[192] Matthew Griffiths, the favourite and the pupil of Dean Donne, held this living through the Rebellion, and being a hearty Episcopalian was sequestered, plundered, and twice imprisoned; he returned to London and read the Prayers of the Church in the obscure church of S. Nicholas Olave's,[193] hard by his own church, to the poor Cavaliers; for this he suffered seven violent assaults and five imprisonments; the last for preaching before General Monk a strong Royalist sermon before Monk had declared himself. Mr. Griffiths was speedily released and restored to his benefice. [193] S. Nicholas Olave was burnt to the ground and the parish incorporated with that of S. Nicholas Coleabbey.--Newcourt's _Rep._, p. 305. [194] It would seem from the S. Gregory's vestry books that Sir C. Wren put up at the request of the parishioners 'a wooden tabernacle' for the use of both parishes. It was set up in S. Paul's Churchyard, and taken down after a time as interfering with the building of the Cathedral. [195] _Repertorium_, p. 475. Newcourt. [196] _Walks in London._ A. Hare, vol. i. p. 331. [197] For this anecdote (taken from MS. in the British Museum) I am indebted to a number of the _British Workman_ for 1877. It is, I think, the foundation of Mr. J. Saunders' graceful story of _Jasper Deane_. [198] Probably the father of the great writer. CHAPTER XI. 1687-1696. PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED--CHURCH BUILDING--ACQUITTAL OF THE SEVEN BISHOPS--JAMES II.'S FLIGHT--WILLIAM AND MARY--COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS--HAMPTON COURT--GREENWICH HOSPITAL--RICHARD WHITTINGTON--S. PAUL'S ORGAN. Be it enacted then By the fair laws of thy firm-pointed pen, God's services no longer shall put on A sluttishness for pure religion; No longer shall our churches' frighted stones Lie scattered like the burnt and martyr'd bones Of dead devotion. _On a treatise on Charity._ RICHARD CRASHAW. Wren's parliamentary career was soon interrupted, for King James dissolved, in 1687, an assembly which had done so little to forward his views. Church building went on apace. S. Andrew's, Holborn, which, though the fire had not reached it, was in a ruinous state, was rebuilt and made a large handsome stone church, with an interior very like that of S. James's, Westminster. The tower was merely repaired and not rebuilt. Christ Church, Newgate, on the site of the old Franciscan Monastery of Grey Friars, had formerly been a magnificent edifice: the choir only was rebuilt by Wren, and sufficed to make a large parish church, which was filled with handsome carving; a graceful pillared steeple was added in 1704.