54 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT^ 



under all the dispensations of Providence, and 

 cheered in its last extremity by a meek and 

 animating faith. 



The disease which attacked him was at first 

 an intermitting fever ; the fits were extremely 

 violent, insomuch, that from the second a fatal 

 termination was apprehended ; he lay for some 

 time speechless and bereft of his senses ; but, 

 by the assistance of the Peruvian bark, admi- 

 nistered under the advice of a physician, a third 

 fit was prevented. Yet, although the recur- 

 rence of the fits was prevented, the state of his 

 health remained without any promising hopes. 

 He recovered no strength, but continued to sink 

 under a general weakness and decay. He had 

 taken to his bed on the 25th of August, when 

 the fever first attacked him, and rose from it no 

 more. 



As soon as he had reason to apprehend a fatal 

 termination of his illness, and perceived that he 

 had no prospect of maturing with his own hand 

 for publication the papers of Archbishop Laud, 

 he expressed the desire of seeing his late chap- 

 lain, Mr. Wharton, for the purpose of consign- 

 ing them to his care. It so happened that Mr. 

 Wharton soon heard of his illness, and, in con- 

 sequence, took a journey to visit him. He ar- 

 rived at Fresingfield on the last day of October. 

 The Archbishop then acquainted him with his 



