The disappointment of Mr. Brewer may not improbably be ascribed to the unfortunate fact, that in the _English_ translation of Cosin's book, which is given by Mr. Brewer in the forecited extract, after the word _fine_ are omitted the words _Lit. O._, which are found in the _Latin_ original. This additional direction would have led to the passage which the editor was desirous of verifying. For, in the first edition of the _Index_ referred to, that of 1584, the particular index at the end, under O, gives the fol. 182, 183 (_falso 171_), where the passage is found exactly as extant in the Latin of Cosin. The particular _Expurgatory Index_ under view was printed in 1601 and 1611. In the first of the two, _that_ printed at Saumur, the passage is found fol. 149. _verso_. I dare say it is so in the other entitled _Duo Testes, &c._, but that is of no moment. Bp. Cosin does not, as the note expresses, refer to any "other index." The British Museum is comparatively scanty in this class of books, but they are all to be found in the Bodleian Library. {532} At p. 163. the _Discurs [us] Modest [us] de Jesuit._ referred to, and occupying several pages of discussion in the "N. & Q." in the early volumes, is certainly the Latin version of _A Sparing Discoverie of our English Jesuits_, 4to., Franc. 1601, pp. 70, and to be found in the _Catalogue of the British Museum_, under "JESU _Societas_." EUPATOR. * * * * * ANCIENT GUILDHALLS IN ENGLAND. If a history of the ancient Guildhalls of England could be compiled, it would form an interesting volume; as the ancient fabrics wherein our forefathers met to transact their civic affairs may almost be said to have symbolised the _status_ of the municipalities in which they stood at various epochs of their history. Our old English boroughs cannot boast the possession of halls equal to the _Hotels de Ville_ of Belgium or France, or the _Rath-häusen_ of Germany. We cannot show in this country edifices equal to the Hotel de Ville of Brussels, or Aix-la-Chapelle, or Rouen, in point of architectural extent or beauty; or of Ratisbon, or other German towns, in point of venerable and antique interest. But we have buildings yet standing among us which, if less imposing in their exteriors, are nevertheless associated with historic memories of no common order, and secondary in this respect to none of the grander town-halls of ancient Flanders. The guildhall of Leicester cannot boast of any outside show. It is plain to meanness in this respect; it is on one side a mere barn in appearance; yet it has its claim on the attention of the antiquary.