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the press ; — but silently and bountifully from the 

 hand of a humble lay-brother, the poor receive 

 a charitable dole : — upwards of sixty gallons of 

 nutritious soup being distributed to them twice 

 a week, the year throughout, with bread in addition 

 to all who shall apply for it. 



On looking back to the days of sacrilege and 

 rapine, when an adulterous king with his cormor- 

 ant court, first plundered our holy monasteries, 

 and then destroyed them ; (thus paving the way for 

 poor rates and union-houses ; ) my heart turns sick 

 and falters in its beat. Heaven will bless the 

 venerable fathers, who have restored to the poor 

 their long lost halcyon times. Aye, it has already 

 blessed them a hundred fold, in their long and 

 arduous struggle of more than sixty years. The 

 poor themselves, will pray aloud for farther 

 blessings on the College of Stonyhurst, at the 

 gates of which, that touching plaint of 



u Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, 



Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, 

 Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span, 



O give relief, and heaven will bless your store," 



is never made in vain. 



Kind reader — a few words more, and then, fare 

 thee well. 



Some sixty years ago, my father put into my 



