Richmond; and was, after the dissolution of the monastery there, exposed, and his head was carried home by a glazier of this parish, on account of the sweet smell it afforded, in consequence of having been embalmed. It was afterwards buried, but we are not told where.

On the east side of Wood-street, there formerly stood one of the city prisons, called Wood-street Compter, which was pulled down when Giltspur-street prison was ready to receive its inmates.

In Wood-street, too, there was a house called Black Hall, in which it is said that sir Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, entertained king Richard II, the duke of Lancaster, the duke of York, the earl marshall, and his father the duke of Northumberland, at a sumptuous supper.

(To be continued.)

NOTICES.

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ANNUAL REGISTER.

Dolman. 12nio.

THIS REGISTER is the organ of the popish dissenters in England; and like the papal system in general it commences with a particular falsehood in the title-page. A schismatical, an heretical, and an idolatrous sect in England, not quite so old as the era of the Reformation, assumes the title of Catholic, which is the joint property of the universal church throughout the world. This work is issued with the permission of the superiors which marks it as the authorised organ of the popish dissenters in England. Its leading subject is the 'Encyclical letters of the pope on the mystery of the immaculate conception;" then follows his thanks to his military friends for battering down his capital and shedding the blood of his subjects; but above all, and before all his immortal thanks are due "to the most blessed mother of God, the im maculate Virgin Mary, to whose all powerful PROTECTION WE ASCRIBE THE SAFETY which has been granted us.”

IN THIS last audacious act of idolatrous apostacy Rome has surely fulfilled her destiny and filled up the measure of her abominatious; and all those nations which have been under her tyranny, and that have partaken of "the filthiness of her fornication" will now be made to drink of the cup of wrath which has been filled for her. During twelve centuries ber sins have been accumulating; and so far is she from repentance, that by this last act of Mariolatry she has virtually dethroned God from the government of the world; and her sins having now reached unto heaven, it may be expected that her plagues of spiritual death and mourning, and famine of the word of God and of the Spirit of life will shortly follow. God himself has stamped the church of Rome with the brand of apostacy in her number of 666, and of idolatry; for when the Turks subverted the eastern empire the Holy Spirit foreshowed to S. John that the western church would not " repent of the works of her hands" in the worshipping of "devils and idols of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood .... neither would they repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their [spiritual] fornication, nor of their thefts." Revel. ix. 20. 21. Without any mistake, therefore, the Spirit of God charges that apostate church with the grossest idolatry. And with unblushing shame she has proclaimed her own apostacy in this encyclical letter in the face of Christian England.

In the visions of the apocalypse, S. John saw a symbolical woman, which represented the church of Rome, riding on the secular beast, or Roman empire; she was arrayed in great worldly splendour, enthroned on many peoples, and multitudes, and nations; having the name of blasphemy or apostacy stamped upon her forehead; persecuting the true church of God under the instigation of the Devil, from whom she derives her power, to such a degree as to appear drunken with the blood of the faithful servants and martyrs of Jesus which she had shed. This faithless and apostate church, the anti

type of Babylon, is called by the Holy Spirit a harlot and even a worse name; and whilst worshipping stocks and stones, and shedding the blood of the faithful, and arrayed in scarlet and pearls, and jewels, and gold, and sitting at present as a queen; yet she is destined at no very long interval now, to be "cast into the lake of fire and brimstone," to keep company with her prompter, the great red dragon; and "the eternal city" of Rome itself will be burnt with fire, and become like its type, "the habitation of every unclean and hateful bird."

EVER SINCE the first rise of the papacy in the beginning of the seventh century, it has been notorious and terrible for its bloodthirsty and persecuting spirit; to be even, as the Holy Spirit foreshewed the prophet, drunken with the blood of Christ's faithful servants who have protested against her corruptions, and who have refused to partake of her idolatries. Persecution is a principle of the popish religion. It was decreed by the third and fourth Lateran Councils that it is her bounden duty to persecute and exterminate those whom she calls heretics; also every bishop's oath to the pope binds him to persecution; and so congenial is cruelty and persecution to the papal system, that Pius V. was canonised on account of his cruelty as an inquisitor. S. John wondered with great admiration to see a Christian church apostatise from the faith; her patriarch to speak great swelling words of blasphemy by the side of the Most High and in His temple; to be so bloodthirsty and cruel as to be as it were drunken with the blood she has shed. How many millions of the faithful Albigensic aud Waldensic churches did her agents put to the sword and burn alive at the stake? what vast multitudes of her own people, whom she deluded with the false promise of the forgiveness of their sins, perished in her insane crusades against the Turks in Palestine? how many millions of unhappy persons of both sexes, and of all ages, from the unborn infant to the helpless imbecility of old age, were

slaughtered by the sword and the knife of the assassin in France alone, but especially at the inhuman massacre of S. Bartholomew's day? for which antichristian deed Gregory XII. publicly returned thanks to the outraged majesty of heaven, and caused paintings and medals to be made of this execrable massacre; what rivers of protestant blood have flowed in Ireland by popish hands, and by the instigation of her priests, not only in the wholesale massacre in 1641, but in the constant massacre, by detail, ever since of the protestants of that country? It is a remarkable circumstance which marks it as the systematic design of the papal church, as a church, to exterminate the protestants, that the incessant bloodshed in iniserable Ireland is entirely confined to protestant victims. Individuals are denounced by name from their bloodstained altars by men who disgrace the sacred name of priest; and then they are shot as deliberately as if they were beasts of prey; and such is the sacerdotal influence over the minds of the deluded people, that they will neither apprehend the murderers nor give evidence against them.

Our rulers have said "God speed" to this drunken harlot ; and in so far have been partakers of her sins; consequently, when God shall remember her iniquities, then must we receive of her plagues." We shall be nationally punished for tamely looking on and suffering the Papal atrocities to be carried on without taking any means to prevent them, or of punishing the guilty perpetrators—especially the most guilty parties the sacerdotal instigators. Will not the Most High visit and punish us for such things, and for "suffering that woman, Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce His servants to commit idolatry, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols?" And here we have an annual register to chronicle all Roman idolatries in England, which they are doing their best to reduce to the execrable condition of Ireland.

ON CORNISH CROSSES.

IN OLDEN days, the greatest possible attention was paid to the spiritual and temporal wants of travellers. Here and there, along the way side, the Cross meets the eye of the wayfaring man, and helps him on by day, till he reaches the last on his course, which points onwards to the taper spire and grey old walls beyond him, where he finds a cheerful welcome and a safe abode for the night.

This was in the olden time,

Again, there are crosses to

and they were wayside Crosses. be found in churchyards, and these were not without their use; for they were generally placed near the principal entrance to the sacred building, and served to remind the enterers in that they were leaving the world behind them, and going into THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

AND THERE are memorial Crosses, also, erected to the memory of pious persons-not to their memory as the world now has it, viz., a recapitulation of their virtues and good deeds, but a little humble inscription, with the request that the passersby would remember them in their prayers. And besides these, there are sanctuary standard and sanctuary Crosses; not to mention little gable Crosses, which are not very common in Cornwall, for, in all probability, they were destroyed in