_Compendyous Olde Treatyse._--In Ames's _Typographical Antiquities_, vol. i. p. 405. (ed. Herbert), is described a work, printed by Rycharde Banckes, some time between 1525 and 1545, entitled, "A compendyous olde treatyse shewynge howe that we ought to have the Scripture in Englyshe, with the Auctours." 12mo. 18 leaves. This copy belonged to Herbert himself, and was probably obtained at the sale of Thomas Granger, in 1732. Any information as to its wherabout at present, or the existence of any other copy of the above tract, would confer a fabour on the inquirer. F.M. _The Topography of Foreign Printing Presses._--I have often been at a loss to discover the locality of names which designate the places where books have been printed at Foreign presses; and "when found" to "make a note of it." I was therefore pleased to find in No. 16. p. 251., by the reply of "R.G." to Mr. Jebb, that "_Cosmopolis_ was certainly Amsterdam," and that "Coloniæ" signifies "Amstelædami." 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.-- £ 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. * * * * * REPLIES ORIGIN OF THE JEWS-HARP.