LIFE 



OF 



ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT. 



CHAPTER XI. 



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. 



Ix attending Archbishop Bancroft in his change 

 from the Palace at Lambeth to his private 

 house at Fresingiield, we arrive at that period 

 of his life, in which the view presented of his 

 habits and character is by far the most interest- 

 ing and pleasing. We have already traced him 

 in his progress from the more private walks of 

 life to the highest station in the church, rising 

 by the natural buoyancy of high merit and up- 

 right principles. We have seen him uniformly 

 following the path of conscience and of duty, 

 obeying the dictates of a firm and honest 



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