LIFE

OF

WILLIAM SANCROFT,

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH, BELL YARD,

TEMPLE BAR.

LIFE

OF

WILLIAM SANCROFT,

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,

COMPILED PRINCIPALLY FROM ORIGINAL AND SCARCE DOCUMENTS.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

FUR PRÆDESTINATUS, MODERN POLICIES, AND THREE
SERMONS BY ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT.

ALSO,

A LIFE OF THE LEARNED HENRY WHARTON;

AND

TWO LETTERS OF DR. SANDERSON,

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ARCHIEPISCOPAL LIBRARY AT

LAMBETH PALACE.

BY

GEORGE D'OYLY, D.D. F.R.S.

DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF
CANTERBURY; RECTOR OF LAMBETh, and of

SUNDRIDGE IN KENT.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

BX 5199 15256

D7

1821

V. 2

Andover

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. II.

CHAPTER XI.

LAST PERIOD OF HIS LIFE.

His Retirement to Fresingfield-Familiar Letters-Forgery of

his Name to a pretended Plot-Formal Abdication of his

Archiepiscopal Powers-Consecration of Nonjuring Bishops-

Literary Employment-last Illness-Death-Epitaph page 1

CHAPTER XII.

HIS CHARACTER.

His Personal Appearance-Familiar Habits-Talents and Lite-

rary Pursuits-Public Character-Steadiness and Uprightness

of Principle-Conduct at the Period of the Revolution con-

sidered-Piety-Liberality-Patronage of eminent Men-