like in the mass-book;" but this he utterly denied, affirming that he and his secretary made out the story as well as they could by the unbroken remains.

On such frivolous grounds, however, the London apprentices, excited by the factious Lilburne, in 1641 attacked Lambeth Palace, for which outrage some of the ringleaders were apprehended and one was executed. Archbishop Laud, whose life was aimed at by the rioters, was removed by desire of the king to Whitehall, but was soon sent by the parliament to the Tower, impeached, and beheaded. During his confinement his palace was converted into a prison, in which the soldiers lived in outrageous excess. His furniture was sold; the coal and wood being reserved for those military freebooters, though

at the same time the archbishop was chilled for want of firing in the month of January in the Tower.

In 1646, two years after the execution of Archbishop Laud, the library was seized by the parliament, and given first to Sion College, and afterwards, at the suggestion of the learned Selden, to the University of Cambridge. In 1648, the palace and manor were sold by order of parliament to Thomas Scot, afterwards secretary of state to Cromwell, and Matthew Hardy, for the sum of 70731. Os. 8d. Whilst in their possession, the great hall was demolished, the chapel turned into a dancingroom, and many other dilapidations committed. The body of Archbishop Parker, which had been deposited in the chapel, on the south side of the communion table, near the spot where he had been accustomed to

pray, was torn from its resting place. "It was the vile Matthew Hardy that caused Archbishop Parker to be dug up and buried beneath a dunghill, sold the lead wherein he was inclosed, and converted the tombstone into a table for the use of his own house. But in 1661 the said Hardy was obliged, by an order of the House of Lords, to find the body and reposit it near the place where it was before buried, and also to erect a like monument at his own proper cost and charge." At one end of this monument, which is in the vestibule of the chapel, on a small brass plate, is a Latin inscription by Archbishop Sancroft, narrating this flagrant violation of the sepulchre in strong terms of abhorrence.

On the restoration of Charles II. Lambeth Palace reverted to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The great hall was rebuilt by Arch

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bishop Juxon, and the library was recovered by his successor.

The last outrage to which this place has been exposed was in the year 1780, when a factious rabble, headed by Lord George Gordon, in their infatuated zeal against Popery, were possessed with the idea that Archbishop Cornwallis, on account of his having been appointed one of the commissioners for giving the royal assent to the Quebec Bill, was a favourer of the Roman Catholics. On the 6th of June they arrived from their grand rendezvous in St. George's Fields, and with shouts of "No Popery!" attacked the gates, which, however, as notice of their intention had reached the palace, were properly secured. The archbishop and his family had been prevailed upon to leave Lambeth by a circuitous route for London, whence, being still appre

hensive for their safety, they removed to Lord Hillsborough's seat in Kent, where they remained till the riots were over. Meanwhile a detachment of soldiers was sent to guard the place; and the Northampton militia arriving on the 8th of June, were quartered here, in strict garrison duty, till the 11th of August; both officers and men being entertained at the archbishop's expense.

BETHLEM HOSPITAL.

BETHLEM HOSPITAL, a noble institution for the reception of lunatics, stands in the extensive parish of Lambeth. Its original site in Moorfields having been found too contracted for the due accommodation of the patients, a