The author of the pamphlet was Vincent Gookin, Esq., Surveyor-General of Ireland. He did _not_, at first, put his name to it; but when Laurence's answer appeared, he then owned himself as the author of it, and published a pamphlet under this title:-- "The Author and Case of Transplanting the Irish into Connaught Vindicated from the unjust Aspersion of Colonel Richard Laurence and Vincent Gookin, Esq. London, 1655." _Portrait of Sir John Poley._--Perhaps some of your numerous correspondents can answer whether the portrait of Sir John Poley in Bexstead Hall, alluded to No. 14. p. 214., has been engraved. J. February 5. "_Tace is Latin for a candle._"--Whence is this expression derived, and what is its meaning? I met with it, many years ago, in a story-book, and, more lately, in one of the Waverley Novels, in which particular one I do not just now recollect. It seems to be used as an adage, coupled with an admonition to observe silence or secrecy. W.A.F. _Poins and Bardolph._--Can any of your correspondents skilled in Shakspearian lore inform me whence Shakspeare took the names _Poins_ and _Bardolph_ for the followers of Prince Hal and Falstaff? C.W.S. _Flemish Work on the Order of St. Francis._--Can any of your correspondents tell me any thing about, or enable me to procure a copy of, a book on the order of St. Francis, named, _Den Wijngaert van Sinte Franciscus vâ Schoonte Historien Legenden, &c._ A folio of 424 leaves, beautifully printed. The last page has,-- "Gheprent Thantwerpen binnen die Camer poorte Int huys vâ delft bi mi, Hendrich Eckert van Homberch. Int iaer ons heeren M.CCCCC. efi XVIII. op den XII. dach vâ December." The only copy I ever saw of it, which belonged to a friend of mine, had the following note on a fly-leaf in an old and scarcely legible hand:-- "Raer boeck ende sêer curieus als gebouwt synde op de Wijsen voor meesten deel op de fondamenten van den fameus ende extra raer boeck genoempt _Conformitatis Vita S. Francisci cum Vitá Jesu Christi_, de welch in dese diehwils grateert wordt gelijck gij in lesen sult andesvinden maer onthout wer dese latijn spreckwoordt, _Risum teneatis amici_." Jarlzberg. _Le Petit Albert._--Can any of your correspondents give me any information respecting a book entitled _Secrets Merveilleux de la Magie Naturelle et Cabalistique du Petit Albert, et enrichi du fig. mystérieuses, et de la Manière de les faire. Nouvelle Edition, cor. et aug. A Lion_, 1743. 32mo.? The _avertissement_ says,--