dable. What would the Colonel take, and close the
transaction? The Colonel said he would take such a sum as the captured
churches could reasonably contribute to his purse. He was offered one
thousand dollars; but that he treated as a mistake, and to assist the
reverend and venerable negotiators to a conclusion, he named thirty
thousand dollars. To this they objected, and appealed to Lord Albemarle
against the demand of his officer. His Lordship, with his pockets
crammed with Spanish gold, was disposed to act handsomely in this
instance, and cut down the Colonel's bill to ten thousand dollars. But
even this sum the clergy professed themselves utterly unable to pay.
According to 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