The corpse was conducted through the chief streets of the city: seventy-two clergymen marched before: above a thousand persons of distinction followed after: and at the funeral sermon, two able-bodied divines mounted the pulpit, and stood on each side o.

the preacher, lest in paying the last duties to this unhappy magistrate, he should, before the whole people, be murdered by the Papists,[**] * North, p.

206.
**North p.

205.
In this disposition of the nation, reason could no more be heard than a whisper in the midst of the most violent hurricane.

Even at present, Godfrey's murder can scarcely, upon any system, be rationally accounted for.