the rest, to attend his highness[1]: to whom being introduced, he told the prince, that the king, his master, had commanded him, upon his departure, to wait upon his highness, and receive his commands. The prince replied, he was glad to see him, and had an esteem for him and all men of honour. Then turning aside to some other persons, who were making their court; Dr. Burnet, soon after made bishop of Salisbury, who had been the earl of Arran's governor, coming up to his lordship, cried, "Ay, my lord Arran, you are now come in, and think to make a merit when the work is done." To this insult the earl, in the hearing of many, replied only, "Come, doctor, we ken ane another weell enough[2]." And the earl's own father told the prince, that if this young fellow were not secured, he would, perhaps, give his highness some trouble. Whereupon this noble young lord was sent to the tower, where he continued about
- ↑ "Now that the prince was come, all the bodies about the town came to welcome him. The bishops came next day: only the archbishop of Canterbury [Dr. Sancroft, afterward deprived for not taking the oaths] though he had once agreed to it, yet would not come. The clergy of London came next. The city, and a great many other bodies, came likewise, and expressed a great deal of joy for the deliverance wrought for them by the prince's means. Old serjeant Maynard came with the men of the law. He was then near ninety; and yet he said the liveliest thing that was heard of on that occasion. The prince took notice of his great age; and said, 'That he believed he had outlived all the men of the law of his time.' "He answered, 'He should have outlived the law itself, if his highness had not come over.'" Ibid. p. 549.
- ↑ Bishop Burnet, who on many occasions had a retentive memory, seems to have forgotten this curious little anecdote.
he disappointed them: for he, who loved neither shows nor shoutings, went through the park: and even this trifle helped to set people's spirits on the fret." Burnet, vol. II, p. 548.
