FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
I'm finally home. I did not reach Lincoln County in time to pick Rumsfeld up from the poodle spa, so I'm home, alone, with the cats. They appear to be enjoying the situation. The most exciting part of the trip was while we were unpacking my parents' car. My father and the neighborhood skunk came within about 6 feet of one another. A good time was had by all, except for the skunk, who chickened out, did not spray, and waddled back into the thicket.
Gas at the Santo Domingo Pueblo is $2.85!
Speaking of New Mexico, did it or didn't it? Brookheaven scientist now says it did!
A good Halloween Read!
What is a wobo?
Mutant fish?
Now they say Stonehenge a "Death" site.
THE CHAMBERS BOOK OF DAYS
Born: Pierre Nicole, logician, of Port Royal, 1625, Chartres; John, Duke of Argyll, statesman and commander, 1680; Henry Cavendish, eminent chemist, 1731, Nice; Benjamin West, painter, 1738, Springfield, Pennsylvania; Rev Theobald Mathew, Irish apostle of temperance, 1790, Thomastown, Tipperary.
Died: Dr. John Blow, composer, 1708; Archbishop John Potter, author of Grecian Antiquities, 1747, Croydon; Dr. William Wilkie, author of the Epigoniad, 1772, St. Andrews; Henry Brooke, novelist, 1783, Dublin; Jeremiah James Oberlin, philologer, and archeological writer, 1806, Strasburg; Varnhagen Von Elise, eminent German writer, 1858, Berlin.
Feast Day: St. Paulinus, archbishop of York, confessor, 644. St. John of Bridlington, confessor, 1379. St. Francis Borgia, confessor, 1572.
TESTAMENT OF MASTER WILLIAM TRACIEDied: Dr. John Blow, composer, 1708; Archbishop John Potter, author of Grecian Antiquities, 1747, Croydon; Dr. William Wilkie, author of the Epigoniad, 1772, St. Andrews; Henry Brooke, novelist, 1783, Dublin; Jeremiah James Oberlin, philologer, and archeological writer, 1806, Strasburg; Varnhagen Von Elise, eminent German writer, 1858, Berlin.
Feast Day: St. Paulinus, archbishop of York, confessor, 644. St. John of Bridlington, confessor, 1379. St. Francis Borgia, confessor, 1572.
'The x daye of October, in the xxii yere of the rayne of King Henry the VIII'is the date of an interesting document connected with the Reformation in England, '
The Testament of Master Wylliam Tracie, Esquier.’
In the time that immediately preceded the Reformation, many intelligent persons imbibed the opinions of Wycliffe, without making any prominent exhibition of them. This latent degeneracy usually crept out in their last wills, or on their death-beds. The omission of a wish to have masses performed for their souls after death was considered a strong proof of heresy, and dealt with severely. As an instance of this, it is recorded, that the body of William Tracie was taken up in Henry’s VIII’s reign, and publicly burned, by order of the chancellor of Worcester, because the following passage was found in his will:
'And towchyn the wealth of my soule the fayth that I have taken and rehersed, is suffycient (as I suppose) without any other man’s worke or workis. My grounde and my beliefe is, that ther is but one god and one mediatour betwene god and man, whych is Jesus Chryste. So that I do not except none in heaven or erthe to be my mediatour between me and god, but only Jesus Chryst, al other be but petitioners in recevinge of grace, but one able to give influence of grace. And therfore wyll I bestowe no part of my goodes for that intent that any man shoulde saye, or do, to healpe any soule, for therein I trust onely to the promyse of God, he that beleveth and is baptized shal be saved, and he that heleveth not shad be damned.’
The Testament of Master Wylliam Tracie, Esquier.’
In the time that immediately preceded the Reformation, many intelligent persons imbibed the opinions of Wycliffe, without making any prominent exhibition of them. This latent degeneracy usually crept out in their last wills, or on their death-beds. The omission of a wish to have masses performed for their souls after death was considered a strong proof of heresy, and dealt with severely. As an instance of this, it is recorded, that the body of William Tracie was taken up in Henry’s VIII’s reign, and publicly burned, by order of the chancellor of Worcester, because the following passage was found in his will:
'And towchyn the wealth of my soule the fayth that I have taken and rehersed, is suffycient (as I suppose) without any other man’s worke or workis. My grounde and my beliefe is, that ther is but one god and one mediatour betwene god and man, whych is Jesus Chryste. So that I do not except none in heaven or erthe to be my mediatour between me and god, but only Jesus Chryst, al other be but petitioners in recevinge of grace, but one able to give influence of grace. And therfore wyll I bestowe no part of my goodes for that intent that any man shoulde saye, or do, to healpe any soule, for therein I trust onely to the promyse of God, he that beleveth and is baptized shal be saved, and he that heleveth not shad be damned.’
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