Nell Gwyn
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Nelly accompanied him to Winchester, and on one occasion the pious and learned Ken, then a chap- THE STORY OF NELL GWYN 175 lain to the king, and a prebendary of Winchester, was required to surrender his prebendal house as a lodging for Nelly.' Ken properly remonstrated, and, if it be indeed true that she had taken posses- sion of the assigned lodging, she speedily removed from it.' Nor was the king displeased with the firmness displayed by this exemplary man. He knew that Ken was right; apprec...iated his mo- tives ; and one of his last acts was to make the very person by whom he was thus so properly admonished Bishop of Bath and Wells, the see of which he chose to be conscientiously deprived, as Sancroft from Canterbury, rather than forget the oath he bad taken of fealty to a former sovereign.
Unable to obtain or retain the use of the canon- ical apartments of the pious Ken, Nelly found quarters in a small attached room of brick at the end of the large drawing-room in the dean- ery, still from tradition called " Nell Gwyn," ' and afterward at Avington, the seat of a Countess of • Hawkins's " Life of Ken." 'The tradition at Winchester was, that Nell refused to move and did not move, till part of the roof was taken oS.
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Nelly accompanied him to Winchester, and on one occasion the pious and learned Ken, then a chap- THE STORY OF NELL GWYN 175 lain to the king, and a prebendary of Winchester, was required to surrender his prebendal house as a lodging for Nelly.' Ken properly remonstrated, and, if it be indeed true that she had taken posses- sion of the assigned lodging, she speedily removed from it.' Nor was the king displeased with the firmness displayed by this exemplary man. He knew that Ken was right; apprec...iated his mo- tives ; and one of his last acts was to make the very person by whom he was thus so properly admonished Bishop of Bath and Wells, the see of which he chose to be conscientiously deprived, as Sancroft from Canterbury, rather than forget the oath he bad taken of fealty to a former sovereign.
Unable to obtain or retain the use of the canon- ical apartments of the pious Ken, Nelly found quarters in a small attached room of brick at the end of the large drawing-room in the dean- ery, still from tradition called " Nell Gwyn," ' and afterward at Avington, the seat of a Countess of • Hawkins's " Life of Ken." 'The tradition at Winchester was, that Nell refused to move and did not move, till part of the roof was taken oS.
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