Forty-eighth point. The excellent order of his episcopal household

Her answer on the forty -eighth point was :

The household of the holy Prelate was com posed of respectable persons, modest in dress and well-bred in behaviour and speech; very courteous to every one, as their good master had charged them to be. For he wished them to receive every one courteously, and never to send any one away unless he himself was occupied with important business, and then that they should try to dismiss them with such kind words that they could not be vexed, or fear to return another time.

He would never allow them to dismiss any who came to him in trouble, or any strangers, but desired that he should always be told at once of their coming.

He took care that his servants should serve God, that they should live at peace, that they should be charitable to the poor, and should set, as^ indeed they did, a good example to their neighbour. He did not wish them to play at dice or at cards. He took care to cultivate their minds in virtue and the fear of God. Not one of them ever wore a sword, or a plume, or flowing locks, or gaudy clothing in the town; they were dressed in brown, but very neatly. He had their wages paid most regularly, and if ever they failed to discharge their duties when to himself only, this good and kind master scarcely seemed to notice it. This is well known, &c.