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He found the rising already quelled by the decision with which the Primate led an army against John's castles, and his landing was followed by his brother's complete submission. The firmness of Hubert Walter had secured order in England, but oversea Richard found himself face to face with dangers which he was too clear-sighted to undervalue.
He was very gracious; saluting to this side and to that, where he noticed people of condition in the windows. "Along Schweidnitz Street, across the Great Ring, down Albrecht Street." He alighted, to lodge, at the Count-Schlegenberg House; which used to be the Austrian Cardinal von Sinzendorf Primate of Silesia's hired lodging, Sinzendorf's furniture is put gently aside, on this new occasion.
The choirs of the three town churches, and many of the choral society people, filled the gallery some eighty voices perhaps. The Veni Creator the only part that was not good, well sung, but too much like an anthem. 'Tagalana, half-sitting, half-kneeling behind me, held the book for the Primate to read from at the Imposition of Hands a striking group, I am told.
Walsh, the Archbishop of Dublin, which prevented him from obtaining the coveted cardinal's hat. This was given to Dr. Logue, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, a witty, capable, clever man, who had such an inveterate habit of taking snuff that he did so even when conversing with Queen Victoria.
He is a most prepossessing man in his appearance simple, courteous, mild, and affable. He was formerly Bishop of Chester, and is now Primate of all England. It is some indication of the tendency of things in a country to notice what kind of men are patronized and promoted to the high places of the church.
When the Bishop appeared in his dressing-gown and saw the King, he nearly had apoplexy. But the King quickly told his errand and made his friend Primate on the doorstep, with the butler and the housemaid for witnesses.
With the insolence of power and the bitter anger of outraged confidence, Henry heaped humiliations on his enemy. The Primate had a right, by ancient custom, to be summoned first among the great lords called to the king's council; he was now merely served with an ordinary notice from the sheriff of Kent to attend his trial.
An old school fellow of Secker and Butler, when they were pupils together at a dissenting academy in Yorkshire, he kept up his friendship with them, when the one was Primate of the English Church, and the other its ablest theologian. Personal relations of this kind insured the recognition of approaches based on more substantial grounds.
Christie, for the love of God, consider he is a man of Holy Kirk!" "I care not for his spear," said the Sub-Prior; "if I am slain in defending the rights and privileges of my community, the Primate will know how to take vengeance."
Of the deeper thoughts that such a scene might have suggested few probably found their way into the simple, limited mind of the new primate. The whole pathos of Juxon's position lay in fact in his perfect absorption in the past. The books were reclaimed from their Cambridge Adullam. The chapel was rescued from desecration, and the fine woodwork of screen and stalls replaced as Laud had left them.
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