yourself?' 'Why, that's the very reason, that I recommend one to you.'

XCI. Hurd.

Dr J. was present when Bp Hurd said to his father, who understood his character of mind perfectly: 'I have had Dr Butt to call on me, and he brought his Nephew, Dr Salt, with him. "The Nephew,' said the Father, 'is not a volatile salt. Hurd, who was all eye and ear, smiled inwardly, but without betraying a laugh: it was his manner.

XCII. Sheridan.

Sheridan lived at Polsden, near Leatherhead in Surrey; Dallaway was the Rector, a very gentlemanly man, who lived much with Sheridan, and met him also often at Arundel. While Sheridan lived there, he was served with a Writ, had company, kept the fellow quiet, made him drunk, turned him into the street, and when he on the following day called about the Writ, Sheridan told to him that he supposed that he had eaten it with other good things!

The last act of the late Duke of Norfolk, then very ill, was that he wrote a Letter himself to Sheridan, who applied to him, spoke of Sheridan's distress, and got Mr Young of the Herald's College to wait on him, I think, with 1000 gaineas, but ask him again:

XCIII. Dr Fuller and Woodcock

Dr Fuller, that wrote the Holy War and Pisgah Sight, and

many other books, was a very merry man, and one that indulged himself too much with jokes. As he was once coming from Cambridge with two or three gentlemen, he sees one Mr WOODCOCK riding on the road. Says he to his Companion, 'Let us ride on, and I will break a jest on yon WOODCOCK riding before.' So, being come to him, having asked him several questions, he asked him at last the difference between a woodcock and an owl.' MR WOODCOCK, knowing the Doctor, contrary to his expectation answered,Sir, there is a great deal of difference; an owl is fuller i' th' head, fuller in thighs, fuller i' th' wings, fuller i' th' legs, and fuller all over.' At which unexpected answer, the Doctor clapped spurs to his horse, and rid away as fast as he could go, leaving the gentlemen ready to burst with laughter. ABR. DE LA PRYME's Ephemeris Vita, A Ms Diary

of his Life, (died 1704.)

XCIV. Rev. T. Barker.

The REV. THOS BARKER, Rector of Cherry-Burton, near Beverley, who died in 1774, met two of his parishioners, who were returning to the village in a state of vinous excitement, and observed to their pastor that they had been spinning out the day 'Yes' said he, 'and you are coming reeling home.'

One of the parishioners was named Benjamin Everingham, who was remarkable as a regular attendant at the church, but suddenly disappeared from the village, and after a very long absence was met in the street by Mr Barker. Inquiry was made how long he had been absent, to which the reply was 'Eleven months,' and where he had been, to which the reply was, 'In Heaven,' meaning that he had been running after divine preachers in the country. Mr Barker remarked, 'What a dd fool you were not to stay another month to gain a settlement.'

Mr Barker, Mr Sterne, and others, were enjoying themselves at the Blue Boar, in North-bar street, Beverley, when Mr Sterne, observing his wife to be passing on the other side of the way, said in the spirit of Gyges,* There goes my wife with one of the best legs in England.' 'Well,' said Mr Barker, 'I will bet you a rump and dozen, that I bring another to match it; does the company admit it to be a fair bet?' 'Yes, yes,' was the general response. Then,' replied he, 'I shall bring the other leg to match it.' The company roared with laughter, and Mr Sterne's wounded vanity was appeased by the compliment to the other leg of his wife.

One of his parishioners came one day, and asked him to baptise one of his children. 'Now, Sir,' said the honest rustic 'you take tithe of every thing else, will you not take tithe of my bairns? I have ten of them.' 'Yes,' replied MR BARKER, 'I shall take tithe of your bairns, when your wife brings ten at a litter.

In early life he and a young physician went out to kill game, though neither of them were qualified; they had not proceeded far, before MR BARKER expressed doubts of the legality of their proceedings. 'Oh, never heed,' said the physician, my diploma qualifies me;' Nay,' replied MR BARKER, 'you took your diploma out to cure and not to kill.'

XCV. An old pamphlet on ecclesiastical power.

[The following old and curious pamphlet was given to me by a stranger whom I met in the Coffee-room this day, May 6, 1836.]

DECLARATION faicte aux Dogen, Sindic et Docteurs de la Sorbonne de Paris, le dernier iour d' Auril 1613.

Par Maistre Nicolas Vigor, comme Procureur de Maistre Simon Vigor, son frere, Conseiller, sur le Liure intitulé, Ex responsione Synodali data Basileæ, &c.

*This should be Candaules, not Gyges.

Duquel ledict Sieur Vigor Conseiller est Autheur.

En la presence des Notaires Gardenottes du Roy nostre SIRE en son Chasteler de Paris, soubssignez, noble homme Maistre Nicolas Vigor, Aduocat aux Grand et priué Conseils du Roy, demeurant en ceste ville de Paris, rue des fossez and parroisse de S. Germain de Lauxerrois, au nom et comme Procureur specialement fondé, de Monsieur Maistre Simon Vigor, Conseiller du Roy en son grand Conseil, son frere, pour faire la declaration qui ensuit, par procuration passee pardedeuant L'argentier et du Pont, Notaires Royaux, demeurants a Nogent sur Seine, de laquelle il est apparu ausdits Notaires soubssignez, auroit declaré a Messieurs les Doyen, Sindic et Docteurs de la sacree Faculté de Theologie, que pour oster toute opinion mauuaise a vn chacun, de ce que ledit sieur Vigor Conseiller, n'a exprimé son nom au liure intitulé, Ex responsione Synodali data Basileæ, &c. imprimé l'annee presente, 1613. soubs le nom de Theophilus Francus, encores qu'il ne soit tenu dire les occasions, qui l'ont meu à ce faire, toutesfois il trouue bon que l'on croye qu'il en a remarqué aucunes au feuillet 95. asçauoir, que ceux qui auiourd'huy, selon la doctrine des Apostres et anciens Peres de l'Eglise soustiennent qua la souueraineté temporelle des Roys et Princes Chrestiens depend seulement de Dieu, et auec liberté et verité reiettent les opinions nouuelles et pernicieuses de ceux qui attribuent au S. Pere vne puissance directe ou indirecte sur les choses temporelles,

Statim aut censura notantur, aut de gradu dejiciuntur, aut violato jure gentium carceri mancipantur, aut supremo suplicio afficiuntur. D'auantage, que ledit Vigor est autheur dudit Liure, et qu'ayant eu l'honneur d'estre esseué, nourry et instruict par deffunct Messire Simon Vigor son Oncle et parrain, Docteur de Sorbonne, qui fut honoré du premier lieu de sa licence, de la chaire Theologale de l'Eglise de Paris, de la qualite de Predicateur ordinaire du Roy Charles neufiesme, lequel ayant recogneu son merite et sa suffisance l'enuoya auec plusieurs autres Theologies de la Faculte de Paris, au Concile de Trente, et finalement le nomma Archeuesque de Narbonne, dont il fut

pourueu par le Pape Gregoire XIII. il n'a peu gouster aucune doctrine contraire a celle qu'il a eu le bien d' apprendre dudit sieur Vigor son Oncle, par lequel elle a esté souuent preschee publiquement comme doctrine tres-Catholique et tenuë constante par l'Eschole de Sorbonne, ce que ledit sieur Vigor offre verifier, tant par plusieurs minuttes escrites de la main dudit deffunct sieur Vigor, que par aucuns de ses Sermons imprimez. Premierement au Sermon du Mardy apres le troisiesme Dimanche de Caresme, fol. 168. verso, de l'impression de Pierre Bertault, 1597. Ou il dit,

quand il est question de correction fraternelle, toute personne Chrestienne y doit estre subjecte et mesme le Pape, au Concile de Constance et de Basle, pour oster le schisme et debat qui estoit lors; asçauoir si on deuoit deposer quelque Pape, qui n'estoit pas bon Chrestien, et si on le deuoit corriger, là il fut determine que le Pape est non seulement subiect a la correction fraternelle, mais a la Censure Ecclesiastique. Et comment cela, il est parsus tous? Ouy; mais nonobstant cela il est frater; car quand il prie, il dit, PATER NOSTER, comme nous.

De ce passage l'on cognoist euidemment que le Concile est pardessus le Pape, et consequemment que le gouuernement de l'Eglise est Aristocratique, non absolument Monarchique. Item au Sermon du Mardy d' apres le premier Dimanche de Caresme, fol. 66. il improuue les dispenses que le Pape donne sur le faict de la Simonie et permission de rachepter les pensions constituees sur les benefices, qui est vne tres-forte et treseuidente raison pour oppugner la puissance absoluë Monarchique que l'on veult auiourd'huy introduire en l'Eglise,

Tout est perdu, dit il, par Simonie, comme par ceux qui disent, viença, Je te resigneray mon benefice, et tu me feras tant de pension, etpuis tu rachepteras ceste pension

Et au Sermon precedent, fol. 57.

Dieu n'est pas semblable a ceux, qui prennent de l'argent et donnent dispense de se damner ;

Laquelle doctrine est conforme a celle de la Sorbonne en la huistiesme proposition de la Censure, contre frere Iehan Sarrazin lequel disoit,

Summum Pontificem Canonicem Simoniam a jure positivo prohibitam non posse committere :