GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
skiff. ‘St. Victor had wrapped up in his warm cloak the infant 
heir of so many kings” ... “It was,” says Macaulay, “a 
miserable voyage. The night was bleak, the rain fell: the wind 
roared: the water was rough: at length the boat reached Lam- 
beth; and the fugitives landed near an inn where a coach and 
horses were in waiting. Some time elapsed before the horses could 
be harnessed. Mary, afraid that her face should be known, would 
not enter the house. She remained with her child, cowering for 
shelter from the storm under the tower of Lambeth Church, and 
distracted by terror whenever the ostler approached her with his 
horses... . : 
““ At length the coach was ready. St. Victor followed it on 
horseback. The fugitives reached Gravesend safely, and em- 
barked in the yacht which was waiting for them. . . . St. Victor, 
having seen her under sail, spurred back with the good news to 
Whitehall.” 
Thus far in Macaulay’s graphic language; everybody knows 
the sequel—how in the early morning of the following day, 
James himself rose, in abject fear of meeting with his father’s 
fate, commanding Northumberland not to open the bedchamber 
door until the usual hour. Taking the Great Seal in his hand, 
he disappeared through a secret passage, and left Whitehall. He 
crossed the river at Millbank in a small wherry, and as he passed 
Lambeth threw the Great Seal into the stream, whence three 
months later, it was dragged to light in a fishing net. 
And as that picture belongs to Lambeth, so, too, does the coura- 
geous action of Archbishop Sancroft, who, to meet the emergency 
that immediately arose, and to stop the confusion and uproar 
which followed when next morning the King’s flight was known, 
issued from the seclusion of his Palace, and put himself at the 
head of a hastily-organized Provisional Government, until the 
Prince of Orange should arrive. 
But, with James’ further adventures, though they are interesting 
as a novel, the story of Lambeth Palace has nothing to do. 
Yet once more in. its history we see the old place alive with 
men at arms, for the third time threatened with destruction, and 
the lives of its inmates menaced by a London mob, even as they 
aes ae in the days of Wat Tyler,"and during the primacy of 
aud. 
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