"Circa hæc tempora, scilicet anno 1392 ... quidam ex professione Divi Francisci, sese pro Sacerdote et Episcopo gerens, et in Suffraganeum Episcopi Florentii assumptus, cum aliquandiu sacra omnia peregisset, inventus falso charactere atque literis usus, destituitur, et ferventibus aquis immergendus adjudicatur; impositus vero aquis (quia clamore suo Episcopum ad pietatem commovit) statim extrahitur et capite truncatus obtinuit sepulturam." Perhaps the Cardinal, should this meet his eye, or any one of your readers equally skilled in Roman ecclesiastical archæology, can inform the public whether this may not be the origin of the phrases, "getting oneself into hot water," and "being sent to pot." J. B. MCC. British Museum. "ADMONITION TO THE PARLIAMENT." (Vol. v., p. 4.) This is not at all an uncommon book. There are at least three copies in the University Library, Cambridge; one at Trinity College; besides others in other college libraries. There is also one at Lambeth; two in the Bodleian, Oxford; and copies are from time to time occurring at booksellers' for sale. There is not, however, one in the British Museum; and the first edition is exceedingly scarce. MR. PAYNE COLLIER is, I think, mistaken in the dates which he assigns to the _Admonition_ and to Whitgift's _Answer_. He follows indeed Herbert's _Ames_, in which reference is made to Strype; but Strype would have furnished materials for a more accurate statement. Whitgift's _Answer_ was first published towards the end of 1572; for the edition of that year does not contain "Certayne notes and properties of Anabaptistes," which Whitgift himself (_Defense of the Aunswere_, p. 33., and elsewhere) tells us he had introduced into the _second_ edition. But these "notes" do appear in the edition dated 1573, which must therefore be only the second. Moreover, Thomas Norton wrote to Whitgift dissuading him from publishing his _Answer_. This letter was dated Oct. 20, 1572. In a subsequent letter to Archbishop Parker, dated Jan. 16, 1572 (1573), Norton speaks of his former epistle as having been written "before Mr. Whitgift's book came out." (See _Strype_; _Whitgift_, book I. chap. vi.; _Parker_, book IV. chap. xii.) The date of the _Answer_ thus ascertained, we may the better conjecture the dates of the editions of the _Admonition_, which MR. COLLIER says he gathers "had been printed four times anterior to" 1572. Whitgift, it would seem, had written, if not published, his reply before more than a single edition of the _Admonition_ was abroad; for he says (_Answer_, 1573, p. 189.), "After I had ended this confutation of the _Admonition_, there comes to my hand a new edition of the same, wherein some things be added," &c. He also says (_Defense_, p. 34.), "the _Admonition_ was published after the Parliament, to the which it was dedicated, was ended ... it was not exhibited in Parliament, as it ought to have been," &c. Further, the _Admonition_ itself, fol. A. viii.,