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As they were carrying them to execution, the king, who saw them from a balcony, could not help saying, 'There go two men, unhappy enough, to die for what they are persuaded of.' This speech took air, and the Inquisitor came to him, and told him it was necessary he should submit to some punishment for the offence he                  had given the Holy Office. After some dis- putes it was agreed, that the king should suffer himself to be let blood a porringer full, and that the blood should be burnt by the executioner: which was actually performed in the presence of                  the Grand Inquisitor.

As a lame country schoolmaster was hobbling one morning upon two sticks to his noisy man- sion, he was met by a nobleman, who inquired his name, and the means by which he procured a liveliliood? 'My name,' answered he, 'is                  R. T. and I am MASTER of this parish.' This answer increased the curiosity of his lordship, and he desired to know how he was MASTER of                  the parish? I am,' replied the pedagogue, 'the Master of the children of the parish; the children are masters of their MOTHERS; the mothers are the rulers of the FATHERS; and consequently I am the Master of the whole PARISH.' His lordship was pleased with this logical reply, and made the schoolmaster a                  present.

Judge Rook, in going the western circuit, had a great stone thrown at his head; but,