patron, and promised him much land: his son Cadwallan performed the promise, and received from the saint a golden sceptre with sixty cows. The land was claimed in behalf of a little infant, and his title proved good; the king refuses either to give other land in lieu, or to resign the present. Bruno cursed him and went away; but was appeased by Gwrddeint, first cousin to the king, who overtook him, and gave the town of Clynnog for ever to God and St. Beuno, for his own soul's sake, and that of the wicked Cadwallan. Long after his time the Carmelites, or white monks, had here an establishment, but they were suppressed at an unknown period. At the time of the Lincoln taxation, or the year 1291, the church was collegiate, consisting of five portionists, or prebendaries, and it continued so to the dissolution, at which time its revenues must have been very great, many of the kings and first people of the country appearing on the list of benefactors. At present there are no sort of revenues to keep this venerable pile from falling to ruin, but the offering of calves and lambs, which happen to be born with the Nôd Beuno or mark of St. Beuno, a certain natural mark in the ear, have not entirely ceased. They are brought to the church on Trinity Sunday, the anniversary of the saint, and delivered to the

churchwardens, who sell and account for them, and put it into a great chest called Cyf St. Beuno, made of one piece of oak, secured with three locks. From this the Welch have a proverb for attempting any very difficult thing. "You may as well try to break up St. Beuno's "chest." The little money resulting from the sacred beasts or casual offerings is either applied to the relief of the poor, or in aid of repairs.

INSTRUCTIONS TO A CHAPLAIN.

The following, and we believe they are Unique, are Sir John Wynne of Gwedir's Instructions to his chaplain, the reverend John Pryce. "First, you shall have the chamber I showed you in my gate, private to yourself, with lock and key, and all necessaries. In the morning I expect you should rise, and say prayers in my hall, to my household below, before they go to work, and when they come in at night, that you call before you all the workmen, specially the youth, and take account of them of their belief, and of what Sir Meredith taught them. I beg you to continue for the most part in the lower house: you are to have onlye what is done there, that you may inform me of any disorder there. There is a bayliff of husbandry and a porter, who will be commanded by you. The morning after you be

up, and have said prayers, as afore, I would you to bestow in study on any commendable exercise of your body. Before dinner you are to come up and attend grace or prayers, if there be any publicke; and to sit up if there be not greater strangers above the chyldren, who you are to teach in your own chamber. When the table from half downwards is taken up, then are you to rise and to walk in the alleys near at hand until grace time, and to come in then for that purpose. After dinner, if I be busy, you may go to bowles, shuffel bord, or any other honest, decent recreation, until I go abroad. If you see me void of business, and go to ride abroad, you shall command a gelding to be made ready by the grooms of the stable, and to go with me. If I go to bowles or shuffle bord, I shall lyke of your company, if the place be not made up with strangers. I would have you go every Sunday in the year to some church hereabouts, to preache, giving warnynge to the parish, to bring the yowths at after noon to the church to be catechysed; in which poynt is my greatest care that you be paynfull and dylygent. Avoyd the alehouse, to sytt and keepe drunkard's company ther, being the greatest discredit your function can have."

ULRIC ZUINGLE

The papal church has recorded the deaths of numerous Christians, who have fallen by the hands of the pagans; the reformed church might afford a more numerous catalogue of martyrs, who have fallen victims to popery; among these, Ulric Zuingle, the Swiss reformer, is not one of the least distinguished. In a battle which took place in October 1531, between the troops of the five associate catholic cantons, and a detachment of Zurichers, in which the latter, being obliged to yield to superior numbers, were entire ly routed, Zuingle, receiving a mortal wound at the commencement of the action, fell senseless to the ground. As soon as he had recovered sufficiently to raise himself up, he crossed his arms on his breast and lifted his languid eyes to heaven. In this condition he was found by some catholic soldiers, who, without knowing him, offered to bring a confessor; but as he made a sign of refusal, the soldiers exhorted him to recommend his soul to the holy virgin. On a second refusal, one of them furiously exclaimed, "Die, then, obstinate heretic,” and pierced him through with a sword. His body was found the next day, and the celebrity of his name drew together a great crowd of spectators. One of these, who had been his colleague at Zurich,

after intently gazing on his face, thus expressed his feelings: "Whatever may have been thy faith, I am sure thou wert always sincere, and "that thou lovedst thy country. May God take "thy soul to his mercy." Among the savage herd, some voices exclaimed, "Let us burn his "accursed remains." The proposal was applauded, a military tribunal ordered the execution, and the ashes of Zuingle were scattered to the wind. Thus, at the age of 47, he terminated a glorious career, by an event deeply lamented by all the friends of the reformation, and occasioned triumph to the partizans of the Romish church.

AH! OH.

Of all the gifts we can receive from nature, the most useful is the faculty of being silent, or making a reply à propos. A French abbè, whose wit has rendered him the delight of every drawing-room in Paris, frequently declares that silence has been of greater service to him than the brilliancy of his genius, and relates the following anecdote which brought him into notice among the polite word when he was not more than eighteen years old: Having been invited one day to dine with the duke de Choiseul, he repaired to that celebrated nobleman's house, and entered