Richmond, Surrey.
_Old St. Pancras Church._--Old St. Pancras has always been a noted
burial-place for Roman Catholics that reside in or near London; and it has
been assigned as a reason for that being their mausoleum and cemetery, that
prayers and mass are said daily in a church dedicated to the same saint, in
the south of France, for the repose of the souls of the faithful whose
bodies are deposited in the church of St. Pancras near London (England),
where crosses and Requiescat in Pace, or the initial of those words,
R.I.P., are found on the sepulchral monuments. It is said prayer and mass
{465} are said at St. Peter at Rome, also for the same purpose.
Can any of your readers inform me where that church is in the south of
France; and when such prayers and masses were first said?
It is also understood that this church was the last whose bell tolled in
England for mass, and in which any rites of the Roman Catholic religion
were celebrated after the Reformation.