July 22. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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3. Reasons why Catholicks refuse to go to Church; 

 Douay, 1680. 



4. be Sacris alienis non adeundis : Audomari, 1607. 



6. A Discovery of John Nicols, misreported a Jesuit : 

 Lovan, 1592. 



6. A brief Censure upon two Books of W. Chark and 

 M. Hanmer. 1581, 1582. 



7. A Defence of the aforesaid Censure. 1582. 



8. The Cliristian Directory, &c. 1583-4-5, 1591-2-8, 

 1673. 



9. Of Pilgrimages, lib. i. 12mo. 



10. A Treatise of the three Conversions of England : 

 St. Omer's, 1603. 



1 1. The Examination of Fox's Calendar. First Part. 

 1604. 



12. Ditto, ditto, Second Part : 

 St. Omer's, 1604. 



13. A Relation of the Trial made before the King of 

 France in 1600 : St. Omer's, 1604. 



14. A Review of Ten Publick Disputations, &c. : St. 

 Omer's, 1604. 



15. A Manifestation of the Folly and bad Spirit of 

 certain in England, &c. : St. Omer's, 1604. 



16. A brief Apology or Defence of the Catholick Ec- 

 clesiastical Hierarchy in England: St. Omer's, 1601. 



17. An Answer to the Fifth Part of Reports, &c. : St. 

 Omer's, 1606. 



18. A Treatise tending to Mitigation against T. Morton. 

 1607. 



19. A Defence of ditto : St. Omer's, 1609. 



20. The Judgment of a Catholick Gentlemau on the 

 Oath of Allegiance: St. Omer's, 1608. 



21. A Discussion of Mr. Barlow's Answer : St. Omer's, 

 1612. 



22. An Account of certain Martyrs in England : Ma- 

 drid, 1590. 



23. A Conference about the next Saccession to the 

 Crown, &c., under the name of N. Dolman, attributed to 

 Parsons. 1593, 1594, 1681. 



24. A Temperate Wardword, &c., by N. D. 1599. 



25. The Warnword to Sir F. Hastiiiigs' Wasteword, by 

 N. D. 1599, 1602. 



26. An Answer to 0. E. 1603. 



27. A Dialogue ooncerning the Earl of Leicester. 1600, 

 1631, 1641. 



28. An Apologetical Epistle concerning the Christian 

 Directorv: Antwerp, 1601. 



29. The Forerunner of Bell's Downfall. 1605. 



30. Liturgy of the Mass. 1620. 



31. Controversise nostri Temporis, MS. never published. 



32. A Memorial for Reformation, attributed to Parsons. 

 1690. 



33. Cases of Conscience, MS. kept at Rome. 



There is no work of Father Parsons with the 

 title mentioned by Hirlas. I presume that the 

 book alluded to is his Christian Directory. Of 

 this there have been recent editions, at Liverpool, 

 1754, and at Dublin, 1822. There is another 

 work, which perhaps Hirlas means, entitled A 

 Book of Christian Exercise appertaining to Resolu- 

 tion, by R. P., perused by E. Bunny in London. 

 1585. This is the same as the Apologetical Epistle^ 

 No. 28. in the above catalofiue. The substance of 

 it was stolen by Bunny, a Protestant clergyman, 

 and published under his own name. F. C. H. 



[We are also indebted to 'AXievs for another list of Par- 

 sons' Works, compiled chiefly from Wood's AthencB and 

 the Bodleian Catalogue.] 



Father Robert Parsons, of the Society of Jesus, 

 was born at ISTether Stowey, June 24, 1546 ; he 

 entered the Society July 24, 1575 ; was ordained 

 priest 1578; died at Rome April 15, 1610, in the 

 English College ; and was buried in the College 

 Church with a long Latin epitaph. He pub- 

 lished fifteen different works, for a list and descrip- 

 tion of which Hirlas is referred to a work pub- 

 lished in 1838, and called Collections towards illus' 

 trating the Biography of the Scotch, English, and 

 Irish Members of the Society of Jesus. D. 



This noted writer was born at Nether Stowey, 

 near Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, in 1546. 

 His life and a list of his works are to be found ia 

 Wood's Athence Oxonienses. There are many par- 

 ticulars about him in the Hon. Ed. Petre's Notices 

 of the English Colleges and Convents established 

 on the Continent, Norwich, 1849; and in Strype's 

 Memorials of Abp. Cranmer, Ecclesiastical Me- 

 morials, Annals, Life of Abp. Parker, Life of 

 Abp. Whitgift. Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



For an account of Robert Parsons, of whom 

 Bishop Andrewes so frequently makes mention, 

 see A. Wood's Ath. Oxon., ii. col. 79. He died 

 Aprils (15?), 1610. He assumed the name of 

 Andrew Philopater. A WyKEHAMiST. 



transmutation of metals. 



(Vol. X., p. 8.) 



Having no pretensions to be a "really scientific" 

 reader of "N. & Q.," I nevertheless beg to con- 

 tribute something towards the elucidation of your 

 correspondent's Query, and to the bibliography of 

 Alchemy. A Mons. Theodore Tiffereau published 

 last year a Memoire, in which he asserts : 



" J'ai d^couvert le moyen de produire de I'or artificiel j 

 j'ai fait de I'or." 



A reviewer in La Presse of June 15 gives an 

 analysis of this pamphlet ; the author of which, it 

 appears, was a chemical student at Nantes in 

 1840, and went to Mexico in 1842 for the purpose 

 of making an exploratory tour among the mines 

 in that classic soil of metals. M. Tiffereau being 

 afraid of interruption if his real object were 

 known, concealed it under the mask of practising 

 the new art of Daguerreotype ; and by this means 

 he was enabled to traverse California, and other 

 gold-producing districts, without molestation. He 

 says : 



" C'est en ^tudiant les gisemens des m€taux, leurs 

 gangues, leurs divers ^tats physiques, c'est en interro- 

 geant les mineurs et comparant leurs impressions, que 

 j 'acquis la certitude que les m^taux subissaient dans leur 

 formation certaines lois, certains ages inconnus, mais dont 

 les r^sultats frappent I'esprit de quiconque les ^tudie avec 



