Place Books now in my possession.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Vincent Gookin (No. 24. p. 385.).—­Your querist “J.” is referred to Berry’s Kentish Pedigrees, where, at pp. 60. 195. 202. 207. and 113., he will find notices and a pedigree of the family Gookin; and therein it is shown that Vincent Gookin was the fourth son of John Gookin of Replecourt, co.  Kent, by Katherine, dau. of William Dene of Kingston.

In the early part of the 7th century, Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt. (why was he knighted?) was living at Highfield House, in the parish of Bitton, Gloucestershire.  It appears by the register, that in 1635, Mary Gookin, Gentleman, and Samuel, son of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., were buried at Bitton.

In 1637, John Gookin of Highfield, age 11 years, was buried in the Mayor’s Chapel, Bristol.

1637, Frances, dau. of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., and the Lady Judith, was baptized at Bitton.

1637, Feb. 13.  “Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., was buryed” at Bitton.

1642, May 2.  “Judith, the Lady Gookin, was buryed” at Bitton.