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phims, the chief of those who possess people. Easus, Celsus, Acaos, Cedon, and Asmodeus, of the order of Thrones; Alex, Zabulon, Nepthalimn, Charos, Uriel, aud Orchas, of the order of principalities. These were the names that the nuns were taught to give to the imaginary spirits by which they pretended to be possessed.

At Grandier's execution, a large fly was seen to buz about his head. Some of his enemies having learning enough to know that Beelzebub signifies the prince of flies, it was immediately given out and believed, that Beelzebub was come for the soul of the malefactor!

PARSON PATTEN.

About half a century ago, Whitstable had a parson of the name of Patten, celebrated for his great oddity, great humour, and equally great extravagance. Once standing in need of a new wig, he went over to Canterbury, and applied to a barber, young in the business, to make him The tradesman, who was just going to dinner, begged the honour of his new customers company, to which Patten most readily consented. After dinner, a large bowl of punch was produced, and the reverend guest, with equal readi ness joined in emptying it. When it was out, the wig maker was proceeding to business, and

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began to handle his measure; when Mr. Patten desired him to desist, saying, he should not make his wig. "Why not?" exclaimed the astonished host, "Have I done any thing to offend "you, Sir?" "Not in the least," replied Patten; "but I find you are a very honest, good-natured "fellow, and I will take some one else in."

BOURDALOUE.

When the celebrated father Bourdaloue, who has sometimes been called the French Tillotson, was to preach on a Good Friday, and the proper officer came to attend him to church, his servants said, the father was in the study, and if he pleased he might go up to him. In going up stairs he heard the sound of a violin, and as the door was partially open, he saw Bourdaloue stripped to his cassock, playing a good brisk tune and dancing to it about his study. The officer was extremely concerned, for he esteemed the great man highly, and thought that he must be run distracted. However, at last he ventured to tap gently at the door. The father imme. diately laid down his fiddle, hurried on his gown and came to him; and with his usual composed pleasing look, said, "Oh, Sir, is it you?" The poor man as they were going down stairs could not help expressing his surprise at what he had

heard and seen.

Bourdaloue smiled, and said,

"Indeed you may well be a little surprised, if

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you do not know any thing of my way on these "occasions, but the whole of the matter was "this: in thinking over the subject of the day, "I found my spirits too much depressed to speak "as I ought to do, so I had recourse to my "usual method of music and a little motion. "It has had its effect; I am quite in a proper "temper, and can go now with pleasure, to what “else I should have gone in pain."

WHITFIELD.

Dr. Franklin, in his memoirs, bears witness to the extraordinary effect which was produced by Mr. Whitfield's preaching in America; and relates an anecdote equally characteristic of the preacher and of himself. "I happened," says the Doctor, "to attend one of his sermons, in "the course of which I perceived he intended to "finish with a collection, and I silently resolved "he should get nothing from me. 1 had in

my pocket a handful of copper money, three "or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. "As he proceeded, I began to soften, and con"cluded to give the copper. Another stroke of "his oratory made me ashamed of that, and de"termined me to give the silver; and he finish

"ed so admirably, that I emptied my pocket

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wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. "At this sermon, there was also one of our club; "who, being of my sentiments respecting the "building in Georgia, and suspecting a collec"tion might be intended, had by precaution emptied his pockets before he came from "home; towards the conclusion of the discourse, "however, he felt a strong inclination to give, "and applied to a neighbour who stood near "him, to lend him some money for the purpose. "The request was fortunately made to, perhaps, "the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His

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answer was, 'at any other time, friend Hodgkinsou, I would lend to thee freely; but not now, "for thee seems to be out of thy right senses."

SIMONY.

However the real crime of simony may differ from that of the word in its general acceptation, we find that the practise to which the church has annexed the appellation was not unknown in the third century; and the clergy sometimes bought what they intended to sell. It appears that the bishopric of Carthage was purchased by a wealthy matron, named Lucilla, for her servant Majorinus. The price was four hundred Folles,

Every Follis contained one hundred and twentyfive pieces of silver, and the whole sum may be computed at about two thousand four hundred pounds.

AN ABSENT GENIUS.

The Rev. George Harvest, minister of Thames Ditton, was one of the most absent men of his time. He was a good scholar, a lover of good eating, and a great fisherman; very negligent in his dress, and a believer in ghosts.

In his youth, Harvest was contracted to a daughter of the bishop of London; but on the day agreed upon for his wedding, being gudgeon fishing, he overstayed the appointed time, and the lady, justly offended at his neglect,

broke off the match.

He used frequently to forget the prayer days; and would walk into church with his fishing rod and tackle, to see what could have assembled the people. In company, he never put the bottle round, but always filled when it stood opposite to him, so that he very often took half a dozen glasses in succession. Whenever he slept, he perverted the use of every thing; wrapt the hand towel round his head, put the night cap over the juglet, and went between the sheets with his boots on.

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