"See here," he says, "how the devil contends with God, the magicians with the prophets, and heretics with the orthodox, by imitating their words and deeds. In our days, as the English Martyrology testifies, Richard White (_Vitus_) disputed with a wicked English Calvinist, who was more mighty in drinking than in argument, concerning the keys of the Church, and when the heretic pertinaciously asserted that they were given to himself, White wittily and ingeniously replied: 'I believe that they have been given to you as they were to Peter, but with this distinction, that his were the keys of heaven, but yours of the beer-cellar; {513} for this the _rubicund promontory of your nose_ indicates.' Thus do heretics turn water into blood. This is their miracle." Richard White I presume to have been an ejected Fellow of New College, Oxford, afterwards rector of the University of Douai, and a Count Palatine of the empire, author of sundry antiquarian and theological works; but it is surely strange that this piece of ribaldry, of which he had been guilty, should be thought worthy of being recorded; and still more so, that it should be thus applied by a grave and learned Jesuit commentator. C. W. B. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Inscription._--The following quaint inscription is to be found on a gravestone in the churchyard of Llangollen, North Wales: "Our life is but a winter's day: Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner stay, and are full fed; The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is the debt who lingers out the day; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay." J. R. G. Dublin. _Antiquarian Documents._--At a time when public records and state papers are being thrown open by the Government in so liberal a spirit, might not some plan be devised for admitting the public to the Church's antiquarian documents also, treasured in the various chapter-houses, diocesan registries, and cathedral libraries? Might not catalogues of these be printed, as well as the more historically valuable and curious of the papers themselves? And is there any sufficient reason why the earlier portions of the parochial registers throughout the country might not be published, say down to the commencement of the present century, prior to which they appear to have no other value except for literary purposes? J. SANSOM. _Bishop Watson's Map of Europe in 1854._--The following paragraph is an extract from a letter written by Bishop Watson to Dr. Falconer of Bath, in the year 1804: