Ebook The Rise of the Papal Power

Bishop of Oxford, requesting him to accept his resignation of Binsey. Faintings, not unfrequent, had betrayed to his medical friends the feeble action of the heart. On the morning of the 2nd of December, when he would have risen, another such fainting occurred; but he recovered sufficiently to dictate a note of excuse to the vice-chancellor for his absence from the Council. He appeared to revive, and to be pleased to have his child at play in his room; but could not bear to have her placed upon his bed.