The other day our Hindoo nurse was watching our baby asleep, and noticing that it frequently smiled, said, "God is talking to it!" The tradition, as elicited from this woman, seems to be here, that when a child smiles in its sleep, God is saying something pleasing to it; but when it cries, He is talking to it of sorrow. J. C. B. Punjab. _Pronunciation of Coke_ (Vol. vii., p. 586.).--Probably the under-mentioned particulars may tend to elucidate the Query discussed in your paper touching the pronunciation of Chief Justice Coke's surname in his Lordship's time. In numerous original family "Coke documents" in my possession, amongst which are a most spirited and highly interesting letter written by the celebrated Lady Elizabeth Hatton[1], Sir Edward Coke's widow, quite in character with her ladyship, shortly after her husband's death; and likewise several letters written by his children and grandchildren; Sir Edward's surname is invariably spelt Coke, whilst in other his family documents[2] and public precepts I possess, the latter of which came under the eye of Lords Keepers Coventry and Littleton, Sir Edward's name is, in nine cases out of ten in five hundred instances, spelt _Cooke_ and _Cook_; thus, I submit, raising an almost irresistible presumption that, however the Chief Justice's surname was written, it was pronounced _Cook_ and not C_o_ke. T. W. JONES. Nantwich. [Footnote 1: Her surname is so written.] [Footnote 2: Some of them of so early a date as the year 1600, when Sir Edward was Attorney-General to Queen Elizabeth.] _The Advice supposed to have been given to Julius III._--The _Consilium_, sometimes and inadvertently called a _Council_, addressed to Julius III., Pope of Rome, by certain prelates, has just been once more quoted, for the fiftieth time, perhaps, within the present generation, as a genuine document, and as proceeding from adherents of the Church of Rome. This re-quotation appears in an otherwise useful little volume of the Religious Tract Society, entitled _The Bible in many Tongues_, p. 96.; and it may tend to check the use made of the supposed Advice or Council to state, what a perusal either of the original in Brown's _Fasciculus Rerum Expetend. et Fugiend._, or of a translation in Gibson's _Preservative_ (vol. i. pp. 183. 191., ed. 1848), will soon make evident, that the document in question is a piece of banter, and must be attributed to the pen of P. P. Vergerio, in whose _Works_ it is in fact included, in the single volume published Tubing. 1563, fol. 94--104. So frequently has this supposed Advice been cited as a _serious_ affair, that the pages of "N. & Q." may be well employed in endeavouring to stop the somewhat perverse use of a friendly weapon. NOVUS. * * * * * Queries. BISHOP GARDINER "DE VERA OBEDIENTIA."