[200] The Amphitheatre.
[201] This majestic but dilapidated pile has been repaired at great expense, and with taste and judgment, in every respect consonant to and worthy of its ancient character. These verses were written under the contemplation of this singularly beautiful and unique pile being open again for public worship by a sacred musical performance.
[202] The service by the prayer-book was forbidden.
[203] Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, built and endowed at Salisbury, Collegium Matronarum, the college of matrons, widows of clergymen. They are entertained by each canon during his residence. These lines were written when they were the guests of the author.
[204] He returned to Walton's cottage from the scene of execution of his brave friend, Lord Capel.
[205] Anne, born 1677, and mother of William Hawkins.
[206] Walton died 1683, aged ninety; Morley, the year after, 1684, aged eighty-seven. They are buried in the same Cathedral.
[207] In allusion to Bishop Ken's well-known morning and evening hymns.
[208] Supposed to have been addressed to Bishop Ken, by Princess Mary of Orange, before her marriage with William III., who, but for the interposition of the Bishop, would have broken his engagement to marry her.
[209] See Moore's Life of Sheridan.