[200] ‘Not,’ says Evelyn (Diary, May 18, 1688), ‘that they were averse to the publisheing of it for want of due tendernesse towards Dissenters ... but that the Declaration being founded on such a dispensing power as might at pleasure set aside all laws ecclesiastical, it appeared to them illegal and ... a point of such consequence that they could not so far make themselves parties to it as the reading of it in church during the time of Divine Service would have done.’ They were sent to the Tower June 8, for refusing to give bail for their appearance. They refused on the ground that to do so would have prejudiced their peerage. The bishops were Francis Turner of Ely, William Lloyd of S. Asaph, Thomas Ken of Bath and Wells, John Lake of Chichester, Sir Jonathan Trelawney of Bristol, Thomas White of Peterborough, and William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury.
[201] The mechanical part is done by the women convicts of Woking Gaol.
[202] New View of London, vol. ii. p. 423.
[203] Canto i. Samuel Garth, a physician of some fame, who provided for Dryden’s funeral in Westminster Abbey. Died 1718.
[204] Newgate.
[205] See [Appendix ii].
[206] R. I. B. A. Sessional Papers, 1876–7, p. 162.
[207] Horace Walpole says that Wren’s descendant assured him that Sir C. Wren had prepared a far better design for Hampton Court which Queen Mary preferred, but it was overruled by William III. This may only mean the cloisters, as Walpole is not accurate.—Anec., vol. iii.
[208] This plan was adopted. Dr. Bathurst died in May 1704 at the age of 86.
[209] So called from being in the street where formerly was a strong tower where several kings, and Queen Philippa, Edward the Third’s wife, lodged, also called the Queen’s Wardrobe, as the building near S. Andrew’s was the King’s Wardrobe.—New View, vol. ii. p. 427.