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dence of some Irish Jesuits and the heads of a college at Rome, 

 called 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 Persseus,* alias Slingisbeus, propria manu, 

 Rome, 1 4th 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 Soecularem 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 Persseus," above alluded to, was a member of 

 this family. 



