46 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 



Unfortunately only the names of the Westminster boys who won 

 the University Scholarships of those days have survived to the 

 present, so that this, the best source is closed. 1 Perhaps Glynn e^s son 3 

 may have been a schoolfellow of Wake's, and thus known to Glynne 

 himself ; and time and embellishment have wrongfully thrown 

 " the curtain story " upon the father, instead of the son. On the 

 other hand the Wakes say nothing about it, but attribute his 

 deliverance to the articles made with Croke ; and this is specially 

 strange in the case of the prelate, for the anecdote, a very remarkable 

 one, is quite " an Archbishop's peculiar/'' and would be frequently 

 present to him ; and scarcely if at all, less creditable to his father, 

 than any certificate of life, liberty, and estate, won from Croke. 

 Even supposing it to be an additional reason for "the order of 

 release/' it is difficult to understand how the Bishop, a just and 

 plain spoken man, 3 who would be glad under the circumstances to 

 relieve Glynne's memory, from the many animadversions which in 

 his day pressed upon it, could be silent on the subject. Moreover 

 we know, but this is a matter of very slight weight, that Glynne 

 whilst at Dorchester, 4 and before he could have seen Wake, expressed I 

 his intention of returning to London direct from Exeter. Still the I 

 story is too good not to be true of somebody, and as far as present 

 information enlightens us, can be associated with no other prisoner 

 at Exeter. If it be modified as above suggested, it is possibly 

 correct. One thing is certain that Wake was not banished to the 

 West Indies, like so many of his companions. 5 



1 1 am indebted for this information to Doctor Scott, the Head Master of 

 "Westminster. 



2 Sir William Glynne or Glinne, of Bicester, Oxon, created a baronet by King 

 Charles II., May 20, 1661.— Help to English History, &c, London, 1671. 

 Anthony Wood says "he had been informed that he was buried in St, Margaret's 

 Westminster." On inquiry I find there is no trace of him there now (1872). 

 His age at death is not given by Wood, Athense, vol. iii., p. 754. 



3 We recollect the sermon in which he bearded majesty, even in the person 

 of King William III. 



4 See his letter, p. 181, sup. 

 5 May I be forgiven for not parting with the name of Wake without giving 

 here James the First's joke, on the public orator of that name, of Oxford, and 

 the deputy orator of Cambridge, Anthony Sleep, of the early seventeenth 



