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this |..,per, of reproducing from " Current Notes " a representation, showing " How Oulde Mary Curty's tongue was branked for skandle," at Yarmouth, sometime in the seventeenth century. There is no doubt that much absolute in justice, much wanton cruelty, and much un

merited and undeserved punishment was in flicted by the use of the brank, in those days which we call the "good old times," — days which undoubtedly had their good, but which also at the same time had their evil, to an extent which we should be sorry to see again prevailing.

"WHATSOEVER IS TERRENE." By Ruple Dix Smith. "And yet time hath his revolutions; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things, finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene; and why not of De Vere? For where isBohun? Where is Mobray? Where is Mortimer? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchers of mortality." Ch. J. Crewe in " Oxford Peerage Case."

"NT AMES and dignities are lost, Temporal things at last decay, Whatsoever is terrene, All in time will pass away. Where is now the proud De Vere? Bohun? Mobray? Mortimer? Plantagenet's line antique, Search (he tomb and sepulcher.

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