Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . ng probably means painting,which was Mr. I )ycrs business. Colonel Dyers later military rank, and his promi-nence in our church records, show himto have been a man of mark. His short-comings in spelling were shared by noless distinguished a benefactor of thechurch than Queen Mary herself, whowrote on the fly-leaf of a Bible, Thisbook was given the King and I at ourcrownation. - • A great many of these foundationswere an inheritance from Puritan times,. . men who could not enter the minis-try could take a lecturesh
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . ng probably means painting,which was Mr. I )ycrs business. Colonel Dyers later military rank, and his promi-nence in our church records, show himto have been a man of mark. His short-comings in spelling were shared by noless distinguished a benefactor of thechurch than Queen Mary herself, whowrote on the fly-leaf of a Bible, Thisbook was given the King and I at ourcrownation. - • A great many of these foundationswere an inheritance from Puritan times,. . men who could not enter the minis-try could take a lectureship.—IChurch in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 495. 124 ANNALS OF KINGS CHAPEL. This Library, to which reference is made in the letter to BishopCompton, July 25, 1698, as his gift, was really the gift of theKing, and the covers were so stamped. SVB DE AVSPICIIS BIBLIOTHECAWILHELMI DE HI BOSTON A complete catalogue of the books is preserved in the book ofrecords. This was the only collection of books not of privateownership in New England at this time, with the single excep-. COMMUNION PLATE GIVEN BY KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY. tion of the library of Harvard College, and was therefore valu-able from the scarcity of books; but it had a greater value initself, being an admirable collection of the best books for theuse of a scholarly theologian of the Church of England. Itcontained ninety-two folios, eighteen quartos, and ninety smallerworks, including Waltons great Biblia Polyglotta, lexicons, andcommentaries, fine editions of the Church Fathers, Bodies ofDivinity, works on Doctrine and Duty, the sermons of the great THE CHURCH TAKES ROOT 125 preachers of the English Church, historical works (among themsuch sound histories as Sir William Dugdals View of the LateTroubles), Controversial and Philological The return of Mr. Myles evidently brought strength and somepopularity to the church. The wardens testify to the bishop inNovember, 1698, that he is well liked of all of
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