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him with abundance of good counsel, and, moreover, gave him his 

 benediction ; but by mere inadvertence forgot to provide him with 

 any other facilities for his journey to Exeter. The seeming un- 

 kind ness, however, was soon repaired. The moment the bishop 

 recollected his omission he sent a servant to overtake Richard with 

 all possible speed, and to bring him back. On his return the bishop, 

 with singular considerateness for the feelings of a humble youth, 

 forebore to begin by any allusion to the immediate purpose for which 

 he had recalled him, but addressed him thus : — " Richard, I sent 

 for you back to lend you a horse, which hath carried me many a 

 mile ; and I thank God with much ease." And here he put into 

 Richard's hand a walking staff, with which he professed he had 

 travelled through many parts of Germany ; a circumstance which 

 might well reconcile the young man to the labour and tediousness 

 of pedestrian travel. " And Richard," continued the bishop, " I do 

 not give, but lend you mine horse." he then put money in his hands 

 for the journey. That interview between these two great men was 

 the last, and it was a very beautiful memory in connection with the 

 palace at Salisbury. A second scene I would mention in the history 

 of the Bishop's Palace was the scene when James II. came 19th 

 November, 1688, to the house after poor Seth Ward, now an old 

 broken-down man, had gone away. It was on this occasion that 

 Mr. Knightly Chetwood, who attended the King as his Protestant 

 Chaplain, by his firmness preserved the palace chapel for the rites of 

 the Church of England. James, who felt the danger of his position, 

 was ready to give way on more important questions, but it was too 

 late (cf. Benson & Hatcher, p. 489). Churchill, afterwards the first 

 Duke of Marlborough, and Kirke and Trelawney were meditating 

 deserting the King. Kirke and Trelawney visited Warminster, 

 where their regiments were posted. 



" All," says Macaulay, " was ripe for the execution of the long-meditated 

 treason. Churchill advised the King to visit Warminster and to inspect the 

 troops stationed there. James assented, and his coach was at the door of the 

 episcopal palace when his nose began to bleed violently. He was forced to 

 postpone his expedition, and to put himself under medical treatment. Three 

 days elapsed before the hemorrhage was entirely subdued, and during those 

 three days alarming rumours reached his ears." 



