_Gaol Chaplains_.--When were they first appointed? Did the following
advice of Latimer, in a sermon before King Edward, in 1549, take any
effect?
"Oh, I would ye would resort to prisons! A commendable thing
in a Christian realm: I would wish there were curates of
prisons, that we might say, the 'curate of Newgate, the curate
of the Fleet,' and I would have them waged for their labour.
It is a holiday work to visit the prisoners, for they be kept
from sermons."--Vol. i. p. 180.