ers of that Church [the Church of
Rome] are required to believe now; it is impossible for men to foresee
what they may be called upon to admit as an article of faith next year,
or in any future year: for instance, till of late it was open to a
Roman Catholic to believe or not, as he might see reason, the fanciful
notion of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin; but the
present Bishop of Rome has seen fit to make it an article of their
faith; and no member of his church can henceforth question it without
denying the infallibility of his spiritual sovereign, and so hazarding,
as it is asserted, his own salvation."

Can any of your correspondents inform me where the papal decision on this
point is to be found?

L.

_Gospel Oak Tree at Kentish Town._--Can you inform me why an ancient oak
tree, in a field at Kentish Town, is called the "Gospel Oak Tree." It is
situated and grows in the field called the "Gospel Oak Field," Kentish
Town, St. Pancras, Middlesex. Tradition says Saint Augustine, or one of the
ancient Fathers of the Church, preached under its branches.

STEPHEN.

_Arminian Nunnery in Huntingdonshire._--Where can I find an account of a
religious academy called the _Arminian Nunnery_, founded by the family of
the FERRARS, at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire? I have seen some MS.
collections of Francis Peck on the subject, but they are formed in a bad
spirit. Has not Thomas Hearne left us something about this institution?

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Ruding's Annotated Langbaine._--Can any of your readers inform me who
possesses the copy of Langbaine's _Account of the English Dramatic Poets_
with MS. additions, and copious continuations, by the REV. ROGERS RUDING?
In one of his notes, speaking of the Garrick collection of old plays, that
industrious antiquary observes:

"This noble collection has lately (1784) been mutilated by tearing out
such single plays as were duplicates to others in the Sloane Library.
The folio editions of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Jonson,
have likewise been taken from it for the same reason."

This is a sad complaint against the Museum authorities of former times.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Mrs. Tempest._--Can any of your correspondents give me any account of Mrs.
(or, in our present style, Miss) Tempest, a young lady who died the day of
the great storm in Nov., 1703, in honour of whom Pope's early friend Walshe
w