physicians from their farther attendance."

"London, July 17. 1669.--The 13th instant, Mr. William Sermon, the
practitioner in physick, who so happily performed that excellent cure
upon his Grace the Duke of Albermarle, was presented to His Majesty in
St. James's Park, where he had the honor to kiss His Majesty's hand,
and to receive his thanks for that good service."

September 9. 1669.--"Advertisement: These are to give notice that
William Sermon, Dr. of Physick, a person so eminently famous for his
cure of his Grace the Duke of Albermarle, is removed from Bristol to
London, and may be spoken with every day, especially in the forenoon,
at his house in West Harding Street, in Goldsmith's Rents, near Three
Legged Alley, between Fetter Lane and Shooe Lane."

Can any of your correspondents give an account of the subsequent career of
Dr. Sermon?

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_An Infant Prodigy_ (Vol. ii., p. 101.).--There are parallel cases in the
hagioloists (_Hist. de l'Eglise Gallicane_, par Longueval, tom. iii. p.
430. 1782):

"S. Amand apres cette mission etant repasse dans la Gaule, eut bientot
occasion de montrer l'intrepidite de son zele ... L'amour des femmes,
ecueil fatal des jeunes princes, fit en peu de temps oublier a Dagobert les
lecons qu'il avoit recues de S. Arnoux et de S. Cunibert. Il se livra a
cette passion avec tant de scandale, qu'il eut jusqu'a trois femmes a la
fois qui portoient le nom de reines, sans parler d'un grand nombre de
concubines ...

"Amand, apres un assez long exil, 'refusa d'abord l'honneur de baptiser'
l'enfant de son maitre: 'mais les instances que le roi lui fit faire par
Ouen et Eloi firent ceder sa modestie a l'obeissance. L'enfant fut aussitot
apporte le saint eveque l'ayant pris entre ses bras, lui donna sa
benediction, et recita les prieres pour le faire catechumene. L'oraison
etant finie, comme personne ne repondoit, Dieu delia la langue du jeune
prince, qui n'avoit pas plus de quarante jours, et il repondit
distinctement _amen_.'"

This happened in 630 at Orleans, and the holy abbot who attests the miracle
was present when it occurred. Had St. Amand learnt ventriloquism during his
missionary excursions?

And now permit me to tell your correspondent CH. that Abp. Bramhall's Dutch
is quite correct. "Mevrouw" is still the title of empresses, queens
duchesses, Countesses, noble ladies, ministers of state's and other great
men's wives.

G.M