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the distance of time to which we are now ar- 

 rived from the transactions in which Arch- 

 bishop Bancroft acted his part, we are enabled 

 to view the characters and conduct of the in- 

 dividuals concerned in them with an eye clear 

 from those prejudices which before dimmed the 

 vision to the light of impartial truth. And it 

 may now be permitted to the biographer of this 

 great and good man, who from conscientious 

 motives refused his allegiance to the govern- 

 ment established at the Revolution, to do full 

 justice to his memory, without incurring the 

 suspicion of being unfriendly to those great 

 principles which produced that important event 

 in our history, and have since justified it in the 

 judgment of all posterity. 



Archbisliops, at Lambeth Palace : Mr. Baker states, that he was 

 informed by Dr. Farmer, Master of Emanuel College, that " not 

 one of Archbishop Sancrofts successors had spirit or generosity 

 to hang up his picture in the palace, till Archbishop Comwallis, 

 observing the portrait of him in the gallery at Emanuel, re- 

 quested his (Dr. Farmer's) leave to have a copy of it taken 3 this 

 was done accordingly, and the portrait sent to Lambeth" — " a 

 mark/' he adds, " of moderation as well as good sense and 

 liberality,'' in the Archbishop who gave the order. — See Cole's 

 MSS. at the British Museum, v. 49. 399. To this anecdote it 

 should be added, that his grace the present archbishop has, in 

 addition to the portrait just mentioned, placed also in the gallery 

 at Lambeth the original portrait of Archbishop Sancroft, from 

 which the engraving at the beginning of these volumes is 

 taken. 



