Sir John Heathcote, a Cantab, and lessee of Lincoln church, being
refused a renewal of the same on his own terms, by the Prebend, Dr.
Cobden, of St. John's College, Cambridge, upon accepting the Prebend's
terms, appointed his late Majesty, then Prince of Wales, to be one of
the lives included in the lease, observing, "I will nominate one for
whom the dog shall be obliged to pray in the daytime, wishing him dead
at night."
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