LIFE

OF

WILLIAM SANCROFT,

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

LONDON: PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH, BELL YARD,

TEMPLE BAR.

L I F E

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:

JOIN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

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.

rary

His Personal Appearance-Familiar Habits— Talents and Lite-

Pursuits—Public Character-Steadiness and Uprightness

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

sidered—Piety-Liberality-Patronage of eminent Men-

Conclusion .

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