Important day to those who woo the nine; Better than fame are visitation-cards, And heaven on earth at a great house to dine.

The visitation act-books of the period abundantly show the processes employed by the ecclesiastical authorities in enforcing these and other duties (which will be detailed in their turn), and prove that the courts Christian were emphatically administrative as well as judicial bodies.

Any casual inspection of the visitation act-books reveals the fact that the judge sits either in court or in chambers between visitations, for offenders are constantly ordered to appear again in a few days or in a few weeks.

Before each visitation day, as has been said, the archdeacon's or the bishop's summoner went to each parish and gave warning that a court would be held in such and such a church on such and such a day.

To show these courts at work it will be necessary to give a number of illustrative examples taken from the visitation entries.

The morning after they had entered Paris the words of Job were brought to J.Y.'s recollection in a forcible manner:"Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit."

Present-day medicine would have classed poor Fechner's malady quickly enough, as partly a habit-neurosis, but its severity was such that in his day it was treated as a visitation incomprehensible in its malignity; and when he suddenly began to get well, both Fechner and others treated the recovery as a sort of divine miracle.

If we were threatened with any other direful visitation influenza, say, or the seventeen-year locust,I should naturally read up on the subject in order to know what to expect.

It chanced that the Bishop of Metz, in whose diocese Epinal was situated, finding himself during a visitation journey within a short distance of the town, determined to put, up there for the night.

Also canons, injunctions and visitation articles of the time, e.g., Canons of 1571 (Vicars, etc., to present all over fourteen who have not received) in Cardwell, Syn., i, 120.

In the enforcement of the laws and treaty stipulations of Great Britain a practice had threatened to grow up on the part of its cruisers of subjecting to visitation ships sailing under the American flag, which, while it seriously involved our maritime rights, would subject to vexation a branch of our trade which was daily increasing, and which required the fostering care of Government.