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dence of some Irish Jesuits and the heads of a college at Rome, 
ealled in the correspondence the ‘‘ English College.” Much of 
this correspondence is between Louis Newman, for some time 
a prisoner in Dublin Castle, and Mr. Thomas Roberts, of the 
aforesaid College, and bears various dates, from the years 1634 
to 1639. There are also letters signed by Edward Blake and 
Robert Spreul, with memoirs of F. Slingisbey by the said Spreul, 
and also by William Moloney. The correspondence appears to 
be entirely about Slingisbey, and some of his letters are also 
given, signed, ‘* F. H. Slingisbey, Kilkenny, this St. Joseph’s 
day, 1640,” and directed to Mr. John Thompson, of Rome. 
This person was also of the English College; one letter is 
signed ‘** Franciscus Perszeus,* alias Slingisbeus, propria manu, 
Rome, 14th February, 1639.” The letters are in the Latin, 
Italian, and English languages. 
At the end of the volume is a complete memoir of this 
person, entitled, “‘ Relatio brevis de Vita et Moribus Rdi. P. 
Francisci Slingisbeii Societatis Jesu pro eo tempore quo 
vitam Scecularem egit in Hibernia, postquam fuisset ad Fidem 
Catholicam conversus. P. Mauritij Wardoei Sacerdotis Hi- 
berni.” This latter is written upon duodecimo, in a very 
legible hand, and if it was printed the correspondence would 
make a necessary appendix. 
Vol. X. (3944) is a very thin quarto volume, in the Latin 
language, bound in calf, and is the Obituary of the Irish Col- 
lege of St. Anthony of Padua, at Louvain, from 1614 to the 
year 1716. A couple of leaves are devoted to each month, and 
* In Mr. Burke’s Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of 
the British Empire, vol. ii. p. 297, the following will be found: ‘‘ Henry 
Piers, Esq., of Tristernagh. This gentleman conformed to the Church of 
Rome, and prevailed upon some of his children to embrace the same creed; of 
whom Thomas, his third son, became a Franciscan Friar; and Henry, his 
fourth son, left a son, John, who took orders in the Catholic Church.” Very 
probably the ‘‘ Franciscus Perszeus,” above alluded to, was a member of 
this family. 
