Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal marks is in bold face (=bold=). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. Minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. Mismatched quotes are not fixed if it's not sufficiently clear where the missing quote should be placed. The cover for the eBook version of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. * * * * * NIMMO'S SERIES OF COMMONPLACE BOOKS. CLERGYMEN AND DOCTORS. CLERGYMEN AND DOCTORS: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo. CLERGYMEN AND DOCTORS: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. [Illustration: decoration] EDINBURGH: WILLIAM P. NIMMO. MURRAY AND GIBB, EDINBURGH, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. CONTENTS. PAGE Abernethy and the Duke of York, 61; Anecdotes of, 83; Conquered by Curran, 151 Abstinence, Precept and Example of, 21 Agricultural Defence of Bigotry, An, 138 André Boulanger, Father, 70 Angel-Worship, 110 Antics of the Fanatics, 66 Application, A Too Personal, 124 Archbishop's Installation Feast, An, 76 Archdeacon? What is an, 99 "Atterbury's Pad", 16 Awkward Association, An, 81 Baptism, A Sanitary View of, 40 Barrow, The Exhaustive, 15; his Rhymes with Reason, 63 Barrowby, Dr., Anecdotes of, 126 Baxter, Addison's Introduction to, 13; Cromwell and, 131 Berkeley's (Bishop) Bermuda Scheme, 33 Bishops and the Poor, 150 Blomfield's Rebuke to Non-Resident Rectors, 85 Blood-Jewels, Queen Elizabeth's, 22 Bloodletters, Blunders of, 149 Bottle-Blind, 104 Bourdaloue, Bold Application of, 146 "Breaking-up" before the Holidays, 104 Bunyan's Successful and Persistent Preaching, 111 Burgess, Daniel, Pulpit Jokes of, 86 Burnet, Bishop, Against Pluralities, 151 Capacity of an Abbé, The, 100 Charles II. and his Chaplain, 30 Christian Names among the Puritans, 98 Civil to the Prince of Evil, 113 Clergy, Benefit of, 101 Commonwealth Preachers, South on the, 45 Cooper's (Sir Astley) Night-Cap Fee, 11 Crabbe, George, The Apothecary Poet, 144 Cucumber, How to Dress a, 18 Curate and the Duke, The, 23 Cure of Souls, A Desirable, 127 Dangers of Too Good Company, The, 82 Da Vinci a Great Anatomist, 77 Devotion of a Catholic Priest, 85 Diffidence in the Pulpit, 97 Donne's (Dr.) Prayerful Pun, 143 Drubbing-in Religious Feeling, 121