Parliament dissolved--Church building--Acquittal of the Seven Bishops--James the Second's Flight--William and Mary--College of Physicians--Hampton Court--Greenwich Hospital--Richard Whittington--S. Paul's Organ. 259 CHAPTER XII. 1697-1699. Opening of S. Paul's Choir--A moveable Pulpit--Letter to his Son at Paris--Order against Swearing--Peter the Great--S. Dunstan's Spire--Morning Prayer Chapel opened--Westminster Abbey. 279 CHAPTER XIII. 1700-1708. Member for Weymouth--Rising of the Sap in Trees--Prince George's Statue--Jane Wren's Death--Thanksgiving at S. Paul's--Letter to his Son--Son marries Mary Musard--Death of Mr. Evelyn--Queen Anne's Act for Building fifty Churches--Letter on Church Building. 297 CHAPTER XIV. 1709-1723. Private Houses built--Queen Anne's Gifts--Last Stone of S. Paul's--Wren deprived of his Salary--His Petition--'Frauds and Abuses'--Interior work of S. Paul's--Wren Superseded--Purchase of Wroxhall Abbey--Wren's Thoughts on the Longitude--His Death--Burial in S. Paul's--The End. 317 APPENDIX. I. Reverendo Patri Domino Christophoro Wren S.T.D. et D. W. Christophorus Filius Hoc Suum Panorganum Astronomicum D.D. xiii. Calend. Novem. Anno 1645. 337 II. Churches, Halls, Colleges, Palaces, other Public Buildings, and Private Houses built and repaired by Sir Christopher Wren. 338 III. A Discourse on Architecture, from Original MS. 340 INDEX 351 [Illustration: THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN FROM A DRAWING BY C. R. COCKERELL, R.A.] CHAPTER I. 1585-1636. ANCESTRY OF THE WRENS--MATTHEW WREN--TRAVELS TO SPAIN WITH THE PRINCE OF WALES--INTERVIEW AT WINCHESTER HOUSE--BISHOP ANDREWES' PROPHECY--WREN MADE MASTER OF PETERHOUSE--BISHOP OF HEREFORD--CONSECRATION OF ABBEY DORE--OFFICE OF RECONCILIATION--FOREIGN CONGREGATIONS AND THE NORWICH WEAVERS--RESULT OF 'A LECTURER'S' DEPARTURE. Time, like an ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away.