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46 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TA1T [CH. 11.
(The tasselled cap by Juggins hand was made,
Or some keen brother of the London trade,
Unconscious of the stern decrees of fate
What ruthless thumps the battered trencher wait),
Dire was the clang and dreadful from afar
Of Tait indignant, rushing to the war.
*In vain the Chair s dread mandate interfered,
Nor chair nor fine the angry warrior feared :
A forfeit pound the unequal contest ends,
Loud rose the clamour of condoling friends." l
Against the fine thus imposed
"for disobedience to the
order of the chair," Tait, in the following term, appealed
to the House, but the decision of the future Chancellor
of the Exchequer was sustained by a majority
votes.
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of four
It is the only occasion," writes Lord Sherbrooke,
on which I ever fined an Archbishop for disorderly be
haviour."
In the summer vacation of 1833, when his under
graduate days were drawing to a close, Tait was one of a
reading party who spent some weeks at Seaton in Devon
shire, under the tutorship of Mr. Johnson, afterwards Dean
of Wells. The party attracted the notice of a dissenting
minister there, who was also a local poet, and who intro
duced a picture of the group into a poem, which he soon
afterwards published, under the title of *
The following lines occur in the : poem
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From sign external, features of the mind,
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