Nelson gladly agreed, and the bells of Shottisbrooke rang merrily when he and Dodwell, and the other Nonjurors resident in that place, returned to the parish church.In the first place, Nelson held him in high esteem as a man of learning, piety, and discernment, 'who fills chapel of the flower one of the archiepiscopal thrones with that universal applause which is due to his distinguishing merit.His father had been a fervent Puritan, his mother a strenuous Royalist and he speaks with equal gratitude of the deep impressions left upon his mind by the grave piety of the one, and of the admiration instilled into him by the other of the proscribed Liturgy of the English Church.There are now, however, three or four biographies of him, especially chapel of the flower the full and interesting memoir published in 1860 by Mr.Three years after his death Nelson published his life and works, shortening, it is said, his own days by the too assiduous labour which he bestowed upon the task.From the day that he vacated his deanery, and fixed up his indignant protest in Worcester Cathedral, chapel of the flower he threw his heart and soul into the nonjuring cause.Its nobler and more spiritual elements were sadly obscured amid the angry strife of party warfare, and all that was hard, or worldly, or intolerant in it was thrust into exaggerated prominence.Both were divines of great theological learning but while Bull's great talents were chiefly conspicuous in his controversial chapel of the flower and argumentative works, Beveridge was chiefly eminent as a student and devotional writer.In most respects he was of their school of thought and although, like Wilson of Sodor and Man, and Hooper of Bath and Wells, he had no scruple, for his own part, to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, he fully understood the reasonings of those who had.He consulted Archbishop Tillotson on chapel of the flower the point and his old friend answered with all candour that if his opinions were so decided that he was verily persuaded such a prayer was sinful, there could be no doubt as to what he should do.It was no light trouble to him that on their return to London she avowed herself a Romanist.Dodwell, as he calls him remarked of his strange ideas on the immortality of the soul, that he built chapel of the flower high on feeble foundations, and would not have many proselytes to his hypotheses.One other of Nelson's nonjuring friends must be mentioned.He remained in it for nearly twenty years, on terms chapel of the flower of cordial intimacy with most of its chief leaders.