_Dancing Trenchmore_ (Vol. iii., p. 89.).--Your correspondent S. G. asks the meaning of this phrase? _Trenchmore_ was a very popular dance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The earliest mention I find of it occurs in 1564, and the latest in 1728. The figure and the musical notes may be seen in the fifth and later editions of _The Dancing Master_. See also Chappell's _National English Airs_, vol. ii. p. 181., where some amusing quotations concerning its popularity are given. _Trenchmore_ (the meaning of which we have to seek) was, however, more particularly the name of the _dance_ than the tune. The _dance_, in fact, was performed to _various_ tunes. In proof of this I give the following quotation from Taylor the water-poet's _Navy of Land Ships_, 1627: "Nimble-heel'd mariners (like so many dancers) capring in the pompes and vanities of this sinful world, sometimes a Morisco, or _Trenchmore_ of forty miles long, to the tune of _Dusty my deare_, _Dirty come thou to me_, _Dun out of the mire_, or _I waile in woe and plunge in paine_: all these dances have no other musicke." EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. * * * * * _Demosthenes and New Testament_ (Vol. iii., p. 350.).--If your correspondent C. H. P. had referred to the _Critici Sacri_, he would have found his questions answered. With regard to the quotation from Acts xvii. 21., I beg to inform him that Drusius makes the same reference, but generally only, as Pricæus; while Grotius gives the passages with particular references, in the same manner as Lagnerius. As to the passage from St. Matthew xiii. 14., he would have found, had he consulted the _Critici Sacri_, that Grotius quotes the same passage from Demosthenes as Pricæus; but, as far as I can see, they are the only commentators in that work who observed the parallel passages. However, the fact of its being "employed as an established proverb by Demosthenes having been generally overlooked," as C. H. P. supposes, is not quite correct, as it is mentioned in the brief notes in Dr. Burton's _Greek Testament_, Oxon., 1831. H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford, May 3. 1851. * * * * * _Roman Catholic Church_ (Vol. iii., pp. 168. 409.).--E. H. A. will find the information which he requires in the _Notizie per l'anno_ 1851. It is a very small annual published at Rome _by authority_. Its price cannot exceed 4_s._ or 5_s._ F. * * * * * _Yankee, Derivation of_ (Vol. iii., p. 260.).--In Webster's _American Dictionary_, and in the _Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific_, J. M. will see the etymology of Yankee, which M. Philarète Charles supposes not to be given in any work American or English. NORTHMAN.