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raised him to the See of Canterbury. " Archbishop Whitgift 

 spoke most gravely, Bishop Bilson most learnedly, but Bishop 

 Bancroft (when out of passion) most politically." 



Dr. George Abbott, Bishop of Lichfield but translated to London 

 in 1610, was only one year at Fulham before he was appointed 

 to the See of Canterbury, therefore he can be but little associated 

 with Fulham and its gardens. We are told that the latter years 

 of his life were embittered by his grief at having accidentally killed 

 a keeper while hunting in a nobleman's park in Hampshire. 



Faulkner has not much of interest to tell us of Dr. John King, 

 who succeeded Abbott in the London diocese, though it is stated 

 that James I. styled him " the King of Preachers." The calumny 

 of his having died in the communion of the Church of Rome has 

 been ably refuted. 



In 1628, William Laud was translated from the See of Bath and 

 Wells to that of London. But, as only five years later he was 

 promoted to Canterbury, his history belongs less to Fulham than 

 to Lambeth ; and the story of Lambeth, with mention of him 

 and his troubled reign there, has already been told. In his diary, 

 under date September 14th, 1633, he says : " I was translated to 

 the Archbishopric of Canterbury the Lord make me able,". . . etc. 

 . . . " the day before, when I first went to Lambeth, my coach 

 and horses and men sunk to the bottom of the Thames in the 

 ferry boate, which was overladen, but, I praise God for it, I lost 

 neither men nor horses." Fuller in his " Church History " describes 

 Laud as being " low of stature, little in bulk, cheerful in coun- 

 tenance." 



The gentle Bishop Juxoii was the prelate who, as Bishop of 

 London, attended Charles I. on the scaffold, and to whom the King 

 addressed the mysterious word " remember." During the troublous 

 times that followed he was for a while imprisoned by the Parlia- 

 ment, but he afterwards returned to Fulham, and appears to 

 have lived there unmolested, until the Manor was sold to Colonel 

 Harvey in 1647, for the sum of 7,617 8s. lOd. Having purchased 

 an estate at Compton, in Gloucestershire, he then repaired 'thither, 

 and remained there undisturbed throughout the era of the Com- 

 monwealth. At the Restoration he became Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, and, having rebuilt the great hall, as mentioned in the pre- 

 vious chapter, he died in 1663, at the age of eighty-one, and it 



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