Humbly pray’d that his Highness would deign for to grant
Them a charter, of which they were then in great want.
The King highly pleas’d with the Bishop’s grand treat,
(Abounding in liquors, and all sorts of meat,)
Their prayer he comply’d with, the charter did sign,
Owing then, as ’twas said, to the Bishop’s good wine.
Old Noll, in his day, out of pious concern,
This castle demolish’d[71], sold all but the barn;
When Nilthorp and Hollis, with two or three more,
Divided the spoils, as they’d oft done before.