"To-day we purpose, ay, this hour we mount To spur three leagues towards the Apennine; Come down, we pray thee, ere the hot sun count His dewy rosary on the eglantine" G. N. "_God takes those soonest whom He loves the best._"--Where shall we find the origin of this expression, so frequently occurring on tombstones in almost all parts of the country? Or how far back can it be traced? The following, in Rainham church, Kent, is of the year 1626: "Here slepes my babe in silence, heauen's his rest, For God takes soonest those he loueth best." T. H. K. Malew, Man. _Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope._--At what period, and in what author besides Veryard's _Tour in the Low Countries_, is the story of two Quakers being imprisoned in the Lazzaretto in Rome, for attempting to convert the Pope, to be found? Were they persons of any standing in the Society? B. S. S. _Whychcote of St. John's._--In one of the volumes published under the foregoing title, in 1833, there is a striking story, evidently fictitious in the main, but assuming, as an element of fact, the remembered existence of a head-stone over a grave in the little burial-ground, under the shadow of the venerable ruins of Tynemouth Priory in Northumberland, containing the single word "Fanny." Does any one of the Tyneside readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" personally recollect the actual existence of such a memorial? Is the _real name_ of the author of the entertaining work disclosed in any subsequent publication, or is it generally known? J. D. _Meaning of Rechibus, &c._--Among the rights claimed by the Esturmys in Savernak forest, 8 Edw. III., occurs-- "Et omnia placita de leporibus, rechibus, heymectis, tessonibus, vulpibus, murilegis, et perdricibus:" which I translate-- "And all pleas concerning hares, traps, hedgehogs, badgers, foxes, wild-cats, and partridges:" but I confess I have no confidence in some of these words, as the glossaries in the British Museum Library fail to explain them. I therefore solicit your courteous assistance. JAMES WAYLEN. _Family of Queen Katherine Parr._--The pedigree of the once eminent family of Parr, as recorded in various printed works--Dugdale, Nicholls, Burke, &c., is far from being complete or satisfactory. Could any one versed in the genealogy of the northern counties supply any information on the following points?-- I. The early descent.--Dugdale in his _Baronage_, commences with Sir William Parr, who married Elizabeth De Ros, 1383; but he states the family to have been previously "of knightly degree." A MS. pedigree in the Herald's College also mentions Sir William as "descended from a race of knights." Where is an account of this race to be found?