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told her, they were so sensible of the Power by which she spoke, though they did not understand her words, yet they were edified by the life and power that accompanied her speech, and therefore they little mattered the want of interpretation. And so she went on without any interpreter." The good Quaker relates this anecdote with perfect simplicity, and yet he thought church-music an abomination! In these cases how much wiser are the Romanists in their generation than the children of light!

214. Hats.

The grandfather of Brown, the famous head of the Puritans, is said to have enjoyed the same Grandee privilege as Earl Strongbow. Fuller[1] says he had seen a charter granted to this Francis Brown by King Henry VIII.(the 16th of July, in the 18th of his reign) and

  1. Church History, Book ix. p. 167.