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day. Mr. Freeman mentioned tliat at AValton a notice 

 was placed in the eluirch saying that the Initials "I.II.S." 

 meant "Jesus the Savioin- of Men^' (Jesus Hominum 

 Salvator). This was a mistake, the more accurate form of 

 the monogram is I.H.C., that is simply the common Greek 

 abbreviation of the name IH'SOTX — the C form of the 

 sigma being very common in MSS. 



The Eev. F. Browne gave some memorials of the family 

 of Gorges, and an outline of the history of Nailsea Couut. 

 This court was once occupied by the notorious Major 

 Wade, who took an active part in the Monmouth rebellion, 

 and proved a false friend to bis associates, Capt. Eogcrs, 

 a relative of this Major Wade, captured a Spanish vcssel 

 containing 500 bales of Pope's buUs, each bale containing 

 16 rcams, intcnded for South America, The same person 

 brought Alexander Selkirk from Juan Fernandez. The 

 rev. gentlemau read some very curious extracts from the 

 Nailsea vestry books. One was in 1792, and related to 

 a payment by the minister "to the viper woinan for 

 making a child on John Lovell, at a guinea a-week." Thia 

 entry was long a source of diffxulty to bim; but in 

 1852 he found it stated in Notes and Queries that Pliny, 

 Galen, and other ancients attached medicinal properties to 

 the flcsh of vipers. In Madame de Sevigne s letters there 

 occurred an order for ten dozen vipers, two to be takea 

 each day. He supposed that the woman had made vipcr- 

 broth, and given it to Lovell's child. In 1715 there was 

 entered one sliilling for leather for the bell, and the head of 

 an " oter," but in another place the churchwarden speit it 

 "the head of an author." The same ycar there was an 

 entry, " Paid Dr. Lovell for a whip for the church, 2d." 

 "Paid Dr. Lovell for whipping dogs at church, 31 weeks, 

 Is. 9d." It puzzled him to think who this unfortunate 

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