Note 223 — Chapter IX
Reading edition
Reresby’s Memoirs, 347.
“Sir Edward Hales, Lieutenant of the Tower, invited the Bishops to dine on Lord’s Day; but being to receive the sacrament that day, they desired to be excused. He sent them half a buck, and knowing that they would be at church on Lord’s Day, being now sufferers, he, on Saturday night, told Dr. Hawkins he had an express command to deliver to him from the King, to read the Declaration in the Tower Church the next Lord’s Day following. Hawkins, after expressing the most abject kind of loyalty, refused.”—Entring Book, 1688, June 9, Morice MSS.