" FOUR FAMOUS MYSTERIES."
(To TEE BDITOR or THE "'Specrrros.'7 STR,—May I call your attention to an error in your review of Four Famous Mysteries in your issue of June 10th? Cole- man was not a priest or a Jesuit, but a -married layman. (See, for instance, Lingard, vol. xiii„ p. 109, note, ed. 1881.)=I am, Sir, he., E. D. PONTITEX. Ealing Priory School, Montpelier Avenue., Eating, W. 5.
[The reviewer writes.:—" It is true that Coleman was married, but it is by no means certain, despite that fact, that he was not a Jesuit. The Rev. J. W. Elasworth, in the Dictionary of National Biography, says that Coleman is always supposed to have been admitted to the Society of the Jesuits, with whom, of course, he was intimately associated from 1673 to his execu- tion in 1678. The truth is no longer discoverable, but the assertions of later Roman Catholic apologists for the spy and traitor in foreign pay are not by any means irrefutable evidence."—ED. Spectator.]
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