_A Coggeshall Job._--"_Saffron Walden, God help me._"--Has the old saying of "A Coggeshall Job" occupied the attention of your readers? And why is it that many of the mendicants who ramble the county of Suffolk in search of relief, when asked where they come from, reply in a pitiful tone, "Saffron Walden, God help me." J. C. Easton. _T. Gilburt on Clandestine Marriages._--I have a MS. against the validity of clandestine marriages, dated from Oxford, June 23rd, 1682, signed T. Gilburt. It is a learned and argumentative treatise on this subject. It is entitled: "An Argument against the Validitie of Clandestine Marriages in the Sight of God. Sent with a Letter to a person of Qualitie desiring my Judgment in y^e case wherein he was too nearly concerned." I am anxious to know who this T. Gilburt may have been. W. F. _Father Hehl, and Cahagnet._--If any of your numerous readers can say where any account of Father Hehl, who in 1774 discovered animal magnetism, may be found; and whether such a person as M. L. Alph. Cahagnet is _living_ in Paris or elsewhere, whether he is a doctor or pharmacien, what his age may be, and whether the persons whose letters are given in his book, _Arcanes de la Vie future devoiles_, are real or imaginary beings, they will greatly comfort ENGASTRIMYTHUS. _Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland._--Can any of your readers refer me to any printed or manuscript account of the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland by the Stuart family subsequent to the death of James II., containing names, dates, &c.? DRUMLETHGLAS. _Derivation of the Word Fib._--Can any of your readers suggest a proper derivation of this word? Old Bailey, to whom a reference would occasionally save many doubts and inquiries, connects it with "fable." Johnson says nothing as to the etymology, but explains it as "a cant word among children;" while, at the same time, he inserts it on the authority of Pope and Arbuthnot. In reading the works of that very learned and instructive author, Samuel Werenfels, I was struck with a passage in his _Diatribe de Meteoris_, p. 272. (Amstel. Wetstein, 1702), which seemed to furnish a probable solution of the question:--"Propter abusum nominis Phoebi evenit, ut omnes qui, altius in oratione, quam decet, se extollere volunt, Gallis hodiernis [Greek: phoibologein] Phoebum loqui, _Parler_ _Phebus_, dicantur." So far as the sound is concerned, this seems a nearer approximation to "fib" than the word "fable." The sense, too, is not _very_ remote from the accepted one of "_talking fibs_." Query, as to this conjecture? C. H. P. Brighton, Feb. 10. 1851.