slowly along the causeway, and up the glacis that led to the entrance.  The Rector was absent, his opinions being displeasing to the autocratic Carteret; but the Rev. Mr. La Cloche, Rector of S. Owen (the Carteret parish) was in charge; he was the Lieutenant-Governor’s private Chaplain; and under strict orders had made splendid preparation for the illustrious congregation.  The old temple had been swept and garnished.  Laurel boughs and the beautiful flowers and fruits of the season hung from every arch and decorated every pillar.  The aisles were covered with a thick natural carpet of fragrant rushes; before the pulpit were chairs for the King and his brother the Duke of York, and the space they stood on was tapestried with glowing colours.  Cushioned tables supported the gilded bibles and prayer-books for the royal worshippers, who arrived precisely at eleven followed by their numerous train.  Throwing off his wringing roquelaure Charles entered, plumed hat in hand, a young man of middle stature, erect and well-knit for his years—­which were but nineteen—­and with a countenance which, though even then wanting in flesh and bloom, was not unpleasing:  framed in natural curls, and showing (to sympathetic observers) a noble and pleasing dignity often, it must be avowed, contrasting strongly with the mingled frivolity and cynicism that marked his words.  Being in mourning for the event of January he was clothed in purple velvet without lace or embroidery.  Over his doublet hung a short cloak with a star on the left breast, under which was a silk scarf, cloak and scarf being all of purple.  The famous ribbon of the Garter round his left knee was the only bit of other colour visible.  James, a few years younger, was similarly attired.  Besides the two Princes the only other Knight of the Garter was the Earl of Southampton.  The rest of the Lords and Gentlemen in Waiting were also in Court-mourning, and all without the smallest decoration.

After the conclusion of the Service the clergyman ascended the pulpit in his black gown.  He took his text from the second book of Chronicles, c. 35, the end of the 24th verse:—­“And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.”

The turn of Mr. La Cloche’s discourse may be in great measure anticipated.  Setting forth the heinousness of rebellion and regicide, he dwelt upon the virtues of the Royal Martyr, his courage, his patience, his devotion to the Church.  As was but natural in the circumstances, there followed an application to local politics.  They were there, he informed his hearers (as the old lattices, shaken by the gale, rattled their accompaniment to his monotone) in the character of Englishmen; but he had to notice that to the existing rulers of England they owed no obedience.  The so-called Parliament which had judged and murdered the late lamented Monarch, and which now claimed the right of ruling in his stead, was no divinely appointed head of affairs, not even representative of one Estate