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. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. year 1577, whenthe plague was in the City, and the Court was re-moved in consequence to Windsor, the Earl ofLeicester appointed a bailift to take charge of thedistrict, and to see that it was kept closed againstinfection, threatening to pluck his coat from oiThis back in case of his neglect, Vvc read that the The Savoy.] ASSOCIATIONS OF THE SAVOY. 97 Recorder Fleetwood, an active and a good man, lent his help to the bailiff in surveying the duchy, passing constantly with all the constables betweenthe Bars and the Tilt Yard, in both the liberties, to see the houses shut in. It is to be hopedthat this primitive quarantine arrangement wassuccessful in its results. the Revision of the Liturgy to be held. Twelveof the chief bishops of the time, with nine assistingclergymen, took part in its proceedings on behalfof the Established Church, while the Noncon-formist party were represented by Baxter, Calamy, Reynolds, and other leaders of the Dissenters.The meeting is known to history as the Savoy. THE FOX-UNDER-THE-HILL. (ScV /<7^t- lol.) The place, too, is not without its literary asso-ciations, for Chaucer wrote some of his poems inthe Savoy. It was here that the Confession of Faith bythe Independents was drawn up, in the time ofCromwell and his Directory. The Savoy is also famous in connection with the history of the Church of England, having been the place in which Charles II., after the Restoration, ordered the assemblies of the Commissioners for 105-Vol. III. Conference, and its results were to confiim theHigh Church party in the Catholic or sacramentalview of the Prayer Book (which was enforced bythe Act of Uniformity), and to disallow the Presby-terian scruples. Mr. Peter Cunningham reminds us that at thistime Fuller, author of the Worthies, was Lecturerat the Savoy, and that the poet Cowley was acandidate at court for the office of Master. The Savoy has not been exempt from sundry §8 OLD