The steeples of the churches sent forth joyous peals.

Sprat was amazed to hear the bells of his own Abbey ringing merrily.

He promptly silenced them: but his interference caused much angry muttering.

The Bishops found it difficult to escape from the importunate crowd of their wellwishers.

Lloyd was detained in Palace Yard by admirers who struggled to touch his hands and to kiss the skirt of his robe, till Clarendon, with some difficulty, rescued him and conveyed him home by a bye path.