On the wrapper which contains the two pieces is written:
"The two inclosed pieces of music _ware_ given to me by my worthy friend Dr. Philip Hayes, with an _ashurance_ that they are the handwriting of the celebrated Mr. Handel. The duett, indeed, has all the appearance of being the original conception of that greate man _pen'd_ by himself."
I am desirous of ascertaining from some of your correspondents, better versed than myself in the soul-stirring music of this noble composer, whether the duet has been printed; and if so, where it may be found? The only means of identification which I can supply are these: it is written in two flats, and the words are--
"Và, và, speme infida pur va non ti credo."
_The Layard Family._--The ancestor of A. H. Layard, the youthful and everywhere celebrated "Navorscher" of Nineveh, came to England with William of Orange. He fought under this prince at the battle of the Boyne. I would ask, whether anything is known of his genealogy before 1688?
_C.L.A.A.P.D.P._--The famous _Avis aux Réfugiéz_, a work commonly attributed to Bayle, pretends on its title-page to have been written "Par Mons. C.L.A.A.P.D.P." Who can tell me whether these initials have any purport?
_Prianho, De Pratellis and Prideaux Family._--What ground is there for Dr. Oliver, the author of _Historic Collections relating to the Monasteries of Devon_, published 1820, and the Rev. G. C. Gorham, in his _History of St. Neots in Huntingdonshire and in Cornwall_, published in 1824, supposing that De Pratellis is the same name as Prideaux? Dr. Oliver says (p. 123.), Adam Prianho or De Pratellis al Prydeaux appointed prior. Gorham, vol. i. p. 172., says, Robert de Preus (_alias_ Robert de Pratell?). And again, in vol. ii. p. clxviii., Robert de Preaux _alias_ Prideaux, was presented by the prior and convent in 1270; his quotation is from Instituted rolls and Registers, Lincoln Cathedral: the roll reads Preus and De Pratellis.
_Joseph Adrien Le Bailly._--In the choir of the church of St. Sauveur at Bruges is a monument of black marble, to the memory of Joseph Adrien Le Bailly, who died the 18th Oct. 1775, aged eighty-two. After describing him as the member of a noble and warlike family, the epitaph proceeds as follows: