London in the Jacobite times, Volume I

VOL. I.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
LONDON IN THE JACOBITE TIMES BY Dᴿ DORAN, F.S.A. AUTHOR OF ‘TABLE TRAITS’ ‘QUEENS OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER’ ‘THEIR MAJESTIES’ SERVANTS’ ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I.
LONDON RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1877 All rights reserved
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TO MY SON ALBAN HENRY G. DORAN, F.R.C.S. WITH EQUAL RESPECT AND AFFECTION
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
LONDON IN THE JACOBITE TIMES.
n the last morning of Queen Anne’s life, a man, deep in thought, was slowly crossing Smithfield. The eyes of a clergyman passing in a carriage were bent upon him. The carriage stopped, the wayfarer looked up, and the two men knew each other. The one on foot was the dissenting preacher, whom Queen Anne used to call ‘bold Bradbury.’ The other was Bishop Burnet.
‘On what were you so deeply thinking?’ asked the bishop.
‘On the men who died here at the stake,’ replied Bradbury. ‘Evil times, like theirs, are at hand. I am thinking whether I should be as brave as they were, if I were called upon to bear the fire as they bore it.’
IN THE CHURCHES.