“Denn Drey sind, die de zeugen im Himmel; der Vater, das Wort,
    und der beilige Geist; und diese Drey sind Eins.”

Perhaps some of your learned readers can explain when, and by whose authority, the verse was inserted in Luther’s Testament.

E.M.B.

    [We may add, that the verse also appears in the stereotype
    edition of Luther’s Bible, published by Tauchnitz, at Leipsig,
    in 1819.—­ED.]

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MINOR QUERIES.

Medical Symbols.—­“A PATIENT” inquires respecting the origin and date of the marks used to designate weights in medical prescriptions.

Charles II. and Lord R.’s Daughter.—­Can any of your readers inform me who was the lady that is referred to in the following passage, from Henry Sidney’s Diary, edited by Mr. Blencowe (March 9. 1610, vol. i. p. 298.):—­

    “The King hath a new mistress, Lord R——­’s daughter:  she
    brought the Duke of Monmouth to the King.”

C.

St. Alban’s Day.—­A friend has asked me the following question, which some of your readers may perhaps be able to answer, viz.:—­

“Till the reign of Ed. VI.  St. Alban’s Day was kept in England on June 22d (the supposed anniversary {400} of his martyrdom).  It was then erased from the kalendar, but restored to it in the reign of Chas. II.; when it was transferred to June 17th.  Why was this change made?”

W.C.  TREVELYAN.

Black Broth (No. 19. p. 300.).—­If this were a sauce or condiment, may not the colour have been produced by the juice of the Boletus, much used in Greece to the present day?

S.S.S.

Deputy-Lieutenants of the Tower of London.—­By whom were these officers appointed?  What was the nature of their duties?  Had they a salary, or was the office an honorary appointment?  They used to meet periodically, was it for the transaction of business? if so, what business?  Does the office still exist?

S.S.S.

Buccaneers—­Charles II.—­There is a passage in Bryan Edward’s History of the West Indies (vol. i. p. 164. 4to edit. 1793), in which he gives an opinion that the buccaneers of Jamaica were not the pirates and robbers that they have been commonly represented; and mentions, on the authority of a MS. journal of Sir William Beeston, that Charles II. had a pecuniary interest in the buccaneering, and continued to receive a share of the booty after he had publicly ordered the suppression of buccaneering:  and also, speaking of Sir Henry Morgan, and the honours he received from Charles II., gives an opinion that the stories told of Morgan’s cruelty are untrue.  Can any of your readers tell me who Sir William Beeston was, and what or where his journal is? or refer me to any accessible information about Charles II.’s connection with the buccaneers, or that may support Bryan Edwards’s favourable opinion of the Jamaica buccaneers and of Sir Henry Morgan?