died with the intrepidity of a hero, and the piety of a christian, praying for his assassins even with his last breath. The murderers all retired to separate prayer, and one of them, William David, after prayer told them all that the Lord had said unto him, Well done good and faithful servant!

BISHOP ANDREWS.

"My Lords, cannot I take my subjects' money "when I want it, without the formality of par"liament?" said James the first to the bishops of Durham and Winchester. The former readily answered, like a true courtier, "God "forbid, Sire, but you should; you are the "breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the king turned to my Lord of Winchester. "Well, and "what say you?" "Sire, I have no skill in par"liamentary matters." The king replied, "No "put offs, my Lord; answer me." "Then, "Sire," said honest Andrews of Winchester, "I think it is lawful for you to take my brother " of Durham's money, for he offers it."

ABSURD EPITAPH.

Alexander Neekham was an eminent English writer in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries John Ball, de Sciptoribus Britanniæ, has recorded his epitaph, which is written after the old monkish manner, in Latin rhyme.

Eclipsin patitur sapientia, Sol sepelitur;
Cui si par unus, minus esset flebile funus.
Vir bené disertus, et in omni more facetus.
Dictus erat Nequam, vitam duxit tamen æquam.

It is not easy in a translation to do justice to these verses, because the stupidity of some performances is as difficult to be expressed as the elegance of others. But the sense of it is to this purpose:

Learning's eclipsed, the Sun himself's obscured,
Our loss were less, had he left one superior.
Accomplished was his mind, his manners pleasing;
And though his name was ill, his life was good.

BISHOPS OF CLOGHER AND DERRY,

The acquisition of wealth, being the real object of translation, let us see how the mitre has answered with some individuals. Dr. John Porter, bishop of Clogher, died intestate in 1819; he left to the amount of two hundred and forty thousand pounds. How many hogs"heads of claret did we use last year?" was a question put by the Lord bishop of Derry, at Paris to his servant. The answer was "six. "teen, please your lordship." Such instances,

* Nequam, as his name is sometimes written, signi. fies a wicked man.

observes Lord Gardenstone, prove the great benefit of dignitaries with high revenues in the church, and how much it is advanced and improved since the days of the Apostles.

JOHN CAPISTRAN.

John Capistran was a Franciscan Friar of the fifteenth century. Some very surprising effects are related of his eloquence. At Nuremburg, where he went to preach in 1452 he caused a pulpit to be set up in the middle of the great square, and there preached for some days in so forcible a manner against vice, that he forced the inhabitants to make a pile of their cards and dice, and afterwards set fire to them, (compare this with the Acts of the Apostles chap. xxx. v. 19) which being done he exhorted them to take up arms against the Turks. The year after he went to Breslaw, in Silesia, and there inveighed strongly against cards and dice: and commanding a pile to be made of them all, he set fire to it. But the power of his eloquence was not confined to inanimate things; he, exerting his power in a most dreadful manner over the Jews caused a great number of them to be burnt in all parts of Silesia, upon pretence of their behaving with irreverence towards the consecrated bread.

EDWARD THE SIXTH.

The English Reformers seemed occasionally to think, that the aid of the secular arm was necessary, to enable them to propagate their doctrines. Accordingly a royal commission was granted, to search out all anabaptists, heretics, and other contemners of the new liturgy. Among others found guilty, was Joan Boucher, or Joan of Kent, for heretical notions concerning the Incarnation; and as she refused to alter her opinions, Cranmer condemned her to the flames. But Edward, who appears to have had clearer views of Christian truth and charity than his clerical advisers, when pressed by the archbishop to sign the warrant for burning the woman alive, cried out, "What, will you send her quick to the "devil?" And when, at length, he reluctantly yielded to Cranmer's solicitations, he burst into tears, and protested, that his tutor should answer for it before God; as, in obedience to him he submitted, contrary to his own inclination.

PERROT THE QUAKER.

In the year 1658, a Quaker by name John Perrot, was moved to convert the Pope. According he went to Rome, and began the hopeful undertaking, by calling on the Pope's chaplain, who (happened to be a Jesuit) and telling him

upon what errand he "John, the servant of Jesus, "in the holy and blessed calling of the quaking "and trembling at the word of the Lord God," was arrived in that city. The next night John was taken out of his bed by the chief marshal and carried to prison, from whence in a few days he was removed to the Inquisition. The Inquisitors were less cruel than they had been, and desired him to write whatever he pleased. John began by an epistle general to the Romans, and another to Fabius Guisius, Pope of Rome. "Friend (said he,) my message is not unto any "part of the natural, either wit, will, or wisdom, "it is neither meat for serpents, nor air for came"lions: behold overturn cometh, and overturn "followeth, until the last overturn be fulfilled. "Be thou henceforth no more called Pope, for "that was never promised, nor prophesied of, "by the word of the Lord. I am Peter's succes"sor who am of his spirit." John then addressed forty-two queries to all the They not being so polite as to answer them, he then said to the Pope, "Friend, I now query to "thee, whether thou hast the true eye of dis

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cerning, to trace the way of a serpent over a "rock: dost thou know the course of a dolphin "in the deeps, or the path of a young dolphin in "the deep waters? If thou knowest not this,