conquest of England by William, duke of Normandy, the lord of Ugglebardeby, then called William de Bruce; the lord of Sneton, called Ralph de Percy; with a gentleman and freeholder called Allatson, did, on the 16th October, 1159, appoint to meet and hunt the wild boar, in a certain wood, or desart place, belonging to the abbot of Whitby: the place's name was Eskdale-side; and the abbot's name was Sedman. Then, these young gentlemen being met, with their hounds and boar-staves, in the place before mentioned, and there having found a great wild boar, the hounds ran him well near about the chapel and hermitage of Eskdale-side, where was a monk of Whitby, who was an hermit. The boar being very sorely pursued, and dead-run, took in at the chapel door, there laid him down, and presently died. The hermit shut the hounds out of the chapel, and kept himself within at his meditations and prayers, the hounds standing at bay without. The gentlemen, in the thick of the wood, being put behind their game, followed the cry of their hounds, and so came to the hermitage, calling on the hermit, who opened the door, and came forth; and within they found the boar lying dead: for which, the gentlemen, in a very great fury, because the hounds were put from their game, did most violently and cruelly run at the hermit with their boar-staves, whereby he soon after died. Thereupon the gentlemen perceiving and knowing that they were in peril of death, took sanctuary at Scarborough; but at that time the abhot being in very great favour with the king, removed them out of the sanctuary; whereby they

came in danger of the law, and not to be privileg ed, but likely to have the severity of the law, which was death for death. But the hermit being a holy and devout man, and at the point of death, sent for the abbot, and desired him to send for the gentlemen who had wounded him. The abbot so doing, the gentlemen came; and the hermit being very sick and weak, said unto them, 'I am sure to die of those wounds you have given me.' The abbot answered,They shall as surely die for the same.' But the hermit answered, Not so, for I will freely forgive them my death, if they will be content to be enjoined the penance I shall lay on them for the safeguard of their souls.' The gentlemen being present, bade him save their lives. Then said the hermit: You and yours shall hold your lands of the abbot of Whitby, and his successors, in this manner: That, upon Assension-day, you, or some of you, shall come to the wood of the Stray-heads, which is in Eskdale-side, the same day at sun-rising, and there shall the abbot's officer blow his horn, to the intent that you may know where to find him; and he shall deliver unto you, William de Bruce, ten stakes, eleven strout stowers, and eleven yethers, to be cut by you, or some for you, with a knife of one penny price; and you, Ralph de Percy, shall take twenty one of each sort, to be cut in the same manner; and you, Allatson, shall take nine of each sort, to be cut as aforesaid; and to be taken on your backs, and carried to the town of Whitby, and to be there before nine of the clock the same day before mentioned. At the same hour of nine of the clock, if it be full sea, your labour and

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service shall cease; and, if low water, each of you shall set your stakes to the brim, each stake one yard from the other, and so yether them on each side with your yethers; and so stake on each side with your strout stowers, that they may stand three tides, without removing by the force thereof. Each of you shall do, make, and execute, the said service, at that very hour, every year, except it be full sea at that hour; but when it shall so fall out, this service shall cease. You shall faithfully do this, in remembrance that you did most cruelly slay me; and that you may the better call to God for mercy, repent unfeignedly of your sins, and do good works. The officer of Eskdale-side shall blow, Out on you! Out on you! Out on you! for this heinous crime. If you, or your successors, shall refuse this service, so long as it shall not be full sea at the aforesaid hour, you, or yours, shall forfeit your lands to the abbot of Whitby, or his successors. This I entreat, and earnestly beg, that you may have lives and goods preserved for this service; and I request of you to promise, by your parts in heaven, that it shall be done by you, and you and your successors, as is aforesaid requested; and I will confirm it by the faith of an honest man.' Then the hermit said, My soul longeth for the Lord; and I do as freely forgive these men my death, as Christ forgave the thieves on the cross.' And, in the presence of the abbot and the rest, he said moreover these words: In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum, a vinculis enim mortis redemptisti me, Domine veritatis. Amen. -So he yielded up the ghost the eighth day of

December, anno Domini 1159, whose soul God have mercy upon. Amen." Charlton's History of Whitby, and Whitby Abbey, p. 125, 6, 7.

THERE is among the Jews, a law concering jealousy; and the rabbis have written comments upon it, and argue the point with such nicety, that the exact number of minutes is allotted which a married lady may spend with a gentleman, before her husband has any right to suspect her. It is, those precise casuists determine, just as long as it takes to boil an egg, and to swallow it.

J. P. Andrews' Anecdotes, p. 188.

THE REV. Mr Patten was a very extraordinary character. He had been chaplain to a man of war, and was during many years, curate of Whitstable, at a very small stipend, and used every Sunday to travel, in a butcher's cart, to do duty at another church. Whitstable, lying close to the sea, is very aguish, so that had he been dismissed, it would have been very difficult for the archbishop of Canterbury, to whom the living belonged, to have provided another curate at the same low rate: this he well knew, and presuming upon it, was a great plague to every new primate.

When Dr Secker was enthroned, or soon after, he gave a charge to his clergy, and, among other articles, found great fault with the scanty allowance often paid to curates. Mr Patten, who was there, (though not summoned, as his usual boldness at these meetings, occasioned an order for him to be left out of the list) arose from his seat, and bowing

to the archbishop, said with a loud voice, "I thank your grace." After the charge was over, this troublesome subaltern, bustling through the croud, came up to the metropolitan, who seeing that he could not avoid him, began with the usual question, "You are, sir, I apprehend, curate of Whitstable?" "I am so," returned Mr Patten," and have received the paltry sum of thirty pounds per annum from your grace's predecessors, for doing the duty of a living which brings in full three hundred." "Don't enlarge, Mr Patten," said the archbishop; "No, but I hope your grace will," rejoined the

curate.

In his illness, being in extreme distress, archbishop Secker sent him ten guineas by the archdeacon. The dying humorist thanked him sincerely, and, in the style of the age of James I. "Tell the primate," said he, "that now I own him to be a man of God, for I have seen his angels." G.

THE following piece of grave advice notwithstanding the great name of the counsellor, will not we think have many followers.

In a fracture of the thigh," the extension ought to be particularly great, the muscles being so strong that, notwithstanding the effect of the bandages, their contraction is apt to shorten the limb. This is a deformity so deplorable, that when there is reason to apprehend it, I wou'd advise the patient to suffer the other thigh to be broken also, in order to have them both of one length." Hippocrates.

ST CUTHBERT was, in the choice of his se