[200] Two applicants are mentioned as anxious for the office—Dr. Warmestry and Richard Braham—the latter writes to John Nicholas asking his "influence with his father to get him recommended as an additional Commissioner of the Excise, having relinquished the idea of the Mastership of the Savoy in favour of Dr. Sheldon."—State Papers, Cal. 1660–1, 16, 113.
[201] The Declaration adopted at the Savoy will be noticed in the next volume. The Independents have no authoritative standards, but a Declaration of their Faith and Order was issued by the Congregational Union of England and Wales some years ago.
[202] Kennet, 389.
[203] Clarendon, 1047.
[204] Kennet, 412, et seq.
[205] The other two, built by Henry VII., were King's College, Cambridge, and the Chapel, which bears his name at Westminster.
[206] Strype's Stow, ii. 103.
[207] See on Cosin and the other Bishops, vol. ii. of Eccles. Hist. (Church of the Commonwealth), chap. xii.
[208] Baxter, ii. 364.
[209] Hallam's Literature of Europe, iv. 179.