probably preventing much persecution which had happened unto him if
surviving in the reign of Queen Mary."

Such was Fuller's judgment and that of the author he quotes,
nevertheless the version of the Psalms, being printed with the
Prayer-Book, took such a strong hold of the nation that in 1798
Hannah More was accused of dissent, because the version of Tate and
Brady was used in her schools. Mr. Keble preferred it to this latter
as more like the Hebrew, and some of his versions (curiously enough
proceeding from the same parish) remind us of these simple old
translators. The Old Hundredth, and in some degree the 23rd and the
opening of the 18th, still hold their place, probably in virtue of
the music to which they are wedded.

Bishop Gardiner recovered the Manor of Merdon, with his liberty, on
Queen Mary's accession. Then it was that Philip of Spain rode
through one of these villages, probably Otterbourne, soaked through
with rain, on his way to his ill-starred marriage with Mary.

Gardiner was no persecutor, and Sternhold's widow lived on at
Slackstede. On his death, Queen Mary gave the diocese to John White,
the same who preached to Elizabeth on a living dog being better than
a dead lion.

Hobby then claimed the manor, but Bishop White made a strenuous
resistance, appealing to Gardiner's former plea, and supported by the
Attorney General Story, who is said to have been an enemy of Sir
Philip Hobby. The case was argued in the House of Lords, and given
against the bishop, though under the protest of several of the Lords
Spiritual, who dreaded the like treatment.