Who was the writer of the _Epistola de Miseria Curatorum?_ My copy consists of eight leaves, and a large bird's-cage on the verse of the last leaf is evidently the printer's device. Seemiller makes mention of an Augsburg edition of this curious tract. (_Biblioth. Acad. Ingolstad. Incunab. typog._ Fascic. ii. p. 142. Ingolst. 1788.) R.G. * * * * * THE SECOND DUKE OF ORMONDE. The review of Mr. Wright's _England under the House of Hanover, illustrated by the Caricatures and Satires of the Day_, given in the _Athenæum_ (No. 1090.), cites a popular ballad on the flight and attainder of the second Duke of Ormonde, as taken down from the mouth of an Isle of Wight fishmonger. This review elicited from a correspondent (_Athenæum_, No. 1092.) another version of the same ballad as prevalent in Northumberland. I made a note of these at the time; and was lately much interested at receiving from an esteemed correspondent (the Rev. P. Moore, Rochenon, co. Kilkenny), a fragment of another version of the same ballad, which he (being at the time ignorant of the existence of any other version of the song) had taken down from the lips of a very old man of the neighbourhood, viz.:-- "My name is Ormond; have you not heard of me? For I have lately forsaken my own counterie; I fought for my life, and they plundered my estate, For being so loyal to Queen Anne the great. Queen Anne's darling, and cavalier's delight, And the Presbyterian crew, they shall never have their flight. I am afraid of my calendry; my monasteries are all sold, And my subjects are bartered for the sake of English gold. * * * * * * * * * * But, as I am Ormond, I vow and declare, I'll curb the heartless Whigs of their wigs, never fear." I do not quote the versions given in the _Athenæum_, but, on a comparison, it will be seen that they all must have been derived from the same original. The success of your queries concerning the Duke of Monmouth impel me to propose a few concerning the almost as unfortunate, and nearly as celebrated, second Duke of Ormonde. Many scraps of traditionary lore relative to the latter nobleman must linger in and about London, where he was the idol of the populace, as well as the leader of what we should now call the "legitimist" party. With your leave. I shall therefore propose the following Queries, viz.:-- 1. Who was the author of the anonymous life of the second Duke of Ormonde, published in one volume octavo, some years after his attainder? 2. Was the ballad, of which the above is a fragment, printed at the time; and if so, does it exist? 3. What pamphlets, ballads, or fugitive pieces, were issued from the press, or privately printed, on the occasion of the Duke's flight and subsequent attainder?