attired. The convent which has the good fortune
of being its owner has no other patrimony. As soon as any body is
seriously ill, the _Bambino_ is sent for, in a carriage, because he
never walks on foot. Two monks take him and place him near the bed
of the patient, in whose house they remain, living at his expense,
until he dies or recovers.

"The _Bambino_ is always driving about; people sometimes fight at
the gate of the convent in order to get him. He is particularly busy
during the summer, and his charges are then higher, in proportion to
the competition and the heat, which I think is quite
right."--_Dupaty, Lettres sur l'Italie_, let. xlviii.

The _Bambino_ continues to maintain his credit; and I have read not
long ago in the newspapers, that an English lady of rank, who had
joined the communion of Rome, was performing the duties of his dry
nurse on a festival of her adopted church.

_ 86 Insolitam imaginem._ I have made use in the text of the English
Roman Catholic translation of the canons of the Council of Trent, by
the Rev. Mr Waterworth.

87 "Omnia haec impia sunt et cultus idolorum, alloqui ipsas statuas aut
ossa, aut fingere Deum aut sanctos magis in uno loco, seu ad hanc
statuam alligatos esse quam ad alia loca. Nihil differunt
invocationes quae fiunt ad Mariam Aquensem seu Ratisbonensem ab
invocationibus ethnicis, quae flebant ad Dianam Ephesiam, aut ad
Junonem Plataeensem, aut ad alias statuas."--_Respon. ad Articul.
Bavaric_, art. 17, p. 381.

88 Middleton's "Miscellaneous Works," vol. v., p. 96, edition of 1755.

89 Ibid., p. 97.

90 Hospinian, "De Origine Templ.," lib. ii. cap. 23; _apud_ Middleton,
_loco citato_.

91 Beugnot, vol. i. p. 231, on the authority of Sosomenes.

92 There are some Protestant writers who attach great value to the
apostolic canons, as, for instance, Dr Beveridge, Bishop of St
Asaph, who wrote a defence of them.

93 "Institutiones Christianae," lib. vi., cap. 2; apud, "Hospinian de
Origine Templorum," lib. ii., cap. 10.

94 This date is a mistake, and I would have taken it for a misprint if
the author had not said before, that "Vigilantius attacked the
practices of the church in the fourth age." I have, in speaking of
this subject, p. 71, followed the authority of the g