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12 When I was a boy a charme was used for (I think) keeping away evill spirits ; w^ was to say thrice in a breath,

There is, in some comers of this Nation some trick or charme against an ill tongae, or (as they terme it) labouring under an ill tongue, w<* quaere. Mdm. in Mr. Lillies Astrologies there is a Beceipt for it, Take Populeam, &c [See Miscellanies, p. 139.] Some peculiar dales fatal to particular persons, as Matthew Paris observes of Thomas Becket, Abp. of Canterbury:—

Nescitnr qnomodo remm prsBsagio yel eventn contigerit, qnod mnlta beato Thomae die Martis mirabilia contigemnt. Die enim Martis scilicet die Thomae Apostoli natns extitit [Bend in mnndnm intravit die Martis contra Dia- bolnm prsliatnms: Mars enim secnndnm Foetas, Dens belli nnncnpatnr] .... Die Martis sederunt Frincipes apnd Nortbamptonam et adversns cnm loqna- bantnr. Actns est die Martis in exilmn. Die Martis appamit ei Dominns apnd Fontiniacnm dicens: Thoma, Thoma, Ecclesia mea glorificabitnr in sangnine tno. Die insnper Martis reversns est ab exilio. Martyrii qnoq' palmam die Martis est adeptns .... Venerabile corpns ejns die Martis gloriam translationis sns- cepit.— Snb An. 1169, p. 116.

Oliver Cromwell obtained his two greatest victories at Dunbar and Worcester on Septemb. 3, and died on that day An. 1658.—[W. K.] Quare if in Ireland or Scotland there is any resemblance of the Lares, or of any worship to 'em.