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36 him to all his dignities with great ſolemnity. Nevertheleſs the traiterous archbishop returning to his old vomit, procured a diſpenſation for his oath from Pope John the 23d, and began again to moleſt, vex, and murder the citizens whom he had vowed to protect; but vengeance at laſt overtook him, for being catched once again, and impriſoned, while his friends were treating for his liberty, the jailor beat him to death with the bar of a door, or as ſome ſay, with an iron rod out of a window, and ſo at laſt his perjury found its deſert—Beard's Theatre.

XLVII. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, there was one Anne Avery, a widow, who foreſwore herſelf for a little money which ſhe ſhould have paid for ſix pound of flax, at a ſhop in Woodſtreet, upon which ſhe was ſuddenly ſurprized by the juſtice of God, and fell down immediately ſpeechleſs, caſting up at her mouth what nature had ordained to paſs another way, and in this agony died.—Clark's Examples.

XLVIII. About the beginning of April, 1661, a woman in Derby-ſhire having couzened a boy of ſome money, was charged with it, but the ſtiffly denied it, and being further urged to confeſs the truth, ſhe in a fearful manner prayed God, That the earth might open and ſwallow her up quick if ſhe had it; and immediately the earth opened, and ſhe ſank into it, and being afterwards digged for, they found her nine foot within the earth, and that very money was found in her pocket.—''Clark's Exam. vol. 2.''

XLIX. In the year 1551, five drunken men quaffing together in the kingdom of Bohemia,