FULHAM PALACE 
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 Juxon 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. 10d. 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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