This alludes to the well-known Story, told by a great Number of the Antients, of the Destruction of _Simon Magus_, by the Prayers of Saints _Peter_ and _Paul_. _Sulpitius Severus_[66] relates this Event in the following Words: _Etenim tum illustris illa adversus Simonem, Petri ac Pauli congressio fuit. Qui cum magicis artibus, ut se Deum probaret, duobus suffultus dæmoniis evolasset, orationibus Apostolorum fugatis dæmonibus, delapsus in terram, populo inspectante disruptus est._ The same Account is given by St. _Cyrill_ of _Jerusalem_[67]; after stating that _Simon_ had so far succeeded in deceiving the _Romans_, that the Emperor _Claudius_ had erected a Statue to him with the Inscription ΣΙΜΩΝΙ ΘΕΩ ἉΓΙΩ, he adds[68]: “The Error spreading, that goodly Pair, Peter and Paul, the Rulers of the Church, being present, set Matters right again; and on Simon, the supposed God, attempting a Display, they straightway laid him dead. Simon, that is, promised that he should be raised aloft towards Heaven, and accordingly was borne through the Air on a Chariot of Dæmons; on which, the Servants of God falling on their Knees, gave an Instance of that Agreement, of which JESUS said[69], _If two of you shall agree as touching any Thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them_: and reaching the Sorcerer with this Unanimity of their Prayer, they precipitated him to the Earth.” For other Authorities, see the Note of the _Benedictine_ Editor of St. _Cyrill_, on this Passage,[70] and _Tillemont_, _Memoires pour servir a l’Histoire Ecclesiastique_; _Saint Pierre_, Art. 34.[71] Ibid. line 6. Crist schal clanse his Chirche. In the Original this is, “Chirche schal clanse his Chirche;” the Editor has not hesitated to correct so obvious a Mistake. PAGE xxx. line 1. þe deuel of mydday. _Demonium meridianum_, alluding to Ps. xc. 6, in the Vulgate. Ibid. line 6. whefore. A Mistake of the MS. for _Wherefore_. Ibid. line 10. in derkenessis. The Word _in_ was omitted by the Original Scribe; but is added in the MS. by a more recent Hand. Ibid. line 12. Bede vpon þe profetis of Sibille. This Reference is to some spurious Work attributed to _Bede_, and which is probably not the same as the Tract _De Sybillis_[72], published among _Bede’s_ Works, and also by _Joh. Opsopæus Brettanus_, at the End of his Edition of the Sybilline Oracles; for that Tract does not contain any thing like the Computation from the Latin Letters, for which _Bede_ is here referred to by our Author. PAGE xxxi. line 8. Goddis Chirche is foundid in kynrade of prelatis.