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He wrote a book of annals called ' The Psalter of Cashel,' said to have been compiled about A.D. 900 but now lost. Copies of the work existing in the seventeenth century were used by Keating, the historian. It chronicled especially the affairs of Munster. The word Psalter in Irish meant simply a book of poems, not necessarily of a religious kind. Cormac also wrote ' Cormac's Glossary,' an explanation of many old Irish words. This work still exists, and has been trans- lated and printed.

WILLIAM MACABTHUB. 79, Talbot Street, Dublin.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

' THE RECUSANT POETS.' An earnest and confident appeal is made to readers of ' N. & Q.' to help a little towards the com- pletion cf a book lately compiled from out- of - the - way sources. It is called ' The Recusant Poets,' and covers, chronologically, the first two centuries of the penal laws against Roman Catholics. The editors are the Rev. Geoffrey Bliss, S.J., and myself. We have gone pretty thoroughly over known ground, and covered a good many obscure or inedited old MSS., but should be more than grateful to be told of others in private hands and not likely to have fallen in our way. Verses bearing upon the persecutions or sufferings of Catholics in England between 1535 and 1735 would be especially valu- able. Also it would be' a great boon could we get sight of the following five printed books, which are neither in the British Museum nor in the Bodleian :

' A Golden Censer full with the pretious incense of the Praiers of the Saints.' Paris, 1654. Possibly by Maurice Ewens (or Newport), S.J.

'The Great Sacrifice,' by James Dymock, 1676. (Later editions do not always contain verses.)

(d. 1579). Printed (?) 1580.
 * Epigrams and other Verses,' by John Fowler

'The Nuptials of the Lamb.' A Pindaric Ode, &c.,by John Sergeant. London, 1707.

'The Paradise of Pleasure in the Litanies of Loreto.' (J. Sweetman?) St. Omer, 1620.

We have heard also of unpublished verses on Our Lady and various saints by Elizabeth Gary, Lady Falkland; of others on King James II. and his son by Joshua Bassett, Master of Sidney Sussex College in 1686; of two (at least) by Thomas Pounde of Belmont from a MS. once in the possession of

Richard Simpson, Esq. (v. Foley's * Records of the English Province,' vol. iii. pp. 62 seq.). Can any student of seventeenth- century waifs and strays point us to these- originals?

Lastly, we should be glad of authentic- information which would determine whether the friendly pro-Catholic Endymion Porter was ever a Catholic. L. I. GUINEY.

Longwall Cottage, Oxford.

EUROPEAN JOUBNAL OF WASHINGTON" IRVING. The Grolier Club is about ta publish, from the original manuscript, a journal of Washington Irving covering the- period of his first visit to Europe, 1804-5* A small portion of the manuscript, written, during April and May, 1805, is missing, and the Club would appreciate any information- regarding its whereabouts. The journal was written in small, vellum-bound note- books, and it is probable that the lacking, portion is labelled " Vcl. 3d."

RUTH S. GRANNISS, Librarian* The Grolier Club,

29, East 32nd Street, New York City,

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. Tu mihi, Tu certe memini Graecine negabas Uno posse aliquem tempore amare duas. What Latin author does this come from l The lines are given at the head of a chapter of 'Guy Livingstone.'

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

HENRY FIELDING. I shall be obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' can refer me to any recent criticism on the dramas or novels of the " Father of English Novelists." What portraits of him are known?

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

THE EFFECT OF OPENING A COFFIN. It is said that on opening an old coffin the body and features are seen exactly as they were at the time of burial, and that, a moment after, under the influence of the atmosphere,, the remains subside into dust. Is there any reliable information on this matter, and can any scientific explanation be given, if it is a fact? A. S. E. ACKERMANN.

ROEHAMPTON AND SlR WALTER SCOTT.

When Scott paid his last visit to London in 1831 he passed some pleasant days with Lady Gifford at her place in Roehampton. Will some one be good enough to tell me which was the house where he was enter- tained? I take for granted it is still standing. M. L. R. BRESLAR.