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Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690

Note 8 — Chapter XL · THE RESTORATION GOVERNMENT, 1660

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Taylor’s sermons of January 27 and May 8, 1661, in his Works, ed. 1839, vi. 301, 348. The words of Fuller’s anthem are in Mason’s Hist. of St. Patrick’s, 194, and in the 32nd Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records, 107. The opening lines are:

‘Now that the Lord hath readvanced the Crown, Which thirst of spoil and frantic zeal threw down.’

And the concluding chorus:

‘Angels look down, and joy to see Like that above a Monarchy. Angels look down, and joy to see Like that above an Hierarchy.’

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