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footman so to do). Her business was to talk with 

 me about her receiving the sacrament on Easter 

 day," &c. And he would charge things which 

 he thought amiss very home upon her, if they 

 were such as pertained to her conscience. As 

 in the case of the Savoy Hospital, where, upon 

 a visitation, the four chaplains had been deprived 

 by an order of the Lord Keeper. July 31, 1702. 

 " / took occasio?i, from the naming of the Savoy 

 (this was in November y 1707,^ to tell her Majesty 

 of the sad condition of that hospital, which was now 

 desolated by a decree of the Lord Keeper Wright's ; 

 and that she ought to restore it again ; 7iay, and to 

 refund all the money she had received from it, for it 

 was sacrilege to touch those revenues." 



He spoke often and freely to her about me- 

 thods of restraining the licentiousness of the 

 town, of 7xgulating the play - houses ; of the hurt 

 done to city apprentices, &c. by the plays on Sa- 

 turday nights; of shops kept open on Good Friday, 

 and other indecencies of that sort, which he 

 thought it became the government to prevent. 

 And then, as to her other affairs of a public 

 nature, whether civil or ecclesiastical, she ad- 

 mitted him to an intimate participation in her 

 counsels. In things relating to the Church, he 

 was her principal and guide. In matters of state, 

 he was her confident ; one to whom she could 

 disclose her thoughts at all times, and in whose 

 faithfulness and friendship she could entirely 



