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him with abundance of good counsel, and, moreover, gave him his 
benediction ; but by mere inadvertence forgot to provide him with 
any other facilities for his journey to Exeter. The seeming un- 
kindness, however, was soon repaired. The moment the bishop 
recollected his omission he sent a servant to overtake Richard with 
all possible speed, and to bring him back. On his return the bishop, 
with singular considerateness for the feelings of a humble youth, 
forebore to begin by any allusion to the immediate purpose for which 
he had recalled him, but addressed him thus :—“ Richard, I sent 
for you back to lend you a horse, which hath carried me many a 
mile; and I thank God with much ease.” And here he put into 
Richard’s hand a walking staff, with which he professed he had 
travelled through many parts of Germany; a circumstance which 
might well reconcile the young man to the labour and tediousness 
of pedestrian travel. ‘ And Richard,” continued the bishop, “I do 
not give, but lend you mine horse.” he then put money in his hands 
for the journey. That interview between these two great men was 
the last, and it was a very beautiful memory in connection with the 
palace at Salisbury. A second scene I would mention in the history 
of the Rishop’s Palace was the scene when James II. came 19th 
November, 1688, to the house after poor Seth Ward, now an old 
broken-down man, had gone away. It was on this occasion that 
Mr. Knightly Chetwood, who attended the King as his Protestant 
Chaplain, by his firmness preserved the palace chapel for the rites of 
the Church of England. James, who felt the danger of his position, 
was ready to give way on more important questions, but it was too 
late (cf. Benson & Hatcher, p. 489). Churchill, afterwards the first 
Duke of Marlborough, and Kirke and Trelawney were meditating 
deserting the King. Kirke and Trelawney visited Warminster, 
_ where their regiments were posted. 
“ All,” says Macaulay, “ was ripe for the execution of the long-meditated 
treason. Churchill advised the King to visit Warminster and to inspect the 
troops stationed there. James assented, and his coach was at the door of the 
episcopal palace when his nose began to bleed violently. He was forced to 
postpone his expedition, and to put himself under medical treatment. Three 
days elapsed before the hemorrhage was entirely subdued, and during those 
three days alarming rumours reached his ears.’ 
