the favor of his sovereign, he was sent from court to his diocese of York, lingered for weeks at Scrooby; and there that sovereign himself, Henry VIII., lodged not long afterward. It seems a strange thing that a mansion so stately, and with such a history, became the meeting-place of a Separatist church in which every worshiper was liable to penalties of fine and imprisonment.

Queen Elizabeth's zeal for the Church of England, as an institution of which she was the supreme ruler, did not always restrain her from coveting, in behalf of her courtiers, its superfluous endowments. Sometimes a bishop was induced by a request from the queen-or, if the request were ineffectual, by a peremptory letter threatening with an oath that she would "unfrock" him-to alienate a town residence, or a manor, or some other valuable property, by means of a lease, perpetual or for a long term of years, to whomsoever her majesty had undertaken to befriend in that way. Thus Cox, bishop of Ely, was compelled to surrender his town garden to the queen's favorite, Hatton. Samuel Sandys, archbishop of York-a prelate who had Puritan sympathies -stood out bravely against a demand for "the great manors of Southwell and Scrooby," and for some reason was not coerced into submission. He declared that "the granting of such a lease would highly displease God, kill his conscience, and spoil the church of York." Some years afterward he made a similar resistance when a similar demand

English ancestor of the queen now reigning was that same sister of Henry VIII. James I. was a Scotchman, and his wife a Dane. Their daughter, Elizabeth Stuart, married a German, the Elector Palatine; and she became, through the German marriage of her daughter Sophia, the grandmother of George I. The dynasty of the Georges was purely German, save only the drop of English blood which came from Margaret. Queen Victoria's mother was a German. Her husband was a German; and the Prince of Wales-so far as lineage and blood can determine a man's nationality-is hardly more an Englishman than the son of naturalized Celtic parents is a Yankee by virtue of his having been born in New England.