St. Peter?" in Alexander
Cooke's _Dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist; manifestly proving
that a Woman_ {307} _called Joane was Pope of Rome: against the surmises
and objections made to the contrary by Robert Bellarmini and Caesar
Baronius, Cardinals, Florimondus Raemondus, and other Popish Writers,
impudently denying the same_, 4to, pp. 128, 1610. The work was dedicated to
the Archbishop of York, and was reprinted in 1625 in 4to., and in French,
1633, 8vo. The author, in his address _To the Popish Reader_, says:

"_I offer unto thee here a discourse touching_ POPE JOANE _(if thou
darest read it, for fear of falling into thy Pope's curse), whose
Popedome I will make good unto thee, not by the testimonies of_
Pantaleon, _and_ Functius, _and_ Sleidan, _and_ Illyricus, _and_
Constantinus Phrygio, _and_ John Bale, _and_ Robert Barnes, _because
thou hast condemned their persons, and their books too, to hell; but by
the testimonies of thy brethren, the sonnes of thine own mother;
because, as one saith_, 'Amici contra amicum, et inimici pro inimico,
invincibile testimonium est.'"

E. C. HARINGTON.

The Close, Exeter.

_Abbot Eustacius_ (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--As J. L.'s inquiry after an abbot
of that name has hitherto been unsuccessful, perhaps he would like to know
that Eustacia was abbess of the monastery at Shaftesbury (founded by King
Alfred), tempore incerto, but probably in the time of Stephen. See Willis's
_History of Abbeys_, and a _History of the Ancient Town of Shaftesbury_, p.
21.

BLOWEN.

_The Vellum-bound Junius_ (Vol. iii., p. 262.).--In the Minor Queries of
your Number 75., you have kindly inserted my notice on the vellum-bound
_Junius_. I beg to state further, that the reason of my being so desirous
to procure this copy at the Stowe sale was, that it was not only bound in
vellum, but was also _printed_ on that article. If any of your
correspondents can inform me of another copy _printed_ on vellum, I should
be glad.

W. D. HAGGARD.

Bank of England, April 5, 1851.

_Meaning of Waste-Book_ (Vol. iii., pp. 118. 195. 251.).--Among a list of
"the books printed for, and are to be sold by John Hancock, at the sign of
the Three Bibles in Pope's-head Alley, in Cornhill," I find _The Absolute
Accountant, or London Merchant_, containing instructions and directions for
the methodical keeping of merchant's accounts, after the most exact and
concise way of debtor and c