.. cup. He surprised the counsel at first by owning that he received the cup as a new year's gift. Lord Wiltshire, a zealous Protestant, indecently, but prematurely, exulted: "Did I not tell you, my Lords," said he, "that you would find this matter true?"But, my Lords," replied More, "hear the other part of my tale. After having drank to her of wine with which my butler had filled the cup, and when she had pledged him, he restored it to her, and would listen to no refusal." When Mrs. Croker, for whom he had made a decree against Lord Arundel, came to him to request his acceptance of a pair of gloves in which were contained £40 in gold, he told her with a smile that it would be ill manners to refuse a lady's present; but though he should keep the gloves he must return the gold, which he compelled her to receive. Gresham, a suitor, sent him a present of a gilt cup, with the form of which he was much pleased. More accepted it; but not until Gresham had received from him another cup, which though of a different shape, was of equal value. In bestowing the great seal on More, Henry hoped to gain his sanction to the projects of divorce and marriage which then occupied his mind. He had become passionately enamoured of Anne Boleyn, and was determined at any risk to get rid of his virtuous Queen, Catherine of Arragon, with whom he had lived in apparent harmony for nearly twenty years. It would far exceed the limits of this brief notice to enter into the tedious discussions and negociations which were held on this subject for upwards of six years. No situation could be more embarrassing than that of More. The many offices to which he had been raised by the king, his personal favour and friendship towards him, with every alluring prospect which this world could hold out to him, concurred to induce him to second his brutal master's design. But to the immortal honour of his memory he nobly rejected every temptation, and like a true Christian persevered until death in his adherence to the cause of truth, and in that due submission which every Catholic owes to the venerable head of his church. Henry well knew of what importance it would be to secure the favourable opinion of such a character as More. But when he pressed him for his opinion on the subject, and added that he should be assisted in his deliberations by the Bishops of Bath and Durham, and other learned men of the Privy Council, Roper informs us that he diligently consulted the Holy Fathers, and "at his coming into court in talking with his grace (the king) of the aforesaid matter, he said to be plain with your grace neither my Lord of Durham, nor my Lord of Bath, though I know them both to be wise, virtuous, learned, and honourable prelates, nor myself, with the rest of your council, be in my opinion meet counsellors for your grace herein. But if your grace mind to understand the truth, such counsellors may you have devised, as neither for respect of their own worldly commodity, nor for fear of your princely authority will be inclined to deceive you.' THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE. To whom he named then St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and divers MAXIMS.-We often act first, and reason only afterwards. Privately admonish, but never publicly reprehend your friend; an open admonition is open disgrace. To retract or mend a fault at the admonition of a friend, hurts your credit or liberty no more than if you your own thought; for it is still your judgment and temper which had grown wiser upon make you see your mistake, and willing to retrieve it. Counsel in trouble gives but small comfort when relief is not to be had. FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY. By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose ! Lo! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God! By cool Siloam's shady rill The lily must decay; The rose that blooms beneath the hill Must shortly fade away. And soon, too soon, the wintry hour Of man's maturer age Will shake the soul with sorrow's power, O Thou, whose infant feet were found Whose years with changeless virtue crown'd, Dependant on Thy bounteous breath, In childhood, manhood, age and death, DUBLIN: Stereotyped, Printed and Published, by T. & J. COLDWELL, 50, Capel-street THE PUBLISHED WEEKLY, UNDER THE INSPECTION OF CATHOLIC DIVINES. No. 49. DUBLIN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1835. VOL. II. VERY REV. JOSEPH GLYNN, A. D. & N. A. JOSEPH GLYNN was born of very respectable parents, in Mary'sstreet, Dublin, in the year 1774. Having received the rudiments of learning in the Irish metropolis, he was placed under the immediate instruction of the late venerable Dr. Betagh, by whom he was initiated in the sacred and saving maxims of religion. About the year 1800 he proceeded to the Royal College of Maynooth, where he distinguished himself not less for the piety of his manners, than for an unceasing attention to sacred study. On the 5th of June, 1805, he was ordained priest, and for SEveral years was a laborious fellow-labourer with, and coadjutor to, the late pious Father Clarke, and subsequently to the Rev. Mr. Costigan, pastors of St. Mary's, whose church was then in Liffey street. In 1827, when the splendid cathedral in Marlborough-street, was built, his Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, named the Rev. Joseph Glynn as Administrator of the parish. In 1829, the same venerable prelate appointed him Archdeacon of Dublin, and Notary Apostolic under himself. For twenty-seven years Mr. Glynn discharged, with edification and zeal, the clerical functions in his native parish, of which he was the faithful administrator. Possessed of a fond and compassionate heart, he was ever employed not merely in the arduous duties of his ministry, but in administering comfort and consolation to the sick and indigent, cheering the abode of famine and disease, and diffused through every circle in which he moved, sentiments of piety, benevolence, and Christian charity. After an illness of some weeks he expired, in the Presbytery, Marlborough-street, at four o'clock in the morning of Sunday, October 9th, 1831, in the 57th year of his age. In his death the friendless and forlorn experienced an irreparable loss, for never did a human being evince a stronger sympathy for human affliction, nor could an object within the extensive range of his benevolence be found whose sufferings he did not endeavour to alleviate ! B. We subjoin an account, as appeared in the journals about that period, of the FUNERAL OF THE REV. JOSEPH GLYNN. "Yesterday the remains of the Rev. Joseph Glynn, Catholic curate of the united parishes of SS. Mary, Thomas, and George. were interred in the Catholic Church of Marlborough-street. Th funeral of this venerated and pious clergyman demonstrated the ardent attachment entertained for him by every class of his parish ioners. The rich and the poor alike congregated in large numbers, to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of one of the most kind-hearted and exemplary men in that assemblage of the good and pious-the clergy of the Catholic Church. A solemn Mass for the dead was celebrated at eleven o'clock, in the chapel of Marlborough-street, at the termination of which the body was removed to the hearse, amid the sighs and lamentations of a vast multitude of persons. The hearse, surmounted with white plumes, was preceded by two mutes on horseback, carrying black crape banners, and followed by the Archbishop's carriage, a mourning coach, two carriages with the clergy of the parish, gendemen's private carriages, and the procession was closed by a large body of the parishioners, all wearing scarfs, hatbands, and white gloves. The order of the procession, which was most impressive, was made under the excellent arrangement of Mr. Farrell, of Marlboroughstreet, by whom the appropriate funeral necessaries were supplied. The route of the procession was through Marlborough-street, Edenquay, Gardiner-street, Mountjoy-square, passing the Archbishop's residence, Gardiner's-place, Temple-street, Dorset-street, Boltonstreet, Capel-street, Parliament-street, Dame-street, Westmoreland-street, Sackville-street, Great Britain-street, and back again to the church at Marlborough-street, in the vaults of which the body was interred. When the last solemn offices for the dead were celebrating, they were heard to be frequently interrupted by the deep-drawn sighs and laments of those who felt that, in the demise of Mr. Glynn, they had lost a sincere friend and a wise pastor, and that in committing him to the earth they were depositing the mortal remains of one who, for the twenty-seven years he was known to them in the parish, was regarded as an example of the precepts that he preached-an honest, faithful, zealous, single-minded Catholic priest."-Register, October 12th, 1831. The following tribute to his memory we insert, from one who knew him well, and loved him sincerely. The distinctive peculiarity of genuine Christian virtue is the unobtrusive ardour with which it is practised, the fidelity with which the ordinary duties of one's particular station are discharged, and the veil of modesty thrown over the heroic actions which charity prompts, and humility conceals from every eye, but that of the sufferer to be relieved, and his Father who is in heaven.. Such was the virtue of the amiable subject of this memoir. Born of respectable and pious parents, in Mary-street, in this city, and educated under the wise and paternal guidance of the late very Rev. Dr. Betagh, S. J. He finished his studies in the Royal College of Maynooth, was ordained on the 8th of June, 18059 and died on the 9th October, 1831... In the discharge of the laborious duties of the Catholic ministry |