The alehouse situate at Lishoy in Ireland, where Goldsmith's father was vicar, was, no doubt, "The Three Pigeons" of _She Stoops to Conquer_. There is a sketch of it in the _Tourist's Handbook for Ireland_, p. 175. The author refers to Mr. John Forster's _Life of Goldsmith_, which I have not at hand. THOMPSON COOPER. Cambridge. _Corporation Enactments_ (Vol. ix., p. 300.).--It is an easy, but generally an unsafe thing to quote from quotations. ABHBA should have referred to _The Dublin Penny Journal_, vol. i. p. 226., for his extracts from the Town Books of the Corporation of Youghal, co. Cork; and, even then, might have made farther reference to Crofton Croker's _Researches in the South of Ireland_, p. 160., whence the paragraph (unacknowledged) was introduced into _The Dublin Penny Journal_. Mr. Croker, moreover, fell into error with respect to the dates of these curious enactments, which were long antecedent to 1680 and 1703. I have seen them in the original (Book A), and vouch for the accuracy of the subjoined: "1613-14. Thomas Geoffry made a freeman (being a barber), on condition that he should trim every freeman for sixpence per ann. "1622. John Bayly made free, on condition to dress the dinners of the several Mayors." I may give you some farther extracts from a MS. Note Book relative to this corporation at a future period. SAMUEL HAYMAN, Clk. South Abbey, Youghal. _The Passion of our Lord dramatised_ (Vol. ix., p. 373.).--A drama on the _Passion of Christ_ (the first specimen of the kind that has descended to our days) is attributed to St. Gregory of Nazianzum, but is more probably the production of Gregory of Antioch (A.D. 572). It is described by most of the ecclesiastical writers: Tillemont, Baillet, Baronius, Bellarmin, Dupin, Vossius, Rivet, Labbæus, Ceillier, Fleury, &c. In 1486, when _La Mistère de la Passion_, or the Passion of our Saviour, was exhibited at Antwerp, the beholders were astonished by _five_ different scaffolds, each having several stages rising perpendicularly: paradise was the most elevated, and it had two stages. But even this display was eclipsed by another exhibition of _The Passion_, where no fewer than _nine_ scaffolds were displayed to the wondering gaze of the people. In 1556, according to Strype (_Life of Sir Thos. Pope_, Pref. p. vii.), the _Passion of Christ_ was represented at the Grey Friers in London, on Corpus Christi Day, before the Lord Mayor, the Privy Council, and many great persons of the realm. Again, the same historian informs us (_Ecclesiastical Memorials_, iii. c. xlix.) under the date 1557: "The _Passion of Christ_ was acted at the Grey Friers on the day that war was proclaimed against France, and in honour of that occasion." {529} It is generally considered that the last miracle play represented in England was that of _Christ's Passion_, in the reign of James I., which Prynne informs us was--