I told the Vicar that I really did not think she was equal to it.

Another, looking savagely at me, said to the mayor, "that he had known Captain Vicars a long time; that he was an honourable man[A], and would not allow such usage in his ship.

Again the little fiend whispered, 'Unless he comes up to-night, he is a ruined man.' 'And what if he is?' thought the vicar.

At the present moment when he got into his carriage at the station to be taken home, he was not sure whether or no he should find the vicar at Babington.

I have heard my vicar on the subject of women's confessions.

One old man being asked why he liked the vicar, made answer as follows: "Why, 'cos he be so scratchy after souls."

At last the Parliament, in 1535, appointed Cromwell vicar or visitor-general, issued a commission, and intrusted it to lawyers, not priests, who found that the worst had not been told.

The two painted mitres beneath the roof-beams commemorate two vicars who became bishops (Majendie of Chester and Fisher of Exeter).

The clerk apparently listened with not unfavorable ears; but, as his situation (which the fees of pilgrims, more numerous than at any Catholic shrine, render lucrative) would have been forfeited by any malfeasance in office, he stipulated for liberty to consult the vicar.

No matter who was king, Simon Aleyn resolved to live and die "the vicar of Bray" (1540-1588).

He was a soldier in Cromwell's army; but preferring the drum ecclesiastic to the drum military, he came with a file of troops to Middleham, to eject the old vicar.

"Yet after all," harped the Vicar, "it comes to very little.

But while it represented the parish, it left the vicar quite outside.

4.. You shall have any thing: lose our learned Vicar?

" (It was thus that his god lured the Vicar to destruction.

For some remedy to this evil, King James the First, by a bounty that became a good Christian prince, bestowed several forfeited lands on the northern bishoprics: But in all other parts of the kingdom, the Church continued still in the same distress and poverty; some of the sees hardly possessing enough to maintain a country vicar.

Didn't I mate the vicar the other day, and spake my mind to him?' 'What do you mean?' asked Lancelot, with a strong expletive.

He didn't want to meet the Vicar and have the door shut in his face.

The monastic curates are immediately subject to their provincial superior, in the character of friars but depend on the diocesan bishop in their quality of parish priests; and in like manner obey their own provincial vicars, as well as those of the bishop.

In consequence, I do not consider it convenient to oppose his vicar.

The written explanations of M. de Rohan were no clearer than his words; an officer of the body-guard took him off to the Bastille; he had, just time to order his grand-vicar to burn all his papers.

"You have kindly asked me to make this little speech, and I do not wish to turn it into a sermon, but I must conclude by saying that, splendid as is the history of England in many points, there is one black blot upon the page, and that, the act of hers by which she renounced Christ's Vicar, by whom kings reign.

"I also saw the Vicar.

His relationship with Swift became close when he sent the vicar of Laracor to London, to obtain for the Irish clergy the restoration of the first-fruits and twentieth parts; but it was a relationship never cemented by feelings warmer than those of esteem.

At first, the sheer extremity of his disaster had sheltered the Vicar from his own scandal.