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62 reasons, laid aside, which occasioned great discourses, both in the court and city, to the prejudice of Dr. Lloyd." Dr. Lake was a high churchman. Dr. Lloyd and Dr. Hooper the reverse, and we cannot be surprised to find that matters were conducted very little to his taste. He says, February 14, " About this time I had a letter out of Holland, from Mr. Lee, that the Princess was grown somewhat fat» and very beautiful withal; that she did sometimes go with Dr. Lloyd's connivance to the English congregation at the Hague; whereat I was much troubled, and so were all other honest and loyal persons who had notice of it, for this church is served by a non-conformist minister out of England, and maintained by the States to draw people hither for the increase of trade, nor would Dr. Brown suffer the late Princess Royal to be drawn thither, though in the worst of times, when there was hardly any face of a church in England ; and yet the present Bishop of Winchester hath preached in that church when he was Chaplain to the Queen of Bohemia, for which his Lordship suffered much in his reputation." In 1691, when William was absent in Holland, Dr. Hooper, without any application of his own, was made Dean of Canterbury by Queen Mary. In 1703 he was nominated to the bishopric of St. Asaph, and in a few months afterwards, though very reluctantly, and at the request of Bishop Ken himself, he succeeded that prelate in the see of Bath and Wells, over which he presided for twenty-three years, having, it is said, refused the see of London on the death of Compton, and that of York on the death of Dr. Sharp. Evelyn, who had heard him preach on the 5th of November before the King on the usurpation of the church of Rome, exclaims, "This is one of the first pulpit men in the nation."—Hooper's ''Life, Biog. Dic.—Evelyn's Mem''., i., 536. The Bishop of Winchester alluded to above was Dr. Morley, Ambassador, where I was received with ceremony. I dined with Monsieur de Lira. He showed me a