He was driven away at last by a quarrel with his barbarous parishioners, the cause of which did him credit.

A fire broke out at Olney, and burnt a good many of its straw-thatched cottages.

Newton ascribed the extinction of the fire rather to prayer than water, but he took the lead in practical measures of relief, and tried to remove the earthly cause of such visitations by putting an end to bonfires and illuminations on the 5th of November.

Threatened with the loss of their Guy Fawkes, the barbarians rose upon him, and he had a narrow escape from their violence.

We are reminded of the case of Cotton Mather, who, after being a leader in witch-burning, nearly sacrificed his life in combatting the fanaticism which opposed itself to the introduction of inoculation.