“Your affectionate friend,
“Humfr. London.”
“Fulham, Ap. 23, 1666.”[[221]]
[221]. Additional MSS. Harleian.
It may be noted here that Sancroft’s appointment to the Deanery of St Paul’s coincided with the battle of Southwold, as when Edward Savage wrote his congratulations from the Cockpit on the 25th October 1664 he added: “We shall certainely have warre with the false Dutch, and the Duke of Yorke is presently going himselfe to sea with the gallantest ffleete that ever England set forth.”[[222]]
[222]. Ibid.
Sancroft, as we know, was to see many startling changes in Church and State, and to experience in his own person many vicissitudes, but they were no greater than such as fell on Edward Hyde.[[223]]
[223]. He had been Chaplain to Bishop Cosin, Prebendary of Durham, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Dean of York and then of St Paul’s. He at once began to repair the cathedral, and after the fire he set to work to rebuild, giving £1400 for this purpose. He was Archbishop in 1677, deprived at the Revolution.
Several reasons, as previously stated, could be given for Clarendon’s steadily increasing unpopularity and for his final disgrace, but in 1667 he was for the second time impeached. Among the articles of this second accusation of high treason were “The taking money for the King’s marriage with Portugall,” “The marrying his daughter to the Duke of Yorke,” “The obstructing all other marriages for the King.”[[224]]
[224]. Scudamore Papers.