CHAPTER XI.
1687–1696.
PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED—CHURCH BUILDING—ACQUITTAL OF THE SEVEN BISHOPS—JAMES II.’S FLIGHT—WILLIAM AND MARY—COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS—HAMPTON COURT—GREENWICH HOSPITAL—RICHARD WHITTINGTON—S. PAUL’S ORGAN.
Be it enacted then
By the fair laws of thy firm-pointed pen,
God’s services no longer shall put on
A sluttishness for pure religion;
No longer shall our churches’ frighted stones
Lie scattered like the burnt and martyr’d bones