_The Antediluvians._--Can you or any of your learned correspondents inform me of any work likely to assist me in my researches into the antediluvian history of our race? The curious treatise of Reimmanus, and the erudite essay of J. Joachimus Maderus, I have now before me; but it occurs to me that, besides these and the more patent sources of information, such as Bruckerus and Josephus, there must be other, and perhaps more modern, works which may be more practically useful. Perhaps the author of the elegant essay on the subject in _Eruvin_ may be able to refer to such a a work. G. A. J. * * * * * Minor Queries Answered. _Wither's Haleluiah._--Mr. R. A. Willmott, in his _Lives of Sacred Poets_, has done himself credit by doing justice to George Wither, and vindicating his claims as poet, whom it has long been the fashion to underrate, but who Southey said "had the heart and soul of a poet in him."--(_Life_, iii. 126.) In the _Life_, Mr. Willmott says: "In 1641 appeared the _Haleluiah, or Britain's Second Remembrancer_ ... which book, now as scarce as the first _Remembrancer_ is common, I have not seen." It is therefore very probable that the work is seldom to be met with. I have a copy, but it is unfortunately imperfect; wanting a few leaves (only a few I imagine) at the end. There is no index, nor table of contents, by which I might ascertain the extent of the deficiency. The last page is 478, and contains a portion of Hymn 60, part iii. If any reader of "NOTES AND QUERIES" would kindly inform me what is the number of pages of the work, and where a copy may be seen, he will oblige S. S. S. [The work consists of 487 pages, with an index of twelve more. A copy of it in in the Library of the British Museum.] _Voltaire's Henriade._--Is it known who is the author of the English translation of this poem into blank verse, published in 1732. The preface and the notes create a desire to know the author. In one of the notes (17) he speaks of something as being "proved at large in my _History of Christianity_ now ready for the press." I am not aware that any such work exists. Was it ever published? If not what became of the manuscript? S. T. D. [Voltaire's _Henriade_ was translated by John Lockman, a gentleman of great literary industry, who died Feb. 2, 1771. See Nichols's _Bowyer_, and Chalmers's _Biographical Dictionary_. A list of his published works will be found in Watt's _Bibliotheca Britan_.] _Christ-Crosse A._--In Tatham's _Fancie's Theater_, 12mo., 1640, is a poem in praise of sack, wherein the following lines occur: "The very children, ere they scarce can say Their Pater Noster, or their _Christ-crosse A_, Will to their Parents prattle, and desire To taste that Drinke which Gods doe so admire." Can any of your readers inform me the meaning of "_Christ-Crosse A_" here mentioned? Does it allude to some alphabet then in use? CATO.