ed."

1613. "Saturday, 25th December, being Christmas Day, was kept with the
usual solemnities; the King attended Divine service at Whitehall, and
Bishop Andrews preached."

1614. "His Majesty returned to keep Christmas Day, as was customary,
at Whitehall. Bishop Andrews addressed him from the pulpit as usual."

1615. "'On Christmas Day, the King, being sorely troubled with the
gout, was not able to go to Divine service; but heard a sermon in
private, and took the Sacrament.' The Preacher was, as usual, Bishop
Andrews."

1616. "On Christmas Day, Thomas, Earl of Arundel, who was educated
from his youth in the Popish Religion, and had lately travelled all
over Italy detesting the abuses of the Papists, embraced the
Protestant religion, and received the Sacrament in the King's Chapel
at Whitehall, where Bishop Andrews preached, as was customary, a
sermon suited to the Festival of the Nativity."

1618. "On the 25th [December], Bishop Andrews resumed his post as
preacher on Christmas Day, before the King at Whitehall. His text was
from Luke ii. 12, 13."

1619. "Christmas was kept by the King at Whitehall, as had ever been
his practice; and Bishop Andrews preached then before him, on
Saturday, the 25th."

1620. "During the month of December, before the King left the country,
he knighted at Newmarket, Sir Francis Michell, afterward degraded in
June 1621; and at Theobalds, Sir Gilbert Cornwall. On the 23rd, his
Majestie 'came to Westminster, but went not to Chappel, being
prevented by the gout.' On Monday, the 25th, however, being Christmas
Day, Bishop Andrews preached before him at Whitehall, on Matt. ii. 1,
2; and during Christmas, Sir Clement Cotterell and Sir Henry Carvell
were there knighted."

1622. "On the 25th [December] Bishop Andrews resumed his Christmas
station in the pulpit at Whitehall, and thence preached to the King
and his Court on the same text as he had adopted on the same occasion
two years before, Matt. ii. 1, 2."

1623. "The King kept inviolate his old custom of being at Whitehall on
Christmas Day, and hearing there a sermon from Bishop Andrews, who
this year preached on Ephes. i. 10."

1624. "On Saturday, the 25th of December, Bishop Andrews preached
before his Majesty at Whitehall, on Psalm ii. 7, it being at least the
seventeenth, as it was the last, Christmas Day on which King James
heard that favourite preacher."

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