rail to keep it from profanation according to an order made in the metropolical visitation?" [40] [39] Stephens' "Diocesan History," p. 216. [40] Quoted by Stephens, "Diocesan History," p. 216. During the episcopate of #Henry King# (1642-1670) the diocese was a theatre of rebellion and civil war. Chichester was taken on December 29th, 1642, by Waller and the Parliamentary soldiers after a siege of eight days. Bishop King repaired, after the Restoration, the wrecked cathedral and the episcopal palace, but this appears to be all that is known of him. #Peter Gunning# (1670-1675) was the first Bishop of Chichester appointed after the Restoration. He had suffered for the tenacity with which he clung to his principles during the period of the Rebellion. Having been ejected from a fellowship at Cambridge, he came to London, and there, with no little audacity, he ministered and taught as a loyalist and Churchman. But #Ralph Brideoake# (1675-1678) watched the political and ecclesiastical weathercocks, and feathered his nest. He had been "Chaplain to Speaker Lenthall, who gave him the rich living of Witney, near Oxford, where we are told he 'preached twice every Lord's Day, and in the evening catechised the youth in his own house; outvying in labour and vigilancy any of the godly brethren in those parts.' In 1659 he was made one of the 'triers,' yet immediately after the Restoration he was rapidly promoted to a canonry at Windsor, to the Deanery of Salisbury, and finally to the Bishopric of Chichester."[41] Though Bishop Henry King had endeavoured to restore the cathedral and the buildings of the precincts, these still were in a state of extreme dilapidation, for Bishop Brideoake's record of his visitation shows that the towers, windows, and cloisters had not yet been repaired. [41] Stephens' "Diocesan History," p. 233. #Guy Carleton# (1678-1685) was a Royalist bishop of a most consistent type. On two occasions he had been turned out of a cure by the Parliamentary "triers" for his opinions; but in his eighty-second year he came from the see of Bristol to Chichester. Another Royalist, who as a soldier had supported the cause of Charles I., occupied the see after Carleton. This was #John Lake# (1685-1689). He was one of those seven bishops who protested against James's Declaration of Indulgence. #Simon Patrick# (1689), #Robert Grove# (1691), #John Williams# (1696), #Thomas Manningham# (1709), #Thomas Bowers# (1722), and #Edward Waddington# (1724) served in the episcopate successively.