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In addition to Dr. Bliss' note to Bishop Earle's character of a “meer dull physician,” we have a curious illustration of the text in Mr. Christie's “Life of Lord Shaftesbury” (vol. I., p. 81.)

“August 11 [1646.] Sir John Danvers came and sat with us. Seven condemned to die; four for horse-stealing, two for robbery, one for killing his wife, he broke her neck with his hands; it was proved that, he touching her body the day after, her nose bled fresh; four burnt in the hand, one for felony, three for manslaughter; the same sign followed one of them of the corpse bleeding.”