iews, and
different committees, on purpose to break their measures and silence their
clamours against the Church. However, since they could not come to any
agreement in a form for divine service, he had a handsome opportunity for a
release: for now they could not decently importune him any farther. To part
smoothly with them, he assured their agents that, when they came to any
unanimous resolve upon the matter before them, they might expect his
friendship, and that he should be ready to bring their scheme to a
settlement." Collier's _Hist._, vol. viii. p. 16. See Cardwell's _Hist. of
the Conference connected with the Revision of the Book of Common Prayer_,
London, 1849, 8vo. See also _Quarterly Review_, vol. 1. pp. 508-561., No.
C. Jan. 1834. The present American Prayer Book is formed on the
Comprehension scheme. Last year Pickering published a _Book of Common
Prayer of the Church of England, adapted for General Use in other
Protestant Churches_, which is well worth referring to.

Those who wished to "comprehend" at the Roman side of the _via media_ were
very few. Elizabeth and Laud are the most prominent instances. Charles I.,
and afterwards the Nonjurors, had schemes of communion with the Greek
Church. A _History of Comprehension_ would involve a historical notice of
the Thirty-nine Articles, and the plan of Comprehension maintained by some
to be the intention of their framers. It should include also distinctive
sketches of the classes formerly denominated _Church Papists_ and _Church
Puritans_.]

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TESTIMONIALS TO DONKEYS.

The following extract from an article on "Angling in North Wales," which
appeared in _The Field_ newspaper of October 22nd, contains a specimen of
an entirely original kind of testimonial, which seems to me worthy of
preservation in "N. & Q.'s" museum of curiosities:

"Beguiled by the treacherous representations of a certain Mr. Williams,
and the high character of his donkeys, I undertook the ascent of Dunas
Bran, and poked about among the ruins of Crow Castle on its summit,
where I found nothing of any consequence, except an appetite for my
dinner. The printed paper which Mr. Williams hands about, deploring the
loss of his 'character,' and testifying to the wonderful superiority of
all his animals, is rather amusing. Mr. Williams evidently never had a
donkey 'what wouldn't go.' This paper commences with an affidavit from