there. The humanity of Isabella, or the avarice of Ferdinand, was relenting when Torquemeda, the chief inquisitor, entered the palace with a crucifix before him, and exclaimed to his king and queen, "Judas sold his Saviour for thirty "pieces of silver, and will you sell him for three "hundred thousand?" The argument was irresistable, and the Jews were expelled from Spain -such was one feature of the Inquisition.

CARDINAL MAZARIN.

This eminent minister kept a complete collection of the libels written against him: it amounted to forty six quarto volumes! When he laid on any new tax, he asked his confidants what the good people of Paris were doing, whether they were ridiculing him, and making songs and epigrams upon him? When he was answered in the affirmative, he used to say, "I can never "have any reason to fear a nation which vents "its spleen so very gaily; let them laugh on."

MANICHEANS.

The Manichæans imagined that for the salvation of souls, God had made a vast machine, composed of twelve vessels, which insensibly lifted up the souls of men, and after that emptied it self into the moon; which after having puri

fied those souls by its rays, conveyed them into the sun and into glory, explaining in this manner the phases of the moon; she was at full they thought when those vessels had raised a great number of souls, and she waned in proportion as she transmitted them into glory.

DOCTOR GARLICK.

Not many years ago, a divine, who had seen the poor of France eat a great deal of garlick, in consequence of this remark, advised the cultivation of it, in a sermon delivered at Bristol, and advised the use of it to the poor when wheat was dear and corn at a high price. For this counsel he was driven out of the city by the populace, and ever after enjoyed the title of Dr. Garlick.

CROMWELL AND THE PURITANS,

Oliver Cromwell would frequently, it appears, take the Lord's name in vain. Mr. Waller, the poet, often declared, that he found Oliver Cromwell to be very well read in the Greek and Roman story; and he frequently took notice, that in the midst of their discourse a servant has come to tell him, that such and such attended; upon which Cromwell would rise and stop them, talking at the door, where Mr. Waller could over-hear him say, "The Lord will reveal;

the Lord will help," and several such expressions; which, when he returned to Mr. Waller, he excused, saying, cousin Waller, I must talk to these men after their own way; and would then go on where they left off.

CLEMENT V.

Clement 5th, of whom we have presented the reader with a very rare portrait, was the son of Oswald de Goth, a nobleman of Aquitain and by favour of Boniface 8, was preferred in 1299 to the archbishopric of Bourdeaux. After a contest in the conclave of cardinals, which lasted nearly a year, he was elected pope in 1305. The ceremony of his coronation was performed at Lyons, whither he summoned the Cardinals; and on his return from the church of St. Justus to his palace with the crown on his head, his horse was led part of the way by the king of France on foot, and afterwards by Charles De Valois, and the Duke of Brittany likewise on foot. But the fall of a wall during the procession, which killed several persons of distinction, and caused the crown to fall from the head of the pope, excited a great alarm among the people, and gave occasion to the Italian writers to observe, that such were the auspices under which the holy see was translated from Italy to France, from thence to Avignon, where it remained for a period of more than seventy years. The persecution

an article of faith till the council of Trent. But it is said, Odilon, abbot of Cluny, in the ninth century had the honour of this innovation. He it was, who first enjoined the ceremony of pray, ing for the dead, Should this particular and important day happen on a Sunday, it is not postponed until Monday, but kept on the Saturday, "in order that the church might the sooner "aid the suffering souls." This saint actually "heard the voyces and the howlyngs of devyls "whiche complayned strongly, bycause that the "sowles of them that were dead were taken aweye, fro their hands, by almesses and by "prayers." Hear Mercier on the value of this saint to the Romish Church: "When St. Odilon, ❝ abbot of Cluny, discovered purgatory, he fan"cied that, to secure a decent subsistence for "his monks, it was requisite to engage the peo"ple to embrace this discovery." The Roman court which foresaw the advantages that would accrue from this Benedictine dream, declared positively, that St. Odilon was a man gifted with a strong discernment, and had found out a place unknown for more than five thousand years. This court afterwards persuaded the people that it would be neither prudent nor decent in them to allow their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and friends, &c, to be burned

for a peccadillo; that the prayers which were established, would shorten the duration of the chastisement; and that by paying handsomely, a thousand souls at once might be liberated from that abode of darkness and horror. Twenty troops of monks inculcated so deeply into the minds of the catholics this ridiculous jargon, that the holy and poor church was entirely deluged with effects, moveable and immoveable, till Luther determined to shut up purgatory, into which none now enter except Spanish, Irish, and Italian bigots.

FRENCH PREACHER.

Du Perron complains of a spiritual orator, of his time, for saying-" Seigneur nettoyez moi le "bec, de la serviette de ton amour." Lord, cleanse thou my lips with the napkin of thy love.

WELSH EPITAPH.

Two lovely babes lie buried here,
As ever bless'd their parent's dear;
But they were seised with ague fits,
And here they lie as dead as nits.

CLEMENT THE SIXTH.

That the pope can curse to the

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