One of the most notorious of the Fleet parsons was Dr

Gaynham or Garnham, popularly known as the Bishop of Hell, "a very lusty, jolly man," who, being asked at a trial, where he gave evidence, whether he was not ashamed to come and own a clandestine marriage in the face of a Court of Justice, replied, bowing to the Judge, " Video meliora, deter i or a sequor." On another occasion, when questioned as to his recollection of the prisoner, he said: "Can I remember persons? I have married 2,000 since that time." Forsyth, Novels and Novelists of the 18th Cent., p. 145. Gay Saber (gi or gå sä-bar'). [Pr., 'Gay Science.] A gild formed by the magistrates of Toulouse in 1323, with the purpose of restoring the Provençal language and culture, which had nearly died out. It was called originally "Sobregaya Companhia dels Sept Trobadours de Tolosa" ("The very gay company of the seven troubadours of Toulouse"). The first meeting was held May 1, 1324. The concourse was great, and the first prize was given to a poem in honor of the Madonna, by Ramon Vidal de Besalú, a Catalan gentleman, who seems to have been the author of the regulations for the festival, and to have been declared a doctor of the Gay Saber on the occasion. In 1355 this company formed for itself a more ample body of laws, partly in prose and partly in verse, under the title of "Ordenanzas dels Sept Senhors Man tene dors del Gay Saber," or Ordinances of the Seven Lords Conservators of the Gay Saber, which, with the needful modifications, have been observed down to our own times, and still regulate the festival annually celebrated at Toulouse, on the first day of May, under the name of the Floral Games.