[36] The foreskins, still extant, of the Saviour, are reckoned to be twelve in number. One was in the possession of the monks of Coulombs; another at the Abbey of Charroux; a third at Hildesheim, in Germany; a fourth at Rome, in the Church of St. Jean-de-Latran; a fifth at Antwerp; a sixth at Puy-en-Velay, in the Church of Notre Dame, &c., &c. So much for relics! [37] Dulaure, Singularités Historiques de l'Historie de Paris, p. 77. Paris, 1825. [38] Letter of Sir W. Hamilton prefixed to Payne Knight's "Worship of Priapus." For a representation of the ancient, _Ex voto_, in silver, the size of the original see Plate VI., figure 1. It is copied from an additional plate inserted by M. Panizzi, late librarian of the British Museum, in the fly-leaf of Payne Knight's "_Worship of Phallus_." [39] To these the canon law adds sorcery, ligature or point-tying. [40] Zachais, Quæst. medico. leg. lib. II., tit. I, quæst. I. [41] See _Lectures on Comparative Anatomy_ by Sir Everard Home, Bart. Vol. III., p. 166. London 1823. [42] Lib. I., Epigram. 91. [43] Juvenal Sat. I., vv. 204, 105. [44] Orlando Furioso, Can. I, stanz. 49, 60. [45] Rapport, Tom. I., p. 335. [46] Sir Charles Morgan, Philos. of Morals, p. 25. [47] Nosographie philosophique. [48] Medical Essays published by a society in Edinburgh, vol. I., p. 270. Case reported by W. Cockburn, M.D. [49] Rapport, tome II., p. 422. [50] Essays, Book I., chap. xx. Cotton's translation. [51] Hippocrates de Aer: aqua et loco, 210. [52] Treatise on the Venereal Disease. [53] Comment. de Aer: aqua et loco, 210. [54] Voltaire, Pucelle d'Orléans, Chant. xii. [55] Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords. [56] Herodotus Enterpe clxxxii. [57] De Legibus, lib. ii. [58] Ecologa viii. [59] Amor., lib. iii., Eleg. 6. [60] De Asino Aureo, lib. ii., v. 3. [61] Tacitus Annal., lib. iv., 22. [62] Lib. v., Sentent, tit. 23. [63] De rebus gestis Francorum, lib. 4. cap. 94. [64] Histoire des Français. [65] Nominated to the Bishopric of Evreux by Henry IV. of France. His favourite authors were Rabelais and Montaigne. [66] Demonologie, 1603, Book I., Chap. III., p. 12. [67] "Hercules, puer, L. Virgines, una nocte, gravidus reddit."--Cœlius, lib. 14, cap. 8. [68] Traité premier de la dissolution de Mariage pour l'impuissance et froideur de l'homme, ou de la Femme, par Antoine Hotman, p. 63. [69] Tableau de l'Amour considéré dans l'état du Mariage, par II., chap. 2, art. 3. [70] Art. Portugal. rem. F. [71] Boileau Despréaux, Satires, Satire VIII. [72] Willick's Lectures on Diet and Regimen, p. 538, et seq. [73] From [Greek: mandra], relating to cattle, and [Greek: agaron], baneful, injurious.