LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SAXCROFT. 89 



latter days in his behaviour towards those who 

 differed from him in opinion. Firm and reso- 

 lute as he was in his own decision, pure as were 

 his own motives of action, he appears ever to 

 have felt that credit was to be allowed to others 

 for motives equally pure. We find him there- 

 fore continuing his kind and friendly disposition 

 towards those from whom he differed most, 

 candidly making all allowance for the upright- 

 ness of their intentions, and not suffering the 

 variance of their opinions to become a ground 

 of unsocial animosity between them. 



His liberality in affording relief to his friends 

 in distress, at a time when his own means were 

 far from affluent, has already been mentioned.* 

 In the elevated station to which he was after- 

 wards raised, he ever showed himself the muni- 

 ficent encourao'er of o-reat and useful under- 

 takings. His splendid contributions towards 

 the expense of erecting St. Paufs cathedral 

 have been before noticed. Another striking 

 instance of his liberality is afi'orded in a dona- 

 tion of £1000, in 1680, in aid of the building of 

 Chelsea College. By Emanuel College, the 

 place of his education, and of his residence 

 in the earlier parts of life, his bounty was 

 largely and frequently experienced : in ad- 



* See vol. i. p. 98, &c. 



