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Fiddes, in his 'Life of Cardinal Wolsey, has frequent occasion to introduce the Emperor, his contemporary, of which Bayle in his Dictionary gives us an express article and not a short one, for it consists of eight of his pages. "Roger Ascham, Queen Elizabeth's preceptor, when he was secretary to S'r.
"Land bless ye, no!" cried the old man, with a shocked sincerity there was no doubting. "I never harmed any one in all my life. But I was feelin' so good over savin' ye that I had to have my little joke. I was out this mornin' as us'al, after meat for my cats. I have to work hard to keep 'em in meat, mister. I can't stand round and see my kitties starve no, s'r!
In the portrait, the Abbé is dressed in the habit of the order, a white gown and hood, and sitting with a book before him, in which he appears to be writing; on the same table, before him, are a crucifix and a skull. The following inscription is painted in one corner by the artist: "ARM'D. LE BOUTTHILLIER DE RANCE. S'R SCAUANT. et célèbre Abbé Réformateur De La Trappe. Mort en 1700.
The savages of the Ohio and the Mississippi, instead of being tied to France by the mild bonds of the faith, were now in a state which the French called defection or revolt; that is, they received and welcomed the English traders. Mémoirs du Roy pour servir d'instruction au S'r. These traders came in part from Virginia, but chiefly from Pennsylvania.
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