[190] Memorials of the See of Chichester, p. 306.
[191] The title of Newton’s book is Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The MS. is in the possession of the Royal Society.
[192] Matthew Griffiths, the favourite and the pupil of Dean Donne, held this living through the Rebellion, and being a hearty Episcopalian was sequestered, plundered, and twice imprisoned; he returned to London and read the Prayers of the Church in the obscure church of S. Nicholas Olave’s,[193] hard by his own church, to the poor Cavaliers; for this he suffered seven violent assaults and five imprisonments; the last for preaching before General Monk a strong Royalist sermon before Monk had declared himself. Mr. Griffiths was speedily released and restored to his benefice.
[193] S. Nicholas Olave was burnt to the ground and the parish incorporated with that of S. Nicholas Coleabbey.—Newcourt’s Rep., p. 305.
[194] It would seem from the S. Gregory’s vestry books that Sir C. Wren put up at the request of the parishioners ‘a wooden tabernacle’ for the use of both parishes. It was set up in S. Paul’s Churchyard, and taken down after a time as interfering with the building of the Cathedral.
[195] Repertorium, p. 475. Newcourt.
[196] Walks in London. A. Hare, vol. i. p. 331.
[197] For this anecdote (taken from MS. in the British Museum) I am indebted to a number of the British Workman for 1877. It is, I think, the foundation of Mr. J. Saunders’ graceful story of Jasper Deane.
[198] Probably the father of the great writer.
[199] The name is often supposed to originate in the patten-makers who are said to have lived near, but its origin is more probably ‘S. Margaret with the Paten.’