their own showing, they were genuine successors of the Apostles, being without a penny in their purses.  They began to beg for aid; but, either because the Spaniards were sulky with the Saints for having allowed the heretics to succeed, or that they did not wish to attract the attention of those heretics to their property, the begging business did not pay.  Only one hundred and three dollars could be collected.  This failure was made known to Lord Albemarle, but he kept a profound silence, sending no reply to the clergy’s plaintive communication.  They, however, had not long to wait for an answer.  Colonel Cleveland waited upon them again, and said, that, as the cash was not forthcoming, he should content himself with taking the bells, all of which must be taken down, and delivered to him on the 4th of September.  After this there was no further room for negotiation with a gentleman who commanded great guns.  The Bishop handed over the ten thousand dollars, and the Colonel departed from his presence.  The bells remained in their proper places, and some of them, no doubt, remain there to this day, the bell being long-lived, and making sweet music years after Albemarle, Cleveland, and the rest of the spoilmen have gone to their account.

Lord Albemarle had a correspondence with the Bishop respecting the use of one of the churches as a place of Protestant worship, and laid down the cannon law so strongly and clearly, that the prelate, after making such resistance as circumstances admitted of,—­and he would not have been a good Catholic, if he had done less,—­told him to take whichever church he chose; and he took that of the Franciscans.  His Lordship, however, was much more devoted to the worship of Mammon than to the worship of God, and, accordingly, on the 19th of October, he wrote to the Bishop concerning the donation-dodge, in the following polite and peremptory terms;—­“Most Illustrious Sir, I am sorry to be under the necessity of writing to your Lordship what ought to have been thought of some days ago, namely, a donation from the Church to the Commander-in-Chief of the victorious army.  The least that your Lordship can offer will be one hundred thousand dollars.  I wish to live in peace with your Lordship and with the Church, as I have shown in all that has hitherto occurred, and I hope that your Lordship will not give me reason to alter my intentions.  I kiss your Lordship’s hand.  Your humble servant, Albemarle.”  The Bishop, though a clever and clear-sighted man, could not see this matter in the light in which Lord Albemarle looked upon it.  He thought the demand a violation of the terms of surrender; and he sought the mediation of Admiral Pocock, but without strengthening his position.  To a demand for the list of benefices, coupled with the declaration that non-compliance would lead to the Bishop’s being proclaimed a violator of the treaty, the prelate replied, that he would refer the matter, and some others, to the courts of