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 Sophiæ gustate_, bibatis vinaque læta, 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. There are no monuments remaining. Highfield, with the manor of Upton Cheyney, was a considerable estate in 1627, where it was passed by fine from John and Mary Barker to Vincent Gookin, Esq. In 1646, Vincent Gookin, Esq. (no doubt the knight's _son_), and Mary his wife, and Robert Gookin their son, Gent., passed the same estates by fine to Dr. Samuel Bave, after which it is supposed the Gookins left the parish. In Sims' _Index_ are references to pedigrees under _Gokin, Kent_. Any further notices of _Sir_ Vincent or his son would be acceptable to H.T. ELLACOMBE. Bitton, May 20, 1850.