"During those two days, a right reverend prelate was examined; and he was required to state upon oath whether the Creed of St. Athanasius was necessary to salvation. The reply was, 'He would not say whether it was that, but a great many persons had sworn that it was.'" Some correspondent may be able to state whether these two extracts pertain or not to one and the same occurrence, and which is the true version. INDAGATOR. _Carpets at Rome._--In a cutting from a newspaper or periodical, apparently of the year 1790, narrating an accident that happened to Lady Augusta Clavering, daughter of the Duke of Argyle (whilst staying at Rome) by her muslin dress catching fire, it is said: "Fortunately, the gentlemen did not lose their presence of mind; and there happening to be a carpet in the room, _a thing very uncommon in that that country_, they covered her with it," &c. Can any of your readers oblige me by informing me whether it is a fact, that the luxury of a carpet was _very uncommon_ at Rome at the period referred to; and when carpets were first introduced at Rome? L. A. M. Great Yarmouth. _Nursery Rhymes._--Can you or any of your correspondents tell me where I shall find an account of the origin of our common nursery rhymes? Is there not reason to believe that many of them are of great antiquity? L. Oxford. _Gloves at Fairs._--I think that I have read that at some large fair it was customary to hang out on the town-hall a large gilt glove, as a token of freedom from arrest for debt during the period that the fair lasted. Can any of your correspondents inform me if such was the case, and where? In Halliwell's _Dictionary_, "hoisting the glove" is said to be practised at Lammas Fair, in Devonshire: but why? In the east of England certain village fairs are called _Gants_,--Mattishall Gant, &c. Forby derives this from A.-S. _gan_, to go; but may it not have some reference to the French _gants_, gloves? E. G. R. _Mr. Caryl or Caryll._--Every one knows that the _Rape of the Lock_ was written at the request of _Mr. Caryl_, stated by Pope to have been private secretary to James II.'s queen before the {456} Revolution. It also appears in the Prolegomena to the _Life of James_, that two royal warrants issued at St. Germains by the abdicated monarch and his son the Pretender in 1701 and 1707, are counter-signed _Caryll_ as Secretary of State. Is there any doubt that this is the same person; and if not, is there any account of when and on what terms he returned to England? where he must have been again domiciled in 1711, and some years after, during which period he corresponded with Pope. His family was settled near East Grinstead, in Sussex. C.