73. A certain _Roman-Catholick_ Lord, having renounced the _Popish_ Religion, was asked not long after, by a Protestant Peer, _Whether the Ministers of the_ State, or _Ministers of the_ Gospel _had the greatest Share in his Conversion_: To whom he reply'd, that when he renounced _Popery_ he had also renounced auricular _Confession_. 74. _Michael Angelo_, in his Picture of the last Judgment, in the Pope's Chappel, painted among the Figures in _Hell_, that of a certain _Cardinal_, who was his Enemy, so like, that everybody knew it at first Sight: Whereupon the Cardinal complaining to Pope _Clement_ the Seventh, of the Affront, and desiring it might be defaced: You know very well, said the Pope, I have Power to deliver a Soul out of _Purgatory_ but not out of _Hell_. 75. A Gentleman being at Dinner at a Friend's House, the first Thing that came upon the Table was a Dish of Whitings, and one being put upon his Plate, he found it stink so much that he could not eat a Bit of it, but he laid his Mouth down to the Fish, as if he was whispering with it, and then took up the Plate and put it to his own Ear; the Gentleman, at whose Table he was, enquiring into the meaning, he told him he had a Brother lost at Sea, about a _Fortnight ago_, and he was asking that Fish if he knew any thing of him; and what Answer made he, said the Gentleman, he told me, said he, he could give no Account of him, for he had not been at Sea these _three Weeks_. I would not have any of my Readers apply this Story, as an unfortunate Gentleman did, who had heard it, and was the next Day whispering a Rump of Beef at a Friend's House. 76. An _English_ Gentleman happening to be in _Brecknockshire_, he used sometimes to divert himself with shooting, but being suspected not to be qualified by one of the little _Welch_ Justices, his Worship told him, that unless he could produce his Qualification, he should not allow him to shoot there, and he had _two little Manors_; yes, Sir, said the _Englishman_, every Body may perceive that, perceive what, cry'd the _Welchman?_ That you have _too little Manners_, said the other. 77. The Chaplain's Boy of a Man of War, being sent out of his own Ship of an Errand to another; the two Boys were conferring Notes about their Manner of living; how often, said one, do you go to _Prayers_ now, why, answered the other, in Case of a _Storm_, or any Danger; ay, said the first, there's some Sense in that, but my Master makes us _pray_ when there is no more Occasion for it, than for my leaping over-board. 78. Not much unlike this Story, is one a Midshipman told one Night, in Company with _Joe Miller_ and myself, who said, that being once in great Danger at Sea, every body was observed to be upon their Knees, but one Man, who being called upon to come with the rest of the Hands to _Prayers_, not I, said he, it is your Business to take Care of the Ship I am but a _Passenger_.