G8 ' LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT. 



CHAPTER XII. 



HIS CHARACTER, &C. 



His -personal Appearance — Fawiliar Habits — Talents and Lite-' 

 vary Pursuifs — Public Character — Steadiness and Uprightness 

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

 sidered — Piety — Liberality — Patronage of eminent Men^— 

 Conclusion. 



Archbishop Sancroft appears to have been of 

 a slender person, and spare habit of body. His 

 features, as we may judge from the portraits of 

 him which remain, were well turned, and his 

 countenance in its general cast expressive of 

 placidity and meekness, together with much 

 shrewdness and sagacity. His constitution 

 seems to have been never strong: we have 

 found him frequently, at different periods of his 

 life, alluding to his invalid state of health ; and 

 his constitutional maladies appear to have 

 gained upon him, as he advanced in years. 



Respecting the private habits of his life, the 

 materials which are supplied to us from those 

 who conversed familiarly with him are unfortu- 

 nately scanty. Mr. Needham, who resided 



