h,
entitled _The Finding of the Rayned Deer_, but it bears title to
be printed in Antwerp, it should say to be done by som prieste
in defence of the late Essex's tumult."

The above is the postscript to a letter of the celebrated Father Parsons
written "to one Eure, in England", April 30, 1601, a contemporary copy
of which exists in the State Paper Office [Rome,] Whitehall. Can any of
your readers tell me whether anything is known of this book?

SPES.

June 28. 1850.

_The Lass of Richmond Hill._--I should be much obliged by being informed
who wrote the _words_ of the above song, and when, if it was produced
originally at some place of public entertainment. The Rev. Thomas
Maurice, in his elegant poem on Richmond Hill, has considered it to have
been written upon a Miss Crop, who committed suicide on that spot, April
23rd, 1782; but he was evidently misinformed, as it appeared some few
years later, and had no reference to that event. I have heard it
attributed to Leonard Mac Nally, a writer of some dramatic pieces, but
on no certain grounds; and it may have been a Vauxhall song about the
year 1788. The music was by James Hook, the father of Theodore Hook.

QUAERO.

_Curfew._--In what towns or villages in England is the old custom of
ringing the curfew still retained?

NABOC.

_Alumni of Oxford, Cambridge, and Winchester._--Are the alumni of the
various colleges of Oxford, Cambridge, and Winchester, published from an
early period, and the various preferments they held, similar to the one
published at Eton.

J.R. Fox.

_St. Leger's Life of Archbishop Walsh._--In Doctor Oliver's _History of
the Jesuits_, it is stated that William St. Leger, an Irish member of
that Society, wrote the _Life of Thomas Walsh, Archbishop of Cashel_, in
Ireland, published in 4to. at Antwerp in 1655. Can any of your numerous
readers inform me if a copy of this work is to be found in the British
Museum, or any other public library, and something of its contents?

J.W.H. {104}

_Query put to a Pope._--

"Sancte Pater! scire vellem
Si Papatus mutat pellem?"

I have been told that these lines were addressed to one of the popes,
whose life, before his elevation to the see of St. Peter, had been
passed in excesses but little suited to the clerical profession.

They were addressed to him _orally_, by one of his former associates,
who met and stopped him while on his way to or from some high festival
of the