[Our correspondent is right in supposing that Gesmas and Desmas are the names traditionally assigned to the two malefactors, and which occur in the Old Mysteries, &c. _Desmas_ is that of the Penitent Thief. These names are, we believe, mentioned in the Pseudo-Gospel of Nicodemus; and some particulars of the legend, we believe, but we cannot just now ascertain, are preserved in Molan. _De Pictur. Sacris_, 1. iv. c. 9.] _Satirical Medal._--1. I shall be glad to obtain some information respecting a curious medal in my possession, bearing-- Obv. "Ecclesia perversa tenet faciem diaboli, 666." A face in profile, crowned with the tiara: turned round, the same face becomes that of the devil. Rev. "Sapientes stulti aliquando." A head with a cardinal's cap, which reversed becomes a face surmounted with a fool's cap and bells. The medal is of silver, nearly the size of a crown piece; and from the form of the letters is, I suppose, about two hundred years old. JOHN I. DREDGE. [This curious medal, which is figured in Rigollot's _Monnaies des Fous_ (Pl. iv. fig. 10.), and the reverse of which has been engraved by Tilliot (_Fête des Foux_) as the seal of the _Mère Folle_ of Dijon, is a satirical medal issued by the Protestants. Their opponents retorted, or provoked its issue, by one which Riggolot has also figured (fig. 11.): which has on one side the head of Calvin, crowned with the tiara, &c. (which, when turned, becomes that of the Devil), and the words "_Joan. Calvinus Heresiarch. pessimus_;" and on the reverse a Cardinal's head, which is turned into a fool's head, with the motto "_Et Stulti, aliquando sapite_."--Psalm xciii.] * * * * * Replies. THE GOOKINS OF IRELAND. (Vol. i., pp. 385. 473. 492.; Vol. ii., p. 44.; Vol. iv., p. 103.)